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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who think prayer truly works, how do you justify praying for such mundane and (relatively) meaningless things like the OP's desire to meet with someone? When I pray, I pray for the suffering of abused children to end, for victims of disease to heal, JD for the hungry to receive nourishment.[/quote]

Does that make you feel like you're doing something more important than people who do the same thing for selfish reasons?  At least the others think they get a prayer answered once in a while, but you can't tell if your impersonal prayers are being answered.  It's as though your putting them in a bank and hoping you'll get some interest later on.  Or credit for focusing on the world and not just on your personal needs, when in reality,  you're talking to yourself in both cases and not taking any real action to help yourself or others

Personally, I think prayer is wishful thinking and often a carry over from childhood where we were taught to pray to ask for things we couldn't get on our own.  A type of magic.

Sorry to be so blunt, but I find the idea of some prayers being more high-minded than others  a bit silly.[/quote]

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