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Old 01-18-2012, 08:55 AM
 
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Can we speak things into existence? Some people pray for things to occur in their lives, sounds like the same to me.
Wow. It is not the same at all!
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Old 01-18-2012, 04:14 PM
 
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^^^ Interesting,,,, why would you say they are not the same at all? Positive thinking or praying for something seems to be very similar except you might say that an atheist has positive thinking and a Christian would be praying.
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Old 01-18-2012, 04:21 PM
 
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Sure, positive thoughts are good but nothing beats good, old fashioned work.

I can talk for weeks about how I want a new truck and yet, still sitting in my driveway is my old trusty rusty.

Although today I mentioned I wasn't in the mood to cook dinner and my son offered to go get pizza
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Old 01-18-2012, 04:25 PM
 
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^^^ Interesting,,,, why would you say they are not the same at all? Positive thinking or praying for something seems to be very similar except you might say that an atheist has positive thinking and a Christian would be praying.
Aks...I think the OP is referring to "The Almighty Creator" who by His words alone...the world as we know it came into being...
Genesis 1:3 God said...let there be light: and there was light.
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Old 06-20-2016, 06:57 AM
 
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Question folks. I'd like for those in this community to help me help someone else. You see her problem is that she takes the belief of speaking something into existence out of context. Example of a situation where we were having a conversation me knowing that things getting to a place where we were going to have to agree to disagree I made the statement in the conversation simply saying ( I didn't want to fight ) when I said that the person I was talking to then said by me saying that it means that we going to fight since I was putting that out into the universe.

Correct me if I'm wrong but when we are speaking things into existence making statements of non violence shouldn't insue the very thing we are speaking against right? I told the person in question that because I say I don't want to fight doesn't mean we will fight. In the way (she) belives speaking things into existence statements can to bring what is said into existence even if your stating you don't want to fight yet a fight is what you'l get. I'm going to put this the nicest way possible without trying to offend the person I know that has such a bad idea of how speaking things into existence works, but ((That's F'ing Wrong)) right? I'm I right by saying she is completely taking speaking things into existence out of context or what? Because it makes no since how a person can say they don't want to fight but the other person basically fights because of a statement made on not wanting to fight. It makes no since to me and i'd like if folks can help me help my friend who doesn't seem to have a good understanding on the proper way to speaking things into existence.

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Old 06-20-2016, 11:16 AM
 
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Only if the right people are listening, or God.

You can definitely speak things out of existence, ruin lives with negativity, and sap people's will to succeed.
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Old 06-20-2016, 12:43 PM
 
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A good motto:

Control the Controllables
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