Moonfire

Thank you everyone, I think I have a better understanding of Praying now. It is pretty much what I thought it was but I wanted to make sure. The most important thing is to pray but also to keep it personal and not sound like a broken record with words that really don't have meaning.

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I am a little lost, not to mention some what new to this. But if they where suppose to eat the forbidden fruit why where the banished from the Garden of Eden and cursed? I appologize in advance if this was already covered and I missed it. If so please quote or point me to where this was mentioned. It is late and I am getting tired so my concentration is a bit weak right now.

Yes. Also with that, please correct me if I am wrong. If I remember correctly, when I studied with Mormons briefly I think we said the Our Father Prayer? If I am remembering that right. If so then why is that prayer relevant? (((I really gave a basic and incomplete run down of Catholics and Jehovas Witnesses. There is much more to it then what I mentioned.))) (((Sabran. I remember as a child doing that "Catholic Cheer." I use to get a little confused so I would wait until I saw what everyone else was doing. I can't tell you how many times I started to fall asleep or how sore my knees where from kneeling on those poorly padded minature benches (can't remember what they are actually called,,lol.) )))

I can give you two examples. Well more or less. I was raised Catholic and they had prayers like the our father prayer, Hail Mary prayer, etc. They had different prayers for different saints and so on. Also they had the Rosary,etc. Edit: Also Catholics have chants and also believe in saying the same prayer over and over again, one after the other. I studied with Jehovahs Witnesses. They believe that the our father prayer was just an example, a template if you will, on how one should pray. Edit: Jehovahs Witnesses believe that saying prayers like the Catholics do is not right. It has no meaning. When you pray it has to be personal and not repetitive. Some believe you must be on your knees when you pray, other believe you can just pray anytime you want with out holding your hands together or getting on your knees, etc. Edit: Some people feel you need to pray out loud, others feel you can just pray to yourself. Some hold their arms up, some close there eyes and so on. Some start rolling around on the floor while praying or worshipping. These are only a couple of briefly summerized examples. I think this more or less sums it up. In non Christian beliefs you sometimes have rituals and the like you need to do to (talk, pray, communicate,) with/to what ever god/godess/spirit/power you worship or believe in. Edit: In Non Christian religions/spirituality, It depends on your beliefs and how you approach certain things. Of course then you have Magick and rituals that sometimes go along with that. There are to many variations to really get into and aren't relevant to Christian beliefs. So I wont go into that here.

I know this question may sound stupid to some, but after studing with several different religions, some of them have different approaches to praying. Is there a right way and a wrong way to pray? How do Mormons pray?

A couple of more questions. 1 - Does anyone feel that forgiveness, in general, is easier for men or for women? 2 - Where and how does one start to practice to, (-A-) Forgive themselves, (-B-) Forgive others? (oh, so there are no more mistakes My real name is Ron)

I didn't even notice that, lol

All I an say is WOW! I didn't think there where any people like Mary Foley left on the planet. Edit: I just noticed more stories at forgiveness.net as well. I think these are going to be worth reading.

One of the most difficult things I know of is forgiveness. I would like to hear everyones thoughts on this. How do people view forgiveness, on a human level. How do we forgive someone if what they did was unforgivable,(I know, that is a contradiction but I hope you know what I mean.) How ever much somone has changed, or how sorry they are for what ever they did, does it really matter? Can we as humans really forgive someone and except them in general? Also, I guess another question that can go along with all of this is that can people really change in the first place and regret what they did, no matter how severe their actions where against a person (or people.) If yes then how would someone forgive that person. Forgiveness is not that easy. I know my views and thoughts on this. I would like to hear from others on the above. One thing I am lost on however. How does a person forgive themselves? Edit: I forgot to add this. Personal opinions and thoughts are welcome but I would really like to hear responses based on scriptures and spiritual beliefs as well.

Has anyone told this to some of the politicians in my country? (The USA)

Also I should add this as well. It really isn't a problem being refered to as a she, well be accident anyways, lol. One thing about forums in general is that you never know who you are talking to.

B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) B) Ok, I feel like a man again.

hee hee hee! Yaaa.. I re-read my post to make sure I didn't put you as a girl! LOL! I am SAFE! Well when I first joined this forum I had, and still have, a lot of questions. But I didn't have any gender issues until now, LOL. Not a problem. I will just have to type more like a man....... How do I do this? Should this be a seperate post? Hmmm, time to do another google search B)