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How do you talk/pray to God?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Bubbler, Jan 8, 2009.

  1. Beaker

    Beaker Active Member

    Not to sully the thread with my very lapsed Catholicism/agnosticism, but my very rare "praying" has basically become wishing/hoping, in case anyone's actually listening.

    More often than not, my late grandfather's (who was probably as close to a humane "God" as any person can be) presence becomes whatever "God" I'm speaking to.
     
  2. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Never seen an "is is" from you.

    Quite profound as I reflect on it.
     
  3. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    I don't talk to any invisible beings. Unless they want to provide me proof of their existence, I have no time to waste with God, Allah, Buddha of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
     
  4. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    I knew it.

    The Lord giveth, etc etc.
     
  5. ScribePharisee

    ScribePharisee New Member

    I think it was Chan Gailey who once summed up the way I changed my praying... someone asked him one time if he prayed for a win. He said he did, but in the event that wasn't in the cards, give him some lesson that would make him better for the experience of losing. I pray for needs but also understanding of things if it doesn't go my way. He's a better big-picture guy than I am.

    When I pray every day for the people at my job, our precarious situations economically, I pray that in all of this we actually draw closer as a workplace, and more broadly, as a community and nation...not even stopping there, but that the world may see a better way.

    And if that's a move for theocracy, so be it. We're a world so screwed up we need someone smarter than we to guide us, and the basic guidelines in the good book are pretty simple: do unto others... love your neighbor...the hard part I guess for some is loving God.
     
  6. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    That's some frightening stuff right there.
     
  7. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    There are no people, NONE, who love their god more than Mohammed Atta and his 18 henchmen did theirs.
     
  8. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    In a sense you're right, but a lack of a belief in anything beyond can lead to equally frightening nihilism.
     
  9. finishthehat

    finishthehat Active Member

    I'm a lapsed Catholic -- so lapsed, it appears, that it has not occurred to me to have a single "conversation" or prayer with God (or Whomever) for a long, long time....and that's even as some hairy stuff was going on.
     
  10. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    In my own experience, it has been freeing not having to worry about what happens following death.
     
  11. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    And that's what existentialism is: There is nothing beyond this, so be as square with yourself as possible and make the most of a world without hope. That's far different than: There's is nothing beyond this, so what I do, good or evil, doesn't matter.
     
  12. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    You know, I had all of my evil ways squarely rationalized away and you had to go and shake me up with that post.
     
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