Do you pray ??

jimed14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVgPUhY0UiE

PearlOfAGirl

I pray for strength to get me through tough times, but it seems like when I do I end up with even more things that I have to deal with... :?

Who Princess

Yes, though not necessarily in a formal way.

josevolution

All i know is that i had to try to just ask for something positive for Brian hi's on my mind everysingle day plus my wife is taken care of him at the hospital she is an intensive care nurse :( i just have to keep asking for him to make it thru this horrible set of circumstance hi's being dealt ....even when i started to ask for him to get better ..i didn't know who to ask i just stared with please dear GOD .....

Jennytree

Haven't done so since I was about 14, I didn't get anything out of it. I have my owns ways of finding strength when I need it (mostly by talking to the Eddie god ).

Jo

I do, usualy when I'm hung over with my head in the toilet bowl, like ' dear God, help me ' Na, just kidding

I will always pray to God, if ever I need to do absolutely everything I can, for someone who needs it.
I also use Meditation to focus on what needs a bit of Fixer on it.
And I do believe it works.

catefrances

josevolution wrote:

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Do you pray :?: :?: ...

only on the weak. :twisted:

theoceansmademe

Fuck no.

EV said it best:

And echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes
Like echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes like this

guacamolejoe

ledvedderman wrote:

When I think the plane is going down, yes...

I look around :? to see who would have sex with me .

I do pray now & again for others in need.

mrvedderson

catefrances wrote:

josevolution wrote:

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Do you pray :?: :?: ...

only on the weak. :twisted:

ditto

Earthgirl

yeah, I pray.

nuffingman

No I don't pray. Too many bad things happen for me to think there could be a greater being watching over us. We have to accept we are on our own.

Jack_C_Gregory

I don't pray, but the women under me usually do, "Oh God! Oh God!"
Sorry, I had to say it.

But on a serious note, I read in a Nietzsche book once that prayer could be a sign of someone actually losing their faith a little in their god. It's as if the praying person is shooting up a reminder to make sure everything goes smooth. If you have absolute faith in your deity of choice you shouldn't have to remind them to help you. It would be like being in a marriage and telling your spouse every morning, "have a good day and don't cheat on me." Surely if you have faith in your spouse, you shouldn't have to remind them to not cheat. If you have faith in your god you shouldn't have to remind them to help you.

Also, something else to consider. You're watching a football game. The home team is down by 5 with 45 seconds left and they are making a drive down the field. On one side of the field the away team is praying that they keep the lead and win. On the other side of the field the home team is praying they complete the drive and score a touchdown. One team will have their prayers answered. Who or what decides whose prayers should be answered on that day?

OffHeGoes29

I don't go to church, but have prayed for the last 17 years to what ever higher power is there.

OffHeGoes29

WeaponX655321 wrote:

I don't pray, but the women under me usually do, "Oh God! Oh God!"
Sorry, I had to say it.

Jo

WeaponX655321 wrote:

One team will have their prayers answered. Who or what decides whose prayers should be answered on that day?

Whoever wishes the hardest,

Prayers and thoughts are energy. That energy has to go somewhere, once energy is created it can not be dismantled. Collective thoughts produce active outcomes. So we all have to be careful for what we wish for.


I can so see this Thread turning to shit over beliefs.

Heatherj43

I am so twisted with my beliefs. I use to seek out a higher being belief system that I could fall for. I studied many religions. To me, none of them make sense. At one pont I was very religious or higher being minded and did pray. Then I realized the prayers that seemed to be answered were the ones for strength and stuff like that. Well, now I understand that it was my faith in my prayer that made me able to conjur up the strength I already had. So, now I am agnostic and if I need things like strength, I know its within me already and I can conjur it up, prayer never really did it to begin with.
But, because of years of being raised to believe and living in a society that believes, when things get really tough I find myself wanting to pray. If it use to work, it will work now, I think. Even though I know anything I need to pray for I already have within me.
Its ridiculous to pray. Most of this world has it way worse than I. Why would my prayers be answered and those people left to suffer as they do. So, I don't pray. I try to be strong enough to remember all I need is within me anyway.
Its so twisted. Maybe I want to pray to not feel alone with my pain. Maybe I want to pray to be able to put my thoughts and feelings into something understandable.
All I know is I have no right to ask for anything when I live as I do and so many suffer. So if I was to believe and pray it would only be to give thanks, which is twisted 'cuz why would I believe and thank some higher being for treating me better than he does his other children.

josevolution

So if you know someone who is sick how do you wish for them to get better by saying or thinkin what :?: :?: ..

Heatherj43

josevolution wrote:

So if you know someone who is sick how do you wish for them to get better by saying or thinkin what :?: :?: ..

So am I suppose to say I'll pray for them when I don't believe in that? Also, if I pray for them it may make them feel better emotionally, but the prayer will not be answered, look at Darfur (sp?). So, I say my thoughts are with them, or I hope you get better, etc. There are many expressions that mean as much as I'll pray for you. many expressdions mean more since everyone says I'll pray for you.

BTW: I was gone from my computer the last hour 'cuz the old lady, my friend, next door had a heart attack. I had left my computer to get coffee and decided I'd run over there for a second then come back to the computer, 'cuz I hadn't seen her in a few days. She started to talk to me and had a heart attack. No one has ever had a heart attack in front of my eyes. Wow, it was weird.
So, they took her to hospital and she knows I will be thinking of her, and better yet, taking care of her cats and her other responsibilities. That is better than "I'll pray for you". She needs more than a prayer.

stargirl69

Never ..... think I did when I was a kid,religious mother :? .... but that was probably the last time .... not something I plan to resume again