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Spiritual Poker?
This is a slightly strange question, but I'm just wondering if anybody believes spirit/spiritual beliefs/spiritual activities help while playing poker? And more importantly, if anybody does anything like this during poker or away from poker feel free to inbox me, I'd like to know what you do. I don't want to go into too much on this thread as it may come across slightly weird and probably isn't what a general poker chat forum wants... feel free to inbox me anything, you don't have to reply to this thread.
The reason I've started this is because I believe something is happening this year (not the end of the world lol) and I've read a few spiritual poker blogs and it's all quite interesting to me. Cheers
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Don
Although i think if a human didnt breathe there would be issues lol.
If your negative all the time you just end up believing in negative things and nothing good comes from that. My mum goes to a spiritualised church now and again and ive gone with her. When they say you have got in contact with a family member and they are ok and fine it makes her feel good, for me i think they just tell you what they want you to hear and think a most of them are fake but its not doing her any harm so dont mind it as long as it makes her happy.
Theres nothing wrong with believing in something and if you can believe you can win i believe you will.
This I found very interesting and enlightening, it again is not something I bring up in many conversations as the Western idealogies do not conform to this and like many things people do not understand, people fear.
If you wish to discuss this off forum feel free, but as to whether I bring it into my poker......
Looking back at my rants and gentle abuse I have been guilty of at the table,,, perhaps I need a refresher course.
I think monotheist/theists out there are arrogant as to believe there is a personal god let alone any supreme being.
I think Deists apply more reason to their philosophy but are still delusional.
Agnostics have a sore bum as they are sitting on the fence!, since evidence suggests that Albert Einstein was an agnostic maybe its the safest place to be since there is no evidence to suggest that there is a God nor factual evidence that rules out the existence of god.
Applying reason and logic, i personally have come to the conclusion that all there is is what we can see . . . cough well and cant see!, but definitely nothing with no backing of evidence so no fairy's at the bottom of the garden!!!. Maybe if Albert Einstein realised for God to have created the universe that he had to "play dice with the universe" as evidence suggests maybe his views would have been different, So yea i suppose i am an atheist.
The goldilocks effect is often used to describe the world we live in. Everything from the distance from the Sun to the balance of gasses in the atmosphere have to be just right for life as we know it to exist on earth. With a different balance life could exist elswhere and this is often usedas an argument against the goldilocks effect.
However what cannot be disputed (so far) is that there is a much grander goldilocks effect when it comes to the creation of the Universe. The balance (or more accurately imbalance) of elementary particles immediately after the big bang had to be just right to allow the universe to form. Any deviation from that would have resulted in nothing rather than something.
Was that the hand of God or the most outrageous good fortune?
As far as poker goes - the power of one's mind has the abilty to work wonders and make losers into winners. Maxally won the DTD last night ........ I rest my case.
I am not sure with this spirituality lark, philosophy and science go hand to hand, but philosophy should not be confused with spirituality.
Oh and ref top bold bit, NAME me one scientist that this refers to!! and that is not an american theist.
I seperated spirituality and religion a long time ago and made my internal struggles far easier...could perma spam forum with it
Mahoosive big fat 1 to the religious people praying for cards comments. I simply cannot watch the wsop 07 FT. Jerry Yang is just an idiotic blaspheming tool that ridic grinds on me.
People have rituals & superstitions in poker. We see alot of slants on Positive Mental Attitude in the public game.
I put up a thread awhile back when I was perma tilting after massive downswing. Drinking goats blood doesnt help...but PMA just might :P
In Response to Re: Spiritual Poker?:
''We will describe how M-theory may offer answers to the question of creation.''
Stephen Hawking, The Grand design
""I think there are clearly religious implications whenever you start to
discuss the origins of the universe. There must be religious overtones."
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
- ''I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.''
- ''My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.''
- ''Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.''
Albert Einstein
"God not only plays dice. He sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen"
"One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics."
"What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary"
Goes to show his intelligence, or the importance to think before you speak as he has done most of his life, and for an atheist he is very diplomatic.
His statement:
Both science and religion wage a "tireless battle against skepticism and dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition" with the goal "toward God!"
We can bandy these all day - pointless exercise really.