Re: Something is rotten...

["Jackie Leve" <flutterby@danyi.com>]

Thanks for all your corrections!
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is
impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within
itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these
four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly
poison.
~Unknown Author
What happens when the same number of people pray for something as pray
against it? How does God decide whose prayer to answer? Does the total
number of people praying for or against something matter? How about the
righteousness of the supplicants? Are positive prayers answered more
frequently than negative ones? Does God take the positive ones and Satan the
negative? Does the intensity of the praying have any effect on the outcome?
Does the length of time one devotes to praying have any effect on the
frequency with which one's prayers are answered? Do the words and phrases
used in the prayer - either positive or negative - have any bearing on the
success rate? Does the nature of the thing or things prayed for have any
bearing on the prayer's success rate - either positive or negative prayers?
Why or why not??  Robert A. Baker  "Prayer Wars" Skeptical Briefs
http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/
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----- Original Message -----
From: Stephanie Smilay <stephani@smart.net>
To: <quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc>
Cc: Phuong Nguyen <phuongdnguyen@hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: Something is rotten...
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Jackie Leve wrote:
> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 02:35:50 -0800
> From: Jackie Leve <flutterby@danyi.com>
> Reply-To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc
> To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc
> Cc: Phuong Nguyen <phuongdnguyen@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Something is rotten...
>
>
> Here you go hope this helps! :-)
>
> "...there is something rotten going
> on in the state of Denmark...."
slight misquote.  The original message had it right.
> >From Shakespeare´s "Hamlet"
> http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/
> Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
>
> If you have ever been to Denmark you will know that the above quotation is
> indeed very wrong.
Well, again, the remark was in reference to the events of the play,
not the attractiveness of the country.
Stephanie