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  • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    2 years ago

    I too feel praying to be absurd and feel awkward when people do such meaningless rituals around me, but I wouldn’t say I’m aspiritual. There’s something mystical about nature and pondering existence.

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      2 years ago

      Maybe praying is a neurotypical thing. I agree on spirituality, it just comes to me when I least expect it, not when somebody tells me to pray harder lol. When I take a walk or play with animals, stuff like that.

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        2 years ago

        Maybe it is. I used to pray every night when I was younger. I don’t know what I thought I was doing. I Guess i just like nightly rituals. Nowadays I stretch, read, and make an attempt to hypnotize myself before I sleep instead. I’m guessing prayer serves a mental purpose for some people, though now I find it absurd thinking some god would answer them. If “he” can answer prayers I’m sure he either a. Likes to watch people suffer b. Does it randomly and rarely to keep people doing it (using a “lottery” mechanism) or c. “He’s” actually morally neutral and doesn’t care about humanity.

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        2 years ago

        I’m possibly atypical (also wait are we talking general mental normalcy or specifically autism spectrum?) and I pray, I definitely think for some people it would or wouldn’t work but I wouldn’t necessarily draw that line along neurotypical/atypical