RE: Prayers don't work so why do religious keep jabbing at it?
August 22, 2019 at 8:30 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2019 at 8:32 pm by EgoDeath.)
What bothers me the most is when someone who prays, and it's always someone who prays, tries to compare prayer to mediation, in some lame attempt to legitimize prayer. They are not at all the same. One can maybe argue that you reach some sort of mild meditative state when praying... but if that's the case, why not just skip to the good stuff and just meditate instead?
Meditation helps make you more mindful, which is good for anxiety, depression, focus, memory retention, so on and so forth. And while results are going to vary wildly for people, meditation is, in general, a positive thing which is relatively easy to do, though difficult to master.
Praying requires zero skill. Meditation requires at least some level of focus and introspection, which often need to be developed... like skills. Looking inward to recognize when you're thinking and allowing that thought to pass instead of getting attached to it or being carried away by it.
I've heard people say that meditation is like learning to sit next to the river bank and watch the water go by, instead of letting yourself get caught and carried away by the rapids.
Praying is not at all the same. It's an attempt to communicate with a "supreme being" in order to achieve some goal or grant some wish for world peace or whatever. They are simply not the same and I'm sick of religious people comparing the two.
Meditation is attentive listening during a conversation. Praying is like interrupting the person you're talking to at every turn and asking them for money or to help you find your car keys.
Complete nonsense.
Meditation helps make you more mindful, which is good for anxiety, depression, focus, memory retention, so on and so forth. And while results are going to vary wildly for people, meditation is, in general, a positive thing which is relatively easy to do, though difficult to master.
Praying requires zero skill. Meditation requires at least some level of focus and introspection, which often need to be developed... like skills. Looking inward to recognize when you're thinking and allowing that thought to pass instead of getting attached to it or being carried away by it.
I've heard people say that meditation is like learning to sit next to the river bank and watch the water go by, instead of letting yourself get caught and carried away by the rapids.
Praying is not at all the same. It's an attempt to communicate with a "supreme being" in order to achieve some goal or grant some wish for world peace or whatever. They are simply not the same and I'm sick of religious people comparing the two.
Meditation is attentive listening during a conversation. Praying is like interrupting the person you're talking to at every turn and asking them for money or to help you find your car keys.
Complete nonsense.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
