[ATLian]

>Atlian,
>
>Please if something didn't work for you, don't dismiss it for
>the other person. You chose to live a life without Christ so
>please try and not infect a person in distress with your
>pessism, and bad vibes.

Sanaa, I told him to be proactive, and I gave him practical solutions to his problems, whether it's getting a second job, studying harder, dropping a course, ditching the chic, etc. So I don't get what you mean by "try and not infect a person in distress with your pessism, and bad vibes". How the heck can my positive advice be seen as negative? Just because I didn't include prayer doesn't mean my advice is crap. Assuming his things are thick because he has an exam tomorrow for which he hasn't read - no amount of prayer will make him pass the freaking exam. He needs to study, period. Screw this "god will do the exam for you" crap, it's gonna be you in there solo and if you haven't studied you're screwed.

If I see a chap drowning, I'll throw him a life jacket, not tell him to holla at some deity to save him. Problem with praying is, if someone in distress meets 51 people from 51 different religions who pray to 51 different gods, these 51 people will all advise the person in distress to pray to their various gods for help. Of course that means help won't come forth since most - if not all - of those gods don't exist. So the person in distress will continue wallowing in distress.

If more people thought proactively instead of sulking in a corner and heaping all their problems on their various gods and hoping for a miraculous cure, they'd be a lot less people suffering. That's why I say attack the problem proactively - then later on if it suits you you can praise your deity for miraculously helping you to conquer your problems.