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@silvermouse said:
Happy Anniversary! Newburyport?
I hope his band isn't called The Restrooms .>
Thank You. Close, across the river in Salisbury.
The band is called Charing CrossHow's this? Thru the magic of AI
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much better, Joel.
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Getting overwhelmed with how governments politicians and by extension people are treating each other so joining the ranks of the Ignorance is bliss crowd and taking a holiday from being well informed until I figure out how to live in this world.
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I don't always succeed, but my goal is to balance out how much information I take in with my ability to do something with said information. That has a tendency to shrink my world to those people who are in my life, but it's safer than getting my hackles up over events/politics I have zero control over.
Prayer means a million things to a million different people, but to me, praying about circumstances and praying for those involved helps me feel like I have agency and have, hopefully, participated in someone's relief.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis4 -
Just don't tell them you are doing it:
:"For those who have deep religious faith, it would stand to reason, then, that prayer would promote optimistic expectations and those expectations would lead to positive health effects.
So it comes as something of a shock that one type of prayer—intercessory prayer-- can actually degrade health outcomes. Intercessory prayer is a fancy term for someone else praying for you.
Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School lead the most rigorous and comprehensive study to date on the effectiveness of intercessory prayer (also called "remote prayer"). His team wanted to resolve contradictions surrounding previous research, where some studies had shown that remote prayer improves health, while other studies indicated remote prayer was ineffective.
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Studying post surgical recovery of over 1000 coronary bypass surgery patients, Benson et al found that intercessory prayer correlated with significantly more post surgical complications, but only in patients who knew they were being prayed for. Patients who were unaware of other’s prayer on their behalf, and patients who received no prayers at all, recovered at normal rates.
Weird."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/201512/can-prayer-harm-your-health
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I think what you are saying is it ok for Peter to pray for you, but he can't tell you he is praying for you
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Prayers are between you and God.
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves livesIt'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
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I believe Jesus said to not make a show of praying, do it in private. He was objecting to people exhibiting how pious they were. Looks like there are other benefits.
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Book of Matthew chapter 6 (part of the Sermon on the Mount)
1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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And Matthew 26:40 when Jesus was pset because he told the apostles to stay awake and pray in the Gardens of Gethsemane. Matthew 18:19-20 where he said where 2 or 3 are gathered....... For me it is very hard to use segments of the bible to make one point. The history is rich and the Hebrew and Greek translations bring so much of it to a deeper understanding. Sometimes I am better off by looking at what he did as an example.
Think I have to get off my soapbox and figure out what works for me.
Anyway, "thy will be done".
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Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?3
