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A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
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A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
This is not prayer and no prayer. It is prayer to the wrong god or gods.

We choose samples from vast majority single religion countries such as Brazil, Saudi, Israel, India. The test criteria merely requires to establish the person knows no one from another religion who might possibly pray for them. Then friends pray for, sacrifice, whatever for the test subjects.

If the theists are correct one of those countries is going to be a significant success and the others failures although it might not be their god(s).

The alternative result is there is no significant difference between the countries leaving open all gods are equal when it comes to prayer or there are no gods.

So a negative result has an indeterminate conclusion a one country positive result would be significant.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
I have been praying that you get banned from this forum. If you are banned, however, it will not be a result of a deity answering a prayer. Unless one considers a forum moderator a deity.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
They should all pray that the other religions drop their religion and become part of the church of Scientology, and then wait and see which groups convert.
~ Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day, give a man a religion and he'll die praying for a fish.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
(May 10, 2013 at 9:22 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: I have been praying that you get banned from this forum. If you are banned, however, it will not be a result of a deity answering a prayer. Unless one considers a forum moderator a deity.

What did I ever do to you but force you to face the fact you cannot define what you believe?

But if I am not banned then you can put one in the no god column.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
(May 10, 2013 at 9:22 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Unless one considers a forum moderator a deity.

We're just demi-gods at the mercy of the full-blown gods, the admins.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
(May 10, 2013 at 10:19 pm)Faith No More Wrote:
(May 10, 2013 at 9:22 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Unless one considers a forum moderator a deity.

We're just demi-gods at the mercy of the full-blown gods, the admins.
Really? I thought we were an autonomous collective.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
That's just what we want you to think.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
(May 10, 2013 at 10:58 pm)Faith No More Wrote: That's just what we want you to think.

If that's what you want us to think...then why did you deny it?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
Because maybe I just want you to think that's what we want you to think.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
I think I am going to think what I want to think regardless of what anyone wants me to think through their thinking games.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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