Prayer and healing.

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Can /does prayer heal? What is your opinion?

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[+1] - -I-1-2-No-U- - 11/24/2004Yes. No, and Maybe. Yes, if you believe it. No, if you don't believe it. Maybe, if medication or treatment wasn't present.
[+1] - au1929 - 11/24/2004Touched all bases have we? :wink:
[+1] - -I-1-2-No-U- - 11/24/2004Are you a religious person? Do you subscribe to a particular religion?
[+1] - Acquiunk - 11/24/2004First of all, it can't hurt (same goes for chicken soup) Secondly there is some evidence that both may help. In any illness attitude is important. Prayer can help foster a positive attitude, in...
[+1] - -I-1-2-No-U- - 11/24/2004Are we dealing with psycosomatic influences?
[+1] - au1929 - 11/24/2004-I-1-2-No-U- No I am not a religious person.
[+1] - -I-1-2-No-U- - 11/24/2004[quote="au1929"]-I-1-2-No-U- No I am not a religious person.[/quote] So you don't believe in any thing?
[+1] - au1929 - 11/24/2004[quote="-I-1-2-No-U-"] Are we dealing with psychosomatic influences?[/quote] Both psychosomatic and actual There is little doubt that psychosomatic illnesses can be and are...
[+1] - -I-1-2-No-U- - 11/24/2004Is prayer a process or a placebo?
[+1] - au1929 - 11/24/2004[quote="-I-1-2-No-U-"][quote="au1929"]-I-1-2-No-U- No I am not a religious person.[/quote] So you don't believe in any thing?[/quote] I believe in many things,...

Yes. No, and Maybe.

Yes, if you believe it.
No, if you don't believe it.
Maybe, if medication or treatment wasn't present.

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Touched all bases have we? :wink:

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Are you a religious person?

Do you subscribe to a particular religion?

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First of all, it can't hurt (same goes for chicken soup) Secondly there is some evidence that both may help. In any illness attitude is important. Prayer can help foster a positive attitude, in that in the face of adversity, you are at least doing something to address that adversity.

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Are we dealing with psycosomatic influences?

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-I-1-2-No-U-
No I am not a religious person.

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au1929 wrote:

-I-1-2-No-U-
No I am not a religious person.

So you don't believe in any thing?

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-I-1-2-No-U- wrote:

Are we dealing with psychosomatic influences?

Both psychosomatic and actual

There is little doubt that psychosomatic illnesses can be and are cured through prayer. However, it is not the prayer that cures them but rather the strong belief. As for an actual illness I do not believe that prayer has any influence upon it's cure.

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Is prayer a process or a placebo?

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-I-1-2-No-U- wrote:

au1929 wrote:
-I-1-2-No-U-
No I am not a religious person.

So you don't believe in any thing?

I believe in many things, however, not in the ridiculous religions with all the pap that all cries follow me because mine is the way to salvation.
I believe in the possibility of a supreme.

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If you beleive in something then you are by definition a religious person!

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-I-1-2-No-U- wrote:

Is prayer a process or a placebo?

Good analogy. Prayer is a placebo and works just about as well.

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-I-1-2-No-U- wrote:

If you beleive in something then you are by definition a religious person!

I disagree I do not, as so many seemed to do, confused a belief in the supreme being and orgasnized religion being analogous.

Prayer and healing.

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