My Prayers

In my daily prayers to the Good Spirits, I pray for friendly neighbors, friendly relatives and friendly friends.

Now I do not wish to seem bitter or to crucify joiners belonging to these three categories of people, but my rejection by all groups, everywhere, all the time, is so consistent and so pervasive that I have come to appreciate the fact that none of these people are going to be friendly, let alone be friends. Now there are a few exceptions here and there, but they are few and far between.

What I am being realistic about--remember a social miracle is always possible (like any other miracle)--is that what I am really praying for is cold peace.

 Warm peace would happen when modified groups would allow the maverizers and loners in their midst to drop in and drop out as they found convenient, without social sanctions. Warm peace does not exist in the present world--from the vantage point of a great soul like myself.

I am really praying for cold peace--live and let live apartness and mutual disinclination to fight or openly quarrel or compete.

What I pray against is the arrival of hot war, and that would lead to being mobbed, murdered, sent to a concentration camp, etc.