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A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer

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A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 11:06 pm
(May 10, 2013 at 11:03 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Because maybe I just want you to think that's what we want you to think.

Or maybe you just want us to think that's what you want us to think you want us to think.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 11:07 pm (This post was last modified: May 10, 2013 at 11:10 pm by Faith No More.)
(May 10, 2013 at 11:05 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: I think I am going to think what I want to think regardless of what anyone wants me to think through their thinking games.

That's just what we want you to think.
(May 10, 2013 at 11:06 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Or maybe you just want us to think that's what you want us to think you want us to think.

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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 11:12 pm
(May 10, 2013 at 11:07 pm)Faith No More Wrote: That's just what we want you to think.

Or maybe that is what I want you to think, that you are influencing my thinking with your additionally wicked thoughts.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 11:23 pm
(May 10, 2013 at 11:03 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Because maybe I just want you to think that's what we want you to think.
You can't make me think. I'm a theist.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 11:25 pm
(May 10, 2013 at 11:23 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You can't make me think. I'm a theist.

One of the most honest things I have ever read from a theist.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 11, 2013 at 4:12 am (This post was last modified: May 11, 2013 at 4:17 am by Violet.)
(May 10, 2013 at 9:22 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: I have been praying that you get banned from this forum. If you are banned, however, it will not be a result of a deity answering a prayer. Unless one considers a forum moderator a deity.

What... you don't think I could do it? Angry
(May 10, 2013 at 10:19 pm)Faith No More Wrote: We're just demi-gods at the mercy of the full-blown gods, the admins.

The minnow speaks humbly that it is nothing to the trout. Both of these are so insignificant that the leviathan might breath them without either noticing or harming them.

Alas, the shark is not so lucky as you.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 11, 2013 at 5:04 pm
(May 10, 2013 at 11:07 pm)Faith No More Wrote: [Image: nothing_to_see_here.jpg]

We need him at funerals.
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