I had a bad habit of scratching zits & scabs. I asked how to stop, on YA. The answers were moderately helpful. AT THE SAME TIME, my cat got an odd illness, with blood-filled cysts on his cheeks. For some reason, that week I was enabled, for the first time in years, to stop the habit, which I couldn't break for YEARS!!
Christians: Did God give the people and the cat's illness to me as a miracle, to help me see the problem & solution more clearly?
Buddhists: Did the cat take on my karma, relieving me of the bad karma which caused the habit?
Secular Humanists: Did I finally get my need met for comfort & advice, plus see the bad effects of a bloody face, coincidentally at the same time?
What do you think? And which religious persuasion are you?
2007-07-22 06:41:10 · 9 answers · asked by embroidery fan 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I see no reason to adduce the supernatural into this event at all. There are plenty of mundane explanations: perhaps witnessing the cat's disfigurement added enough revulsion to you that it allowed you to break the habit.
Your habit could have stemmed from anxiety, which has reduced enough as time has gone on so that this little impetus finally shut it down.
It might even be possible, with hypnosis, to find out the exact emotional changes that brought it about. I seriously doubt that the creator of the universe was involved, though - he doesn't even exist, after all.
CD
2007-07-22 06:48:53 · answer #1 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The poor cat just got sick, you worried and cared more about the cat's well being than some stupid habit. So, once you realized that you actually are capable of not doing it, you chose not to do it (continue w/ habit).
I don't know what religion has to do with this...-shrug- but I'm Hindu if that helps you in some odd way.
Sorry about your cat, hope its ok.
2007-07-22 06:44:55 · answer #2 · answered by Harlequin 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not adhere to religions of any kind, I think you simply found the ability within your self to stop a habit that you knew was bad for you. The cat was just coincidence.
2007-07-22 06:45:17 · answer #3 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The goddess gave you the strength to quit the habit and provided you with the means by making your cat sick, so that you would care more about your sick cat then you would care about your habit.
I am a Teutonic Majician
2007-07-22 06:50:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess God could give that power to cats if he wanted to?
2007-07-22 06:45:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bleah. Maybe your cat just broke out in hives from watching you and your nervous tick.
2007-07-22 06:45:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes!
I belong to the 'curiously ambiguous' denomination of the Bordomites.
2007-07-22 06:46:17 · answer #7 · answered by Thomas Paine 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God does not give illness Satan does. God allows it.
2007-07-22 06:46:30 · answer #8 · answered by God is love. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to read a lot more on the subject of causality.
2007-07-22 06:43:55 · answer #9 · answered by Claptrap 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋