Out of Pod Experience

Not religion per se, when it comes to religion I must say it's more like despise than hate.

No, I hate people that pray.

Why you ask? Well the answer is pretty simple.

People that pray know that something needs to be done, but instead of even trying to do it themselves they kneel and beg for someone else (mostly invisible and non-existant) to do it and they even feel mighty righteous about it...

On religion per se... Well, I despise religion. It's a mind poison, it enacts thought barriers and discourages the asking of questions and in some cases enforces the (severe) punishment of people that ask to many or the wrong kind of questions or, while I'm at it, eat the wrong kind of food at the wrong day.

I honestly pitty people that fell for that trap.

That's what i just realized about myself.

And just to make this post not a rant, what do you hate/despise and why?

EDIT: Just to clarify, maybe I should have said "people that JUST pray" You know, the kind of people that sit on their arses and do nothing but pray when they could actually do something to change things for the better.

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Wow, I could give a list. I'll start with my biggest ones.

Left lane A**hole drivers. The flow of traffic would be so much nicer if people who drive in the left lane and "sit there" were simply removed from the gene pool. It takes very little effort on your part to move back into the right lane but yet you find it your civic responsibility to meter traffic. Jerks...

Bureaucracy. (particularly when it comes to insurance companies and banks) Want a Loan? Fill out this stack of paperwork that gives us permission to say "no". "No sir, that last payment you made went to cover a missing payment from 1972." Two of the great evils of the world...banks and insurance companies.

This one may seem a little obscure, but it drives me insane. People who have no practical knowledge of their field. Dealing with architects/engineers who work in theories, but have no idea how it works in real life. Something as simple as designing a lighting system that is 15' high....in a stairwell. I think that architects and engineers should spend mandatory time "in the field" to get an idea of what their bone headed designs do to people that have to maintain them.

Thats my very very short list.

Sometimes you can do nothing, like when doctors tell you that every therapy they tried has failed and you can expect death. You will pray then, if you are religious person. Or when some kidnapper is holding a gun near your daughters head, or yours in a bank robbery. You will probably pray even when you are not religious person.




From my personal experience, people often pray when they are hurt, and don't know how to handle dificult emotional situations, like death of a wife or husband, or a children. Lets say its more like a talk with a personal shrink, you can tell him anything. Maybe its like defending yourself from nihilism, like empowering "God is on our side" and then everything is possible even when its not.

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Then I would ask: what about Zen-philosophy? Does not every cell in our body in some way let us sense that there is far more than just intelligence ---> science----> robotics/computers ... in the end all leading to the total absence of the greater good, called wisdom?

For example: if it would be up to science & scientists alone, than the ultimate strife should be replacing all human bodyparts (limbs/organs/brains) by some artificial equivalents (???)...and next stage 'storing humans memories" in some databases...in that way becoming immortals...

Just read the relevant articles about it on the internet: the above is already set in progress for years now. Though, such persons (or more accurate I should refer to them as ' dark entities') striving for such scientific implementations maybe highly intelligent...they show a total absense of wisdom & they choose to declare war on yet beautiful & immense vastly interconnected ecological 'living' systems..of which Planet Eart is just a part.

As a little example this scene of the many awards winning "Dances with wolves" ....the lieutenant goes dancing around the fire....but what does this tell you? What has realy happened to him: evolution or de-evolution? Great movie with some deep idea's in it.

"Dances With Wolves Fire Dance"

So, I guess it just comes to this: what does your senses (feelings) tell you about this all?

Not with prayer.

You can manipulate them by appealing to their patriootism or by straight out lying to them (like reliugion does) but not by praying. There is no possible way you can justify a prayer as something useful, it simply is not possible.

It weas my pleasure, thank you.

im praying my football team manage to not get relegated to the championship this season ...if that helps ?
oh ..and IBTL

lol, awesome comment so far.

surprised the lords of lockage haven't visited yet ..............well im obviously not praying hard enough