2006-10-17 02:00:19 · 15 answers · asked by Pompous Canadian 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lol
Nah, it's very simple - we get briefly thankful for the circumstances that made us thankful in the first place, then we move the hell on and hopefully pass on some good humanity to someone else, so they too can be thankful for the circumstances of their day, which include us.
2006-10-17 02:08:30 · answer #1 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A Faith-sufferer is an individual of any religious persuasion displaying the following symptoms:
* Impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing.
* Typically make a positive virtue of faith's being strong and unshakable, in spite of not being based upon evidence.
* The conviction that "mystery," per se, is a good thing; the belief that it is not a virtue to solve mysteries but to enjoy them and revel in their insolubility.
* Behaving intolerantly towards vectors of perceived rival faiths, in extreme cases even killing them or advocating their deaths. May be similarly violent in disposition towards apostates or heretics (even when "heretics" espouse only a very slightly different version of the faith, such as the proliferation of Christian sects).
* May notice that the particular convictions that he holds, while having nothing to do with evidence, do seem to owe a great deal to epidemiology.
* If the patient is one of the rare exceptions who follows a different religion from his parents, the explanation may still be epidemiological.
* The internal sensations of the patient may be startlingly reminiscent of those more ordinarily associated with sexual love.
The term was coined by Richard Dawkins in his seminal 1991 essay "Viruses of the Mind."
The phrase generally refers to the mental state of either irrationality or illogic attained with the introduction of faith into the mind and thought processes of a human. This psychosis is strongly associated with religious faith and some may consider them synonymous.
2006-10-17 09:08:07 · answer #2 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Thankful for what? Thanks go to those who deserve it.
If God stuck out his hand and saved me from falling off a cliff, yeah I'd thank him, lets face it though, that ain't gonna happen. But if a doctor saved my life through heart surgery, I wouldn't see what God had to do with it. It was the doctors' skills that saved me, not some supersticious mumbo-jumbo.
Not a very good question really when you think about it.
2006-10-17 09:09:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
it's funny, even in the former soviet union
Praise God... Slava Bogguu.. was a very comon phrase as if
religious talk haunted the language
a entimological frueidian slip?
2006-10-17 09:07:42 · answer #4 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is the worst moment for a religionist when his creed is exposed as a sham by science?
2006-10-17 09:07:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
why is that a worst moment we have no need of god so why thank somthing that is not real
2006-10-17 09:11:17 · answer #6 · answered by andrew w 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
I thank whoever has actually helped in doing whatever I was thankful of. If I did something myself I would thank myself.
2006-10-17 09:08:08 · answer #7 · answered by Reload 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What a fool you are. How about their parents, family, friends, and the government for separation of church and state?
2006-10-17 09:11:09 · answer #8 · answered by DontPanic 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They base all of it on cause, consequence, chance and science. I think they would thank themselves for playing their cards right and those who helped them for doing so.
2006-10-17 09:09:33 · answer #9 · answered by Jegis H. Corbet 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, assclown, when I'm grateful I feel an overwhelming sense of calm and peace, I just don't attribute it to a sky daddy.
2006-10-17 09:07:18 · answer #10 · answered by mutterhals 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋