-This is the sort of thing I should probably expect a certain person to forward to me within the next year, she always sends me this crap, or, garbage, lol, or junk, bilge, dreck - those are pretty good terms for chain mail as well.

I was asked by a very special friend to help a teacher who is using an e-mail prayer as part of her religion class. It was difficult for me to decide who I thought would DO this. I hope I chose the right eleven. Please send this back to me. (You'll see why.) May everyone who receives this message be blessed. REMEMBER to say a prayer before you read the poem. That's all you have to do. There is nothing attached. Just send this to eleven people. Prayer is one of the best free gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of reward. (Did you pray?) Make sure you pray, and pray believing that God will answer. This is your last opportunity before reading the poem.

-Wow, could you get any more generic? Do I know this teacher? Do I know this friend of yours? What religion class? Which school? Names, sources, and places please. To answer your question about choosing the right people to forward this to, you chose wrong by forgetting to hit the delete key.

Let's try to improve on this proes a bit.

May today there be peace within.

-Urgh, that was painful to read. I just had to point out this line, awkward doesn't even begin to describe it.

-Today, may there be peace as you find your friends have written to you instead of sending forwards.

-May you put forwards and other spam in the deleted folder, exactly where it's meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities of annoyance and frustration for your friends that are born of receiving chain email. May you use your common sense, and remember not to pass on the forwards that have been sent to you. May you be content knowing you are not a terrible person when you refuse the demands of any chain letter. Let this idea set in and allow your soul the freedom from the power and addiction that habitual forwarders can't seem to break. It is there for each and every one of us if only they'd see it.

-Okay, bit of a hack job, but aw well. Lol

-I'll never understand how anyone beyond the education and naivety of a grade 3 student gets taken in by something that says:

"Now, send this to 11 people within the next 5 minutes and remember to send this back...I count as 1...you'll see why. Suggestion: copy and paste rather than forward."

-or anything similar.

Because the fwd refers to God specifically, it's meant to appeal to anyone who believes in God, Christian, Jew or Muslim. So, it's designed to make idiots of anyone and everyone who believes in God at all, and that's really offensive, worse when I see people falling for it.

There are some really bad writers out there, religious or not. If anyone's ever looked at fanfiction/roleplay forums and pages, and specifically anything involving a "Mary Sue" type of character that's most commonly written as well as hated,
over-the-top proes abounds.

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