tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26421185.post1735751886939535129..comments2023-08-02T04:22:45.444-04:00Comments on Secular Planet: Comforting Others in PainSecular Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14220454771007665488noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26421185.post-48773302450945579162010-06-15T16:30:16.389-04:002010-06-15T16:30:16.389-04:00Sounds like budhhism. Accept reality on it's o...Sounds like budhhism. Accept reality on it's own terms. Stop craving and wanting things to different.commoner51https://www.blogger.com/profile/10678829885703825469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26421185.post-44041925674996947922010-05-04T05:51:36.398-04:002010-05-04T05:51:36.398-04:00I think someone like Christopher Hitchens said it ...I think someone like Christopher Hitchens said it best when he quipped that those who offer false consolation are false friends. It seems all roses and cupcakes on the surface to be comforted by those promising their god is looking out for you, but to me the honest concern and well-wishes of a friend mean more than the empty shells of sympathy heaped on in the form of prayer.Tylernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26421185.post-85964009440453270152010-04-24T09:22:49.646-04:002010-04-24T09:22:49.646-04:00This blog is such a great thing... I've suffer...This blog is such a great thing... I've suffered from OCD for 10 years, first being afraid of the possibility of mortal sin, then just about me and my family going to hell. This year thoughts were growing extremely strong, forcing me to resign for a year from my studies. But I've understood that the only guarantee I can rose from my grave is Jesus Christ remaining in his. I'm at the process of deconverting, I would call it "matanoia", the change of thinking. I don't want to spend my afterlife with someone who was unwilling to give me the very only thing I needed- universal salvation. Well, in fact I have been always wondering why do people call that horrible book Gospel, Evangelium, Good Newas. It is certainly the bad news for everyone who has ears to hear. Yesterday I was reading a medieval treaty on the art of dying "well", an ars bene moriendi. Lord, the people who give such an emphasis to the very moment of death are insane. We can suffer from OCD but it is entire Christendom which should do so, if they were just able to consider the message they preach.Bdelugma Eremoseoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12145975255680702594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26421185.post-30809406278453375172010-02-28T15:28:08.787-05:002010-02-28T15:28:08.787-05:00TychaBrahe- Here are a couple suggestions for you....TychaBrahe- Here are a couple suggestions for you. When someone sneezes you can always say Salud, which means "to your health" in spanish or italian. You usually only see it spoken in the movies when people raise their classes but it is used for sneezes as well.<br />When "I'll be prayin for you" is what you might say, say "I'll be thinking of you all week, day, etc" and instead of godspeed I say Peace be with you. It may sound corney but I wish peace about those around me all the time. Instead of God Bless you on your Birthday, which I used to write I write Peace, love and happiness be yours today and always.Beegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333814551659261886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26421185.post-33139729304344201572010-01-19T10:10:38.751-05:002010-01-19T10:10:38.751-05:00I've always said "Gesundheit" instea...I've always said "Gesundheit" instead of "Bless you." I've never said "I'll pray for you," because even when I believe (or really hoped) there was a deity, I thought it took a special sort of arrogance to think you knew better than a deity, or could change his/her/its mind. <br /><br />But I would really like a word that means "godspeed" without invoking God. The sort of thing you can think when an entire fire station comes rushing past with full sirens blazing, or when a friend packs up to head out to a disaster with her SAR team. "Go swiftly and safely to your appointed tasks and may your arrival be in time to make a difference," in one little word. <br /><br />Suggestions are welcome.TychaBrahehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07367633900863299345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26421185.post-27929051720551042842009-12-15T17:49:10.591-05:002009-12-15T17:49:10.591-05:00I agree. I have often felt the wish I could say &q...I agree. I have often felt the wish I could say "I'm praying for you" for people at our church but I refuse to lie. <br /><br />Actually, the fact I go to church is a lie in itself that I'm coming to grips with. I try to get out of communion because but I don't want to harm others faith. <br /><br />I just read the quote "There are more athiests in the pews on any given Sunday then in all the Athiest organizations". How true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com