MysterionMuffles Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 Just for shits and giggles...have you guys ever got what you prayed for or gotten a good emotional release from praying to God (when you still believed in Him)?
AustinJames Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 Oh yeah. I was raised Mormon. I had lots of "spiritual" and "demonic" experiences. I got what I wanted, I received "inspiration..." the works. Now that I look back on it, it was kinda fun.
Dylan Lawrence Moore Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 I still do Shinto prayers. They're great! They really make me more relaxed and alert.
EricBaker.Linux Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 I still pray sometimes, and I even use my god's name "yahweh" but I know it's not going anywhere. I just like to implant goals into my subconscious that way. I once prayed in the car just before getting to walmart, to meet a new student from school (I was feeling really lonely), and BAM about 10 minutes later I bumped into her in the electronics section. Isn't that nifty? If only it always worked ha.
andrew21594 Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Yes. I believed in God and in the power of prayer for a long time, so it was likely that at least one of them would be answered. Because I genuinely believed that prayer worked, a one-line prayer in my head would make me confident enough for my worries to go away. Nowadays, if I'm so worried about something that it keeps me up at night, I use prayer because in my experience it has consistently demonstrated its ability to make me less worried. When I believed, it made sense for me to be relieved after praying. I believed while my brain was developing, so I guess my brain is now hard-wired to respond in this way.
MysterionMuffles Posted September 16, 2014 Author Posted September 16, 2014 interesting andrew, what kind of prayer do use without God? Eric, that's interesting since I think what people refer to "God" at least in prayer is really just internal dialogue with the conscience. Has anyone watched What the Bleep Do We Know? I used to believe in that like a replacement to prayer when I was still Agnostic, but man...to some degree nowadays I still feel like there are some desires we do somehow manifest if we believe in it enough. Is it just coincidence when that happens?
bds4206 Posted September 22, 2014 Posted September 22, 2014 Oh yeah. I was raised Mormon. I had lots of "spiritual" and "demonic" experiences. I got what I wanted, I received "inspiration..." the works. Now that I look back on it, it was kinda fun. I was not raised Mormon, but I do have a mormon spouse and have went to church there for quite some time. I don't go anymore. I even was a "priesthood holder". The prayer thing was always the one thing that I couldn't get past. I prayed for many, many things and probably was hitting about .500 on prayers being "answered". What always gave me trouble though was that if I got what I prayed for, it's because god is good. If I didn't, it's because it wasn't meant to be. lol. But either way a prayer is answered. I think that's the company line right?
EveryVoluntaryistIsLemons Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 Never had a prayer "answered," though I hardly ever prayed. Closest thing is when I would have something from a dream happen to me the next day (most specific memory: in my dream, I was walking in my front yard, I tripped, and in front of my face on the ground was a little white flower and a bumblebee flew away from it - the next day, the same exact thing happened). Because of that, I learned about the "law of truly large numbers" which has been an extremely useful tool for dealing with people who claim to have had their prayers answered or experienced a miracle.
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