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To drnick (Free verse) by amanda_dcosta I do not know you drnick
nor know your real name
I do not know what you look like
or what's your favourite game
What you might like to eat or drink
or styles you prefer best
the languages you know to speak,or
to whom you're known as 'pest'.
Yet, still I thank our Lord above
for His creation true
and for the very nature in the
one and only you.
I ask that He may bless you
in all you undertake
not judge you on what I might think
the habits you should break.
I pray that He be with you
wherever you may go
in every step or act of yours
Love's gifts in you may grow.
And most of all, I thank Him
for the plans He has for you
in love and friendship, aches and pains
in joys and sorrows too.
Up the ladder:
Last dance at the lake
Down the ladder:
The Thomas Brown Affair
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Posted: February 15, 2006 6:38 AM PST; Last modified: February 15, 2006 6:38 AM PSTWeighted score: 5.2622466 Overall Rank: 3983 Comments:
drnick, you are a privileged soul! Glorious!
I'm glad you noticed that, Ranger. I think so too. Thanks for your look up on this poem.
We often get proponents of religion spouting off about some evil they want to cure, but yours is made of stronger stuff.
Thank you Dovina. I take this as an honour. Your normal vote on my pages is a -7-.
As for the stronger stuff, this is basically how I pray. Besides, I can't cure myself of some habits, how am I gonna cure someone else's. And 'curing' ain't my fancy. Being adventurous is mine.
I truely am honored that you would take your time to write such a kind piece of poetry, as this is, to a heathan like myself. I hope you understand that I will not rate this piece, due to undeniable bias. I will write a poem in responce to this, perhaps not directed to you...but more in explanation of myself. However, it was "His" plan for me to get really drunk alone last night...just like every year, and so I will have to wait until I am less hung-over. Thank you, again, for this =]
Before you write your poem ask yourself this:
Was my life any less fulfilling when I once believed in Santa Claus?
:-)
Mr. heathen, what's this about undeniable bias? You are the one who's supposed to rate this poem and not the others. Now you do hurt my finest sentiments ( if ever there was any!) ha ha.... suit yourself...... I'll be on the look out for your piece.
and yes, it was His 'plan' for you to get reall drunk, if you may say so.
Obviously drnick still thinks the best of you also and he doesn't have God to tell him he should.
Oh, but he does.
I guess in the Jerry McGuire you had me at hello way he does but that's not what I meant.
He might not have God ..... but rather, God has him. He has you too Alchemy. Watch out.
Thanks for the warning but my god is going to let people be who they'll be so I'm not worried. God might have drnick but he still is unaware of it so it only makes a difference to god not drnick and yet the Doc is still a good person, go figure.
Your a wise man Al, your a wise man!
religion and man, the enternal paradox,
much as we would like to believe we are all knowing, in our modern world science has so many answers, but deep inside a question who am i? deeper inside a voice quite and faint, growing stronger as you listen. superego cries freud, conscience cries science. my question is why the heck was it programmed into the system in the first place?. do i see an old man with merry eyes smiling!!. ask questions he says? do you have all the answers my friend. man i sure wish i knew........... i am too weak to hold onto faith.......
Pray a little more, buddy, and then you won't be too weak to hold onto faith. Come on, be a man, you can do it!
When you pray for somebody, what do you think happens? Do you think God says "Well I wasn't actually going to help such-and-such, but now that you've prayed for him I will."? At Church people are always praying for the poor, or praying for the sick, or praying for the people who've been pulped by an earthquake. What the hell do they think they're doing? I mean, is the power of a prayer directly proportional to the number of people who pray that prayer? And if we didn't pray, would God just watch T.V. instead? Think about it. For once in your life, think about it.
So prayer is only relevant to personal salvation, then. It's pretty conceivable that God would say "Well, I wasn't going to save so-and-so, but since he prays so much, I guess I will."
Of course, you CAN simply pray "God send me to heaven instead of hell". But if you could likely get bonus points for wishing good on other people while praying, why the hell wouldn't you?
Because you're only doing it for the bonus points, obviously. Look, either you believe God will help the person you're praying for BECAUSE you are praying for them, or you don't. If you don't, then you're obviously only praying for them because you think it will get you into heaven. That isn't going to fool a Jesu. If you do, then you've got to accept that you believe in a pretty bizarre sort of benevolent God. The sort of God who would forsake someone simply because nobody happened to be praying for them. It just doesn't make any sense. The whole explanation Christians have for sufferring is that God doesn't intervene because He wants us to have free will. The second you bring prayer into it, you're talking about an interventionist God. If He's willing to intervene to alleviate the suffering of so-and-so because such-and-such prayed for him, why doesn't He just do that all the time? It can't be because doing so would make so-and-so run out of free will. Nine times out of ten, so-and-so has no knowledge or control over who prays for him.
I think the only reason people pray (other than the fact that they haven't thought about it in your way) is that it makes them feel like their helping someone without actually doing anything to help them. I'm sure it makes them feel good about themselves. Don't worry though, Jesus loves you...even if it IS in an inappropriate way.
Here's a likely scenario:
Pope Ratzinger is probably aware that God isn't moved by human prayers. He does, however, know that God gives special chairs in heaven to people who pray for others. He therefore dupes the entirety of his congregation into believing prayer intercessions are meaningful ways to help others, and then counts on (1) his having helped many, many people into heaven, and (2) his own prayers, which are, possibly, only for his own salvation, to get himself into heaven as well. The only alternative, from his perspective, is simply to tell all his congregants to only pray for themselves or risk being seen by God as disingenuous self-promoters. In which case, no one gets bonus points, and even Ratzinger's own salvation is at risk, as he's helped no one particularly get salvation and he's a soddy Nazi crone.
âWhen you pray . . . , what do you think happens?â I think that when I pray, I am addressing someone much wiser than I, much like a two-year-old cries out to her parent. Maybe she wants another cookie or to be picked up and held. The parent listens and sometimes yields to the cry, but a good parent will not always comply, and often says no. Only as I consider my prayers as simple begging to a higher mind do they make any sense. Frankly, I cannot find more changes that follow my prayers than I find from pure probability. But that does not stop me, because I believe God exists, and if the only advantage anyone gets as a result of my prayers is my own edification, then that is enough. And if I donât gain any points toward going to heaven, thatâs okay too.
If you have to hold on to it then it ain't faith.
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drnick... you're now famous.