(December 11, 2012 at 7:24 am)Stimbo Wrote:Well, if it works 50% of the time, might as well use it, but don't wait for it to work and proceed to see a doctor.(December 11, 2012 at 7:15 am)pocaracas Wrote: Just to be sure.... are you saying that you prayed for someone to get healed and they did?
Well, if that's so, why don't you offer your services to the nearest hospital? Start as voluntary "work"... and see how it goes.
This prayer superpower as described is so astonishingly unreliable, though. There's no way for the petitioner to know whether their prayer is going to work, or whether that's the time their god is going to give the thumbs down. As a tool, it's so unreliable as to be totally useless. Imagine a piece of life-saving equipment which might occasionally work, but most of the time just comes up tilt. Or even works fifty percent of the time, indistinguihable from chance. There's not a hospital on the planet - hopefully - that would allow it within a hundred miles.
Let's say this guy that has this power works it away in the hospital's waiting room.
It may just be the case that, when you're called to the doctor's office, you'll already be healed.... if not, the doctor can just do his job.
However, if it just worked that one time that made FutureAndAHope believe in it, then yes, I agree with you... very unreliable.