Many of us are familiar with this prayer through our religious catechism, our family, or Metallica. Every prayer though should end with "..and may your word be done". I do not want to wonder into why people pray. I want to ask what we can expect on a practical level from praying?
In my mind everything has already been played. God sees ALL of time laid out in front of him/her. Asking the deity to change something for us is meaningless cause God does not interfere in our life, thus free will is his/her ultimate gift. The ancient Greeks had a saying that we use until today and goes like : "syn Athena kai xeira kinei". It means that God will help those who help themselves. Schopenhauer says that there can be no happiness in this life. But man can be heroic and that is the highest man can attain to. Being heroic, what does this mean? It means knowing everything has already happened. It means accepting whatever the future has in store for you. It means knowing all that and still making dreams, fighting for your chance and your success and putting all yourself into defying all odds and making your goals real. Because after all we do not know our destiny until the moment it is revealed to us. No matter what we wish for not all of us can have health, success, money, fame etc. Someone has to die, be sick and poor. Not all of us can get our prayers answered and there is no sense in turning against the deity.
Until then we can ask the God/Allah/Yahweh/Buddha not to do for us but to give us the strength to go on and keep working towards our every goal without being discouraged of what might be the result of our efforts. Everything has been played out already, but in the words of Rocky Balboa "It aint over till its over kid".
-JimB
In my mind everything has already been played. God sees ALL of time laid out in front of him/her. Asking the deity to change something for us is meaningless cause God does not interfere in our life, thus free will is his/her ultimate gift. The ancient Greeks had a saying that we use until today and goes like : "syn Athena kai xeira kinei". It means that God will help those who help themselves. Schopenhauer says that there can be no happiness in this life. But man can be heroic and that is the highest man can attain to. Being heroic, what does this mean? It means knowing everything has already happened. It means accepting whatever the future has in store for you. It means knowing all that and still making dreams, fighting for your chance and your success and putting all yourself into defying all odds and making your goals real. Because after all we do not know our destiny until the moment it is revealed to us. No matter what we wish for not all of us can have health, success, money, fame etc. Someone has to die, be sick and poor. Not all of us can get our prayers answered and there is no sense in turning against the deity.
Until then we can ask the God/Allah/Yahweh/Buddha not to do for us but to give us the strength to go on and keep working towards our every goal without being discouraged of what might be the result of our efforts. Everything has been played out already, but in the words of Rocky Balboa "It aint over till its over kid".
-JimB
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