(August 15, 2016 at 3:17 am)Jesster Wrote:(August 15, 2016 at 3:15 am)Arkilogue Wrote: I am not telling him what to believe, I am telling him what he can do with the time and ritual his parents are forcing him to participate in, in a language they would understand so that he can put their mind at ease and get them off his back.So you're telling him to send a mental thank you to something that isn't sentient and can't receive that thank you anyway. Sounds like another form of prayer to me.
If you are forced to kneel and touch your forehead to the ground, you can either repeat in your mind "f-you Islam, f-you Islam, f-you Islam." Or you can spend your time being grateful for, among many other things, the space of the atom's that compose your body and the trillions of stars that had to die to make them. Thus you are not some random burp of existence by a capricious God but a summation of universal order that has accumulated over billions of years.
Why does it feel good to have a journal where I express my feelings to nothing?
