When the indians needed rain for their crops during dry seasons....they performed a rain dance and requested rain from the "great eagle spirit".
When it rained they felt that their prayers were answered.
However, isn't it true that their prayers were also being answered when it DIDN'T rain??? (That answer being "NO, you can't have rain right now")
Why do people claim that "God" has power over EVERYTHING, when it is clear that the GREAT EAGLE SPIRIT is in charge of the rain?
2006-10-23 15:29:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jaimie M just reminded me of something. The Great Eagle spirit also gives rain according to his will.
2006-10-23 15:33:36 · update #1
Defender of the Faith: No, actually they had NO Concept of the judeo christian "GOD". They were praying to the "spirit" of a dead eagle. With that said, please answer my question....I'd like to hear your answer.
2006-10-23 15:46:05 · update #2
Maybe they have faith?
Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church, Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.
2006-10-24 00:02:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't exist, neither does the great eagle spirit. Prayer just doesn't work, except maybe as a placebo.
2006-10-23 15:33:48 · answer #2 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
specific, finally it quite is all approximately theory! yet then there are the traditional guy's yardsticks, norms, that would classify events into miracles and non-miracles, which, in a society, all of us settle for 'in many cases', in a loose way with out deeply debating or questioning plenty! In an old Reader's Digest article, it sluggish in the past, the author argued that if a element happens, it quite is not a miracle anymore! Your view is extremely thrilling!
2016-12-28 03:14:42 · answer #3 · answered by goldie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like your question. The forms of meditation are many.....just as the concepts of a higher power or powers are many. Prayer/dance/silence...it's all a form of meditation.
One person may believe in many forms of prayer to many Gods and one person may believe one form of prayer to one God, and another person may believe that no prayer and no God is their truth.
Regardless of what we think....the rain will come in it's own time. The Bible states something about "the rain shall fall on the righteous and the unrighteous equally". I believe each person should walk his/her own path and do as they will and try to harm none.
2006-10-23 15:53:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They use to preform a rain dance every day, they were bound to get a blessing sooner or later. Kidding aside, God loves the Indians and provided for them too.
2006-10-23 15:35:39 · answer #5 · answered by ckrug 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sure God had no problems being refered to as the great eagle spirit.
2006-10-23 15:36:29 · answer #6 · answered by micheal777 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A basic question - whether there is a meaning and purpose to our existence — arises in, and perhaps bothers, the mind of every individual, whether the doubt is articulated or not, as he gets through his everyday life. Scholars and philosophers, since long, have mulled over questions regarding our existence.
Is our existence a random event in evolution or is there a greater principle in life with meaning and purpose? This inquiry served as catalyst for the history of ideas, the philosophical and scientific quests, a trigger for some of the greatest spiritual odysseys. “...These indestructible questions... cannot be kept simmering on a back burner for long. They will thunder loudly in the emptiness within you, in moments of personal crisis or when you’ve lost your social moorings”, wrote T Z Lavine.
Is there an all-encompassing Over-mind or Absolute Spirit, in which all concepts are unified? Is reality a complex totality of rational concepts? Hegel’s dialectical method of reasoning allowed him to view the world from a teleological perspective.
On the other hand, is an understanding of the structures of ‘consciousness’, as Husserlian phenomenology would have it, enough to gain insights into the mystery of the mind of man? Is there no meaning at all, as Sartre pointed out? Are we condemned to be free to live out our lives?
The Upanishads say, “neti, neti” — not this, not this — is that something beyond our intellectual grasp; is it only what lies in the stillness beyond the working of the mind, the Sat-chit-ananda or Existenceconsciousness
Swami Sivananda pointed out that real yoga is to discipline the vikshepa or tossing of the mind which will enable one to experience the stillness beyond through meditation. This existence could be maya or illusion, as Sankara’s Advaita and Nagarjuna’s Shunyavada would have us believe; a vivarata, an unreal appearance only. Or, could there be a meaning to this phenomenal world?
Suffering, whether personal or otherwise, is at times a catalyst to go beyond surface realities and attempt to understand the purpose of life. Viktor Frankl, out of his personal experiences as a Holocaust survivor, wrote that “ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather, must recognise that it is he who is asked... each man is questioned by life; to life he can only respond by being responsible”.
He goes on to say that one can try and discover a meaning in life by doing a deed, experiencing a value or by suffering. For, hasn’t it been said that the road less travelled is the spiritual path, right next to the regular highway of life? By the very nature of its questioning and search, life is a difficult and arduous path. Prince Siddhartha took off on this path to search for meaning and purpose, which he found in the Buddha state of mind.
There are no universal answers, but each time the question is asked, it throws up a different answer, unique to each individual. It is this enquiry, “Athato Brahmn Jignasa” — now, therefore, the enquiry into Brahmn — from the first sutra of the Brahmn sutras, which is essential to be asked, for the search to start for a deeper and more enduring value. The philosophic quest is a call to that enquiry, and the answers may be as varied as nature itself.
2006-10-23 15:34:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the great eagle spirit doesn't exist.
GOD never answers with a no, the bible doesn't say that anywhere. In the 14th,15th and 16th chapter of the book of John there are several scriptures that indicate whatever the believer asks for He/She gets, according to GOD's will.
2006-10-23 15:31:55 · answer #8 · answered by JaimeM 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The one true God is often merciful to his people, whether they recognize him or not, and whether they appreciate him or not.
2006-10-23 17:08:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a great deity has power over every thing if you think it does, but only for you.
2006-10-23 15:34:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋