If and when you pray do you pray folding your hands in front of your bed on your knees? Is this the proper way?
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Within deep meditation and mental contemplation.
I talk to God like I would talk to any other person in the room or on my mindā¦ if they were God.
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..it is.. itās to show humility and respect towards the God that you pray to.
Are you new to Christianity, or a returner to it?
..the communal prayers led by the priest, said after Holy Communion, are recited in that position.
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Iām not a Catholic. So Iām new.
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Jesus has raised us to the level of friend and said that we can pray directly to the father as we are sons and daughters. How do you talk to your friends and your father?
Hopefully not the way Brian talks to his mom.
Iām very afraid that we have reached a profound philosophical problem in our query if youāll allow me but a moment.
If we may agree - and i think we can - that there are people who have been or are in the world to whom talking like such could be considered generous because they are so despicable. People like John Wayne Gacy, letās say. Letās add that Mr. Gacy has friends and (also) could have been a father. While he is not your or starfireās āfriend or fatherā, he is somebody elses.
Now we have established earlier that it is reasonable to talk to such people as Mr. Gacyā¦ but we have a problem. Itchy is calling it unreasonable to talk to Mr. Gacy like such because he is a friend and a father of someone.
To resolve this problem, Itchy may forward the claim that the cat lady (my moms) is in the set āsomeone who has friends and is a fatherā but not in the set āsomeone to whom it is reasonable to talk like such.ā
If, indeed, this is your claim, you must now establish a set of criteria by which we may determine whether or not someone from the first set is qualified for the second or not.
However, the first set contains objective facts; everyone in it has a friend and/or is a father (if they do), and any opinion, preference, or value judgment about this fact is irrelevant and unnecessary to make it the fact that it is. The criteria for qualifying for the first set is clear and unobjectionable.
The second set, unlike the first, contains not objective facts but feelings about what does and does not qualify a person to deserve to be talked to, like such. For example, you might say, āMr. Gacy was a democrat even after the democrats x, so fuck that worthless dispicable, etc., etcā while someone else decides that what the democrats did (x) was not dispicable but a long time coming and needed, etc., etc." and that Mr. Gacy doesnāt deserve to be talked to like that because heās a democrat. Maybe for other reasons, but not for that reason. Problem is, this holds for any reasonā¦ the same reductionism to subjective preference, feelings, etc.
Indeed, we are unable to establish objective criteria by which we may qualify the cat lady to be ineligible to be talked to like that on account of there being at least two people who disagree on what constitutes a dispicable person who can be talked to like that.
Thank you, and good day.
Nobody deserves to be talked to the way you talk to your mom.
If you truly wanted to correct someoneās behavior, the way you talk to your mom is not how to do it.
You donāt want to improve your mom, you just want to be a jerk. You like how it feels to be a jerk. You love how you sound when youāre being a jerk.
Other folks would punch themselves in the face rather than talk to their moms like that. You should try itā¦ I am asking you to try it, and I pray that you try it. Post video below.
Yeah, just wave your momās money around and then punch yourself in the face and say āMom Iām sorry I ever talked to you like that. It will never happen again. Hereās all your money.ā
The best way to deal with your frustration resulting from the circumstances of your life you yourself chose is not to externalize it on your mom, but to internalize it on the outside of your face.