[bouda]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7566566.stm

A prayer group in Washington DC is claiming the credit for the recent sharp drop in the US price of petrol.

Rocky Twyman, 59, a veteran community campaigner, started Pray At The Pump meetings at petrol stations in April.

Since then, the average price of what the US calls gasoline has fallen from more than $4 a gallon to $3.80.

"We don't have anybody else to turn to but God," Mr Twyman told the BBC. "We have to turn these problems over to God and not to man."

 

[big swede]

The scary part is there are thousands of people who actually believe this kinda bs.

 

[bouda]

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Smaart Aas Saabr]

Welcome to last week :lmao:

 

[vsd]

:repost: http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f19/thats-why-oil-price-went-down-68172/

For the record I prayed to a combination of Satan and the Flying Spaghetti Monster for cheaper gas. Let us praise their combined fiery-noodly goodness!

 

[bouda]

ramen!!

 

[2648562]

They're right in a way. This wasn't planned by God (to my knowledge), but God did have a lot to do with it. See, if their blind, same-old mistake repeating cohorts hadn't elected a certain President because he was "one of them" and a group of sellouts to congress, we wouldn't have high gas prices to begin with. But they did, so they can now thank God that we get the planned gas price reduction just in time for the next election. :barf:

They're 100% right about having no one to turn to in this country.

 

[Smaart Aas Saabr]

2648562:

I remember "back in the day" in 2000. It seemed pretty obvious that Bush was the go-to guy for cheap gas, Gore with his global warming rhetoric would probably have resulted in a carbon tax or something along the way...

then the friggin Iraq happened, oil went down initially then way way way up! Argh!

 

[likearock00]

They're right in a way. This wasn't planned by God (to my knowledge), but God did have a lot to do with it.

God plans everything. This isn't something that just happened- there is always a plan. I won't get into this here though.


I wish more of us could go to God and ask for help when things go bad vs. just complaining about it and trying to fix it ourselves. Maybe that's why this world is the way it is because of what we don't do vs what we do.

 

[Smaart Aas Saabr]

God plans everything. This isn't something that just happened- there is always a plan. I won't get into this here though.


I wish more of us could go to God and ask for help when things go bad vs. just complaining about it and trying to fix it ourselves. Maybe that's why this world is the way it is because of what we don't do vs what we do.

I'm reminded of what my dad told me when I was little...

"A guy is shipwrecked and clinging to a piece of the boat in the middle of the ocean. He prays to God to save him. A ship comes by and offers to rescue him, he declines "God will save me". Then a helicopter comes by and offers, but he declines again. Soon enough he dies of hypothermia. He goes to Heaven and asks God "hey what happened out there?" God says "well darn it I sent a boat, then I sent a helicopter!" :lmao:

 

[Ming]

The real story here is that someone thinks $3.80 is cheap.

 

[afdude2018]

So they started praying in April? Didn't it just start going down a few weeks ago? What happened in May and June? God on vacation or something? It must have been us since we were praying for it to happen. It only took a few months and record oil prices for it to finally kick in.

 

[drew630]

:think:

This is cheap gas??

 

[ChevroletRevived]

I'm reminded of what my dad told me when I was little...

"A guy is shipwrecked and clinging to a piece of the boat in the middle of the ocean. He prays to God to save him. A ship comes by and offers to rescue him, he declines "God will save me". Then a helicopter comes by and offers, but he declines again. Soon enough he dies of hypothermia. He goes to Heaven and asks God "hey what happened out there?" God says "well darn it I sent a boat, then I sent a helicopter!" :lmao:

That is so funny, I've heard that same story too only told differently. The way I heard it was a man on top of a roof with flooding going on around him and he ended up drowning then going to Heaven.

 

[vsd]

That is so funny, I've heard that same story too only told differently. The way I heard it was a man on top of a roof with flooding going on around him and he ended up drowning then going to Heaven.

Kind of cheapens the whole religion doesn't it? I mean who would want to go to a Heaven full of stupid people?

 

[EldoFan]

ramen!!

:lmao: :clap: :lmao: :clap:

 

[E. Haskell]

Kind of cheapens the whole religion doesn't it? I mean who would want to go to a Heaven full of stupid people?

I do. I like more stupid people than I do smart people. :yup:

 

[Smaart Aas Saabr]

That is so funny, I've heard that same story too only told differently. The way I heard it was a man on top of a roof with flooding going on around him and he ended up drowning then going to Heaven.

I guess the moral of the story is "God helps those that help themselves"... my point is just, how can I say, He will give you the strength, but if you don't flex the muscle, you are still screwed.