RE: Questions of Novena Prayers and Offerings
November 17, 2015 at 1:38 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2015 at 1:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
They also see prayer as a route to self improvement (and some see it as a route for improvement of things even beyond themselves), as a part of a godly life. The outcome is supposed to be the same.
OFC praying won't make a sick child better, but meditation won't make a person any "better" either - sick or otherwise.
Theres a pattern here, I'm trying to help you see. What we are discussing, is people engaging in superficially different methods to achieve fundamentally similar goals. Why would you even expect it to be something else? We're all human, we're all very similar, just a few points this way or that way in deviation from the mean.
OFC praying won't make a sick child better, but meditation won't make a person any "better" either - sick or otherwise.
Theres a pattern here, I'm trying to help you see. What we are discussing, is people engaging in superficially different methods to achieve fundamentally similar goals. Why would you even expect it to be something else? We're all human, we're all very similar, just a few points this way or that way in deviation from the mean.
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