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My thoughts on prayer
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RE: My thoughts on prayer
(October 13, 2015 at 12:56 am)Losty Wrote: I don't know if prayer is completely useless. It's an opportunity to vent your thoughts about something specific and try to consider them from a different perspective. Christians think god is good and they think he wants them to be good and unselfish and loving and honest and a number of other things. Prayer may not do what it claims to do but it isn't completely useless.
The one nice thing about prayer (if you believe when you do it), is that it gives you a false sense of hope in hopeless situations. And I think a false sense of hope can be a good thing. It's like a placebo. It makes you feel better because you believe it will make you feel better.

i agree  with you on the false sense of hope in hopeless situations but using prayer in  any other means i mean like over small stuff like trying to win the lottery yeah that is highly unlikely.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization join today. 


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My thoughts on prayer - by dyresand - October 13, 2015 at 12:51 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Losty - October 13, 2015 at 12:56 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by dyresand - October 13, 2015 at 12:58 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Losty - October 13, 2015 at 1:02 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Silver - October 13, 2015 at 1:03 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Losty - October 13, 2015 at 1:06 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Longhorn - October 13, 2015 at 10:37 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Kingpin - October 13, 2015 at 10:49 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Ravenshire - October 13, 2015 at 10:53 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Kingpin - October 13, 2015 at 10:59 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Cyberman - October 13, 2015 at 6:04 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Kingpin - October 13, 2015 at 6:11 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Cyberman - October 13, 2015 at 6:27 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Homeless Nutter - October 14, 2015 at 7:13 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Angrboda - October 14, 2015 at 7:06 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by John V - October 13, 2015 at 1:24 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by dyresand - October 13, 2015 at 1:42 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Losty - October 13, 2015 at 1:41 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by John V - October 14, 2015 at 2:21 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Athene - October 13, 2015 at 5:18 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Cyberman - October 13, 2015 at 6:06 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by jenny1972 - October 13, 2015 at 6:19 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Ben Davis - October 14, 2015 at 7:34 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Redbeard The Pink - October 14, 2015 at 7:50 am
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by WinterHold - October 14, 2015 at 1:47 pm
RE: My thoughts on prayer - by Cyberman - October 14, 2015 at 2:08 pm

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