Praying in the bush.

[puredingo]

You have to admit thing can get quiet spiritual out there. All alone, by yourself...in the middle of nowhere.

Even the most agnostic can't help but wonder?

Does anybody ever feel the need to rejoice and give thanks?

[eggs]

Always

[slparker]

Never

[andrewa]

This most agnostic one doesn't find himself with any feeling of need to "rejoice and give thanks", other than to enjoy the moment.

[devoswitch]

Who are you giving thanks to?

[devoswitch]

Wise words (in my eyes)

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[ribuck]

Enjoy the moment, and reflect on how precious it is, but don't spoil it by bringing imaginary beings into it.

[Mechanic-AL]

I pray often.......

I pray that I'm not going to sink up to my neck in the next bog hole,
I pray that the rain will stop soon,
I pray that the Tiger snake I,m sitting next to is really asleep,
I pray that I am actually heading in the right direction.... often ,
and I pray that I haven't lost the car keys when I get back to the car.

Jesus means about as much to me as any other comic book hero but I still seem to find plenty of reasons to pray out there !!

[Strider]

Always. But not to any deity or higher power.

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[andrewa]

Who are you giving thanks to?

In my case, my wife, for letting me *&^%$#! off into the bush, but I do it silently!

[newhue]

the bush is my sanity, my peace, my saviour, so I guess it is my religion. It takes and it gives. It is perfect, it is cruel, but it is never greedy and senseless. I don't pray, just sit and stare in ore. I feel at home, part of, it runs in my blood; but I feel insignificant. I curse, I get infuriated, I cry when I see what humans do to it.
I have some understanding of what it feels like to be indigenous though I am pure white. I am a tree hugger. A minority, with worthless words. Victimised and ignored by a grater religion that I am umbrellaed by, capitalist christian.

[DanShell]

Religion and politics is always a good way to start arguments in forums

I was brought up a strict catholic as a child but never practiced religion as an adult. The closest I get to praying is having a chat to loved ones at their grave side

[GPSGuided]

I try to talk to the 'Bush God' when out there, along the line of Mechanic-AL's conversation. But no replies apart from what my mind conjures up during sleep.

[devoswitch]

What does the God in which you speak to ever reply to you GPS?
Refer to the picture I posted above.
Do you ever really get a reply apart from the astonishing beauty that shown before our eyes when we go experience the 'bush' ?
Without realising it I think you're a devout bushtian.

[goanna]

On an early trip I was taught the bushwalker's prayer 'Send her down Huey!!!'

[GPSGuided]

What does the God in which you speak to ever reply to you GPS?

He kept telling me, 'Leave no trace and 100m from water source... Have a nice day!'

[vagrom]

If you're with friends, you can probably chance something deep and meaningful.

If alone then i'm unlikely to feel any more receptive to the moment than I am all through the day's travel.

It's when i'm in deep do-do's that the sense of wonder emerges. The dry mouth and probably something like DABDA : denial (W-tf), anger (wt-F) , bargaining etc Bargaining's probably dependent on your personal system.

[Scottyk]

Enjoy the moment, and reflect on how precious it is, but don't spoil it by bringing imaginary beings into it.

I'd say this is correct, but if that's your thing then for for it.
In fact if there is anyplace on earth that an atheist like me starts starts to lean towards agnostic thoughts its in the bush.

[kneighbour]

never. Bit of a weird concept, if you ask me.

[whynotwalk]

I don't find your question strange puredingo ... and nor am I surprised by the responses. When tempted to be too certain about any of this, I ponder on these words of Shakespeare.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8)

cheers

Peter

[devoswitch]

Lol....heaven. What a concept.

[north-north-west]

Only on small invertebrate things that try to bite me.

You did mean 'preying', didn't you?

[kanangra]

As a Christian I believe that God created this whole universe out of nothing. Part of the appeal of bushwalking for me is the opportunity to experience something of the wonder of creation first hand. Giving thanks to God is a natural response to his power and glory as revealed in creation.

K.

[GBW]

When someone creates life from scratch in a lab I'll be convinced there's no God.

[slparker]

When someone creates life from scratch in a lab I'll be convinced there's no God.

AI is just around the corner so meet your new machine god in 2025.

[Xplora]

A fellow was bushwalking one day and fell over a cliff. He clung to a branch suspended way above a canyon and to fall would mean certain death. Faced with his mortality all he could do was pray out loud. 'Help!! Is there anyone there? Please God help me.' A deep voice came from above and said, 'This is God. I heard your call. Just let go and I will look after you. You will be OK.' There was silence for a while and then the man called out. 'Is there anyone else there?'

[north-north-west]

I'm with Douglas Adams on this. He once said something along the lines of "isn't it enough to see that the garden is beautiful without having to imagine fairies at the bottom of it?"

[Scottyk]

:roll:

I'm with Douglas Adams on this. He once said something along the lines of "isn't it enough to see that the garden is beautiful without having to imagine fairies at the bottom of it?"

brilliant

[Son of a Beach]

:roll:

I'm with Douglas Adams on this. He once said something along the lines of "isn't it enough to see that the garden is beautiful without having to imagine fairies at the bottom of it?"

I really like some of Douglas Adams' work, but really, this is one of his dopiest moments. A "garden" literally implies that it was landscaped, planted and deliberately made beautiful by somebody, and that it isn't just a random fluke. Ie, When you see a beautiful garden, it's difficult to imagine that there is no gardener.

[puredingo]

Lol....heaven. What a concept.

A popular concept at that. I'm definitely no authority on the subject but I'm struggling to think of a culture which hasn't got some ideology of heaven in their after life beliefs?