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is collective prayer any more effective?
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Pat Mustard
Previous username: GUBU God! Theresa, I forgot me fecking trousers!  Religious Views: the Disc's first ligthning proof atheist (June 9, 2016 at 8:16 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: Has anyone ever thought about prayer boxes? Does God not listen unless multiple people pester it about the exact same issue? Or is it that prayer is more effective if it's conducted by higher ranking Theists in the community? Very curious to hear the rationale. When even the Templeton foundations studies show prayer doesn't work, then you have to admit failure.
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Home  (June 11, 2016 at 9:38 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(June 9, 2016 at 8:16 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: Has anyone ever thought about prayer boxes? Does God not listen unless multiple people pester it about the exact same issue? Or is it that prayer is more effective if it's conducted by higher ranking Theists in the community? Very curious to hear the rationale. SCUSE ME! It does so work! (It just coincidentally seems to work out just as often as if there was no God. God is so clever the way he tests us like that! He doesn't want all the riffraff going into heaven, you know, derrr!) 
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.  (June 9, 2016 at 3:07 pm)robvalue Wrote: What happens when two groups of people pray for mutually exclusive outcomes? God flips a coin.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken. (June 11, 2016 at 12:43 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(June 9, 2016 at 3:07 pm)robvalue Wrote: What happens when two groups of people pray for mutually exclusive outcomes? The 2 prayers nullify each other out. That's why it only seems like the prayers are not being answered. Thankyou God. You answer all our combined prayers and we still have the gall to question your existence!
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.  (June 10, 2016 at 8:34 am)Drich Wrote:(June 9, 2016 at 8:16 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: Has anyone ever thought about prayer boxes? Does God not listen unless multiple people pester it about the exact same issue? Or is it that prayer is more effective if it's conducted by higher ranking Theists in the community? Very curious to hear the rationale. Isn't it also said that no man is righteous?
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
Ursula K. Le Guin  RE: is collective prayer any more effective?
June 14, 2016 at 7:49 pm
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(June 9, 2016 at 8:16 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: Has anyone ever thought about prayer boxes? Does God not listen unless multiple people pester it about the exact same issue? Or is it that prayer is more effective if it's conducted by higher ranking Theists in the community? Very curious to hear the rationale. As it turns out (i will have to hunt the thread back up unless Alex would like to step in), the collapsing waves of quantum physics are affected by the number of observers.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy |
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