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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 13, 2015 at 1:24 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 12:51 am)dyresand Wrote: It's a useless and if it actually work it is the most selfish idea possibly imagined. The other thing why bother praying for something
to happen and instead of being lazy try and actually accomplish something simple instead of praying on it. Praying it is the most
lazy concept of getting something done. It's like saying my car is broke down i'll pray for someone to help or even i pray for this cold
to go away or you get the gist of it is lazy but.. if it makes you feel better go on and go ahead pray.
So prayer is like you bitching about Christians on an atheist website, eh?
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 13, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Woah alpha male shows up out of left field. How've you been john?
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 13, 2015 at 1:42 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 1:24 pm)alpha male Wrote: (October 13, 2015 at 12:51 am)dyresand Wrote: It's a useless and if it actually work it is the most selfish idea possibly imagined. The other thing why bother praying for something
to happen and instead of being lazy try and actually accomplish something simple instead of praying on it. Praying it is the most
lazy concept of getting something done. It's like saying my car is broke down i'll pray for someone to help or even i pray for this cold
to go away or you get the gist of it is lazy but.. if it makes you feel better go on and go ahead pray.
So prayer is like you bitching about Christians on an atheist website, eh?
Eh no, i just don't really see much of a purpose of praying over mundane stuff if its something like a bad situation with no hope or a love one in the hospital or being in the hospital being sick that's the only good practical uses for prayer.
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 13, 2015 at 5:18 pm
Prayer is one of the most pointless, time-consuming, and counter-productive endeavors a human being can engage in. The act literally translates into doing absolutely nothing.
Not all, but many religious folks love nothing more than to sit on their ass and pray, leaving everyone else to to do every bit of the legwork and heavy lifting. These people wouldn't recognize real sacrifice if it came up and kicked them square in the face.
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 13, 2015 at 6:04 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 10:49 am)lkingpinl Wrote: Prayer is not meant to "wish" for things. But to be thankful for what you have.
So why do so many xtians tell us they're going to pray for us to "see the light"?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 13, 2015 at 6:06 pm
My go-to question when someone insists in the power of prayer is "so why is Madeline McCann still missing and likely dead?"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 13, 2015 at 6:11 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 6:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (October 13, 2015 at 10:49 am)lkingpinl Wrote: Prayer is not meant to "wish" for things. But to be thankful for what you have.
So why do so many xtians tell us they're going to pray for us to "see the light"?
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 13, 2015 at 6:19 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2015 at 6:21 pm by jenny1972.)
(October 13, 2015 at 12:51 am)dyresand Wrote: It's a useless and if it actually work it is the most selfish idea possibly imagined. The other thing why bother praying for something
to happen and instead of being lazy try and actually accomplish something simple instead of praying on it. Praying it is the most
lazy concept of getting something done. It's like saying my car is broke down i'll pray for someone to help or even i pray for this cold
to go away or you get the gist of it is lazy but.. if it makes you feel better go on and go ahead pray.
yes i agree people shouldnt lazily sit around and make requests to God to accomplish things for them as if God were some servant or something , im not sure why people would continue (assuming that they do) if they did not see it as being productive and start doing for themselves .
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today  Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one - John Lennon
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 13, 2015 at 6:27 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 6:11 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: (October 13, 2015 at 6:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: So why do so many xtians tell us they're going to pray for us to "see the light"?
Morons
More like desperate, needing to hide behind their religion to say a simple "fuck you".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
October 14, 2015 at 7:13 am
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(October 13, 2015 at 10:49 am)lkingpinl Wrote: Prayer is not meant to "wish" for things. But to be thankful for what you have.
Hmmm... That's funny - I thought "Lord's Prayer" was a prayer...
There's nothing remotely like a "thank you" in the whole damn thing. Come to think of it - there isn't a "please", either...
Here's the text, if anyone needs their memory refreshed. Have your rosary beads ready.
Quote:Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Or in other words - "Hey Dad! Give us some food and don't spaz out."
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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