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Yes, I see. I don't think the ego is all 'bad', btw.
When a little boy jumps into the water a screams,"MOM! Did you see that!!!"
That's ego.
The bad stuff is pride, anger, jealousy, laziness...and so on. Being happy with yourself for a job well done...sure that's ego, no harm...of course, it's better to thank God for giving you the know-how and strength.
Being happy with yourself for a job well done is healthy and normal. Unless it goes a little too far and crosses the line into pride.
Yes it's better to thank God. "Wow, I just hit a home run, aren't I the greatest" should be "Thank you God for acting through me and hitting that awesome home run."
Being happy with yourself for a job well done is healthy and normal. Unless it goes a little too far and crosses the line into pride.
Yes it's better to thank God. "Wow, I just hit a home run, aren't I the greatest" should be "Thank you God for acting through me and hitting that awesome home run."
You think god cares about a baseball game when millions of people starve to death, freeze to death, die in earthquakes and tsunamis, die in floods, die from various diseases. Any kind of god that makes baseball his priority is a petty god undeserving of any worship.
You think god cares about a baseball game when millions of people starve to death, freeze to death, die in earthquakes and tsunamis, die in floods, die from various diseases. Any kind of god that makes baseball his priority is a petty god undeserving of any worship.
Sure, but doesn't it demonstrate how big the ego of such a petty god would be?
You think god cares about a baseball game when millions of people starve to death, freeze to death, die in earthquakes and tsunamis, die in floods, die from various diseases. Any kind of god that makes baseball his priority is a petty god undeserving of any worship.
Guess you think everything people say is meant to be taken absolutely literally.
Guess you think everything people say is meant to be taken absolutely literally.
What you said sounded pretty literal to me, especially when many sports figures (including boxers just before they go into the ring to bit the other man into submission) do pray to god just before they get into their sport.
Or, as another example, what about the people who pray to god for a winning lottery ticket?
Sorry for your lack of awareness that all sorts of christians pray for dumb, petty stuff.
What you said sounded pretty literal to me, especially when many sports figures (including boxers just before they go into the ring to bit the other man into submission) do pray to god just before they get into their sport.
Or, as another example, what about the people who pray to god for a winning lottery ticket?
Sorry for your lack of awareness that all sorts of christians pray for dumb, petty stuff.
My example was not meant to be serious. However, I pray about anything that happens to be important to me. According to my beliefs, my higher power won't get angry because I pray about something that is not of earth shaking importance. Different people can have very different values and priorities.
So you think baseball is unimportant. I don't care about baseball either. But a professional baseball player might care how well he does. If he wants to pray to a god or higher power, or spirit guide, then I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. And I think most spiritually oriented people would see nothing wrong with praying about what is important to us, even if the whole world doesn't care about it.
However, I pray about anything that happens to be important to me.
That is an intrapersonal skill.
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According to my beliefs, my higher power won't get angry because I pray about something that is not of earth shaking importance.
Believing you know what another entity thinks without an interaction with said entity is the ego you speak of.
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Different people can have very different values and priorities.
Knowing this shows you have interpersonal skills. Therefore, the middle quote is the one item I would work on if I don't want to fall victim to the tyranny of the ego.
Guess you think everything people say is meant to be taken absolutely literally.
No more than when I use a divine reference epithet. I could live with "Thank God I scored those last two runs!" but attributing a sporting success to a mythological belief is no more acceptable that praising it when one person is dragged alive out of a tragedy where a hundred died, a pilot gets an airliner down by skill but some want to claim it as a miracle, or 24 hours of cutting -edge medical technology being a success becomes an excuse to do some pamphleteering for Christianity.
We may be biased (in fact I'm sure of it ) but it is an insult to skill and technology to hi -jack the achievement of humans and let a superstition take the credit.
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) but it is an insult to skill and technology to hi -jack the achievement of humans and let a superstition take the credit.
