Mind Mastery

Why do people pray?

Because they don’t know how to take useful action.

Praying for another is showing that you have feelings of care for them, but either don’t know how to help them or are to lazy to do something useful to help them.

If you cared enough to pray to a inter-dimensional being for help, then surely you have enough care to figure out what you can do in reality to actually help someone?

Instead of praying to god for finances, why don’t you learn about business, adding value and marketing?

One method is a cop out for someone who wants the easy and lazy way out and one is for someone grounded in reality that cares enough about themselves to make shit happen.

Instead of praying for health, why don't you open a book and start reading about what it means to be healthy?

It’s not like we don't have an abundance of knowledge on how to be healthy.

You can read a book, watch free YouTube videos, buy an online course, stop eating junk food, start moving more, join a gym, hire a PT, join a group fitness class, work out with a friend, discover natural remedies and cures for diseases and ailments.

The list goes on and on just how you can personally improve your health.

Until you have exhausted every option and don’t see any change, then and only then could you try reaching out to an invisible inter dimensional spiritual being to assist you.

Whether or not such creature exists or does not is besides the point, why would they help you if you are so unwilling to help yourself?

The act of prayer is a self sacrificial act of dis-empowerment.

It is the spiritual cry that you are hopeless to change your life by your own rational means and now must plea and bargain with ‘a higher power’, something which you really have no idea what is and isn’t.

Why would someone not related to your life forgive you for something you have done?

Sure, a partner or friend you wronged can forgive you if you apologise for hurting them, but why would a god or other religious idol forgive you for what you have done?

Your partner or friend only forgives you for your actions because you have forgiven yourself enough to realise you were wrong and to apologise.

If you do something wrong, like steal or lie and then feel guilty about it, the only person who can forgive you is you.

Jesus didn't make you steal anything and you didn't steal from him, so why would you ask for his forgiveness?

He is not actually here in this world with you, no matter what you believe.

It just doesn't make any rational sense.

Not everyone deserves to be forgiven.

Only those who apologise for what they have done wrong deserve true forgiveness.

Now, you may internally forgive someone for a crime they have committed against you for your own hearts sake, but it’s still not really forgiving them externally.

If someone went out there way to hurt you and then never apologised or made amends, why would they be worthy of forgiveness?

What does this say about you if you forgive someone who hasn't changed?

What does this say about you if you ask someone completely irrelevant to your life for forgiveness and not ask of it from yourself?

People only beg for forgiveness from higher powers because they are lazy.

If they really wanted forgiveness, they would recognise the error of their ways and then do everything in their power to correct their mistakes and make sure it never happens again.

Praying and begging for forgiveness from supposed higher powers is simply a declaration of your weakness and ignorance.

All the power is within you, yet you seek simple answers out side you.

Contrary to what the religious idols even preached, ‘the power is within’.

Why would you pray for others to improve their life or for something good to happen to them?

It’s almost rude.

Again, if you actually cared enough to petition the might of an ethereal and abstract entity to change the destiny of the world to help whoever you are praying for, surely you can figure out a reasonable and practical way to help this person you care about?

If you can’t, find someone real who can.

Utopian Realism prefers real practical action over praying and pretended action.

Because the truth is, one is useful, the other is not.

When it comes to forgiveness, Utopian Realism stands by again, that which is true.

If it is true someone deserves to be forgiven, then forgive them.

If they don’t then don’t.

If you have done terrible things and keep doing them, well you obviously don’t deserve forgiveness.

If you have done terrible things but have changed and learnt valuable lessons on ways not to be, then you deserve your own forgiveness.

It’s really quite simple.