a neat prayer which doesn't ask for much:
O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie,
gimme a break before I die:
grant me wisdom, will, & wit,
purity, probity, pluck, & grit.
Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind,
gimme great abs & a steel-trap mind,
and forgive, Ye Gods, some humble advice—
these little blessings would suffice
to beget an earthly paradise:
make the bad people good—
and the good people nice;
and before our world goes over the brink,
teach the believers how to think.
by Philip Appleman
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I would love to memorize that. Then at a dinner of mixed religios and non-religios, offer to do the blessing. Deliver it with mettle, smile benevolently, reach for the sky, sit to eat, and scan all the expressions on the faces around the table.
AnonySchmoose
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Aug 19, 2019
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Lemme know when you do it and I'll harmonize with you!
i've memorized it & have recited it a few times.
@callmedubious Wow! How did the religious respond to your recitation?
@AnonySchmoose ,
to be honest, i don't think any of them were religious fanatics. lots of ppl are at least agnostic but never really mention it. after a few drinks i sometimes recite poems & that's 1 of them.
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