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is collective prayer any more effective?
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I actually get embarrassed telling my friends something they already knew. Usually I go 'hush and just let me tell you again and act like it's new to you'. We might discuss different aspects to the same topic but convos with friends don't normally go;
"Hey I need help with this." "I know." "Ya gunna help me?" "Maybe." "Hey I know I asked yesterday but can I get some help?" "Maybe." *dies* "I helped." 
George Carlin nailed the GC-types perfectly.
 (June 9, 2016 at 1:53 pm)Godschild Wrote: Prayer is far more than asking things from God, it's one way of being in a relationship with Him. Yes God already knows the needs of everyone, our asking shows that we care for them even though God knew before hand. Don't you talk to your friends about things they already knew about, it's no different with God. LOL... Your friends make you beg for help, even when they know perfectly well, that you need it? On one hand - I'm not surprised, since they're probably self-interested, sanctimonious douche-bags, with morality standards of goat-herding barbarians... I mean - christians. On the other hand - wow, sucks to be you. No wonder you prefer hanging out with atheists... 
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
 (June 9, 2016 at 2:07 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I actually get embarrassed telling my friends something they already knew. Usually I go 'hush and just let me tell you again and act like it's new to you'. We might discuss different aspects to the same topic but convos with friends don't normally go; My friends are way better than god. Mine are usually more like "Hey I noticed you need some help but I knew you'd never ask. So I took the liberty of taking care of it when you weren't looking. You owe me 12 hours of HP marathon, I'll bring the pizza you bring the beer" "Oh hey, you rock. See you tonight" (June 9, 2016 at 2:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(June 9, 2016 at 1:56 pm)Losty Wrote: Well...my friends are usually real. Prayer is like my late night ramblings with Carl. He also only responds in my own voice inside my own head. He's real god damnit! I am not a child! Carl is a real guy! He got drunk and pissed in my back yard once. I can't help if I talk to him when he's not there. 
Well I was hoping that some Theists would explain why they get other people to pray for them. Their god can do anything so it doesn't make sense to me that you would need more than one person to pray for something. If you were in a coma I could understand, but if you're able bodied then you don't need other people to pray for you.
What happens when two groups of people pray for mutually exclusive outcomes?
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