If people have some unknown psychic powers, prayers might do some good even without a God (unlikely, I imagine, but who knows?).
Or maybe praying and believing someone is listening just does you good psychologically. On 4 June 2015 at 09:38, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Ah, the plenitude, how about this? > > http://phys.org/news/2015-06-strange-behavior-quantum-particles-parallel.html > > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> > To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wed, Jun 3, 2015 05:13 PM > Subject: Re: Samiya proved right > > > This discussion-post approaches some better reality-case than most of > the others. Reminds me of the Worldview of my wife: we are "here" by > decree of some "ZOOKEEPER" as long as 'they' want something we provide (for > them). > We do not know them, don't communicate with them. When our 'usefulness' is > over, we perish. > > My - more human-logic based natural scientific agnosticism (call it > common sense) - places the "ORIGIN" (incl.: the propagational steps) into > the infinite complexity of this Universe (that may be much larger than > whatever we call 'our' Cosmos) and an infinite composite - I call it > 'Plenitude' - that does not tolerate complexities yet all ingredients > fluctuate in ceaseless conflation. Complexity comes into play, when > 'relatable' ingredients mass up in the fluctuation and screw up the > equilibrium of the Plenitude. I call such violations 'Universes" - they > dissipate as they form (no time factor - maybe) with diverse complexity in > such groups. > > It is not a 'created' world, not a deterministically forced order, not > teleological or predetermined: it succumbs to the unlimited variations of > the participants as they enter the image. Under such (self-controlled - > iff??) conditions *our* Universe is of a lower complexity (SPACE - TIME > SYSTEM?) and OTHERS MAY BE MORE SOPHISTICATED (the Zookeepers?). > > Accordingly 'prayer' is senseless, much more so 'praying' to a > supernatural being with infinite wisdom and power (that would pretend to > PRESCRIBE to such Being what to do BEST - as WE think of it). To 'praise' > such Being? it may be ridiculous, if not supposing the 'narcisstic brutal > nature' someone mentioned lately on this list. My example: 2 mothers 'pray' > identically for the safe homecoming of their sons from the same war. Both > are 'good' etc. One son comes home safe, the other in a body bag. Add a > third one to my example and that 3rd one comes home mentally(bodily?) > destroyed. Some bad guys come home safely. > > As a child, I was raised religiously, served even as a Catholic > altar-boy and studied several religions and Scripts. My wife was educated > by nuns. > > Just to tell my side > > John M > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:37 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hey, I grew up watching the Organians do their thing. You leave human > reaction to wide open. You want to pray to a baddie, or kick the shins of a > goodie? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> > To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tue, Jun 2, 2015 10:58 pm > Subject: Re: Samiya proved right > > On 3 June 2015 at 14:56, spudboy100 via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > So if contact is made to the godlikes, assuming that he, she, it, they, > should they be worshipped? No? What if these imaginary guys did something > really nice for us? > > I think we should react to them as seems appropriate under the > circumstances (like most things, really). > > PS See early "Star Trek" for more details on how to react to godlike > beings. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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