Prayer...

[hyebruin]

thought of the day: ignorance knows noooo bounds!!!! aaahhh who you calling "little"??? this is just toooo funnnny!! you ARE a dumba$$$ i'm not makin cheap comebacks cuz i don't know you...except that you ARE a dumba$$$ based on your behaviour yeaaaaa those are MY eyes rollllin!!

[spiral]

Here's an aphorism I read today which reminded me of this thread-

Incence_ Buddha said "do not flatter your benefactor" This saying should be repeated in a Christian church-right away it clears the air of everything Christian.

[dusken]

Here's an aphorism I read today which reminded me of this thread-

Incence_ Buddha said "do not flatter your benefactor" This saying should be repeated in a Christian church-right away it clears the air of everything Christian.

Well I can see how it relates to this thread but in what context was it said?

And what the phuck is "Incence Buddha"? And should it not be incense.

[loseyourname]

I was talking to this one weird guy in my class yesterday, about religion, and the existence of God, and he said-- "Oh ya, I do believe in God, no doubt. I mean like the other day...like, I had a 600 dollar parking ticket, and like, I was like dudee how am I gonna pay for this??? And like I prayed to God, and I was like God, you gotta help me get outta this somehow, and like I went to court, and the judge dismissed the case/ticket, just like that, for no reason.... Uh, hu hu, I mean you can say it was luck, say it was chance, but I say it was God..."

Remember a couple of months back when I had a $2000 credit card balance completely erased for no apparent reason? I never prayed, I don't believe in God, and I'm a pretty rotten person on top of it all. I wonder how your friend would explain my good luck.

By the way, I've also had a $600 ticket dismissed for no apparent reason. It was a ticket for driving an unregistered car. I still had not registered the car, but the judge let me off with only paying an $80 court fee. I also missed an exam on Tuesday that would have caused me to fail a class, only to find out the next day that the professor had decided to postpone the exam. This kind of thing happens to me so often, I wasn't even surprised; heck, I almost expected that she had done so.

[Sip]

Remember a couple of months back when I had a $2000 credit card balance completely erased for no apparent reason? I never prayed, I don't believe in God, and I'm a pretty rotten person on top of it all. I wonder how your friend would explain my good luck.

Well, if God exists and those kinds of things are act of God, then God is an idiot.

Oh wait, sorry, ... I forgot .. his wisdom is sooo vast we just can't comprehend it.

[ExtraHye]

Praying is nothing but a waste of time and energy, as nothing ever comes out of it. One needs to work for what they need and want.

[sleuth]

God is not a cosmic santa claus granting men their selfish desires, God is a holy God Who ultimately causes His purpose to come to pass in both eternity and history--time.

Prayer is a way to be connected to great and divine source of energy,its way to be connected to nature...it creates balance ,peace and harmony.

*Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. There is no peace without the grace of God, and there is no grace of God without prayer*Mahatma Gandhi ( he is not a Christian).

[spiral]

Well I can see how it relates to this thread but in what context was it said?

And what the phuck is "Incence Buddha"? And should it not be incense.

It was not said in any specific context, it was one of Nietzsche’s seventy-five Aphorisms, this one pertaining to/from the Gay Science.

Incense and Buddha are not together as a term. They’re separate. I typed it up carelessly. (I fixed it)

As far as the meaning of incense goes, In the gay science he makes reference to Frankincense, which I’m guessing is ‘khoonk’.

And as far as its relevance to the aphorism, I do know that Frankincense was burnt in alters during prayer, I think rooting from Pagan tradition, extending to Roman Catholic, to Christians. Israelis use Frankincense in their ceremonies as well.

[spiral]

Remember a couple of months back when I had a $2000 credit card balance completely erased for no apparent reason? I never prayed, I don't believe in God, and I'm a pretty rotten person on top of it all. I wonder how your friend would explain my good luck.

He is not my friend, he's some psycho who looks like a serial killer, and keeps sniffing my hair everytime my head is turned.

And he would say that God saw that you are more-so in love with the idea of being a rotten person, rather than actually being a rotten person, so God waved his hand and poofed away your debt, so that to prove to you, that he sees through you.


awwwww, I'm so nice.

[patlajan]

It was not said in any specific context, it was one of Nietzsche’s seventy-five Aphorisms, this one pertaining to/from the Gay Science.

Nietzsche was an idiot.