RE: Atheists do you pray?
September 19, 2014 at 7:31 am
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2014 at 7:32 am by Madness20.)
I've always "prayed" in my mind even when i considered myself a convict atheist. But this "prayal" was always at wishing that the best outcome of the possibilities would happen, not asking for "a god" to do a miracle.
I think humans inherently depend on feeling "hope" and expecting positive outcomes/luck as instinctive to pursue their ambitions and to justify big efforts on trying to achieve that, i feel that if we humans were entirelly rational then we would most certainly be pessimists/skepticists and act alot less in regards of those ambitions and trying to challenge the odds, which is interesting.
In several fields, success doesn't commonly result from just intelligence or inherent ability, a lot of effort has to be put on some activity if you want to excel, and you see several places where the most "successful" people aren't necessarily the most intelligent, in fact, they were seriously "dumb" enough to not doubt their ability on achieving success, and so they succeded.
I think humans inherently depend on feeling "hope" and expecting positive outcomes/luck as instinctive to pursue their ambitions and to justify big efforts on trying to achieve that, i feel that if we humans were entirelly rational then we would most certainly be pessimists/skepticists and act alot less in regards of those ambitions and trying to challenge the odds, which is interesting.
In several fields, success doesn't commonly result from just intelligence or inherent ability, a lot of effort has to be put on some activity if you want to excel, and you see several places where the most "successful" people aren't necessarily the most intelligent, in fact, they were seriously "dumb" enough to not doubt their ability on achieving success, and so they succeded.
