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Good point, @Thomas! Maybe I should have been more specific, something like, "spontaneous, improvised, extemporaneous prayer" instead of "individual".

So which form, formal or spontaneous, do you all prefer? Or maybe rather, what do you like about each of the two forms?

Does your religion or tradition have standard prayers, perhaps collected in a prayer book? Is individual, spontaneously formulated prayer a thing in your religion? If you do both, how do you decide which type of prayer to say?

Amazing work @iBrian - and thanks @RJM and @muhammad_isa for rescuing the site by involving the right people!

Very pretty solstice sunset out here on the North Sea shore.

I'm reading the latest book by Dave Lee, "Primordial Chaos". Published on Amazon - your local bookseller might not want to order it for you for that reason, but can't hurt to ask. It's an absolutely fascinating collection of essays and articles spanning four decades of Chaos Magic history and...

There are a couple of very close real-life people I can ask to be there with me. One I'm married to. The other two are best friends. My therapist, if the thing that's dragging me down is such that I don't want to talk about it with the above three. "Self-medication" through spiritual means...

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Aren't they incompatible, though? And by embracing paradox, isn't that getting rather close to esoteric ideas?

From the individual's "inside" perspective, "original sin" and "fall before the creation of the world" are indistinguishable, I think. How would one tell the difference?

What about the more fundamental incompatibilities between Biblical and Classical world-views, such as the resurrection of the body vs. spiritual afterlife? The bodily resurrection "won", but there are passages in the Christian Bible which can be read as traces of a troubled attempt at...

Fascinating. But aren't both of these dynamics present in standard, exoteric Christianity? The parable of the Prodigal Son?

That's the thing! It takes years of skill building to eat these things without making a total mess of oneself. Those dürüm wraps which are becoming popular, are way to easy to eat. Nono. If I want to be civilized about eating falafel, I'll have them off a plate. Otherwise, this is the right...

On my recent business trip, I gorged on favorite Berlin street foods... potato stuffed börek and gözleme, proper Berlin style falafel-in-a-giant-bun, vegan currywurst. Beer and papadam in an Indian style restaurant. It's nice to be a tourist once on a while. Now I'm detoxing again, on my...

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