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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 3:06 pm
(July 31, 2013 at 2:06 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: (July 31, 2013 at 9:56 am)Stimbo Wrote: Yet much of the rest of your post, as well as the major part of your posting history, says that you claim to know quite a bit about this god and its character; its interventionist and judgemental nature, what it thinks, how it responds to certain actions/inactions, what its opinions are, things it requires, and so on. Impressive, really, in a sort of sad and revealing way.
Almost like GC's god is made exactly in the image GC wants it to be.
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 4:08 pm
Holy Shit...nice Quote, Apophenia!
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 5:02 pm
You can safely assume that you`ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
--Anne Lamott
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 5:32 pm
Personally, it's not the people who talk to God I'm afraid of, it's the people who claim that God talks to them who worry me.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 5:40 pm
(July 29, 2013 at 5:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That in mind, what is the point of prayer?
Boru
To enable you to make the least of what you were given and feel great about it.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 5:45 pm
(July 31, 2013 at 5:32 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Personally, it's not the people who talk to God I'm afraid of, it's the people who claim that God talks to them who worry me.
David Berkowitz thinks you're overreacting. His neighbor's dog thinks that a .44 slug in your face would resolve the issue.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 5:59 pm
(July 31, 2013 at 5:45 pm)Tonus Wrote: David Berkowitz thinks you're overreacting. His neighbor's dog thinks that a .44 slug in your face would resolve the issue.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 11:12 pm
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(July 31, 2013 at 10:46 am)Stimbo Wrote: (July 31, 2013 at 10:15 am)Godschild Wrote: I could know a million times more than I do and still know very little about my omniscient God, know do you understand or is that head to thick.
Y'know, I can always tell when you've run out of steam, G-C; that desperate moment you resort to tossing around the personal insults like child-safe foam rubber toy grenades is a dead giveaway. My advice, should you choose to accept it, is never play poker. Your tells are just too (note spelling) obvious.
Knew you would have to come up with a distraction, that's what you do when you have no answers, now you want to take a stab at an answer.
(July 31, 2013 at 12:26 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: (July 31, 2013 at 10:15 am)Godschild Wrote: Believe me it's not the book that's dumb, a mirror where you live has the truth.
First magic words and now magic mirrors. The inane is a bounteous fountain from thine mouth.
You're dumber than I thought, just go look in the mirror and point.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 11:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2013 at 11:28 pm by PeterPriesthood.)
(July 31, 2013 at 11:12 pm)Godschild Wrote: Quote:First magic words and now magic mirrors. The inane is a bounteous fountain from thine mouth.
You're dumber than I thought, just go look in the mirror and point.
The ad homs are palpable on this thread.  hiver:
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Anyway, I think the Christians on this Thread have made some pretty good points about why prayer is important, though I agree with BWS that the icky feeling sucks when people tell me that they'll pray for me. (As a Mormon, I get this a lot from other religions.)
I think the point of prayer is only what you make of it. "Ask and ye shall receive". It's simple if you use faith. God will mete out to you what he desires to give you. He's fickle like that, as is his prerogative. If a person starts a prayer and doesn't expect much, he won't receive much.
Prayer is useful if one actually makes use of it.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
July 31, 2013 at 11:33 pm
G-C always thinks highly of his own bullshit.
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