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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 9:06 pm
(August 21, 2013 at 12:11 pm)discipulus Wrote: You assume that when i use the word communicate I mean talk, but there are ways to communicate with God without talking. When I pray, sometimes I talk, but most of the times I use another form of communication.
Like how? I have to ask, because we had one guy here that said god communicated to him through digital clocks, and another who said god communicated to him through his opening the bible to a random page.
More importantly, how do you know you are communicating with god and it isn't an illusion or a construct of your unconscious mind?
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 9:35 pm
This is great. Today at lunch my friend told me that she opened the Bible at a random page to allow God to talk to her and that through the verse God slapped her and told her to forgive. After a while I told her about my experience doing that when I was a Pentecostal. I would open the Bible and I would get something to the effect of, "... and washushu gave birth to luki and luki gave birth to tutifruti. Tutifruti gave birth to fafi and fafi gave birth to tatertot." I would close it up and go again. After a while I would find one that made sense to what I was going through and get excited. lmfao
Means of communication with God that I can think of (in a Christian's point of view):
God speaks through a sermon
God speaks through rocks (people who are not Christian, a newspaper, a book, a commercial, anything really)
God speaks through a feeling
Christian speaks to God through thoughts and meditation
Christian talks to God through good deeds
Meh. Few examples. Of course, all of these have logical explanations. I'm just thinking like I would have responded back in my churchy days.
(August 21, 2013 at 9:06 pm)Faith No More Wrote: (August 21, 2013 at 12:11 pm)discipulus Wrote: You assume that when i use the word communicate I mean talk, but there are ways to communicate with God without talking. When I pray, sometimes I talk, but most of the times I use another form of communication.
Like how? I have to ask, because we had one guy here that said god communicated to him through digital clocks, and another who said god communicated to him through his opening the bible to a random page.
More importantly, how do you know you are communicating with god and it isn't an illusion or a construct of your unconscious mind?
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 9:36 pm
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 9:36 pm
pfff... put the quote under my response. You get the idea.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Quote:God speaks through a sermon
God speaks through rocks (people who are not Christian, a newspaper, a book, a commercial, anything really)
God speaks through a feeling
Christian speaks to God through thoughts and meditation
Christian talks to God through good deeds
Am I the only one who thinks that this makes god seem like a rather ineffective schmuck?
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 9:44 pm
(August 21, 2013 at 9:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:God speaks through a sermon
God speaks through rocks (people who are not Christian, a newspaper, a book, a commercial, anything really)
God speaks through a feeling
Christian speaks to God through thoughts and meditation
Christian talks to God through good deeds
Am I the only one who thinks that this makes god seem like a rather ineffective schmuck?
"Seem like"? I thought it was more obvious than that.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 9:46 pm
Back then I would have not seen it. Now that I see this I can't believe I felt love for a non-existent, ineffective, mediocre, cruel god. It's painful just to remember. Really.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 9:48 pm
(August 21, 2013 at 9:44 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: (August 21, 2013 at 9:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Am I the only one who thinks that this makes god seem like a rather ineffective schmuck?
"Seem like"? I thought it was more obvious than that.
See? It never works when I try to be polite.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 9:55 pm
You just need more practise, Min. 
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 21, 2013 at 11:31 pm
Oh, fuck that.
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