RE: What do you think prayer is?
February 1, 2018 at 12:38 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2018 at 12:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It helps me get through drudgery, conveniently, that seems to be alot of what people pray about as well. "God, help me get through another shit day at this shit job for shit pay. Help me to work hard..and, you know, if you can swing it, a promotion would be nice."
Well, if they do manage to string a bunch of shit days together and work hard, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that a promotion lies at the end of that rainbow. I get carrots. Obvs they;re talking to themselves and not to god (and I;m not really conversing with the earth)..though I strongly doubt that there's really a difference, in actuality.
As a point of interest, alot of meditative exercises are meant to reduce the amount of chanting or mantra required to achieve the effect. Prayer being attached to deeply held religious beliefs and past private and communal experience achieves much of the same. Whatever amount of control we may have on the state of our mind or the outcomes of our actions which can be influenced by our state of mind depends upon our ability to pull those levers. This, in turn, circumscribes and explains the relative effect of prayer or meditation. I described two of my favorites to another poster once...and I have oticed that the longer I;ve been at it and the more often I did it the less time I had to spend doing them in order to achieve the desired effect...which, in my case is simple peace of mind. I;d grant that meditation is more elaborate, but that may be because meditation is less effective or efficient than the headstart provided by an enduring faith. There's no need to set your mind in that mode..because you live there.
Well, if they do manage to string a bunch of shit days together and work hard, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that a promotion lies at the end of that rainbow. I get carrots. Obvs they;re talking to themselves and not to god (and I;m not really conversing with the earth)..though I strongly doubt that there's really a difference, in actuality.
As a point of interest, alot of meditative exercises are meant to reduce the amount of chanting or mantra required to achieve the effect. Prayer being attached to deeply held religious beliefs and past private and communal experience achieves much of the same. Whatever amount of control we may have on the state of our mind or the outcomes of our actions which can be influenced by our state of mind depends upon our ability to pull those levers. This, in turn, circumscribes and explains the relative effect of prayer or meditation. I described two of my favorites to another poster once...and I have oticed that the longer I;ve been at it and the more often I did it the less time I had to spend doing them in order to achieve the desired effect...which, in my case is simple peace of mind. I;d grant that meditation is more elaborate, but that may be because meditation is less effective or efficient than the headstart provided by an enduring faith. There's no need to set your mind in that mode..because you live there.
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