Aldebaran has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I am thrilled that my time as a hermit is coming to an end and look forward to my time as a chaplain. I seem to show up today with related issues. At Al-anon recovery meetings we read how we are non-sectarian, and then we close with the Lord's Prayer. I'm told it's a tradition. So, without trying too hard, I've got it on the business meeting that we need to either change our preamble:
Al-Anon is not allied with any sect, denomination, political entity, organization, or institution; does not engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any cause., or, forego using a uniquely Xtian prayer.
I'm actually not trying to scrap the whole prayer, as it is possible to make some substitutions and remain in the cadence with others. For example, when reciting this, I usually substitute "ego," for "evil," as I do not believe in The Devil. Many of us are not deists and use silence instead of "our Father."
Anyways, here's what I have so far, where I'm trying on the new phrases stochastically:
$ ./1.vater_unser.pl path1 is /home/bob/Documents/meditations input is {$Our_Father}, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. {$Thy_kingdom_come}, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, As we also have forgiven our trespasses; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from {$evil}. For thine is the {$kingdom} and the power and the glory, for ever. Ame +n. out_file is /home/bob/Documents/meditations/my_data/26-04-2019-19-01-5 +5/26-04-2019-19-01-55.1.txt out_file is /home/bob/Documents/meditations/my_data/26-04-2019-19-01-5 +5/26-04-2019-19-01-55.2.txt out_file is /home/bob/Documents/meditations/my_data/26-04-2019-19-01-5 +5/26-04-2019-19-01-55.3.txt OUTFILES******************* Group Of Drunks, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Ta ti ti ta, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, As we also have forgiven our trespasses; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from being too serious. For thine is the realm and the power and the glory, for ever. Amen. ------------- our mother, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Ta ti ti ta, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, As we also have forgiven our trespasses; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from your followers. For thine is the oligarchy and the power and the glory, for ever. Amen +. ------------- Group Of Drunks, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Armageddon can wait, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, As we also have forgiven our trespasses; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from ego. For thine is the oligarchy and the power and the glory, for ever. Amen +. ------------- $
Source:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use 5.011; use Path::Tiny; use utf8; use open OUT => ':utf8'; use Data::Dump; use Text::Template; use POSIX qw(strftime); binmode STDOUT, 'utf8'; my $input = <<'(END INPUT)'; {$Our_Father}, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. {$Thy_kingdom_come}, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, As we also have forgiven our trespasses; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from {$evil}. For thine is the {$kingdom} and the power and the glory, for ever. Ame +n. (END INPUT) my $path1 = Path::Tiny->cwd; say "path1 is $path1"; say "input is $input"; ## populate hash my $data = [ [ 'Our_Father', '(silence)', 'our mother', 'universal life force', 'Group Of Drunks' ], [ 'Thy_kingdom_come', 'Armageddon can wait', 'Ta ti ti ta', 'Let sci +ence be' ], [ 'evil', 'ego', 'your followers', 'being too serious' ], [ 'kingdom', 'oligarchy', 'realm', 'big blue boat' ] ]; #dd $data; ## main loop # set trials my $trials = 3; my $dummy = 1; my $first_second = strftime( "%d-%m-%Y-%H-%M-%S", localtime ); while ( $trials > 0 ) { # create an output file my $out_file = $path1->child( 'my_data', "$first_second", "$first_second\.$dummy. +txt" ) ->touchpath; say "out_file is $out_file"; my %vars = map { $_->[0], $_->[ rand( $#{$_} ) + 1 ] } @{$data}; my $rvars = \%vars; my $template = Text::Template->new( TYPE => 'STRING', SOURCE => $inp +ut ) or die "Couldn't construct template: $!"; my $result = $template->fill_in( HASH => $rvars ); $out_file->append_utf8($result); $trials -= 1; $dummy += 1; } # end while condition print "OUTFILES*******************\n"; foreach my $filename ( glob("./my_data/$first_second/*") ) { open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "can't print $filename! $!"; while ( my $line = <$fh> ) { print "$line"; } say "-------------"; close $fh; } __END__
The line that is rubbing me wrong right now is "thy kingdom come." I look at this as essentially saying "let's blow up the world," and I'll not say amen to that while Xtian extremists on the rise seem to think it's a great idea. It might be the fault line between the extremists and the mainstream.
What I'm fishing for are substitutes that don't break the cadence of the prayer. 'Armageddon can wait' is what I want to say, but it makes for a poor substitute in terms of timing. 'Ta ti ti ta' captures the meter but means nothing.
My questions are 3-fold: what makes a good substitute for "thy kingdom come" given that I don't really want to stir up any more controversary than I'm encountering to try to change it at all?
What substitutions would you make? Could we set our sights higher than daily bread, for example? (Not that I don't like toast and sandwiches.) Is it so indelibly impressed by Xtianity that there must not be substitutions?
Thanks for your comments,
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