The Nehor wrote:I ask God to help me find something I've lost all the time. Let me clarify though. I don't drop to my knees and start a formal prayer over it. I just talk to him in my mind. But I do this a lot without thinking about it.
And, certainly it couldn't just be that talking it over in your mind helps you to remember where they are, right? It HAS to be God intervening??
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The Nehor wrote:I ask God to help me find something I've lost all the time. Let me clarify though. I don't drop to my knees and start a formal prayer over it. I just talk to him in my mind. But I do this a lot without thinking about it.
And, certainly it couldn't just be that talking it over in your mind helps you to remember where they are, right? It HAS to be God intervening??
I have no idea. Don't care really. If I get the keys I'm happy either way and I'll throw him a quick thanks. If he didn't intervene he gave me the mental capacity to figure it out so he deserves it either way. I guess he could lose if he was the one who hid the keys but I don't think he's that petty.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
I think when people pray to god to find something they have lost, it is really just a way of calming themselves so they can think clearly. A few months ago I was frantically searching my apartment for my birth certificate so I could get a passport for my planned trip to Europe. I looked and looked and looked, but couldn't find it. I got frustrated to the extent that no matter how hard I looked, I probably wouldn't see it if it was in plain sight. I didn't pray...I don't believe in god. But I did some relaxation exercises and decided not to search anymore until the next day. I found my birth certificate in the first place I looked the next morning.
silentkid wrote:I think when people pray to god to find something they have lost, it is really just a way of calming themselves so they can think clearly. A few months ago I was frantically searching my apartment for my birth certificate so I could get a passport for my planned trip to Europe. I looked and looked and looked, but couldn't find it. I got frustrated to the extent that no matter how hard I looked, I probably wouldn't see it if it was in plain sight. I didn't pray...I don't believe in god. But I did some relaxation exercises and decided not to search anymore until the next day. I found my birth certificate in the first place I looked the next morning.
I think these kinds of things happen all the time, and since people are trained to think that God loves them and wants them to be happy, they give thanks to God when it had nothing to do with God.
If there's one thing I've learned from this board, it's that consensual sex with multiple partners is okay unless God commands it. - Abman
I find this place to be hostile toward all brands of stupidity. That's why I like it. - Some Schmo
These kinds of threads always crack me up. Some silly, mocking assertion is made about Mormons, and the anti-Mormons all get together for a circle jerk. How wonderfully mature and productive (like this post)! ROFLMAO
mbeesley wrote:These kinds of threads always crack me up. Some silly, mocking assertion is made about Mormons, and the anti-Mormons all get together for a circle jerk. How wonderfully mature and productive (like this post)! ROFLMAO
I'm glad you stopped by to join the circle, then, with your apparent maturity and productivity.
Lighten up, dude.
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe / But at least I'm enjoying the ride.
-Grateful Dead (lyrics by John Perry Barlow)
mbeesley wrote:These kinds of threads always crack me up. Some silly, mocking assertion is made about Mormons, and the anti-Mormons all get together for a circle jerk. How wonderfully mature and productive (like this post)! ROFLMAO
And the pro-Mormon's can't resist embedding immature and unproductive masturbation remarks in their responses to it.
Oh, the irony!
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
mbeesley wrote:These kinds of threads always crack me up. Some silly, mocking assertion is made about Mormons, and the anti-Mormons all get together for a circle jerk. How wonderfully mature and productive (like this post)! ROFLMAO
And the pro-Mormon's can't resist embedding immature and unproductive masturbation remarks in their responses to it.
Oh, the irony!
I have my moments! :D
In case you missed it, I explicitly poked fun at my own post. I've highlighted it in red for you.
mbeesley wrote:These kinds of threads always crack me up. Some silly, mocking assertion is made about Mormons, and the anti-Mormons all get together for a circle jerk. How wonderfully mature and productive (like this post)! ROFLMAO
I'm not the one that says finding car keys doesn't interfere with free agency and that this is acceptable to God whereas helping people in burning buildings or collapsed mines is not on God's agenda.
I was mocking this God that apparently is only capable of intervening to find lost car keys. He is deserving of my mockery -- no religion involved.
mbeesley wrote:These kinds of threads always crack me up. Some silly, mocking assertion is made about Mormons, and the anti-Mormons all get together for a circle jerk. How wonderfully mature and productive (like this post)! ROFLMAO
I'm not the one that says finding car keys doesn't interfere with free agency and that this is acceptable to God whereas helping people in burning buildings or collapsed mines is not on God's agenda.
I was mocking this God that apparently is only capable of intervening to find lost car keys. He is deserving of my mockery -- no religion involved.
Helping to find car keys interferes with Agency? I think you're thinking of something more like the Prime Directive which God never adhered to.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo