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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: how should I pray?
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 00:27:16 EST
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>>How should I pray?  If there is something I
>>really want, should I pray that God grants me
>>what I want or should I pray that God grants me
>>what I want if it is His will or should I not
>>ask God for what I want or ....

> I think the appropriate prayer is "Tell me what to want."

Sounds like a prayer to the god of Madison Avenue.  "Oh great
advertising gods, manipulators of our minds, tell us what to want,
and yea, we shall buy..."  Or to the god of fascism.  "Oh great
leader, tell me what to want and do, and I will do it and want it,
for my mind is yours to tell me what to want and do..."

What's wrong with wanting what you already want?
-- 
"There!  I've run rings 'round you logically!"
"Oh, intercourse the penguin!"			Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr