Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!bbncca!wanginst!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: how should I pray? Message-ID: <1995@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 00:27:16 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1995 Posted: Wed Oct 30 00:27:16 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 10:17:13 EST References: <1229@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <16994@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 18 >>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