Do You Think Praying Works?
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| Macfadyen Basket Case  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 16175 | |
| Peardrops Addict  Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 11782  | |
| Micro Sheep Falling In Love With The Board  Age: - Gender: - Posts: 7584 | |
| Kristmas_Tsanne Great Success!  Age: 32 Gender: Male Posts: 59161 | Who knows? But it can't do any harm, right?  |
| ree-ee-annan King For A Couple Of Days  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 3158 | |
| Macfadyen Basket Case Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 16175 | |
| Macfadyen Basket Case Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 16175 | |
| EvilGiraffe! Addict  Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 13998 | |
| Green Day! Geek  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 112 | Yes, god definately hears you & praying totally helps, it gives you more confindence When I prayed before my math exam, i got confident, & I studied real hard & I got 100% on my math exam   Some people don't believe in god, but i think everyone should believe in god  |
| Anji Basket Case  Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 15914 |  Godot. |
| lyrical_mess Falling In Love With The Board  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 5278  | Anji: um...? |
| Tahm York This Board Is My Home  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 31394 | |
| Macfadyen Basket Case Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 16175 | Green Day!: I'd say you got 100% on your math exam because you studied hard and relaxed, rather than getting uptight and worried. The way I see it, people say that sometimes, when your prayers aren't answered, it's because God doesn't think it's best. I see that as an excuse, really. When something you want happens, it's because of God. When it doesn't, it's because God doesn't think it's wise. It can be twisted and portrayed however you want.  |
| Macfadyen Basket Case Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 16175 | |
| Anji Basket Case Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 15914 | lyrical_mess:I've had a 'Godot' moment. I don't know who else here has studied 'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett, raised by Catholics in Ireland, but ended up an atheist and wrote this existentialist play in French. One of the hardest things I've ever done. Anyway, I was reading through all these posts about prayer, and waiting for God to answer them and I had what my old English teacher used to call a 'Godot moment' where you have to laugh at the absurdity of all this waiting, and for what? No one here truely knows. Well, some do, others think that those people don't however, and then those people, they haven't got the slightest clue. What do we wait for? We wait for nothing, everything, we wait for waiting, death, the afterlife? Who knows. And God? He's a (By the way, I don't actually mean this, I'm advocating for Samuel Beckett in this part so you understand what I mean by 'Godot moment'.) human construct. Life is all just a stochastic maze where alleatory explains all, only because we need it to. To understand life, existance, we need others to validate it. That's why when prisoners of war are placed in confinement, you think it's a rather simple method of extraction of information of torture or discipline but it's Hell. There is no one to make contanct with, you can't see, hear, smell, taste anything. Everything becomes one blur, and you don't know if anything exists. If you don't know that anything exists, how do you know you exist? We need others to validate our existance and for some people this other person is God. But of course, when it comes down to it, God is a human construct to validate our existance just like North and South, up and down, left, right, minutes, hours, evening, day, and possibly good and bad? This is why many astronauts go mad in space because they are in a timeless, non-directional place. They realise that everything they know to be truth and fact is actually just human construct to define our lives, like our age, our home, our race, everything we know ourselves to be, it's only the way it is, because we've made it that way. And if you think about it, all these things that were made to give us comfort, only end up giving us pain, like religion, wealth, race, etc. There's this pajorative sturggle that we have given to ourselves in life, and in the end, and now I'm being alleatory, but it ends up being absurd, truely absurd. Funney, eh? (Sarcasm is included in the latter sentence if you didn't understand anything I had previously said.) |
| NeoSteph Basket Case  Age: 37 Gender: Female Posts: 16494 | ree-ee-annan: ''you get lucky'' well couldn't that possibly be divine intervention. Athiest basically believe in the same thing we do, that some things you have no control over. No difference really, we just like the idea of fluffy clouds and halo's. puts an image to the thought. |
| greendea Jackass  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 1968 | |
| miau King For A Couple Of Days  Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 4469 | |
| rollerpig GSBitch  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 62283 | SUPERSONiC.:Specific Discussion.  |
| Sylar Falling In Love With The Board  Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 5703 | I remember reading somewhere when I was little a conversation between two people about praying. I can't remember the exact wording, but it went something like this; "If there is a God, and He does have a power of sorts over us, why hasn't he put a stop to all the wars, poverty and damage we're doing to the planet?" " Do you have a child?" "Yes... How's that relevant?" "Well, have you ever given them something you knew they could potentially hurt themselves with? A skateboard, or rollerblades perhaps?" "Yes." "And did you take it away from them when they hurt themselves?" "No, I just kept a close eye on them because I knew they were still having fun." "So how do you know God's not jsut doing that?" Now, at the time, I remember thinking, "Wow, that makes total sense!", but then I got older and thought about it some more and it was like, "Well, if the child does enough damage then the parent would definately take the toy away from them!" So why would God have not intervened by now? (I know this isn't technically related to praying, but I thought it might strike up some discussion  ) |
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