(May 16, 2023 at 1:12 am)Astreja Wrote: Praying and talking to oneself are distinctly different things. When I'm working on a math problem, reading numbers aloud as I copy them from a worksheet onto scrap paper, that is not a prayer. Looking through the fridge and saying "The milk, the eggs... Bread, margarine..." while gathering ingredients for breakfast - also not a prayer.
Atheists. Do. Not. Pray.
(May 16, 2023 at 1:56 am)KerimF Wrote: Surely, there is nothing wrong in what you said.
But as the way one talks to some others is different from one situation to another (talking for fun, looking for decisions, arguing... etc.), talking to oneself is not necessarily of the same spirit (sorry, my English is rather narrow. I wish I know a better word that doesn't hurt an atheist). This is why I added:
... every time he says “Let me be alone” then enters a room for a while after he closes its door behind him.
After all, one is fortunate indeed, if he didn't need to live such situation any time in his life.
The only time I would say "Let me be alone" would be if I were talking to another person, and if they were somehow trying to stop me from leaving.
And the language I would use in that case would probably be a lot less polite than your example, too.
(I generally wouldn't say "Let me be alone" if I'm the only one there - there's no need to do so.)
