reply
- Feature
- Like
I think that praying about the past could be very therapeutic. It could change how the past effected you and allow you to move on. However, I think everything happens for a reason. So, praying for God to change the past isn't a worthwhile request.
reply
- Feature
- Like
interconnectedness is existential, so, yes. the key to changing the past with mental prayer and energy is to psyche-logos comprehend social program that is within soul of cultural habit. it is taught/ingrained/and helps the generationally submissive to appreciate niche. it curbs an unnecessary nihilistic impulse. the collective unconscious has a sense of its history, and creates energetic fields of, well, energy, because the body is very electric, and water attracts electricity, and water is prevalent on the planet. "prayers changing the past" is perhaps possible, since all of the planet is experiencing life existentially, within this collective unconscious planet-soul, of which many species are electrically interconnected with water. about the sabines and subsequent theocracy (i approach the theocracy as a curiosity of the world, and have decidedly rebelled against the symbols of its self destruction, and as thus, inadvertently assist in its continuance without much real annoyance): a culture that was founded upon rape and betrayal will, naturally, teach this ethic to others, as the ethic is at its very core. however, it can also teach forgiveness. that is an archetypally feminine attribute of the sabine tragedy. to recognize these historical facts (and subequent cultures) as merely "good" or "bad" is to forget the concept of analysis. an existential mindset can attempt to understand, rather than insecurely judge/measure oneself in direct relation to powerful forces. sun tsu taught that fighting is not a strong recourse, it is a weakened position; given modernism, i would add to the notion that environmental economics ought to be valued by the strongest will-to-survive of any populace. people prefer games to war, and they have learned to appreciate entertainment. within this reality is an opportunity for a wealth of philosophical and ethical rhetoric, and harmony with the environment will be an obvious necessity for any thinker. and with that, i point to plato's parable of the cave. peace.
reply
- Feature
- Like
Even to physicists 'Time' is not a one way expedition. I wonder whether stories of 'reincarnation' are a morsel of the knowledge accessible to our soul which is also 'out-of-time; If a little of that knowledge 'seeps' into our mind in a dream or a meditative state. one might think it is a memory from their own past. So, when we pray, our soul perks right up there, and maybe our soul emanates spiritual 'feeling' along our ancestral lines that all lead back to God. But our infantile soul is constrained from direct action in the world except through its association with us. Only those pure souls with no more worldy association can be a source of wonderful developments in the world. So, if, in our ancestoral line our 'perked up' soul meets a pure soul then, perhaps there is reinforcement then and now. God has acted and so everything is.
reply
- Feature
- Like
About seventeen years ago, I had a situation arise, in which I found out that a neighbor's child, had done something significant to two of my children. I won't go into details about it, but suffice to say, I was very angry with this child, whom I knew for quite some time and I had been very fond of her. But someone in her past, had done something to hurt her. And that was transferred to my children through her. Being somewhat a believer in karma, I didn't want to throw my anger at her, even in my thoughts. But, the rage needed to be expressed, so I took it and I threw it into the ground and into the past. Thus I rid myself of it. That night I had a dream that was a reminder of something that happened to me when I was a child (about her age.) I ran and jumped onto a big huge pile of Autumn leaves. When I landed, I landed on a stick that was buried in the leaves, and it was pointing up. For years, I thought that was why I had a dimple in my butt. Really. I awoke and knew that that stick was there years ago, because of the rage I sent into the past, just the day before. We make our realities and it is all happening now. Past present and future are all now. How can we do that? We are made in His image.
reply
- Feature
- Like
The perspective you may be looking for is whether or not the future can change the present. Not the present changing the past. So for example, you have an incident about to happen. Yet, someone in the future has prayed intensely for protection related to that incident, such as a loved one on a flight to arrive safely home. Perhaps there might be intervention that prods a crew member to check on an aircraft indicator that would typically be done after the flight--they spot a growing problem and a mishap is averted. That prayer might have been made AFTER the crew member did the check, but it could have been an impetus to avert the issue. God knew a prayer was going to be made (as what we know to be God supposedly transcends time and space) and thus acted. Although it is now proposed by quantum physicists that time is not entirely linear, there is no proof that actions in the present can alter the past. BUT, based on what I mentioned, I think the future can alter the present. :-)
reply
- Feature
- Like
This might have already been asked, but if our prayers changed the past, would we know it?
reply
- Feature
- Like
Hmm.... I think it comes down to the the question of "Is there anything that God cannot do?" Depending on which religion one might follow the answer to that question can vary. For example a christian would say that God cannot sin. So yes, there are things that God cannon do. Other might say that God is above what we call 'sin' and whatever God does is right... but I guess that this still means that God cannot sin... since what He does doesn't fall in the category of sin. Hmm... anyway. Its like asking "Can God make a rock so big that even He can't lift it?" Its not really a question with a feasible answer. That said... its certainly an interesting question! If God does change the past based on our prayers.... how would you know? I mean... if the past was changed... then the desire to pray for the event to change never existed... because you never felt it needed to change in the first place.. because it already had. You would never know that your prayer changed anything in the past because in your present its already different.
reply
- Feature
- Like
I'm not sure our prayers could change the past. We would have first to know wether if our praters matter to God AT ALL. But let's assume He does care about us and what we want. If God wanted to change the past, there would be no reason for us to pray (and expect) for that change, because if He deemed it necessary, he would have already done it, I mean, He's omnipresent and omnipotent after all.
reply
- Feature
- Like
The past is past. Many times I think about things that I could have done differently and really wish that I had done it that way, but I just have to settle for what has happened. It's just the way things are. There are other civilizations in the cosmos that are way ahead of us that have time travel. I remember seeing in some science fiction movies about time travel that there is a rule that you are not allowed to alter the past because of the radical changes to the future. It may cause you not to be born, etc. In my life there was an 18 woman that had a crush on me when I was 25. I thought the age was too far apart to even associate with her. She had a boyfriend who she got off drugs. She was very beautiful. She eventually married him. This was many years ago. Now I very much regret this. Her husband's brother and her husband once threaten me to stay away from her and the brother said he had a gun. This happened even though I had never even once gone out with her. Her parents were even pushing her one me. My father was 11 years older than my mother and my grandfather was about 30 years older than my grandmother. I am very sad about this for my present marriage is terrible.
reply
- Feature
- Like
Forgiveness changes the past: The past of how we feel about the past. That changes the past.
reply
- Feature
- Like
Why is God so old...and bald? Isn't he ageless? How old do you think he is now? What would his DNA show? Why pray to change the past when there are SO many prayers needed right now to change our future? There are many, many questions to ponder...but very few answers. Will we ever know these things for sure? I think not ---that is why it's called FAITH!
reply
- Feature
- Like
Changing the past doesn't mean that it happened wrong.It only means that now its different.
reply
- Feature
- Like
I am glad nobody jumped my case on what I in retrospect realize could have been interpreted differently from what I meant. When I talked about the holocaust and about Justice having teeth to it etc. I didn't mean to suggest that the holocaust was a retribution to the Jews- what I meant was that if Hitlars victims were rescued by God- then the capability for men to do real harm and thus to commit evil deeds is rendered meaningless. In other words what I am saying is that for good and evil to have real meaning, the possibility of evil along with the eventuality of real suffering and real victims has to exist. This gives moral urgency and imperitive to our lives I think. That's for me at least a helpful way to look at it. Why do innocent children suffer? So that we are forced to recon with the part we play in possibly helping or harming them.
reply
- Feature
- Like
I think this is a great question and I've spent lots of time contemplating it. I haven't read all the other responses so please forgive me if this is a redundant response. I have come to believe that our prayers can't change the past, but in a way they can influence it. What I mean is that God knows what we will pray for before we do, so God can begin preparing in our past for a prayer we have today. So if you pray today for God to bring you something special, assuming God approves the request is acceptable, God could have put into motion the forces needed to bring you that request prior to today so that you receive the bounty today. I don't believe God changes the past because that would presume that God needs multiple pasts in order to get it right and I currently don't believe that reality.
reply
- Feature
- Like
Good question, my short answer is that God can change the past, but if the past happened the wrong way the first time through, then God is not God, and should resign. Although God is out of space and time, when He created them, history was set on a forward motion, and the reality to all of us is that there is no going back to change the past, I I don't think God is going to change for us either. He is God, not a genie.
reply
- Feature
- Like
It's a very interesting question. I'd love to counter all of the arguments that there is no Biblical God, or that we are all God, but I don't have the time, and I think you'd rather just have a short and sweet answer. In a word - no. The explanation is also pretty simple. God is outside of time, yes. And, as a matter of fact, prayers are timeless, as well. One prayer can not only last for generations, but can also have a profound impact on souls, which, having begun as a part of God, are also timeless. However, as people, we are 3 dimensional creatures living in a 3 dimensional world, and we traverse the dimension of Time in a linear manner. Therefore, anything that we do can only have an impact on either the present or the direction in which we are moving, which is forward. So while God can certainly change anything at any point in history, we can not. We can't change the past, and we can't change the future. All we can do with the future is affect its outcome. Also, don't forget, it's only the "past" to us, not to God. If you were to pray that God change something in the past, you'll never know, because it will have happened before you were born, and you won't realize that it was something that needed changing.
reply
- Feature
- Like
No. That's crazy. They're crazy. Past is the past. Done. Over. Even if it did change, how would you prove that? Not like we could go back in time to see...or if you changed the past there's a good chance the present wouldn't be the same. Tell your friends to look forward and ask god for a better FUTURE!
reply
- Feature
- Like
