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This whole topic made me giggle. *grins*
From a practical magical standpoint, prayer works under the exact same mechanisms as spell casting. So how I feel about it ranges widely on who exactly is praying for me, and specifically why they are praying for me. Having grown up in a christian environment, I can sure enough back up Vagrants claim that most people who say they will pray don't really pray, they just recite a few old poems and call it prayer.. Worst of all, most of those who actually DO pray for you, do it wrong. Ie, in a negative way, with malicious intent for this or that reason...and, anyone here should know what happens when you put a certain intent behind a spell. ~_^
But still yet, there ARE those few "true" christians who pray out of genuine, sincere love and blessing; who dont pray for you because they look down on you, but rather to bless you so that God (in "the nameless source of existence" context of God) may take care of you and guide you to a greater, more spiritual future. When such people pray for me, they're sincerity and love uplift me and strengthen me in my own spiritual venture, even though they are no longer specifically christian ventures.
So all in all, I think it really depends on who is praying, as well as why. A magician can summon a breeze to cool a group of hard workers just as easily as he can curse them and be amused by their troubles with a simple exercise of Will. Prayer isnt all that different, in the end, being merely another form of expressing Will--both the love filled and malicious kind. ~_^
~:Shin:~
This post has been edited by Shinichi: Jun 19 2010, 09:13 PM
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"There is no such thing as impossible, it's merely a matter of understanding the mechanisms by which the Will may be made manifest into an objective reality." -- The Wise.
"It is not a matter of belief. The proper scientific approach to anything is simply whether or not it is true." -- Sri Yukteswar Giri in Autobiography of a Yogi, teaching Astrology to Yogananda.
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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
