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Praying over your food and other such things, in essence giving thanks for what you have. Not to mention bringing your attention to the “Now”. Thinking about your food as it enters you. Later drinking and thinking about that. Are all very powerful practices.
However they have been lost. Not in their overuse, but simply in the not keeping in mind their reason for being.
I am not apologizing for the way people treat others, I am only saying that for the most part it is simply the only way they know how to be. I sometimes feel sorry for them, other times I think they may yet get it, and what a wonderful thing it will be for them when they do.
On the Jewish front, yes they are wonderful, their world view is wonderful. The fallibility of man to know god is always present in their faith. Eastern Orthodox Christians also carry this outlook for the most part.
I am saddened with most of the “born again” movement religions. They took out all the soul of their religion, and replaced it with some pretty bizarre crap. However they will move on at some point.
I am more sure that you will enjoy the company of those who hold these odd beliefs sometime in the next 5 or 10 years. They will no be your preferred company, but you will enjoy your time around them.
It is always sad when you know something to be a very powerful ceremony, something that can alter your state and be something profound and beautiful, yet it is reduced to something silly with no meaning or soul.
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--Paxx
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Do You Get A Weird Feeling, when people tell you they pray for you?
Neris- Do You Get A Weird Feeling Nov 15 2007, 03:54 PM
Nov 15 2007, 03:54 PM
