Say a little prayer, it works, according to my mom
My grandfather is in the hospital with either pneumonia or a small heart attack, or both. Not that much information yet.
My mom says "I know you're agnostic, but say a little prayer anyway"
I just said "ok mom"
Rather than "mom, would you like me to send you the empirical data that prayer does not work?"
The point of prayer, as I see it, is to make people who are helpless to do anything to improve a situation feel less helpless.
Anyway, that aside, I certainly *hope* he gets better. I know he wants to live to 100. He's 94 already, he only has 6 more years til he gets there. He's held on this long.
He really likes the story Candide. Although he still has the optimist pov, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" where as I am of the other view "we must cultivate our gardens". Anyway, a story I would like to read. Maybe on tape and send it to him, since his wife won't let him listen to it or read it to him. He is legally blind, macular degeneration.
My mom says "I know you're agnostic, but say a little prayer anyway"
I just said "ok mom"
Rather than "mom, would you like me to send you the empirical data that prayer does not work?"
The point of prayer, as I see it, is to make people who are helpless to do anything to improve a situation feel less helpless.
Anyway, that aside, I certainly *hope* he gets better. I know he wants to live to 100. He's 94 already, he only has 6 more years til he gets there. He's held on this long.
He really likes the story Candide. Although he still has the optimist pov, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" where as I am of the other view "we must cultivate our gardens". Anyway, a story I would like to read. Maybe on tape and send it to him, since his wife won't let him listen to it or read it to him. He is legally blind, macular degeneration.