...hands that are gripped together are unable to present a threat...
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How did people like that? Crazy.
I think you missed the fact that it's in color!!!
Also TVs back then were pretty small and fuzzy compared to today, so bad makeup and special effects looked better
And actions/motions needed to be exaggerated to fully come across.
Shatner is also pretty clearly using stage acting techniques instead of screen acting techniques in much of the show, screen acting as a distinct skill still being rather new at the time. You can also see Nimoy using much more modern feeling acting and Kelley using something in between.
If you say a prayer without joining your hands, does it not reach god?
Lol, yes the hands act as a transmitter antenna to send the message. Without it you'll get bad reception.
Hands apart is for capacitive prayer transmissions, but most religions nowadays use inductive transmission where hands together help form the inductive loop through the hands. It is also important to not pray while laying down, as this changes the polarity.
Fun fact: the electronic symbol for capacitor represents two hands held slightly apart. This is because capacitive prayers were the most common back when the capacitor was invented.
I would also say that if you don't hear the voice of god while praying, there might be a magnetic field interfering with your connection.
Yup. That's the main reason why 5G is so bad for you.
Wow, this was a great bit of shit-spinning, 10 points
Cup hands behind ears to best hear Word of God.
Under Christianity, I think children were instructed to hold their hands together in order to discourage fidgeting. I'm not aware of any Biblical reason to clasp hands. In fact, I think in the Old Testament hands were often raised in prayer.
This is why I was told to close my eyes, to do away with distractions. But my neurodivergent brain would just get distracted by unrelated thoughts, so staring at a stained glass window does nicely for me.
I vaguely remember, as a kid, older people would sometimes pray with open, upwards palms extended forward from the elbow. Catholic school said something like it was acceptable, but school and peer pressure made me feel like anything other than flat, clasped hands were illegal. No woven finger fistballs, either. But this is anecdotal from 30 years ago in one particular region.
I, personally am pretty inconsistent with how I do it, lol
I don't have any expertise with which to answer your question definitively, but I wanted to chime in to say that my first thought was exactly this: "hands that are gripped together are unable to present a threat to you, so it is a signal of voluntary vulnerability."
And rather than vulnerability, it might be more accurate to say that it represents submission, which would tie in with your second question, so it's not so much that one is signaling that one is not a threat to the god(s), but that one submits.
And in that context, it's likely noteworthy that the most common example of clasped hands outside of prayer is when one is earnestly begging something of someone else, and especially a favor or a certain inconvenience.
Or a prisoner
The only thing I clasp is my ankles when screaming "oh god oh god"
Dude......we don't want to hear about your adventures o the toilet.
Also......see a doctor!
Toilet?!
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Oh, right, sure. Toilet. Yeah, definitely. Totally.
because religion does not like masturbation.
Well......not the lame religions anyways.
I am a member of the church of jerk-offs. Walk in on sunday, and you're surrounded by jerkoffs
Alternatives:
Shaking a raised fist
Double middle fingers
Fingers pointing up, thumb touching nose
Right fist thrusting under left hand
Jazz hands
Also:
Right arm raised up and right, fingers extended
Do any holy books actually describe or prescribe 'praying hands'? If so, what do they have to say about it?
Hinduism originated in the Indus River valley as a collection of oral traditions for a couple millennia. Then, 3000-3500 years ago, the Sanskrit word "namaste", meaning "bowing to you", and it's hands-together pose was documented in what's today the Hindu Vedas.
In the Vedas it symbolized the connection of the human and divine. Today "namaste" is commonly used as a respectful greeting. Instead of "namaste", in America we might say, "Thank you for inviting me to your home."
And then when they ask you to leave their home, one can also reply "namaste".
Idk about ally hat, I just wanted to say that emoji always makes me think of two people high fiving first, and I need to mentally change it to "no, it's probably praying".
Holding hands is hard wired in us, it makes us feel secure on an instinctual level.
When someone prays alone, they hold their own hands and our brains are dumb enough to not know the difference.
When done with a group and you hold each other, it promotes group bonding as well.
It's like when they have you shake hands or hug your neighbor to begin with, it's the same psychological reaction as smiling because smiling makes you happy.
You're tricking your brain into thinking everything is fine and you're safe by going thru the motions.
It's much older than any religion that exists today, it's older than hominds.
Idk but Pickle from Baki does it to so it must be significant.
I wondered this the first time going to a temple or shrine in Japan. It's also quite common here. I wondered if maybe it came over with Buddhism and it made it's way into the now-mostly-unified Shinto practice (pre-meiji-restoration, beliefs and practices were a lot more local). It could also have come in at the time of christian missionaries, but that seems a lot less like especially since it persists after the christians were forced to leave, convert, or die (though hidden christians remained, often meeting in caves in the hills and such).
I think one would have to search through what written accounts of people remain, particularly those of outside observers in a new place.
I thought maybe it came from some older homo sapiens practice, but even things such as nodding for yes aren't consistent, so maybe not.
Jesus -who Christians believe to be God Himself- is described as looking up to Heaven to pray
John 17:1 ESV
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, βFather, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you
He also fell on His face Matthew 26:39 ESV
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, βMy Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.β
I don't think this is biblical in origin
Can't speak for anyone else, but I personally like the feeling of two equal and opposite forces pushing against each other, cancelling each other out and creating a firm, unchanged, structure no matter how much force is applied. I do the same while doing squats sometimes, pressing hands together while descending, and it feels more stable.
Iβm sure there was some bullshit reason back in the day that is lost to us now. When I was in Catholic school they told us it was to make sure the prayers went straight to heavenπ
Here's the thing I never understood. Your parents die. You're at the funeral and everybody says "I bet they're looking down from heaven at you, right now."
So you're telling me your parents die, they get up to heaven, somehow get notice about when their own funeral is despite not even being on the same planet, have the ability to watch from across the galaxy at any given time.......and they choose to watch a bunch of depressed people in black suits cry over a box that contains their own corpse? And what about your grandparents? Were they watching over your parents before they died? What are they doing now? Is heaven so boring that it's inhabitants just spend eternity watching various generations of families? And what happens if you never have kids? What do they do when you die? Do they watch someone else? Do they watch while you're pooping? Do your dead ancestors watch you have sex, and know your kinks?
Yeah, religion starts falling apart real quick when you begin questioning things.
Apart from the Bible not saying much about the dead watching except from a vague
Hebrews 12:1 ESV
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us
The idea of people looking down - while could be argued for in this verse - is moreso a human invention than scriptural in the case of Christianity. But the Roman Catholic Catechisms may have something to say about it
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Pavlovian behaviour groomed into humanity by the cults leaders. Knees on the floor, grovelling at their masters, wishing for forgiveness for βsinsβ they havenβt committed.
My opinion is that if there is more to 'this world' than we see, then there is likely a way to interact with those things in some way.
Like an antenna, your body is a transmitter and potential receiver of some electromagnetic waves (light, radiation, heat, etc), the shape and position in time and space may effect that.
It's likely that mudras or hand signs used while mediating and this post share a common source
The Christian cult has big influence in the USA