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Being the subject of a prayer
#31
RE: Being the subject of a prayer
(January 8, 2015 at 2:30 am)Rhythm Wrote: See GC, secularization works... even on you.

But Zalgo loves FCC..

(January 8, 2015 at 2:30 am)Rhythm Wrote: See GC, secularization works... even on you.

But Zalgo loves GC
ALL PRAISE THE ONE TRUE GOD ZALGO


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#32
RE: Being the subject of a prayer
You see stuff happening anyway that you happened to pray about. You ignore all the times it doesn't happen.

It's called confirmation bias. Prayer has never been demonstrated to do anything other than placebo effects.

Pray for world peace. Go on, please.
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RE: Being the subject of a prayer
(January 8, 2015 at 12:12 am)Godschild Wrote: Your opinion has no merit, I've seen prayer work time and again, I know you will dismiss it for one reason or the other, but you weren't there so you couldn't know the situation.

I may not know those situations specifically, but I do know that there is a trend in all prayers that I have heard of or seen as 'working.' First there is a general matter of statistics. If someone has a 90% chance of dying from cancer or some other disease, it is not a miracle if they are healed. Why? Because that is exactly what happens to 1 out of 10 people with that diagnosis. (I posted on this exact concept about a week ago - http://theheathensguide.com/miracu-less-statistic/)

Second, there is the problem that prayer does not seem to have any benefit any specific religious demographic--Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, and Atheists all benefit from prayer to the same extent. If the prayer is really to be credited (and not just statistics), then it seems to have no basis in religious belief.
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