On the lunacy of prayer

[arewethereyet]

I do think it's sort of meditative in a way.  For instance, praying the rosary is so much repitition it's not all that different from someone repeating a meditation chant.  I assume it's calming to some people.

Wow. You beat me to it. I was gonna exactly say the rosary is like mantra meditation. But even other forms of prayer that are silent and contemplative are similar to mindfulness meditation. (Focus on one object... usually the breath, but it doesn't have to be. Could be God, or an idea of God.)

When the Baptists get in a circle and one guy babbles for ten minutes, sometimes throwing a reference to Trump's excellence in there, now THAT is not meditation.

One of the things that really threw me for a loop when I moved to SC and got out into the working world was what I call 'Free Form Prayer'. I was so used to Catholic prayer which is said in a certain way and has specific uses (for lack of a better word) that when I first heard someone praying off the cuff with all the 'Father Gods' and 'nourish our bodies' and everything else, I was gobsmacked.