Thank you Jehovah for answered prayers (page 3)

100 people check into a hospital to have surgery for ,say a terminal malignant brain tumor. They all call for their priest, clergyman, shamman, rabbi, etc. All of them pray to God for healing and to survive the operation. A week later only 15 have survived and are thanking God for answering their prayers. The other 85 who didn't get their prayers answered ,we don't hear about their bad luck - they're dead. The vast majority of people who visit the Louvre in France do not get better. They say nothing and return home quietly, but the 1% who seem to get better sing God's praises to everyone who will listen. The correct formula for getting prayers answered has never been discovered yet.

peace,

Moshe

ps-

glad you got your purse back!

wednesday

I agree LT, let her have a moment of happiness and thankfulness before she reads on here and realizness it was just dumb luck, and how stupid to think jehovah wasting time on purses when little children are being ravaged by wars as we speak.

btw, last christmas, I was in our super walmart, returning something.. A very distraught looking woman came running back to the counter to say "has anyone turned in my purse, I left it in the bathroom and just realized it and came back"

Sigh
I just put my arm around her and said,"its gone" I'm so sorry, can I help you collect numbers so you can call the credit card people?" she looked at me, and realized , IT WAS GONE.

sigh

I stayed near her and tried to help her process that her purse was gone, even though it was christmas and all that and , time to call the credit card people.

I have these reoccuring dreams all the time of my purse being stolen, or anothe one, dialing a phone and i neve can get the numbe right wow how frustrating, or showing up for work with an impossible assignment, time for the "mission impossible " song.

anyone want to GELAST those dreams?

Terry

The Muslim view of Allah is that he cannot be understood in terms of human consistency or values; he does what he will when he will.

In other words, Allah might feel like helping the random person for no other reason than He felt like it that moment.

This certainly fits.

The Western model of god is Santa Claus or a rich uncle.

Harold Bloom, in his new book, points out that the Old Testament Jehovah seemed to vanish around the time Jesus appeared with all his passion, anxiety and miraculous personal interactions with humanity. But, according to Bloom, Jehovah seems to have reappeared in the new guise of ALLAH.

Jehovah/Allah is arbitrary, capricious and whimsical. He will be whatever he wants to be.

I think this is the sort personality we are dealing with when we talk about the deity who might help you find lost car keys but, who might let your 12 year old nephew die of brain cancer.

p.s. Little Toe is much better looking in person

funkyderek

Pah, my god wouldn't make me drive all over town. He'd just magically transport the wallet back to my pocket. In fact, this has actually happened hundreds of times, before I even missed it!

Crumpet

This thread should be re-titled "How to Disparage Someone and Their Beliefs in a Time of Relief from Anxiety - 101"
Can't ya give it a rest for even a moment, and accept that she got lucky and is relieved? Having that heart-stopping moment of losing a wallet or purse is enough to drain the life out of you. The corresponiding jubilation at recovery is worth sharing, surely without castigation? It's not really a hard balance to strike...
Annie:Congrats on the safe return of your belongings.

UGHHH PUKE! Little Toe - I know you have had a holiday but there is no excuse for the above! Yes lucky - yes relieved and yes I'd be interested and pleased for her except for the disgusting arrogance to think her phone and petty cash were saved because she prayed to God. Go tell that to all the starving kids praying that a meal might come before they die. Anyway if you have $238 in change why would you be shopping in Walmart?

kid-A

Can't ya give it a rest for even a moment, and accept that she got lucky and is relieved?

Fair enough Ross, but I see no reason why one cant simply relate the story without posting an "infomercial" for the "god" of the watchtower corporation.

Making a statement like "what a wonderful god jehovah is" on an ex-JW board, populated by people whose lives have been destroyed by belief in jehoobie is

obviously going to raise a reasonable amount of scorn and mockery. Nobody is attacking the poster, we are attacking a belief in a fictional, vindictive desert

god and in the obviously absurd proposition that jehoobie has protected a persons "purse" whilst allowing murder, rape war and mayhem to continue on in the background.

nicolaou

Making a statement like "what a wonderful god jehovah is" on an ex-JW board, populated by people whose lives have been destroyed by belief in jehoobie is obviously going to raise a reasonable amount of scorn and mockery. Nobody is attacking the poster, .. .. ..

That's it. Right there.

Gill

Oh Ross! Can I let it rest? Could, but won't.

Jehovah is not a wonderful God, who went out of his way to save Annie's purse. The sooner Annie realises it, the better.

Jehovah recommended that when his 'favourite people' over ran a land, that they 'not let their eye feel pity for old man, child, virgin...' blah blah etc.

He allowed in his laws that raped unengaged young women be married to their attackers!

He permitted, women captured from other lands to have their heads shaved to mourn for a month before being raped by their captor.

He generally allowed mass slaughterings in the past and apparantly plans another mass slaughtering in the future.

What the HELL is he bothered about Annie's bloody purse for? Answer me that and I'll give it a rest.

All religion needs MASS stupidity to survive. Sorry Annie, you sort of prove the point.

LittleToe

It's not really about worship, or theism, or proselytising, or dying kids, or cancer, or any such thing. It's merely a thread about someone being glad they got their purse back. I suspect that if someone had been around she'd have kissed them!

Why is that so bl**dy difficult to understand that ya have to proselytise an anti-god agenda?? I address that especially to those who think they've made great strides in healing from their cult exposure. Not everything in life is about battles...

Gawd, some days y'all crack me up

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