(June 2, 2013 at 1:13 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: That's bit harsh. Prayer in the sense of invoking God to do something definitely works for me, I can't speak for others.
It's not meant to be harsh. I was just going along with the metaphor.
My point was what you believed you were "invoking" was actually just you all along.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell