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[freyakitten]

While getting my hair cut on Friday, my mother and my hairdresser, at one point, were discussing the necessity for people of faith to pray for rain (in the context of their own faith). I didn't come straight out and say it (I danced around the subject, posing questions without condemning their choices - I got some thoughtful responses), but my opinion on the subject is that praying only for rain is choosing to be a child who has a parent/god-figure to take care of everything. Far better to pray that we learn everything the lack of rain has to teach us, with as little pain as is necessary to get the point across.

IMO, until one learns the lessons drought has to teach us, it will keep catching us unawares and unprepared, and not taking responsibility for our actions and lack of action. And this is true no matter what one believes.

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[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

:::nods:::

I have no religious beliefs, so this is clear to me!

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure there's an article or essay in the back of my head waiting for me to write it on this subject, only I'm at work and can't write it now. *sadness*

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

:-(

I'll be glad to see it if you write it.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Seconded :-)

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

praying only for rain is choosing to be a child who has a parent/god-figure to take care of everything.

Now extend this lovely burst of sanity outwards, and you'll see that it's the root cause of ALL deistic infection. Dude.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

...praying only for rain is choosing to be a child who has a parent/god-figure to take care of everything.

Not to mention, extremely dangerous... No, we Erisians seldom pray, it is much too dangerous. Charles Fort has listed many factual incidences of ignorant people confronted with, say, a drought, and then praying fervently – and then getting the entire village wiped out in a torrential flood. -- Malaclypse the Elder, Principia Discordia

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

In these modern times, where the idea of prayer has been thoughtless veneration, people forget the idea of propiatory worship. As in "Here. Have a beer/milk/goat. Yada yada. You're great. Now go away."