CHAOS!!!

[Darwinian]

Won't God do anything unless someone prays then :S

[Autumnlicious]

Can you pray me a ham sandwich while your at it?

[Violet]

I'd like a foot-long meatless sub with cheddar cheese, tomatoes, olives, onions, pickles, extra pickles, a few more pickles, and lettuce. I would like to have a small Sprite® with that. And a cookie.

Make that two cookies.

[Rayaan]

Won't God do anything unless someone prays then :S

Yeah, He'll do something regardless.

Can you pray me a ham sandwich while your at it?

I don't feel like it. It's not that important. Prayers work better when something is needed more urgently.

I'd like a foot-long meatless sub with cheddar cheese, tomatoes, olives, onions, pickles, extra pickles, a few more pickles, and lettuce. I would like to have a small Sprite® with that. And a cookie.

Make that two cookies.

... same as above.

[Darwinian]

Then why pray?

[Rayaan]

Then why pray?

Because it's good to pray?

[Violet]

But i'm hungry, and that might just cure my sickness. I really don't want to be sick tomorrow, and i urgently need to get better, and I think that a perfect Subway sandwich is just what i need.

I suppose grilled cheese might do me some good, I'll go ask my mother for some I guess. But it would be too much to ask of her a subway (long drive into town), so I was slightly hoping that God might take pity on the situation.

[Edwardo Piet]

I'll pray to God so that you find a place to live since you guys won't do it. You don't have to thank me, though. Just let me know if my prayers worked or not as soon as you're ready.

There would be no way to tell. It is an unfalsifiable matter.

The question is "Why the fuck would they have worked, whatever happens?"

Then why pray?

Because it's good to pray?

Why is it good to pray? Because God says so? Why is God good? Because the Bible says so? Why is the Bible good? Because the Bible is the word of God? Why is the Bible the word of God? Because the Bible says so and the Bible is inspired by God? Why is it inspired by God? Because God made it that way? Why did God make it that way? Because God can do anything? Why can God do anything? Because it says so in the Bible and the Bible is inspired by God?

[Violet]

Why is it good to pray?

Let me cut you off there, and give you some good answers

1: It can in some forms increase the level of calm, not unlike those 'inner peace' religions. Ie: at a dinner table, the exercise of blessing food and praying for health appears to have a relaxing affect upon many of the people at the table.
2: the experience is likely euphoric, if it is anything at all similar to my really really hoping that Russian will be available
3: coping mechanism, should be self-explanatory.
4: In the event that it actually did work, it has some capacity to do things that those praying might actually believe they are helping to accomplish. Although I don't believe praying works, some people do think it works, and many of those people believe they are doing a good thing. It's a nice feeling, much akin to donating, or helping an old lady across a street, or holding a door open for someone else to walk through?

If you ask 14 questions in rapid succession, without letting the person you are asking them of answer, I should think you are simply being rude.

How about I ask a question, Doubtie (like the new name, btw): The feeling one gets from donating... from helping.... from caring... that's a feeling one can expect when they believe their prayers are doing good... helping. Would you want to deprive people of that feeling?

[Edwardo Piet]

@ Saerules

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Why is it good to pray?

1: It can in some forms increase the level of calm, not unlike those 'inner peace' religions. Ie: at a dinner table, the exercise of blessing food and praying for health appears to have a relaxing affect upon many of the people at the table.
2: the experience is likely euphoric, if it is anything at all similar to my really really hoping that Russian will be available
3: coping mechanism, should be self-explanatory.
4: In the event that it actually did work, it has some capacity to do things that those praying might actually believe they are helping to accomplish. Although I don't believe praying works, some people do think it works, and many of those people believe they are doing a good thing. It's a nice feeling, much akin to donating, or helping an old lady across a street, or holding a door open for someone else to walk through, or punching my pink bunny in the face.

If you ask 14 questions in rapid succession, without letting the person you are asking them of answer, I should think you are simply being rude.

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Why are those things good?

You may think I was being rude but rudeness was not my intention, and would everyone find it rude?