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Could The Virus Lead To A Spiritual Revival?
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'Something is stirring in the souls of millions presently under lockdown. The number of people searching for the word ‘prayer’ on Google ‘skyrocketed’ last month, doubling with every 80,000 new registered cases of coronavirus, according to a University of Copenhagen study. A Pew poll found that 55 per cent of Americans have prayed for an end to the pandemic. And no, it’s not only the Bible Belt: researchers reported that 15 per cent of those who ‘seldom or never pray’ and 24 per cent of those who do not belong to any religion have prayed about the virus.'
Have you prayed - even in the simplest of terms - for someone's health?
Have you prayed - even in the simplest of terms - for someone's health?
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naomi - // Khandro, //placing flowers for the deceased, which is an offering - a prayer.//
What prayer? What do you think I’m praying to or for. Laying flowers is for me an act of remembrance. //
I think you made that perfectly clear in your post, and I reiterated what I understand the thoughts behind flowers on graves to be - but I fear that because it doesn't chime with the 'Christian' thought process, it's going to be ignored.
What prayer? What do you think I’m praying to or for. Laying flowers is for me an act of remembrance. //
I think you made that perfectly clear in your post, and I reiterated what I understand the thoughts behind flowers on graves to be - but I fear that because it doesn't chime with the 'Christian' thought process, it's going to be ignored.
All across the world, wherever I go, in any church I happen to visit (and I visit many), I light candles in remembrance of people gone but still much loved. I wonder what Khandro makes of that?
Actually, on behalf of ABers I lit a candle in Carcassonne, southern France, in memory of the policeman who, in order to save others, lost his life to Islamic terrorists. Do you think I was offering a prayer there too, Khandro?
Actually, on behalf of ABers I lit a candle in Carcassonne, southern France, in memory of the policeman who, in order to save others, lost his life to Islamic terrorists. Do you think I was offering a prayer there too, Khandro?
Zacs-master//‘ you have brought in Donald Trump, Breitbart, & Morrissey, ’No my friend, you did that. I knew you’d regret it someday.//
Still no answer to the OP, still no answer why you introduced those subjects to the thread, still carrying on your cowardly trolling of me & confusing sarcasm with humour. Why?
Still no answer to the OP, still no answer why you introduced those subjects to the thread, still carrying on your cowardly trolling of me & confusing sarcasm with humour. Why?
OK, let’s have a recap.
Your OP specifically refers to people praying for something (an end to the pandemic). You then go on to suggest that people pray for someone’s health, which I agree many people do. But the point is they are specifically praying for something.
Lots of people then challenge you (Naomi, Jim, Theland etc etc).
You make no comment on your own thread from 12:32 Sat to 10.08 Sun. When you do, you jump back in and start talking about forms of prayer. And later (16:04) you suggest people don’t actually know what prayer is. This is completely tangential to your OP, all talk of a spiritual revival and the actual power of prayer, having been abandoned.
I strongly suspect you abandoned your original concept in light of people showing that it was esoteric nonsense.
I brought up Morrisey as you once cited him as some sort of Guru on some matter or other which, to me, does shine a light on your approach to debate. Likewise with your several references to the Right Wing ‘rag’Brietbart which you’ve been, quite rightly, highly criticised for in the past.
Sorry but the two incidents do tend to colour my perception of you here on AB, Khandro.
Your OP specifically refers to people praying for something (an end to the pandemic). You then go on to suggest that people pray for someone’s health, which I agree many people do. But the point is they are specifically praying for something.
Lots of people then challenge you (Naomi, Jim, Theland etc etc).
You make no comment on your own thread from 12:32 Sat to 10.08 Sun. When you do, you jump back in and start talking about forms of prayer. And later (16:04) you suggest people don’t actually know what prayer is. This is completely tangential to your OP, all talk of a spiritual revival and the actual power of prayer, having been abandoned.
I strongly suspect you abandoned your original concept in light of people showing that it was esoteric nonsense.
I brought up Morrisey as you once cited him as some sort of Guru on some matter or other which, to me, does shine a light on your approach to debate. Likewise with your several references to the Right Wing ‘rag’Brietbart which you’ve been, quite rightly, highly criticised for in the past.
Sorry but the two incidents do tend to colour my perception of you here on AB, Khandro.
Zacsmaster//
So much babble & wriggling. The OP is as you might not have noticed is in quotation marks from an article in the Telegraph, not my words at all, but including statements of fact put out by Google & polls.
My question is very simple; " Have you prayed - even in the simplest of terms - for someone's health?" Some people answered yes.
I ask again, why do you immediately bring into this thread, Trump, Breitbart & the musician Morrissey, none having anything to do with the question at all, other than to slander me?
So much babble & wriggling. The OP is as you might not have noticed is in quotation marks from an article in the Telegraph, not my words at all, but including statements of fact put out by Google & polls.
My question is very simple; " Have you prayed - even in the simplest of terms - for someone's health?" Some people answered yes.
I ask again, why do you immediately bring into this thread, Trump, Breitbart & the musician Morrissey, none having anything to do with the question at all, other than to slander me?
I explained about Morrisey and Britbart above. If you don’t fully read my posts, there’s little point in you jumping in and trying to explain things again.
‘ I brought up Morrisey as you once cited him as some sort of Guru on some matter or other which, to me, does shine a light on your approach to debate. Likewise with your several references to the Right Wing ‘rag’Brietbart which you’ve been, quite rightly, highly criticised for in the past.’
This is the morrisey thread:
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‘ I brought up Morrisey as you once cited him as some sort of Guru on some matter or other which, to me, does shine a light on your approach to debate. Likewise with your several references to the Right Wing ‘rag’Brietbart which you’ve been, quite rightly, highly criticised for in the past.’
This is the morrisey thread:
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Not when the originator of the thread are themselves anonymous. Not when the originator of the thread has a history of posting links to far right websites. Not when the originator of the thread cites 80s pop stars garbage to support their thread. And especially not when they abandon any semblance of reference to their original post and resort to calling people trolls.
For two years I've put up with your cowardly trolling.
The quotes in the OP are stated as from Google, University of Copenhagen & a Pew poll plus "American researchers".
"Far" -right websites are a matter of opinion & I am apologetically of the right (as are many others on AB).
As for Morrissey, I have never knowingly heard any of his music, & know nothing about him other that about two years ago I once quoted him having said that there were suburbs (Banlieues) of Paris which were considered to be no-go areas - a fact born out by individual police officers.
I have absolutely no problem with you hating Messrs Trump & Morrissey, nor not wishing to join millions of others who read Breitbart or watch YouTubes by Carl Benjamin.
You can do as you like, I couldn't care less, but don't troll me as you have done for two years on thread after thread on any subject, which is verified by how you immediately jump in on this one, avoiding the subject with your irrelevancies & pathetic sarcasm, which you mistake for humour.
You know very well that you have been doing this over a long period & if you deny it, I can add to your status as a troll, that of a liar too.
Now, leave me alone dude!
The quotes in the OP are stated as from Google, University of Copenhagen & a Pew poll plus "American researchers".
"Far" -right websites are a matter of opinion & I am apologetically of the right (as are many others on AB).
As for Morrissey, I have never knowingly heard any of his music, & know nothing about him other that about two years ago I once quoted him having said that there were suburbs (Banlieues) of Paris which were considered to be no-go areas - a fact born out by individual police officers.
I have absolutely no problem with you hating Messrs Trump & Morrissey, nor not wishing to join millions of others who read Breitbart or watch YouTubes by Carl Benjamin.
You can do as you like, I couldn't care less, but don't troll me as you have done for two years on thread after thread on any subject, which is verified by how you immediately jump in on this one, avoiding the subject with your irrelevancies & pathetic sarcasm, which you mistake for humour.
You know very well that you have been doing this over a long period & if you deny it, I can add to your status as a troll, that of a liar too.
Now, leave me alone dude!
Khandro, I’ve asked you for a link to the Copenhagen Uni research, could you provide one? Also the ‘pew poll’, please? The point I’m making (which I’ve pointed out before) is that I (and many others on here) are not about to accept the word of someone who posts links to extremely bias right wing media and is on the record as using a 1980s pop star to back up their assertions.
Surely you will agree that providing links to back up your (rather ‘out there’) beliefs/assertions isn’t an unreasonable request?
Surely you will agree that providing links to back up your (rather ‘out there’) beliefs/assertions isn’t an unreasonable request?
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