Post: #91

LIFE SPEAKING  Wrote:

some things are just meant to be on a basic level....
you pour so much into those info praymercials im lost...
do you worship god....
or satan or satin....
or do they worship you....
that one guys brownnosin u if you didnt notice...
did u whip his ass before...
or was he born with a brown nose....
hahahaha...
im cool with satan...
he aint my bud or nothin,,,,
but i like that shoutin rock shit...
the bang ditty bang da babg da bag ditty ,,
some kinda shit like that,,,
i bet they get horse signing like that....
thats some freaky shit there....
argggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg..​.
first verse...
grannnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggg
second verse....
wow.....
and it sold....

Wow! I'm so happy to see that you signed up for a full account here! I loved seeing your name in blue! You make great posts, I really enjoy them!

I don't worship Satan. The reason I made those radical statements was to show people that God controls everything, and Satan doesn't have any power at all. People make Satan out to be some kind of evil God opposing God the Good. This happened to Zoroastrianism also that divided good and evil between God and the great celestial serpent Angra Mainyu who controlled all evil and misfortune. Zoroastrianism was purely monotheistic in its earliest form, but later fell to dualism in order to explain "the problem of evil" which is what it is called in western theology.

Post: #92

ashesandsackcloth  Wrote:

Magnus74  Wrote:

ashesandsackcloth  Wrote:

Like most churches the place is evil and smells bad.

But with a few good people in the mix

Yes Magnus 74. Lots of people that we love. But our rightiousness is as filthy rags to GOD. Only thru the shed Blood of Jesus do we have a prayer.

So do you pray?

Post: #93

SaltWaterTaffy  Wrote:

FreedomStands  Wrote:

SaltWaterTaffy  Wrote:

I'd like to add that the first one ... that's not just "when I hear sirens" but when I see something or read something ... I've been saying it a lot today because of Lybia.

Yes, I'm married.

Sorry for asking a personal question like that! I wanted to ask before I told you that I think you're really pretty!

It's ok, and thanks

Maybe the most beautiful prayer:

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.


O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

It is a really good prayer! Thank you for sharing it here! I think it is important to ask for good things for yourself and your family too without thinking it is selfish, I think it is really a nice thing to do to pray for yourself and your wellbeing as well.

Post: #94

I guess I should mention that I don't really think that the prayers of other people work on behalf of people who don't pray themselves, but they might, I just don't feel like if someone else asks for someone elses forgiveness who doesn't themselves ask or want to ask for forgiveness that it won't really do anything, but ultimately God decides who to forgive and what requests to manifest.

Post: #95

That completely throws out the possibility of "black magic" or anything else (in my belief system), because nobody has any power at all to control anything for anyone or even themselves ultimately.

I completely reject all the new age ideas that are commonly promoted and accepted, and I'm thrilled by the radical nature of such a rejection.

I deny the existence of "negative and positive" thoughts and energies.

I've practiced utterly negative thinking towards myself and have only seen good things come from it, and it bringing great happiness to expose my fears and state them and think about them.

The idea of thoughts having power is very dangerous to a person's wellbeing and happiness I feel, because it brings an underlying anxiety, a fear of what you might think or what that thought might bring to you, running from negativity or shunning it and in constant fear of fear itself.

I think fear is a real thing that people can feel, and that it isn't a bad thing to feel, and it is worth acknowledging as well.

We're brought into life with no guaranteed way to escape with results we can be sure about, leaving us with only the option to do the best we can in this life and prepare for the possibility of an afterlife as best we can by fulfilling most of the good seeming ideas that have been echoed as warnings throughout history through the religions for the most part.

Its a gamble always, but we'll be making the best bet we can if we pay attention to the possible risks and all that and try to reduce the most risks without gaining many.

It is totally peace inducing, for me at least, to feel or believe that God alone has all the power, and controls everything. It is also somehow peace inducing for me to feel or believe that I'm completely in a state of utter surrender before God and God's power. Something really relaxes me about that, as compared to feeling there are numerous forces vying for control or that I myself am responsible for harms that seem out of my control.

Post: #96

So would anyone else like to take the opportunity to write a prayer here?

Post: #97

Feel free to ask any questions or make any comments about the prayers already on display in this thread as well! I'm really interested to know what you think, and I'd also like to make sure nobody misunderstands the controversial titles I used in some of the prayers I wrote here.

Post: #98

O Lord, nourish me not with Love, but with the need for Love.
Hollow me out, then fill me up according to your will,
So that I can glimpse your Glory, if only for an instant,
May my heart be a clean mirror, may I reflect your Light in all directions.

Post: #99

Siahaya  Wrote:

O Lord, nourish me not with Love, but with the need for Love.
Hollow me out, then fill me up according to your will,
So that I can glimpse your Glory, if only for an instant,
May my heart be a clean mirror, may I reflect your Light in all directions.

That sounds and looks like a prayer to me!

Some of the things in this thread in the way they were worded didn't even really seem like prayers at all.

Oh, I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to write a version of your prayer!

Lord of the Worlds and Everything seen and unseen, Master of light and darkness, giver of knowledge and surrender.

Please always love me with the most love, and nourish me with your love, and make love and joy and all goodness surround me always in this life, the afterlife, and forever and always.

Never allow me to turn away from gratefulness to you and appreciation of you and your beautiful gifts! You are the best and only bestower of all good. You alone know what is good for me and what is best for me, please bestow upon me all the best things, and all the good things always.

Please always save me from harm. Please keep me behaving in such a way that pleases you and gains me favor. Make me and keep me aware of all your blessings and glory master! Please cleanse me and my heart, and keep me clean always in every way. Please fill me with all your light, knowledge, and beauty, and make me to shine with all your light, knowledge, and beauty.

Bring peace upon me and keep peace surrounding me always. Save me from ignorance and denial of you. You my master, are the truth, the reality. It is you alone who controls all things. You make whoever you will to shine, and you bring darkness upon any you wish to. For you, everything is easy. You can cleanse a heart in an instant, forgive a crime in a moment, and raise anyone you wish from a state of degredation. Blessed King, All mighty Sovereign, Lord of the supreme dominion! Encompasser of all! It is you alone who are always near to everything. It is you alone who is fully aware. Fill me with the awareness of you in a way that benefits me the best, and benefits all those I interact with. Allow me to express what is best always, and save me from doing anything harmful, and spare me from all harm and malice. You alone control everything. Please forgive me for any of my mistakes. Please always bless me with the most blessings and keep me among the best of those who depend upon you always. Spare me from any terrible losses, pain, and hardships! You are the controller of all experience! You are the bringing of ease and the only that force in existence!

Thank you for the light you create that allows us to see, and the darkness you create that can bring us peace. Please save me from uncleanliness and harm. Please save me from ignorance and denial of you, most majestic king! Singular sovereign of everything! Thank you for everything. All praise and glory belongs to you alone, and you alone bring good and you alone can bring harm. Spare me from any harm, and bless me with the most good. You are the mightiest, the wisest, the kindest, the most bountiful and giving. The giver of blessings, the controller of all results.

Post: #100

Hugh Janus  Wrote:

THE EVER-LOVING CREED OF THE PAY TOILET

here i sit

broken hearted

paid a dime and

only farted

Post: #101

AC488  Wrote:

Hugh Janus  Wrote:

THE EVER-LOVING CREED OF THE PAY TOILET

here i sit

broken hearted

paid a dime and

only farted

I wonder if people don't know what a prayer is that they keep making statements about themselves as if they are supposed to be a prayer. I usually think that prayer means asking for something and I include lots of praises as well.

The online dictionary at http://www.dictionary.com defines prayer as "a devout petition to god" and "a spiritual communion with God, as in supplication, thanksgiving, adoration, or confession.

"a petition; entreaty"

With the word history listed as:

"prayer

c.1300, from O.Fr. preiere , from V.L. *precaria , noun use of L. precaria , fem. of adj. precarius "obtained by prayer," from precari"

supplication seems to mean:

to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.

entreaty means:

earnest request

petition means:

a request made for something desired, especially a respectful or humble request, as to a superior or to one of those in authority.

So can you please say a prayer here?

Post: #102

Thank you, God, for giving us Life.

Thank you for giving us Dark,
so that we may learn lessons needed to improve our Soul and
to remind us when we are in the Light
to appreciate it even more.

Thank you for giving us Light,
so that we may experience happiness and joy and
to remind us when we are in the Dark
that the Light will soon follow.

Please protect and Love us All.

Post: #103

The Lucky AC  Wrote:

Thank you, God, for giving us Life.

Thank you for giving us Dark,
so that we may learn lessons needed to improve our Soul and
to remind us when we are in the Light
to appreciate it even more.

Thank you for giving us Light,
so that we may experience happiness and joy and
to remind us when we are in the Dark
that the Light will soon follow.

Please protect and Love us All.

THIS WAS GREAT! SOMEONE WHO REALLY GRASPED THE CONCEPTS PRESENTED IN THIS THREAD! I WAS THRILLED BY THIS EXCELLENT PRAYER!

Please feel free to sign up to LOP so I can private message you! Thank you for this excellent prayer! I'm so glad you posted it and thought of things like that! Really great job! Thank you so much!

Post: #104

Would anyone else like to write a prayer?

Please keep in mind that prayer is generally a plea, appeal, or request to what you believe holds the power to answer such a prayer, or could possibly.

Prayers can also include forms of worship such as praise and glorification of the power being prayed to.

Prayers are generally thought to be most effective when said with personal humility, just as you might ask a superior or a king for something without demanding it as if you're the sovereign yourself, this would especially be dangerous in the court of a King, and I think that the appeals to powers can be done in a manner that one might approach a King with all dignity and respect and high praise.

I think prayer is useful even if you don't believe in any power that can answer your prayers as long as you accept the possibility that perchance there is such a power, so you pray to the one who has all the power if there is such a one, but of course if there was such a one to say "if there is such a one" might be disrespectful.

In ancient traditions from around the world, God was approached with humility, dignity, cleanliness, and deep respect. They would bow down and prostrate themselves in many ancient cultures around the world just as muslims continue to do today after they ritually purify themselves.

These actions are to show humility, surrender, and express complete respect towards God who was believed and is believed to hold all power related to any fortune or misfortune that comes upon everyone.

You can see lots of ancient art to see how worship was performed throughout ancient times, it generally stays the same, with bowing, and prostrating on knees and hands.

Of course one could say God doesn't or shouldn't need such things, but it isn't about God who needs nothing, so much as us who are completely dependent and in constant need. The act of surrender is an expression of the realization that we have no power, knowledge, or control over anything ultimately, but the ultimate power does, and so we bow down and prostrate both to show respect but also to express the realization of the ultimate truth.

But that is worship. Worship often includes prayers which are appeals in order to at least attempt to secure some benefits for ourselves.

Post: #105

Well if you go to India,Well if you go to America,Well if you go to China,Well if you go to Japan,Well if you go to Egypt.You will get many prayers to different gods.But don't the prayers reach the same Conciousness no matter the gods?