Religion or rather the practice of rituals, think boozing and floozies

I once was asked, 

"There is a room with four equal corners, one corner with Superman, another with Wonder Woman, the third with a Pollack, and the forth with a black, all staring at the center of the room where there is a pot of gold.

Who reaches the gold first? 

Well, not Wonder Woman or Superman, they're not real. 

It's the Pollack, because black knows better."

Like religion, one should always
teach their children about
drinking.

Religion organized or unorganized. Irregular or regular. Or unleaded. Is usually the result of wanting to find some meaning in existing. For some people it means we need to be more than just biological horn-dogs with penis-envy, which is what most religions try to mention. Except for the FSM religion. 

We're not animals, because animals are just that. We have morals, ideas, and a lot of internet porn. The latter of which animals do not have in their current possession. I believe we can go beyond the biology and not always look to be the alpha or beta, or even use terms like that. When our characters dictate who we are first, then only then do we no longer need to worry about much else. Hopefully our biology doesn't dictate who or what our character is, unless you are a war-machine: living tissue over endo-metal skeleton.

Frankly speaking, as I brought up in an earlier post.

http://repugnant-thoughts.blogspot.com/2013/09/in-other-news.html

Which basically talks about how people who believe in something they can't see or touch are at slightly higher risk of major depression disorder (ICD-9 296.3).

However those kraut-bastards, seem to think something else.

Does prayer help us resist temptation?
Talking to God boosts self-control and emotional stability, claims study

You can read it all here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2515637/Does-prayer-help-resist-temptation-Talking-God-boosts-self-control-emotional-stability-claims-study.html

Or here, if you are lazy:

Blah blah blah does mastur--- Prayer help us, treat depression or temptation?

Prayer the pee-pee monster away.

By Robin Yapp
PUBLISHED: 15:56 GMT, 29 November 2013 | UPDATED: 15:58 GMT, 29 November 2013

Praying helps people stay in control of their emotions and behaviour, according to a new study. 

People turn to prayer 'as a coping response to the high demands in life' and are rewarded with increased strength and ability to resist temptation, researchers said. 

Previous findings have shown that when people try hard to control their emotions and thoughts, the risk of aggressive outbursts and binge drinking or eating rises. 

BELIEVING IN GOD COULD HELP TREAT DEPRESSION TOO...

Belief in God may improve treatment for those suffering with depression, a study published earlier year found.  

Faith in a higher being was found to significantly improve treatment for people suffering with a psychiatric illness, according to research carried out by McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. 

Researchers followed 159 patients over the course of a year at the Behavioral Health Partial Hospital program to investigate the relationship between a patient's level of belief in God, expectations for treatment and actual treatment outcomes. 

Each participant was asked to gauge their belief in God as well as their expectations for treatment outcome on a five-point scale. 

Researchers found that patients with 'no' or only 'slight' belief in God were twice as likely not to respond to treatment than patients with higher levels of belief. 

And more than 30 per cent of patients claiming no specific religious affiliation still saw the same benefits in treatment if their belief in God was rated as moderately or very high. 

But the latest study, by German psychologists at Saarland University and the University of Mannheim, found that praying helps people maintain self-control.  

'A brief period of personal prayer buffered the self-control depletion effect', wrote the team, whose findings are published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology online. 

'These results are consistent with and contribute to a growing body of work attesting to the beneficial effects of praying on self-control.'  

Praying has already been linked in the past to reduced levels of infidelity and alcohol consumption [emphasis mine].

The German authors recruited 79 people, of whom 41 were Christian, 14 atheists, 10 agnostic and 14 belonged to other religions. 

Participants were each left alone for five minutes and asked to either pray or think freely about one thing as intensely as possible. 

Next they all watched a funny film clips with half told to react normally and half required to try to suppress their emotions and control their facial reactions.

Finally, they took part in Stroop tests, where words describing colours appear in different coloured inks, such as the word blue written in red ink. 

Participants must respond to the ink colour, not the written word, which requires self-control as our instinct is to read the word in front of us. 

Those who thought freely in the first part of the test and then tried to suppress their emotions during the film clips were found to struggle with the Stroop task. 

But this was not the case for participants who prayed at the start of the study - showing they still had high levels of self-control at the end.

The authors also found those who first prayed had tried just as hard to suppress emotions during the film clips 'but did not become depleted'.

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The real question anyone should ask his or herself, is whether or not alcohol consumption is a problem.

As far as I'm concerned, alcohol is prayer.

Sweet, tasty, prayer.

You may want to talk to your doctor before starting a new religious or drinking regimen. If you experience:

• heart problems such as chest pain (angina), heart failure, irregular heartbeats, or have had a heart attack
• high or low blood pressure or have high blood pressure that is not controlled
• stroke
• liver or kidney problems or require dialysis
• retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic (runs in families) eye disease
• severe vision loss, including a condition called NAION
• stomach ulcers or a bleeding problem
• a deformed penis shape or Peyronie's disease
• an erection that lasted more than---

How to pray on the weekend

That's for a different regimen.

In any case, it seems the Germans have found a way to academically one up , albeit not a global effort like the other study, their peers and colleagues. Basically the Germans have found a way to use hope as the deferment of disappointment.

Right now would be a good time to listen to Epica's A New Age Dawns - Pt. V (Kingdom of Heaven)