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Honeybee_ ago

My prayers are with you, thank you for sharing! We need to stop this madness.

antiracist ago

God knows and ain't doing shit.

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SarMegahhikkitha ago

That's the whole point of praying.

antiracist ago

wat?

Prayer is to praise God, not to ask for his intervention.

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SarMegahhikkitha ago

There are four types of prayer (davening): praise (tehillah), thanksgiving (todah), petitionary prayer (tefillah), and supplication (selichah). You say yourself that only God is real, so then people must be God without knowing it, so God must want to create an experience for Himself that's not nightmarish, so it makes sense for Him to be able to submit support tickets to Himself and let His servants/messengers handle the support queue, so He's not trapped in the Matrix with no deliverer. Not only that, but if G-d primarily wants praise, then the best way to get that is to goad people into praying and then reward them with something He wanted to give them anyway, but since they asked for it now they appreciate it more (and give thanks for something they would have taken for granted).

JesusOfNazareth ago

people must be God without knowing it

God is all knowing.

so God must want to create an experience for Himself that's not nightmarish

God does not want. Nightmares don't exist.

G-d primarily wants praise, then the best way to get that is to goad people into praying and then reward them with something He wanted to give them anyway

God does not want. God's deservingness of praise does not require god's wanting of praise.

@bojangles @eagleshigh