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Isn't prayer a contradiction?

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Isn't prayer a contradiction?
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RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction?
June 15, 2010 at 12:38 pm
(June 15, 2010 at 12:23 pm)J.R. Braden Wrote: What Christians are doing--the ones who know how to make prayer "work"--is just meditation until they come up with a solution on their own.

That's exactly what I've been saying... and still my friends think the idea came from something else, beyond their own rationality, as I like to say.

For some reason, it's not apparent to them that THEY thought of the idea with their OWN brain.
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Isn't prayer a contradiction?

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Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Mr Camel - June 15, 2010 at 11:09 am
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by tavarish - June 15, 2010 at 11:12 am
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Mr Camel - June 15, 2010 at 11:16 am
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by J.R. Braden - June 15, 2010 at 12:23 pm
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Mr Camel - June 15, 2010 at 12:38 pm
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by J.R. Braden - June 15, 2010 at 12:44 pm
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by tackattack - June 15, 2010 at 2:51 pm
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Godschild - June 16, 2010 at 2:12 am
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Zen Badger - June 16, 2010 at 5:43 am
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Mr Camel - June 16, 2010 at 5:49 am
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Minimalist - June 15, 2010 at 12:54 pm
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Mr Camel - June 15, 2010 at 12:56 pm
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Mr Camel - June 16, 2010 at 5:15 am
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Strongbad - June 16, 2010 at 8:34 am
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Mr Camel - June 16, 2010 at 9:04 am
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Strongbad - June 16, 2010 at 1:11 pm
RE: Isn't prayer a contradiction? - by Minimalist - June 16, 2010 at 11:46 am

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