place yourself as one of the few luckiest survivors of a plane crash. Unfortunately, your plane crashed on a remote freezing mountain. No food left as this had been consumated by fire. You and the rest of the survivors made a pact that anyone who die ahead of the rest would allow his/her body to provide food and sustenance for the rest of the survivors. The pact will be observed continuously one dying survivor after the other until help arrived.
The question is how are you going to say your prayer? Would you pray offering yourself first to die, the last one to die or never?
2006-09-07 19:09:57 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow! a tough question, finally...lets see if this prayer can help you with MY train of thought.
Father...i come before you and thank you for those of us who have survived.... i pray to You for a swift and merciful rescue that we may once again see our loved ones.....for those of us who do not survive, we have pledged our bodies as nourishment for those who do survive....i do not wish to die at this time, yet neither do i desire to consume the flesh of another human....i pray you to provide sustinence to us aside from our human flesh....if we must though, and it be the only way to survive, we ask your forgiveness for our actions....and if it comes to pass that i too, shall not survive, i ask that my brothers and sisters find the strength in them to find sustinence in my flesh and support from You...in the name of Christ i pray to You....amen.
that is pretty much how it would be.
of course, if it were my family that survived, i would probably need forgiveness for helping non-family members meet God before me, to insure my selfish desire for my family to live.
-eagle
2006-09-07 19:17:58 · answer #1 · answered by eaglemyrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would pray for deliverance, but I would certainly not pray for a particular person to die or any particular order until the person was already on the road to death; if that person were me, then I imagine my prayers would be incomprehensible to anyone but myself in that state of mind. By that time, I'd be on a direct line to infinity. Compared to infinity, food would be small concern. If I were a survivor, it would be harder, and I would have to overcome natural aversion to eating human flesh; but I imagine I'd do it if it were a matter of survival. Also I'd be on the lookout for wildlife and make a better pact between survivors to work together to trap and kill said wildlife for food. Another concern would be the possible bad behavior of the other survivors, If one or more of them became unstable or a threat, then I would pray for their deliverance, either by ameliorating their behavior or by death.
2006-09-07 19:24:55 · answer #2 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not pray, for i am independant of god and devil alike. And i would first start off with the ones who died in the plane crash, making sure to consume as much fat as i possibly could, then i would wait for the skinniest to die, then eat them, they are more likely to die of hypothermia first, and after the survivors are all gathered after the plane crash i would ask each of them when there last meal was to give some kind of time frame that i could operate in. this would help increase my chances of survival.
2006-09-07 19:16:26 · answer #3 · answered by Solomon Dump 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This scenario reminds me a lot about the survivors of flight 227 (they faced the same problem)...
I do not know what exactly....most likely I would pray first and formost for the bloody rescue party to find us before one person is left...
Barring that I may just die without praying...but who knows really?
2006-09-07 19:15:23 · answer #4 · answered by betterdeadthansorry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would pray that help would arrive quickly. Quick enough that no one would have to make the choice of consuming another human. However, if that did not happen I honestly would pray to be the last to live and never to die.
2006-09-07 19:12:56 · answer #5 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would prefer to pray for a miracle and hope that God would
help all to survive. Your scenario is fatalistic and contrary to the human Phyche which has a tremendous amount of aspiration
even into old age.. Never, Never, Never give up!!!(Churchill)
I Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!
9-7-6
2006-09-07 19:14:39 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is o.k. to eat the flesh of an enslaved, murdered animal, but not the flesh of a person the creator has called home? God always provides what you need to survive, but sometimes you have to be strong enough to do it. Nature will always carve out the weak
2006-09-07 19:22:18 · answer #7 · answered by foolsowl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would pray we would be found.I would also strive to find a way out.I would rather die trying to get off the mountain then sit around and wait for death.Hopefully no-one would have to feed on another human.
2006-09-07 19:17:09 · answer #8 · answered by greenstateresearcher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would pray that God did as he saw best. I would probably want to die first, knowing where I would go after death, being unsure of where others would go.
good question :)
2006-09-07 19:14:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would kill all the men, enslave all the women, and cook up anyone who got in my way. Then work on creating a new civilization, spreading my seed generously to all those lucky women. I'm not hung up on this moral stuff. I do what is best for me and screw the rest of them. Survival of the fitest.
2006-09-07 19:13:58 · answer #10 · answered by Mark Highmind 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋