PRAYER is begging in its truest form. If you want to spend the rest of your life on your knees feel free, but I most certainly DO NOT. I dont whisper sweet nothings into thin air expecting results. Wait... isn't that the direct definition of insanity? Repeating the same activity over and over again, while expecting different results? When your prayers go unanswered (which they do until sheer coinsidence checks in), you keep on praying, expecting some enlightenment to happen. You do this every time. Hence, if you pray you're quite literally insane, according to the scholary definition of insanity that is. But hey, I am quite sure you'll try to dispute the FACT of that also.
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.” - Max Stirner.