Maybe praying did once work...

[Sarcasm]

Imagine if Praying really did work except that one asshole decided to pray to God and ask him to not answer anymore prayers. Would be pretty funny imo. xD

[Anomalocaris]

It's like the opposite of wishing for more wishes.

[Welsh cake]

Har, funny! You'd effectively screw over any genie or wish-granting deities' power with said request. ^^

That wish would've killed off the Dragon Ball anime franchise before its time.

[Autumnlicious]

Maybe someone prayed to have prayer not work.

[reverendjeremiah]

Maybe someone prayed that miracles and answers to prayer look a lot like coincidence and natural, yet rare occurances.

[Sarcasm]

Lol I like how you think reverendjeremiah

[reverendjeremiah]

In absurdist circles we call it roughly "the problem of human intent", or generally "the human condition". Absurdists in Discorian social circles call it "Eristic verses aneristic". Eristic is seeing chaos/randomness, and aneristic is seeing order. If you intend to see order, you will find it, if you intend to find randomness, again you will find it. Another way to say it is "intent sensitive". This is explained best, in my opinion, in the discordian law of fives:

All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5
The Law of Fives is never wrong.

Lord Omar is quoted later on the same page as having written, "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."

In other words. If you think like a hammer, then everything suddenly starts to resemble nails to you.

This doesnt mean that intent is bad per se, but that intent can and has deluded humanity very often.

Never lose your sense of humor. It gives you and edge over others who dont have one. The moment you think you have it all figured out, is the moment you close your mind and become a zombie, mindlessly following the pattern you have placed upon yourself.

[Zenith]

Imagine if Praying really did work except that one asshole decided to pray to God and ask him to not answer anymore prayers. Would be pretty funny imo. xD

It happens very rarely that I visit the Religion sub-forum. I've just passed here and seen this topic, thought about answering. I've read only this post (in case of any questions).

The statement "prayers work" is wrong. That's because they are not magical rituals or incantations that make supernatural things happen. A prayer means to talk to (I mean, you say, not you both talk) a person you believe he/she exists and that it is supernatural (can do supernatural things, is divine, whatever). In short words, to say something to a god/goddess, which many times means asking something from that deity.

If God (or the god, or the gods, but I'll use God here, as it is usually about God) exists, then I guess it is correct to be said that God hears one's prayers (knows what he's said), listens one's prayers (cares about what he said, not just ignores him), while God's decisions are still His own - though many times "listens his prayer" means that God decides to give help in that matter. If God exists, a prayer cannot make God be the subject of man (or, in other words, cannot make God be the servant of man). There can be no "prayers work" or "prayers don't work" thing.

[Dotard]

What really sucks is when said deity who decides to grant prayer requests is a bit hard of hearing.
That is how I ended up with this 12 inch Bic.

When making your prayer request, remember to speak up loudly and clearly.

[fr0d0]

You're already a Dic Dotard... you get the closest match in that case