So, are you saying you don't think he'd make a good stand-up comic?
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What is wrong with those people who to pray to statues?
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So, are you saying you don't think he'd make a good stand-up comic?
Before my mother had surgery we asked her surgeon if he could implant a sense of humor. The surgeon laughed but my mother was not amused.
I remember at a teacher's convention discussing a survey of how students priorized character traits in their teachers. Sense of humour was numero uno, even before 'knows the subject matter'. I got all ticked off and told the seminar leaders they could go to h____.
sovietchild
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Who?
The other day I was watching a fat stand up comedian making jokes about how he eats. Was he lying to make people laugh?
psychoslice
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I personally don't see the difference of praying to a statue or a man in the sky, at least you can prove there is a statue.
sovietchild
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1- Inherent Nature (Fitrah)
Believe it or not, all humans born into this world are aware of God and the knowledge of right and wrong from birth. The environment they are born into, like their parent’s religious background or cultural influences, often alters them from this inherent knowledge of God and our responsibility to Him etc.
http://www.the-faith.com/featured/everyone-is-born-a-muslim/
Believe it or not, all humans born into this world are aware of God and the knowledge of right and wrong from birth. The environment they are born into, like their parent’s religious background or cultural influences, often alters them from this inherent knowledge of God and our responsibility to Him etc.
http://www.the-faith.com/featured/everyone-is-born-a-muslim/
Many people understand a difference between playing with perceptions of reality in the form of joking, and with the understanding it is not real, for the purposes of entertainment -- and the practice of lying with the intention to deceive, that often results in some form of harm to someone.
A lie carries with it in the definition an intention to deceive.
The Emperor of Mankind
Currently the galaxy's spookiest paraplegic
Dogma with no basis in fact. Human beings aren't born with a knowledge of anything because a newborn human's brain is only partially developed when it emerges from its mother - the neurons are nowhere near developed enough for anything as complex as memory for the first few months at least. Heck, babies don't even know how to suckle - a basic survival behaviour - and have to be shown.
sovietchild
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Temptation maybe thats what it is. (course of action that attracts)
It's a form of self-worship.
It's a form of self-worship.
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Actually to truly worship what we call God, is SELF worship, because we are all One in God.
sovietchild
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So what you are trying to say is that there is 1000s of different spirits, like apple spirit, cucumber spirit and coconut spirit?
While that's true to an animist, no, that's not what the distinction of proper case and singular collective designation means.
sovietchild
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1. I'm sorry but I did not understand your answer. In your religion, is there only 1 vegetation spirit or every vegetation has its own spirit? Like rose spirit, marijuana spirit and cocaine spirit.
2. If this theory is correct then don't you think that those spirits would compete against each other?
While willing to extend the benefit of the doubt on what appeared to be a polite query, given I detect more than a hit of mockery in the response, I'm disinclined to continue this conversation. Sorry.
sovietchild
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Well if a person expressing thanks to a corn spirit in USA then the same type would express thanks to a marijuana spirit in Mexico and cocaine spirit in South American countries. It's fair to say it like this because they all are plants and by growing them will bring money to the locals.
What about the Quran? I've seen some awfully decorated ones! Why on earth would someone do that?? What's wrong with them! Decorating physical things like that, how horrible...
Oh wait, so the Quran is just a reminder of your god? That's funny, my statues are just that too! I guess that settles that.
sovietchild
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If there is nothing wrong with those people who pray to an image of themselves then don't be mad.
I don't think there are very many people who do. For most people, those statues are just reminders of their conceptions of deities, Kami, spirits, ideals or whatever.
People will do what they will, particularly in such deeply personal matters.
Who can tell whether there is even a difference between praying to one's deity or to oneself? Or that it is a bad thing if there is none?
I would need some specifics to tell. Praying to a God is not inherently better than anything else, in any case.
