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Finola O Murchu's avatar

Very true Thomas. In the photo there, the person sitting might be passing some funds onto suit man. The element of giving up/sacrificing is big in folk culture too. Even throwing coins into water and making a wish, at a sacred spot is popular enough. Although in busy places Roma Gypsies have been known to scavenge the wishing coins.

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Thomas Sheridan's avatar

and it all good stuff regardless of any religion.

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

I learned that to, say, pray to God to help me pass an exam or win a game was foolish. It was because I had not made the sacrifice of time to do the work of learning and studying, or in the case of games enough working out and training. It is better to pray for understanding, to open my eyes.

It is better to pray to give thanks for this beautiful world and the wonders of nature. To give a prayer before a meal, thanks the animals for the sacrifice their flesh to sustain us and the efforts of the farmers to provide the vegetables and grains that nourish us.

The important prayers to God to save us from wars and disasters becomes a call to action for us to do what we can to help stop the wars, the tyrannies, and to help those people afflicted by the war or disaster. It is a prayer that asks us to sacrifice, at the least, our comfort and daily life style enough to do what we can. Perhaps it is ultimately a call to the spiritual connection we all share, saying to God this is beyond us. We need help.

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Noranne's avatar

The word thank you or thanks V grateful is very interesting.

Thank You is done and dusted.

Grateful is full of I owe you!

e.g I cooked that dinner and you wont eat it you ungrateful so and so. You owe me to eat that dinner because I cooked it!

For me the energy behind thank You and I am grateful is very different!

My take on these words!!

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

Good perspective.

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J. P. Bruce's avatar

Excellent advice!

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To The Hills's avatar

I had a very good friend, a religious (Abrahamic) man. He would do anything for anyone. At his funeral there were around 300-400 people. A man generous of heart, soul & time. I know he was given over to prayer. I do miss him. He was 'encouraged' by the teachers & nurses in his immediate family to take the jab. It killed a Lion of a man, a lad who would at 67 shift 40T of heavy clay soil with a shovel & barrow. I know he was an Old Testament man. Didn't buy into the KJB. His lads dug his grave by hand in an old church yard, digging up old bones whilst they were at it. I suppose what I am trying to say is but for the Cultural Marxists and Medical Zealots his approach to a life in the service of others wasn't a bad one and perhaps close to that which you describe.

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Ronan Mcgregor's avatar

Mad, my Mom always used that quote at the end and I can categorically say she does not know who its from, nice bit of info and great article

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Francine More's avatar

My book I wrote in Y2k "The Voodoo Soul We Possess" covers this. You can still read it free at francinemore.substack.com or tutufrancine.substack.com. tho I am still having problems posting the new 25th-Anniversary forward I recently wrote. More censorship.

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Francine More's avatar

More natural law: the same people you abuse on the way up you're gonna meet up on the way down. It's an old American blues song. Search YouTube or Google "On the Way Down." Also search the outstanding Jimmy Durante film about the pet squirrel--insanely funny!!!

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Shay McInerney's avatar

Fair point. Never thought of it that way.

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