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The power of prayer
#81
RE: The power of prayer
Lol.

Apparently I should see a shrink.

This guy speaks to an imaginary friends frequently but I should see a shrink.

He trolls an atheist messageboard but I should see a shrink.

He thinks that it's rational to spend his time praising the most evil, sadistic, genocidal, misogynistic, egotistical being ever created in all works of human fiction but I need to see a shrink.

Nah. I'm seeing an oncologist tomorrow night, but I don't have the mental disirders worthy of the attention of a shrunk.

Brent may be over qualified though..

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"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#82
RE: The power of prayer
Get your story straight people.

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#83
RE: The power of prayer
(October 16, 2015 at 3:29 am)Beccs Wrote: [...]
Nah.  I'm seeing an oncologist tomorrow night, but I don't have the mental disirders worthy of the attention of a shrunk.

Brent may be over qualified though..

What he needs to do is see an rheumatologist and take care of his knee-joints. I'm afraid it's way too late for treating his head...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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#84
RE: The power of prayer
The power of prayer always seems about as "powerful" as one of the superheros me and my brother created years ago when we were younger.

"Slightly-Taller-than-the-Average-Man man" - he has the power to be 5'11".
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#85
RE: The power of prayer
(October 15, 2015 at 5:48 pm)JBrentonK Wrote: Prayer as I said is defined as a rational act. And that is because you ask for praise. You atheists are much stupider than I thought....

Maybe you should explain yourself a bit better.

How can something be a rational act solely because you are asking for praise?

And while we're asking questions, how does prayer work? What physical mechanisms are being used?

There needs to be some form of telepathy because you don't have to pray aloud in order to pray. This means that there needs to be some way for the recipient of the prayer not only knowing how our brains are configured, but how our neurons are currently firing and be able to analyse that to figure out that a prayer is being performed and what it means based on our memories.

Then that information needs to be sent back in real time to be analysed, judged and enacted on. Then if it is, some other information needs to be sent back and enacted upon by some other physical mechanism. So for example if you pray to recover from a disease then all the infected cells are located and either killed off or purified.

Yet physicists have never seen even the merest hint of how this information could be transmitted or how the very fundamentals of matter could be manipulated at the microscopic level from a distance.

Considering that prayer is supposed to work so easily then why haven't any physicists discovered these mechanisms yet? If they had then the world would be a very different place. There would be no energy crisis for a start and the field of robotics would be so much more advanced. Space exploration would be amazingly easy.
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#86
RE: The power of prayer
(October 15, 2015 at 7:22 pm)JBrentonK Wrote: When you wrap them around your dick your thinking of God, so I am sure God is pleased with that.

OK this has to be a poe.
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#87
RE: The power of prayer
(October 16, 2015 at 10:39 am)I_am_not_mafia Wrote:
(October 15, 2015 at 7:22 pm)JBrentonK Wrote: When you wrap them around your dick your thinking of God, so I am sure God is pleased with that.

OK this has to be a poe.

I second that
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#88
RE: The power of prayer
I thought it was a poe before it was "cool"...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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