What is the act, the verb, of prayer? When you pray, you are presumebly talking to God. Are you asking for things, help, strength? Is it a conversation with God, i.e. do you feel God responds? Is it a request? Do you ask for something supernatural (i.e. something outside yourself) to affect your life, to give you some thing in the material world, either comfort or something material that you feel you lack? Or is it more a "communing" with God, i.e. "centering" or calming yourself through a connection with the devine? Is it asking God to affect the world, or a way of assuring yourself as to a devine plan, or some other such communication with God?
When one prays, one assumes God is outside themselves...is it then asking God which you percieve to be outside of you to affect the world as you percieve it?
I hope this was respectful enough, as I genuinely am curious. Atheists be kind, this is an honest question; let them respond.
2007-10-30
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