My prayers every night start with a memorized Hail Mary to show respect and then I can talk to God at ease if you will.I have a few memorized prayers I say. They're not my only means of prayer, but they help me get into the frame of mind. I'm not even sure some people would recognize them as prayer
I love one very important memorized prayer that is only for special occasions and that is the Serenity Prayer.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change...
The courage to change the things I can, and...
The Wisdom to know the difference.
"Wisdom", the "gray hairs of wisdom", amazing.
Regarding atheism, Solzhenitsyn declared:"Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul?"
Mark 8:36
this thread is a mess
i'm out
float like a butterfly...
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highly functional, paranoid, tinfoiler
currently in charge of the aluminatorium
'You have been warned of what they will do, you have a choice.
Sit quiet and do nothing, wait until your hands are bound behind your back,
and you are on your knees in a ditch, begging for your life!
Or as an American, you had the privilege to be born free,
If you wish to die free you better get up off your ass and make it happen.
Stand and fight damn-it, if not these just might be the last words your hear,
‘AllahuAkbar! AllahuAkbar! AllahuAkbar!'