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Such a bold statement. You have to explain why.
by dukeflukem 9y ago
Such a bold statement. You have to explain why.
- nukeop 9y agoPrayer has been helping people for thousands of years, meditation is a new-age, godless impostor.
- krapp 9y agoPrayer has never helped anyone, unless you consider the placebo effect to be helpful. In which case prayer is no more or less useful than meditation.
- nukeop 9y agoCommunion with the divine is not a "placebo effect". it has a profound effect on the mental and intellectual condition.
- andrei_says_ 9y agoWhich one of the many gods do you think it tries to impose upon and in what way? What do you think is the purpose of prayer and what do you think is the purpose of meditation?
- nukeop 9y agoThere is only one God, by definition. If there were many, they wouldn't be God, by an obvious contradiction (since God is the greatest conceivable being, there is only one).
- naru_s 9y agoThats your definition of God, the definition that is made by people like you who want to make claim for your God. Stop making such obvious circular logic please. You know in the history on mankind there are more than 3000 definitions of God. If you born in old Greece 2000 years ago, your definition of God would be different from now. If you are born in Thai or India, your God will again be different. What you are currently believing just depends on your geographic location.
- nukeop 9y agoIf I were born in Greece 2000 years ago I would have read Plato and know the same definition anyone interested in theology has known since the Sumerians. You would have read Plato too and we wouldn't be having this conversation. Please stop spreading this misconception that religions are somehow completely different and incompatible, they are simply different paths to the same goal, this has been acknowledged by saints and scholars across the world for as long as there has been religion. We might disagree on some particulars but the core concept and idea of the absolute reality is the same.
- chad_strategic 9y agoUgh I fell for this off argument... Meditation predates Christianity. Buddhism any one? I don’t recall anybody meditating and then become ing a suicide bomber.