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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-07-05 01:43 PM
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25. I'm spiritual, and to me, prayer is something that we use
to soothe ourselves, but also to help each other. Yes, you're right that much of the time it's self-comforting.

However, I believe we're all connected. That everything in the universe is connected. The prayers that we say to help others are said in the hopes that it will send a ripple of positive energy over the strands of the web that connect us, to hopefully somehow help that person in whatever way.

Yes, I know that sounds really kooky and new agey, but it's what I really believe.

Let the mocking begin! :P
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  -What's the point of prayer? LaraMN  Nov-07-05 01:02 PM   #0 
  - Depends if the person is Calvinist or not  Taverner   Nov-07-05 01:03 PM   #1 
  - Power to do what? Bend the will of god?! eom  LaraMN   Nov-07-05 01:04 PM   #4 
     - Well, thats just it...it doesn't say  Taverner   Nov-07-05 01:06 PM   #6 
     - That's what rakes me about it.  LaraMN   Nov-07-05 01:17 PM   # 
     - yes, it is a magical instruction  pitohui   Nov-09-05 10:59 AM   #44 
  - Prayer is an arrogant assumption that you can even begin to correspond  Vash the Stampede   Nov-07-05 01:04 PM   #2 
  - I see it as meditation, with only one difference  ComerPerro   Nov-07-05 01:04 PM   #3 
  - But that's all the difference in the world.  Vash the Stampede   Nov-07-05 01:05 PM   #5 
  - Yes, that's true  ComerPerro   Nov-07-05 01:11 PM   #9 
     - And if the prayers are trying to affect outside events,  raccoon   Nov-09-05 08:23 AM   #32 
  - When my baby was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, people told me  LaraMN   Nov-07-05 01:11 PM   #8 
     - Reminds me of a line I really love from the movie "Saved"  ComerPerro   Nov-07-05 01:14 PM   #11 
        - I saw that! That was hilarious.  LaraMN   Nov-07-05 01:18 PM   #14 
  - To keep God from putting his boot in yo ass  DS1   Nov-07-05 01:07 PM   #7 
  - The prayer chain concept...  WCGreen   Nov-07-05 01:12 PM   #10 
  - I consider myself Agnostic, as well. Atheism and Religion are in the same  LaraMN   Nov-07-05 01:21 PM   #17 
     - I think....  WCGreen   Nov-07-05 01:28 PM   #19 
  - I think it mostly makes people feel better  tigereye   Nov-07-05 01:15 PM   #12 
  - More for the prayer than the prayee, I'd imagine  Loonman   Nov-07-05 01:17 PM   #13 
  - It suggests that God needs to change his mind.  Deep13   Nov-07-05 01:18 PM   #15 
  - I've always wondered that myself.  Fox Mulder   Nov-07-05 01:19 PM   #16 
  - It's a way of being thankful for the food we have and  elshiva   Nov-09-05 08:54 AM   #34 
  - I think the point is to bring about a subtle change in one's consciousness  anarch   Nov-07-05 01:21 PM   #18 
  - Your first paragraph pretty much expresses my  raccoon   Nov-07-05 01:30 PM   #21 
     - exactly...  anarch   Nov-07-05 01:36 PM   #23 
        - Harold Kushner's writings,  raccoon   Nov-07-05 01:40 PM   #24 
  - You are going to hear a lot of different claims  Az   Nov-07-05 01:30 PM   #20 
  - i think the original purpose of prayer was cure of disease  pitohui   Nov-09-05 11:05 AM   #45 
  - To seem righteous??  Raiden   Nov-07-05 01:31 PM   #22 
  - My Mom just mentioned that very passage from the Bible, the other day.  LaraMN   Nov-07-05 01:43 PM   #26 
  - I'm spiritual, and to me, prayer is something that we use  redqueen   Nov-07-05 01:43 PM   #25 
  - I believe it helped me pull through my illness last year...  WCGreen   Nov-07-05 01:45 PM   #27 
  - I wouldn't call you "kooky."  LaraMN   Nov-07-05 01:46 PM   #28 
  - What's the point of meditation?  Bridget Burke   Nov-07-05 01:49 PM   #29 
  - I directly stated, "... I perceive that it's ultimately a  LaraMN   Nov-07-05 03:54 PM   #31 
  - It's the equivalent of.....  Tikki   Nov-07-05 02:10 PM   #30 
  - I dont believe in prayer chains personally but I do believe in prayer  DanCa   Nov-09-05 08:44 AM   #33 
  - Preordained?  TallahasseeGrannie   Nov-09-05 08:59 AM   #35 
  - Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote  Shine   Nov-09-05 09:25 AM   #36 
  - Exactly!  Shell Beau   Nov-09-05 10:17 AM   #38 
  - well what if we don't want to change?  pitohui   Nov-09-05 11:11 AM   #46 
  - To commune with God/the Holy Spirit/your higher power  noonwitch   Nov-09-05 10:16 AM   #37 
  - Good way to put it!  Shell Beau   Nov-09-05 10:18 AM   #39 
  - Meditation.  bushwentawol   Nov-09-05 10:23 AM   #40 
  - IMO: To soothe the individual who is praying.  bertha katzenengel   Nov-09-05 10:27 AM   #41 
  - what's wrong w. self-comforting in the face of helplessness?  pitohui   Nov-09-05 10:53 AM   #42 
  - Karl Marx was correct...  Left_Winger   Nov-09-05 10:55 AM   #43 
  - Talking to the Invisible Man.  Oregonian   Nov-09-05 11:25 AM   #47 
 

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