'Conviction (1)'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The thing is, no sane believer thinks s/he's got God in a box. No matter what religion you practice, it is obvious that God doesn't grant all prayers. Otherwise we'd all be bathing in ice cream and James Marsters would be worn down to a nubbin.
Some people claim prayers aren't answered because you didn't pray (A) hard enough (B) sincerely enough (C) to the right God. Me, I say it's ineffable.
James Marsters would be worn down to a nubbin.
Based on his prayers, or yours?
Based on his prayers, no fangirl would get within 20 yards of him. Based on my prayers, every book in the world would be immediately FedExed to me and nobody I love would ever get sick.
Of course, in "I'm flying out of that airport tomorrow" news, I guess I'll try to get there a little early.I'm just gonna throw a lot of travel~ma your way for the nonce.
This isn't always an indicator of general assholishness though. My immediate boss has a brusque e-mail manner that can rub people the wrong way, but he's very personable face-to-face or over the phone.I would find any any any excuse to not call the rude client and just deal with her in email where I had a chance to unHulkSmash-ify my responses. Then I got caught on the phone with her and it turned out she was nice. A flake, but nice. Still want to flay her alive when she emails me but if there is ever a real issue, I call.
Based on his prayers, no fangirl would get within 20 yards of him
This doesn't jibe with everything I've heard.
Some people claim prayers aren't answered because you didn't pray (A) hard enough (B) sincerely enough (C) to the right God.
Or (D) because you're not important enough. Seriously, it's not like everybody's calls get put right through.
Me, I say it's ineffable.
So stop trying to eff it. (Used to be my Betsy tag.)
The thing is, no sane believer thinks s/he's got God in a box.I might lose any sane cred I have but this is the best visual today.
Some people claim prayers aren't answered because you didn't pray (A) hard enough (B) sincerely enough (C) to the right God. Me, I say it's ineffable.
Personally I believe all prayers ARE answered -- but often the answer is "no".
no sane believer thinks s/he's got God in a box
"Hey, listen to this! I got God inna box! Hear 'im rattle?"
I read about this a while back, but I thought what they tested was having a people from a whole bunch of religions pray, and that overall, they could not prove prayer had any effect.
Studies like this have been done, but most of the recent studies have been done under pressure from neocons, so they use forms of prayer that neocons believe in.