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A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 9:11 pm
This is not prayer and no prayer. It is prayer to the wrong god or gods.
We choose samples from vast majority single religion countries such as Brazil, Saudi, Israel, India. The test criteria merely requires to establish the person knows no one from another religion who might possibly pray for them. Then friends pray for, sacrifice, whatever for the test subjects.
If the theists are correct one of those countries is going to be a significant success and the others failures although it might not be their god(s).
The alternative result is there is no significant difference between the countries leaving open all gods are equal when it comes to prayer or there are no gods.
So a negative result has an indeterminate conclusion a one country positive result would be significant.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 9:22 pm
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.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 9:51 pm
They should all pray that the other religions drop their religion and become part of the church of Scientology, and then wait and see which groups convert.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 10:19 pm
(May 10, 2013 at 9:22 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Unless one considers a forum moderator a deity.
We're just demi-gods at the mercy of the full-blown gods, the admins.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 10:58 pm
That's just what we want you to think.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 11:03 pm
Because maybe I just want you to think that's what we want you to think.
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RE: A proposed test for the efficacy of prayer
May 10, 2013 at 11:05 pm
I think I am going to think what I want to think regardless of what anyone wants me to think through their thinking games.
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