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Things I miss about religion

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Magical Realist Offline
Yes..there are a few. I miss the old habit of praying before I go to sleep. There was always a sense of things being taken care of after I pray. It was a good magic ritual to release stress energy. Did the prayers come true? If you kept your wishes general enough they would.

I also miss the old time gospel singing. Some of those songs are so melodic and soulful. There was a lot of heart behind their singing---believers expressing the joy and passion of their beliefs.

I miss being able to point out verses in the Bible the teacher didn't know about. I was a friggin Bible prodigy in my teens and I made sure everyone in church knew it.

I miss the potlucks in the school gymnasium--- of vegeburger casseroles and vegewhinneys and all that warm cheesy saucy high carb goodness filling my belly.

Revival time with Pastor J J Millet of Lousiana. Big colorful charts and passionate preaching on week nights about the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, the Beast and 666, the Seven Last Plagues, and the Second Coming of Jesus. It was a magical time for an imaginative goth tween like me.
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C C Offline
(Apr 16, 2017 06:01 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [...] Big colorful charts and passionate preaching on week nights about the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, the Beast and 666, the Seven Last Plagues, and the Second Coming of Jesus. It was a magical time for an imaginative goth tween like me.


Aside from political conspiracies (or the convergence of both), that was about the only playground where the adults were allowed to flex their imaginations away from the monotony of everyday routine and the constraints of "sober maturity". The speculations of neighborhood gossip might be thrown in there, too, as creative recreation; but that still seems a bit in the mundane activities category.
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(Apr 16, 2017 06:01 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: Yes..there are a few. I miss the old habit of praying before I go to sleep. There was always a sense of things being taken care of after I pray. It was a good magic ritual to release stress energy. Did the prayers come true? If you kept your wishes general enough they would.

I also miss the old time gospel singing. Some of those songs are so melodic and soulful. There was a lot of heart behind their singing---believers expressing the joy and passion of their beliefs.

I miss being able to point out verses in the Bible the teacher didn't know about. I was a friggin Bible prodigy in my teens and I made sure everyone in church knew it.

I miss the potlucks in the school gymnasium--- of vegeburger casseroles and vegewhinneys and all that warm cheesy saucy high carb goodness filling my belly.

Revival time with Pastor J J Millet of Lousiana. Big colorful charts and passionate preaching on week nights about the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, the Beast and 666, the Seven Last Plagues, and the Second Coming of Jesus. It was a magical time for an imaginative goth tween like me.

comfort in beleif by control of all information and repeating the same things over and over.
limiting all information into a tiny fraction of moral cause and effect then positioning the leader as the absolute power of all morality & truth...
hhmmm... i gues many call it religion and find it comforting.

what do you think now about brainwashing children to beleive that life is a race to a big suicidal mass death ?
ok ? or not ok ?
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Magical Realist Offline
Quote:what do you think now about brainwashing children to beleive that life is a race to a big suicidal mass death ?
ok ? or not ok ?

Which religion teaches that?
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