(April 17, 2011 at 4:12 pm)Cinjin Cain Wrote: :hehe: When I saw this thread I immediately thought of one thing. Maybe god did set up prayer so that he could hear all his little creations ask him for anything they wanted. I mean, being the benevolent provider of things for Adam and Eve and then their extended family ... it was cool and really no big deal. Even fun to be the big genie who gave them what they wanted ... prayer worked awesome. Buuuuut - millions of people later - prayer started getting way outta hand. I mean "the phone wouldn't stop RINGING" in gods ear and maybe he just shut it down. Seriously, maybe god just didn't plan ahead very well and didn't think about handling prayer in bulk. Millions of people praying 3 times a day at LEAST! I would think that would get a little more than overwhelming ... thus the prayer system was retired and god just thought ... "I better not tell 'em, I'll just say don't question my plans if anyone gets suspicious."
and that - is why prayers go "unanswered"
(or maybe the only thing you ever accomplished while praying was looking like a goddamn lunatic)
An interesting question: why would God answer prayers? Imagine if you were a God (able to hear and understand all at once, and 'see' everything), why would you do all what billions of people ask from you?
You know, it's funny. Even Christians believe in that strange way of "God answers prayers": In the bible, Abraham (biblical prophet, I guess everyone heard of him) had a single wish: to have a son with his wife. One day, God promised him a son! He has gotten older, and there was still no son. God told him again, in a dream, that he would have a son. Abraham got 100 years old. He still did not have a son. God told him again that he would have a son (namely, after a year). At 101 years, Abraham had a son. Now, think about this: if Abraham had married his wife at the age of about 20, for 80/81 years he was praying for God to have a son with his wife. Think now how millions of christians see how "praying" 'works'. Also think that Abraham was a prophet (which was supposed to be someone more close to God), and you see in the Bible that about 4 times in his entire life God has spoken to him. And nowadays you get millions of christians believing that they are living daily miracles!
Another example, Timothy (in the New Testament): Apostle Paul (everyone knows St. Paul) told him to drink some wine from time to time, because he had some "health" problems. And we see millions of christians today blindly trusting that God would heal them if they pray long enough!
