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Prayer not working
#21
RE: Prayer not working
(October 21, 2012 at 8:44 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
Quote:Personally i would ask said priest to STOP being a useless cunt and leave ya mum alone in her twilight years.
And what exactly did this priest do wrong, friend?

He did something that was pointless.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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#22
RE: Prayer not working
(October 21, 2012 at 8:44 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
Quote:Personally i would ask said priest to STOP being a useless cunt and leave ya mum alone in her twilight years.
And what exactly did this priest do wrong, friend?

I am not your friend, I am not your enemy.

The "priest" is a useless parasite. Even my own mother would see him as such (and she likes to think she is "christian") and tell him to go "blow it out his backside".

He is not qualified to render psychological "treatment" to any one
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#23
RE: Prayer not working
(October 21, 2012 at 8:46 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote:
(October 21, 2012 at 8:44 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: And what exactly did this priest do wrong, friend?

He did something that was pointless.

Just like wishing someone well. It's quite the same. Words don't make you get better. So it's even pointless to buy a person at the hospital flowers, is it?
Thinking of this way, many things in our lives are simply pointless-this discussion included.
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#24
RE: Prayer not working
Life itself is pointless.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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#25
RE: Prayer not working
Quote:I am not your friend, I am not your enemy.

The "priest" is a useless parasite. Even my own mother would see him as such (and she likes to think she is "christian") and tell him to go "blow it out his backside".

He is not qualified to render psychological "treatment" to any one
If he did request some form of liquidity in return for his prayers, I might have agreed with you.
In all, it comes down to the person in question, here, his grandmother.
From my view, only her thoughts on this issue matter.

(October 21, 2012 at 8:51 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Life itself is pointless.
I forgot, you're a nihilist. Maybe you'll see the point in life when you're dying in a gutter.
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#26
RE: Prayer not working
(October 21, 2012 at 8:51 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I forgot, you're a nihilist. Maybe you'll see the point in life when you're dying in a gutter.

Just because I can't discern a point to life doesn't mean that I don't like living.

I'm just telling it as I see it.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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#27
RE: Prayer not working
(October 21, 2012 at 8:51 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
Quote:I am not your friend, I am not your enemy.

The "priest" is a useless parasite. Even my own mother would see him as such (and she likes to think she is "christian") and tell him to go "blow it out his backside".

He is not qualified to render psychological "treatment" to any one
If he did request some form of liquidity in return for his prayers, I might have agreed with you.

You really don't know how religion can "not ask for currency" do you??


(October 21, 2012 at 8:51 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: In all, it comes down to the person in question, here, his grandmother.
From my view, only her thoughts on this issue matter.

This is the issue. Should she feel this is of assistance then who are we to deny her "The Placebo Effect".

And again I reiterate she IS 86 and has made it thus far thru war and famine and who knows what amount of trials and tribulations.

Cherish her while you still have her here to talk to ... other than that...let her go with dignity.
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#28
RE: Prayer not working
Quote:You really don't know how religion can "not ask for currency" do you??
Well, we don't have this "pray for me imam" thing in Turkey, but people regularly express their best wishes through "I'll say a prayer for you or X" without asking for anything in return.


Quote:This is the issue. Should she feel this is of assistance then who are we to deny her "The Placebo Effect".
It's not just the assistance. I'd rather look at it as an expression of good will, rather than an attempt to cure or remedy a condition.
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#29
RE: Prayer not working
(October 21, 2012 at 9:01 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
Quote:You really don't know how religion can "not ask for currency" do you??
Well, we don't have this "pray for me imam" thing in Turkey, but people regularly express their best wishes through "I'll say a prayer for you or X" without asking for anything in return.

I am to understand you do. Ordinary people here doe the same ...it equals to a "Fuck you i don't care but I am to say these things because of my religion" Either way = they don't care and don't like you, the result is the same.


(October 21, 2012 at 9:01 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
Quote:This is the issue. Should she feel this is of assistance then who are we to deny her "The Placebo Effect".
It's not just the assistance. I'd rather look at it as an expression of good will, rather than an attempt to cure or remedy a condition.

You can be so simplistic when you wish to be can't you? That is what I was referring to. "Good Will~ Placebo Effect" have the same outcomes. Nothing tangible, nothing you could 'take to the bank'
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#30
RE: Prayer not working
(October 21, 2012 at 6:01 am)Akincana Krishna dasa Wrote: Funny how there are certain things that are just beyond our control.

Funny how no amount of religion changes that.
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