The ''Illogicality'' of Prayer.

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Prayer is not so that you get money or a girlfriend or whatever. It to get wisdom or temperance or something much more important. Prayer is about changing things, but prayer is not about changing the external. Prayer is to change the internal. It's actually a lot like meditation, but the focus does not limit itself like in traditional meditation. Prayer is designed to change the person internally by the work of God, not by the work of the person.

Is this the way most people who pray view prayer?

Nope. Most people are stupid. The "Our Father", which is Jesus' basic outline of how to pray, includes only one material thing: "Give us our daily bread". Food for the day is the only thing that is included. That's it. Most people treat God like a magical genie that just poofs things into existence, and then they play a Rorschach test to say that it was "the will of the Lord".

The biblical "Our Father". It's short.

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Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

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