I use various expressions with God in them frequently. They are common and it's habit. I stopped wasting time and effort with prayer long ago. I know who is going to help me. Me. Nobody else has the motivation and I wouldn't trust anyone else to do it. How's that old saying go? "God helps those who help themselves."
Akshay, good luck and God bless. dj On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:00 PM, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Prayer puzzles me - even in my years as a believer, it puzzled me. I > don't understand what it's for - even for believers. Does God react to > things differently if he/she is prayed to? Does knocking on heaven's > door evoke a different answer to that which would have been > forthcoming if one hadn't knocked? Is God's immutable will capable of > being influenced or bribed? > > Prayer - and it is central to almost every religion known to me - > seems to be an essential part of the religious impulse. Modern > ("enlightened") believers usually explain its importance as a way of > staying in contact with a personal God - communication as the basis of > relationship. This often seems to me to be the religious reflection of > intellectual preoccupation with communication/media prevelant > worldwide since the middle of the 20th. Century. But even this > tendency reinforces my suspicion that prayer is an indication of the > deeply anthropological basis of all theologies - a prime example of > the anthropomorphing bias (ineluctably) prevelant in human thinking > structures. > > But the instinct is stronger, deeper and more primitive than happy > encounter theories of "God my partner, with whom I must remain in > communication if I want our relationship to develop and grow." As a > (relatively) convinced agnostic/atheist, I still occasionally find > myself (usually in difficult situations) mentally muttering, "Oh God, > please don't let this happen, please don't let this be true ...!" The > rational part of me insists that this is ridiculous. Even the part of > me which remains theoretically open to the possibility of some sort of > theological foundation to things reasons that there is no way in which > human imploring could possibly move God to change his/her mind. > Sometimes the hindbrain just isn't listening and shoots off > invocations regardless.. > > Brendan Beehan once made a comment to the effect that there were no > atheists at three in the morning, when worries clamour and sleep won't > come. In such states there remains the agnostic's prayer; "Dear God, > if there is a God, save me from hell, if there is a hell!" > > Francis > > On 19 Apr., 11:33, akshay <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am only earning person in my family which consist of 8 people. I >> have to stay away from my family for my job. >> >> Pl. pray for me for prosperity and stability in my job and good >> position and peace for me. God bless you with happiness and peace and >> prosperity. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
