Author Topic: Ever pray for bad things to happen? (Read 3073 times)

ToxicAdam · « **on:** February 11, 2014, 12:05:56 PM »

I don't really subscribe to a god, but there have been times in great turmoil where I have said a little prayer to something just because it made me feel better for a short amount of time. A spirtual 'popper', as it were.

So, I got to thinking, if prayer can 'work', why can't it work to influence bad outcomes also? So, when I had a difficult breakup, I prayed that my ex-girlfriend would get AIDS or Hep-C. I came to find out that she contracted chlamydia through a mutual friend a year later. Close enough.

Then a few years later, after I got married, my wife was having a difficult time with a co-worker of hers. So on a lark, I would say some silent prayers wishing that this woman would get cancer or have heart disease. Then she DID get cancer. She had to quit her job to recover and never returned to work.

I was pretty freaked out about it and never touched my dark magical powers again.

Himu · « **Reply #1 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:07:30 PM »

Um.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:07:57 PM »

When I was a kid I would wish the most hateful twisted stuff on my parents when they punished me.

Then I would feel guilty afterwards.

demi · « **Reply #3 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:10:50 PM »

Many times to people on this board. Hopefully to give them a wakeup call on how stupid they are.

Atramental · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:14:05 PM »

You're a wizard, ToxicAdam.

Can I employ your dark magical powers so that my boss gives me a raise?

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:16:50 PM »

I can only use my powers to create disease and illness. I don't think there is a disease that makes people more generous.

Atramental · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:27:28 PM »

Dammit. A plague wizard. Guess all the money wizards are too busy running banks, stock markets, & Fortune 500 companies to give a shit about us plebs.

Anyways, to answer your question: No. But I have involuntarily dreamt about bad things happening to people that I have known and some of those dreams (with slight variations) would play out in those people's lives.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:31:04 PM »

TA, if you wished any bad stuff on me in the past, it hasn't happened yet. But I'll let you know.

Rufus · « **Reply #8 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:32:45 PM »

There have been some politicians and other movers and shakers I've wished a fatal heartattack on or something along those lines. I suppose I really should stop reading the news and just keep my head down...

My mother likes to say (and presumably think) that "God will punish" whoever she doesn't like. When they get sick or something else bad happens to them it's only proof that there's some sort of cosmic justice. When something bad happens to her, it's the devil's work, i.e. someone else wished something on her. Funny how that goes.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #9 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:33:32 PM »

Naw, I try to stick to a belief system of projecting and receiving positive energy these days

Rufus · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:34:22 PM »

But what if someone's holding out on you?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:37:33 PM »

Yes, everyday I pray that someone somewhere gets in car accident and everyday it comes true; this dark causality is the foundation of my faith.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:38:14 PM »

Nah I believe too much in karma to do shit like that. Everyone get's theirs in time!

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:38:39 PM »

Quote from: demi on February 11, 2014, 12:10:50 PM

Many times to people on this board. Hopefully to give them a wakeup call on how stupid they are.

stop holding me down, demi

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:38:58 PM »

All the time. The fact that I have no powers like that is why 95% of the world is still alive.

Robo · « **Reply #15 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:41:42 PM »

Yes, and it works pretty well. Refer to AWESOM-O's posts in the Relationship thread for the evidence.

Mandark · « **Reply #16 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:42:43 PM »

TA is Rob Schneider, hmmmm.

Himu · « **Reply #17 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:43:59 PM »

I don't remember shit from Surf Ninjas except there's a game gear or some shit

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #18 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:44:07 PM »

My friends used to joke about it and call it the "Kevin Curse." Whenever someone would do me wrong, or a place of business would screw me over, inevitably soon after something bad would happen to that person or the place would go out of business. I never outright wished bad shit to happen, it just did. Pure coincidence, or more likely these people or businesses had bad shit happen to them because poor behavior and business practices invites failure/catastrophe.

I don't believe in Karma. Too many shitty people live long, prosperous lives for that to be a real thing.

Mandark · « **Reply #19 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:45:11 PM »

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on February 11, 2014, 12:44:07 PM

My friends used to joke about it and call it the "Kevin Curse." Whenever someone would do me wrong, or a place of business would screw me over, inevitably soon after something bad would happen to that person or the place would go out of business. I never outright wished bad shit to happen, it just did. Pure coincidence, or more likely these people or businesses had bad shit happen to them because poor behavior and business practices invites failure/catastrophe.

But that'd be boring! I vote we stick with believing the human monkey paw theory.

Rufus · « **Reply #20 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:48:35 PM »

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on February 11, 2014, 12:44:07 PM

I don't believe in Karma. Too many shitty people live long, prosperous lives for that to be a real thing.

I think the way it works is that the fallout they cause is deserved, i.e. the people they shit on intentionally or un-intentionally deserve it, so it's fine.

Mandark · « **Reply #21 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:52:27 PM »

Considering how many people I know lost their jobs (and some their health insurance/cars/homes) 4-5 years ago thanks to a relatively small group of bankers and real estate folks whom they will never meet, and who are probably still making stupid amounts of money, I'm gonna go with Eel on this one. Lots of lousy behavior can come back and bite you in the ass, but if you make sure to pick the right kind of lousy behavior, you'll be good to go, and there's no cosmic force directing the consequences of your actions at those who deserve it.

As my chemistry teacher said in HS, "shit rolls downhill."

Tasty · « **Reply #22 on:** February 11, 2014, 12:57:09 PM »

Rufus · « **Reply #23 on:** February 11, 2014, 01:01:48 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on February 11, 2014, 12:52:27 PM

As my chemistry teacher said in HS, "shit rolls downhill."

I love these aphorisms though. Bite-sized wisdom, perfect for my peasant brain.

My favourite: "Empty heads nod more readily."

Diunx · « **Reply #24 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:00:20 PM »

I pray for bad things to happen to other people all the time, just this morning I wished for someone's dead.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #25 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:02:21 PM »

Quote from: Diunx on February 11, 2014, 02:00:20 PM

I pray for bad things to happen to other people all the time, just this morning I wished for someone's dead.

What were you going to do with their dead? This board does not support necrophilia.

Diunx · « **Reply #26 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:08:19 PM »

Tried to find that Louis CK joke about raping dead kids but my phone's internet is crapping out

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:25:18 PM »

You're phone won't connect and you wish for dead kids to rape; Mexico must be a really shitty place to live.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #28 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:30:03 PM »

Yo he's dominican, b.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #29 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:34:15 PM »

It's all Mexico south of the border.

Diunx · « **Reply #30 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:39:15 PM »

Don't you live in Canada?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #31 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:40:33 PM »

Ya but I play American on the internet.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #32 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:43:12 PM »

One of my mom's old (schizophrenic) co-workers used to cause her all kinds of manufactured drama. She used to regularly openly pray to god to take my mom's "only son," which would usually lead my mom to come home and breakdown in tears. Needless to say I used to wish very dark things upon that woman. Fortunately, neither of our prayers were answered... so far.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #33 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:45:53 PM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on February 11, 2014, 12:05:56 PM

I don't really subscribe to a god, but there have been times in great turmoil where I have said a little prayer to something just because it made me feel better for a short amount of time. A spirtual 'popper', as it were.

So, I got to thinking, if prayer can 'work', why can't it work to influence bad outcomes also? So, when I had a difficult breakup, I prayed that my ex-girlfriend would get AIDS or Hep-C. I came to find out that she contracted chlamydia through a mutual friend a year later. Close enough.

Then a few years later, after I got married, my wife was having a difficult time with a co-worker of hers. So on a lark, I would say some silent prayers wishing that this woman would get cancer or have heart disease. Then she DID get cancer. She had to quit her job to recover and never returned to work.

I was pretty freaked out about it and never touched my dark magical powers again.

get married, be middle aged, have children, listen to Pink and post threads like this on the internet brehs

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #34 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:47:04 PM »

Should have just said, 'Don't worry mom, you never had a son, just a fabulous daughter' then gave her a camp wink. That would have stopped those tears.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #35 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:52:39 PM »

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #36 on:** February 11, 2014, 02:55:34 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 11, 2014, 02:45:53 PM

get married, be middle aged, have children, listen to Pink and post threads like this on the internet brehs

I've moved on to Sara Bareiles. Pink was just a phase.

chronovore · « **Reply #37 on:** February 11, 2014, 08:57:48 PM »

Quote from: Esch on February 11, 2014, 12:08:03 PM

so THIS is what neocons think about

now if I could only figure out what libertarians are thinking...

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #38 on:** February 11, 2014, 09:14:51 PM »

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on February 11, 2014, 12:44:07 PM

My friends used to joke about it and call it the "Kevin Curse." Whenever someone would do me wrong, or a place of business would screw me over, inevitably soon after something bad would happen to that person or the place would go out of business. I never outright wished bad shit to happen, it just did. Pure coincidence, or more likely these people or businesses had bad shit happen to them because poor behavior and business practices invites failure/catastrophe.

RIP Steam.

radioheadrule83 · « **Reply #39 on:** February 12, 2014, 05:56:37 AM »

I've attempted to will car crashes on people who drive badly, even when I'm on the motorway and their crashing in front of me would almost certainly kill me. It never happens. Deep down I know its only momentary hate, and that I'd hate to be in crash, so maybe the powers that be sense my conviction is weak.

Or maybe its a godless uncool universe with no supernatural force powers ;(

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Author Topic: Ever pray for bad things to happen? (Read 3073 times)