[website] *FACEPALM* - The 'science' of prayer

[gwendes]

Ever wondered how best to deliver your important message to *insert deity*?

 

How does prayer work?

 

 

http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/aboutspiritualresearch/SpiritualPractice/prayer/images/Praying-with-sp-emotion.gif

[LosOjos]

I'm actually lost for words. One of the dumbest things I've ever seen online.

[LeightonJames]

No no no, you're doing it wrong. like this:

 

http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/aboutspiritualresearch/SpiritualPractice/prayer/images/Prayer-position.gif

[CESIL]

Wow...I never realised there was science involved!

 

I shall have to try prayer now and see if it can fix the hole in my roof or the shortfall in my mortgage endowment

[bladedanny]

Wow...I never realised there was science involved!

 

I shall have to try prayer now and see if it can fix the hole in my roof or the shortfall in my mortgage endowment

 

It all depends on the intensity of the prayer vs the intensity of the destined event. Do you feel like the hole in your roof was destiny?

[gwendes]

I'm actually lost for words. One of the dumbest things I've ever seen online.

 

Awesome innit? Bordering on parody!

[gwendes]

It all depends on the intensity of the prayer vs the intensity of the destined event. Do you feel like the hole in your roof was destiny?

 

LOL! Might be better off praying for some cash for something worthy then spending it on the roof. Then, repent. Sorted.

[Andrew_C]

No. You're all wrong. The way to get the hole in the roof fixed is to steal some cash, or slates, then pray for forgiveness. Edited December 9, 2010 by Andrew_C
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[gwendes]

No. You're all wrong. The way to get the hole in the roof fixed is to steal some cash, or slates, then pray for forgiveness.

 

That's not magical enough for me...

 

Don't you want to see if this stuff works? They've got diagrams so it's probably all true!

 

http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/aboutspiritualresearch/SpiritualPractice/prayer/images/Various-types-of-prayer-pos.gif

[LosOjos]

I love that they've put percentages to all this as though it's some actual measurable force they've conducted tests on. If you choose to have faith in a higher being, that's up to you, but don't dare try to tell me it's science.

[gwendes]

I love that they've put percentages to all this as though it's some actual measurable force they've conducted tests on. If you choose to have faith in a higher being, that's up to you, but don't dare try to tell me it's science.

 

Dammit. This is SCIENCE!

[teejay]

but don't dare try to tell me it's science.

 

Couldn't resist, here ya go:

Institute of Noetic Sciences | Consciousness | Science | Spirituality | Wisdom

 

[LosOjos]

sci·ence
   /ˈsaɪəns/ Show Spelled[sahy-uhns]
–noun
1.
a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
2.
systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
3.
any of the branches of natural or physical science.
4.
systematized knowledge in general.
5.
knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.
6.
a particular branch of knowledge.
7.
skill, esp. reflecting a precise application of facts or principles; proficiency.

 

Science | Define Science at Dictionary.com

 

Faith is not based on fact, therefore it cannot be science. And I'll hear no more about it. lol.

[gwendes]

Faith is not based on fact, therefore it cannot be science. And I'll hear no more about it. lol.

 

Someone trying to start a new 'Scientology' thread?

[LosOjos]

Someone trying to start a new 'Scientology' thread?

 

Certainly not me! A religion based on the writings of a Sci-Fi author who was alive in living memory and is on record as having said that the best way to make money in this world is to invent a religion; how on Earth can anybody possibly buy in to that carp?!

[gwendes]

Certainly not me! A religion based on the writings of a Sci-Fi author who was alive in living memory and is on record as having said that the best way to make money in this world is to invent a religion; how on Earth can anybody possibly buy in to that carp?!

 

You joined after Mark and I created the longest thread (well, not sure now but it was at the time) on this site!

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/behind-red-door/18360-scientology.html

 

If you've got a week to kill it's quite a good read - please don't BUMP it by replying to anything though!

[witch]

If there is a God, and the jury is out on that, do we REALLY think that it would give a toss about how or where you were when you spoke to it?

So...all the nuns and monks in closed orders who spend a lot of time praying for world peace and the like, they fail because their hands are not quite in the right position? I wondered why their prayers didn't seem to be answered

[gwendes]

If there is a God, and the jury is out on that, do we REALLY think that it would give a toss about how or where you were when you spoke to it?

So...all the nuns and monks in closed orders who spend a lot of time praying for world peace and the like, they fail because their hands are not quite in the right position? I wondered why their prayers didn't seem to be answered

 

Maybe God does care - I just doubt that this group have stumbled upon the 'correct' way! Want me some ev-id-ence