"I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward." - G.K. Chesterton

[anastasiav]

My mother let slip to me today that she's had her church praying for me for two months.

I'm glad it makes her feel better.

Comments

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I don't mind having people pray for me. If the divine is listening to them, it may do me some good. If the divine is not listening, or is not real, then it does me no harm.

[marinda-4.livejournal.com]

Exactly this. :)

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Well said.

[valkyrie1972.livejournal.com]

Moms :) she loves you and it's the thought that counts.

[sboyko.livejournal.com]

From http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-160824.html:

Here is a famous story. I don't know if it is true.

An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Neils Bohr, in Copenhagen, and was amazed to find a horseshoe was nailed to the wall over his desk.

The American said with a nervous laugh, "Surely you don't believe that horseshoe will bring you good luck, do you, Professor Bohr?"

Bohr chuckled. "I believe no such thing, my good friend. Not at all. I am scarcely likely to believe in such foolish nonsense. However, I am told that a horseshoe will bring you good luck whether you believe in it or not! How can one argue with such logic?"