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Prayer for Religious forums
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Spiderman
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They are sometimes the poorest according to Mother Teresa.
Samana Johann
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Indeed would it be proper when a community calling them selves religious maintain shrines and areas for devotion and spreading goodwill, yet it is not by prayers that someone changes his mind, not be prayer that another gives into right choices, words and deeds.
It's even the case that if sharing Sublime while there is a denying atmosphere that good spoken words would lose their value even more.
Nevertheless, may one put the The Book of Protection on one personal shrine. And one of it here:
...The occasion for this discourse, in brief, according to the commentary, is as follows: The city of Vesali was afflicted by a famine, causing death, especially to the poor folk. Due to the presence of decaying corpses the evil spirits began to haunt the city; this was followed by a pestilence. Plagued by these three fears of famine, non-human beings and pestilence, the citizens sought the help of the Buddha who was then living at Rajagaha.
Followed by a large number of monks including the Venerable Ananda, his attendant disciple, the Buddha came to the city of Vesali. With the arrival of the Master, there were torrential rains which swept away the putrefying corpses. The atmosphere became purified, the city was clean.
Thereupon the Buddha delivered this Jewel Discourse (Ratana sutta[2]) to the Venerable Ananda, and gave him instructions as to how he should tour the city with the Licchavi citizens reciting the discourse as a mark of protection to the people of Vesali. The Venerable Ananda followed the instructions, and sprinkled the sanctified water from the Buddha's own alms bowl. As a consequence the evil spirits were exorcised, the pestilence subsided. Thereafter the Venerable Ananda returned with the citizens of Vesali to the Public hall where the Buddha and his disciples had assembled awaiting his arrival. There the Buddha recited the same Jewel Discourse to the gathering: [3]
Followed by a large number of monks including the Venerable Ananda, his attendant disciple, the Buddha came to the city of Vesali. With the arrival of the Master, there were torrential rains which swept away the putrefying corpses. The atmosphere became purified, the city was clean.
Thereupon the Buddha delivered this Jewel Discourse (Ratana sutta[2]) to the Venerable Ananda, and gave him instructions as to how he should tour the city with the Licchavi citizens reciting the discourse as a mark of protection to the people of Vesali. The Venerable Ananda followed the instructions, and sprinkled the sanctified water from the Buddha's own alms bowl. As a consequence the evil spirits were exorcised, the pestilence subsided. Thereafter the Venerable Ananda returned with the citizens of Vesali to the Public hall where the Buddha and his disciples had assembled awaiting his arrival. There the Buddha recited the same Jewel Discourse to the gathering: [3]
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
Since I'm at a monastery I figured you poor sinners might need some prayer
Any prayer requests?
I was looking for a prayer subforum. Might not be a bad idea.
Pray for god to heal all amputees and let's see how many get their limbs back.
Praying that people stop trying to start arguments in the non-debate forums doesn't seem to be doing much good either.
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
Well, crap....guilty as charged, I guess....how do I tell a forum is "non-debate"?
It should have Debates somewhere in the forum title.
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chimpanzees are generally athiests. Or primathiests.
Although of course some lean towards chimpanthiesm.
Stanyon
WWMRD?
Never admit guilt, make them work for it
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Spiderman
Veteran Member
I've been praying for that.
Some times the answers to my prayers are no.
How do you know an amputee has never received a new limb?
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
I suspect it would be in all the papers??? Not to mention the religious would be shouting it from the rooftops.
Spiderman
Veteran Member
I've known pastors who went to third world countries and said that they've seen such miracles.
People have had cancerous tumors disappear and doctors have medically certified it. My Foster father was one of those such people.
the medical bureau at Lourdes is made up of doctors some of them with no religious persuasion who have confirmed all kinds of miracles that defied scientific or medical explanation
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
And yet they never have medical records to show......
I see pastors lying and going to prison all the time......sorry, hearsay evidence for a miracle isn’t sufficient.
Cancer goes into remission all the time. Legs do not grow back.
The fact that somebody can’t explain something does not make it a miracle.
Does that include Maths debates ... if you will pardon the language!
As long as it's in a forum with "Debates" in the title it should be OK.