A FREETHINKER'S PRAYER:
Teach me how, my faithful friend...teach me to laugh when I do not feel like laughing...Teach me the value of every minute and how to know when it is time...Show me how to suffer in silence and to be stoic in the face of pain, and how to face the end of suffering with dignity...Teach me that I must not sleep too late, or walk too slowly, but that one cannot stop too often...Teach me how to attend with every fiber of my being and how to see one's soul through his eyes...Teach me to speak without words...Teach me that anger, frustration and hatred have no name, and most of all how to forgive but never to forget...Finally teach me that there is a god and that it is spelled D O G........to Raxa
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I joined Agnostic because I thought the average participant would be more enlightened and educated that Facebook "Friends", and that their comments would be less banal and insipid. I guess there's no refuge anywhere on "Social Media".
fishline79
Level 7
May 11, 2018
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No prayers, or gods (no matter how cute they might be), thank you.
evergreen
Level 8
May 10, 2018
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You obviously didn't read it and have no sense of poetic irony. Anyway, you look like a cat and would obviously not be interested in a tribute to my dog!
@fishline79 a few inaccurate assumptions ... oh well
I would advise the opposite of most of what you wrote. Don't laugh if you don't feel like laughing.. Etc.
Ellatynemouth
Level 8
May 10, 2018
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Well, I guess it's a good thing you didn't write it!
You're right.
And I wouldn't write a prayer on an agnostic site.
@Ellatynemouth Apparently you just read the title, then neglected to read the poem. You might want to loosen up your sphincter a bit. As an artist, I can use the word "prayer" any way I see fit, and you are free to interpret it as you like, no matter how erronious that interpretation might be. Is it written somewhere in the "Agnostic.com" bylaws that there are certain words one may not use to make a point? So much for the First Ammendment if that's the case. Oh, well. We still have the sacred Second! It was posted in "Love and Relationships" and is a tribute to "Mans Best Friend". BTW: You used the P word in your comment!
Excellent...that's a handsome god by the way..whats his name?
Hitchens
Level 8
May 10, 2018
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Her name is Mitja ("little bit" in Catalan), but the piece was written for a dog that died about 20 years ago (as well as all other dogs!). Thanks.
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