What is going on here?

That's the Pentecostals. They think they Holy Spirit is coming into them and making them speak in "many tongues," which yea sounds like gibberish. They are misunderstanding the Bible where it says the Apostles were able to speak in tongues. It actually means many different languages, not gibberish.

You could try this :

Speak in Tongues in 5-Days or Your Money Back!

The DVD allows beginners to start out the easy, backwoods Pentecostal way -- by copying what the person in the next pew is yapping. Within a day, you will learn to make up things that even you can't understand while in a hot-footed hillbilly trance. You'll get a hundred page handy translation guide along with the DVD:

TONGUES: shun-doo-lah!

ENGLISH: "Look at me!

TONGUES: shun-doo-lah, mah-shundah!

ENGLISH: "Look at me! Look'it what I can do!"

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In the bible speaking in tongues meant all of whatever language could understand what was being said!!

Gibberish will never qualify!!

These are simply nothing to do with christianity but the perversion of a psychological mind game played out by BAD christians!!

There is a bit of wrong teaching or non-teaching on the subject.

Some get emotional but the truth is you can control when, how long & how loud you do it.

God does not take people over.

The right public use is 2 or 3 messages in tongues, each followed by a gift of interpretation.

No all speaking at once & losing self control.

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it's actually an interesting type of meditation developed by the disciples of Jesus Christ... it's a type of a catharsis (letting out emotions) where one is free to be themselves and no bother about what other's feel...it's something interesting to try, but only if you comfortable doing it...

you see, we have so many suppressed emotions inside which we need to let out somehow, or else we will simply become stagnant with the stink of the rotten emotions. The "tongues' gives us a space for us to release our emotions into the air instead of at someone or something!

In sanskrit it's called the Manipuraka Shuddhi Kriya

REad Acts chapter 2 with the understanding of the holy spirit pray for his wisdom and understanding then read Acts chapter 2 the Word of God has ALL the answers to any belief problems (thats where the beliefs derive form)

Shoot fireballs?

Yeah, right....

I think you must be the nut.

I have been in and out of pentacostal and charismatic churches for half my life,

and not one of them ever told anybody that they would be able to shoot fireballs.

Edit: Then, they were probably kidding,

and you took it seriously. There are a lot

of kids and others who attend pentacostal churches

with their families, yet, are not serious about

church themselves and so, not at all above

mockery. Did that never occur to you at all?

Pentacoastal Church.

What's going on is a phenomenon in which people get convinced that they are having a religious experience. The tone and volume of the preacher and the fear and joy of those around the person cause adrenaline and dopamine levels within the brain to rise dramatically, the adrenaline causing the slurred/quick gibberish speech and the dopamine causing the involuntary movements.

Some religions like the Pentecostal speak in tongues. They feel they are speaking with the holy spirit in them I guess.