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I know that this is delayed, but:
Did you pray for Omarion?

I know that this is delayed, but:
Did you pray for Omarion?

Who/what and why?

I know that this is delayed, but:
Did you pray for Omarion?
Who?

I know that this is delayed, but:
Did you pray for Omarion?

Who?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omarion
I draw your attention to topic 2 of the Contents (all sub-sections).


Does this mean you guys pray?

Does this mean you guys pray?
No.

No.
Not even for Omarion?

Not even for Omarion?
Especially not for Omarion, well maybe for ten dollars.

Why did they need to have him on that crap show "Punk'd" twice? Is he that gullible?

A performer of some sort, right? Asking for people to pray for a single individual when others suffer is selfish and lacking in compassion. As such, I do and would not pray for him because I do not respect him. He's a coward in the worst sense.

Good and bad fortune are matters of fate. Good and bad actions are Man's Way.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought to single thought.

-Hagakure, Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Form is Emptiness;
Emptiness is Form;
Form is not other than Emptiness;
Emptiness is not other than Form.
-Heart Sutra

A person is not earth, not water,
Not fire, not wind, not space,
Not consciousness, and not all of them.
What person is there other than these?
-Nagarjuna's Precious Garland

I know that this is delayed, but:
Did you pray for Omarion?
Who?

I don't pray for black people.















(Kidding, kidding)

Not even for Omarion?

I rarely do, and only in great need. Certaintly not for the petty need of some performer who thinks his personal safety is of more importance than that of others. Or, actually, for that matter, at the behest of an internet meme.

Rarely pray for people, unless they have some kind of incureable/horribly uncomfortable disease. Me and God, we got this relationship where I do the best I can, and if something good comes my way I thank him.

Praying about performers? Politicians? Nah.

Nope, I don't pray. I have that agreement with God, he stays outta my affairs and I don't pester him with my meaningless bullcrap.

And, believe it or not, we get along all right that way. He's not sending the 7 plagues after me and I got a lot more spare time to do some good (yanno, the things that Jesus said we should do at least from time to time) than those who spend their life on their knees.

I know that this is delayed, but:
Did you pray for Omarion?

Who?

Nope, I don't pray. I have that agreement with God, he stays outta my affairs and I don't pester him with my meaningless bullcrap.

And, believe it or not, we get along all right that way. He's not sending the 7 plagues after me and I got a lot more spare time to do some good (yanno, the things that Jesus said we should do at least from time to time) than those who spend their life on their knees.

So, i guess, you don't really get freaked out/terrified by the thought of eternal HELL!!! then?

A performer of some sort, right? Asking for people to pray for a single individual when others suffer is selfish and lacking in compassion. As such, I do and would not pray for him because I do not respect him. He's a coward in the worst sense.

Aww, that's not very nice, is it, boys and girls?

I know that this is delayed, but:
Did you pray for Omarion?
Never heard of him before this thread, so, no.

But I generally don't pray for public figures anyway. Well, occasionally I might send one up for a certain politician, if he is showing even less knowledge of war strategy and expectable levels of insurgency/rebellion, than I picked up just from playing Nobunaga's Ambition... ;)

Aww, that's not very nice, is it, boys and girls?

In the Shin'ei it is written, "Seen from the eye of compassion, no one is to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more."
-Hagakure, Yamamoto Tsunetomo

As a compassionate person who felt the deepest sorrow for those effected, I pitied a person who would ask for Heavenly benevolence on a single persons behalf.

A performer of some sort, right? Asking for people to pray for a single individual when others suffer is selfish and lacking in compassion. As such, I do and would not pray for him because I do not respect him. He's a coward in the worst sense.

Hardly in the worst sense. He went to England with charitable intentions. He isn't a warrior of any kind, you said it yourself, he's a performer. The worst sort of coward is one who puts himself in the position that others will depend on him and then doesn't follow through.

A policeman or soldier who refuses to lay down suppresive fire to protect his fellow officers. A firefighter who runs rather than help his colleague who is just a few steps behind but got his foot stuck in a weakened floorboard. A doctor who doesn't help a dying man on the street because he's afraid of being sued. A politician who champions evil and harmful policies like racism, bankrupcy "reform," or pro-homophobia Constitutional amendments because he's afraid that standing up for what's right will cost him votes among his ignorant and intolerant constituents.

Those are cowards in the worst sense. A guy who doesn't have the spine for danger or intellectual honor and goes into a line of work where one is only called upon to be likable isn't just not a particularly bad kind of coward, it doesn't even make sense to apply the term coward to him. In a post industrial luxury economy, there isn't room for everyone to be a champion. Simply not to be one is not the same as cowardice.

I know that this is delayed, but:
Did you pray for Omarion?

:confused:

I prayed for the White Sox last night, now I believe in Abner, the God of Baseball.

So, i guess, you don't really get freaked out/terrified by the thought of eternal HELL!!! then?

Your big, red letters make me sad.

Hardly in the worst sense. He went to England with charitable intentions. He isn't a warrior of any kind, you said it yourself, he's a performer. The worst sort of coward is one who puts himself in the position that others will depend on him and then doesn't follow through.

A policeman or soldier who refuses to lay down suppresive fire to protect his fellow officers. A firefighter who runs rather than help his colleague who is just a few steps behind but got his foot stuck in a weakened floorboard. A doctor who doesn't help a dying man on the street because he's afraid of being sued. A politician who champions evil and harmful policies like racism, bankrupcy "reform," or pro-homophobia Constitutional amendments because he's afraid that standing up for what's right will cost him votes among his ignorant and intolerant constituents.

Those are cowards in the worst sense. A guy who doesn't have the spine for danger or intellectual honor and goes into a line of work where one is only called upon to be likable isn't just not a particularly bad kind of coward, it doesn't even make sense to apply the term coward to him. In a post industrial luxury economy, there isn't room for everyone to be a champion. Simply not to be one is not the same as cowardice.

The Chinese word for Cowardice is made by adding the character for meaning to the character radical for mind. Now meaning is discrimination, and when a man attaches discrimination to his true mind, he becomes a coward.
-the priest Tetsugyu, as quoted in Hagakure, Yamamoto Tsunetomo