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Prayer and healing.

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au1929
 
Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:04 am
Can /does prayer heal? What is your opinion?

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-I-1-2-No-U-
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:17 am
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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au1929
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:24 am
Touched all bases have we? :wink:
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-I-1-2-No-U-
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:30 am
Are you a religious person?

Do you subscribe to a particular religion?
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Acquiunk
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:32 am
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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-I-1-2-No-U-
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:34 am
Are we dealing with psycosomatic influences?
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au1929
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:35 am
-I-1-2-No-U-
No I am not a religious person.
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-I-1-2-No-U-
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:42 am
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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au1929
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:46 am
-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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-I-1-2-No-U-
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 10:51 am
Is prayer a process or a placebo?
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au1929
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 11:00 am
-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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-I-1-2-No-U-
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 11:02 am
If you beleive in something then you are by definition a religious person!
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au1929
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 11:03 am
-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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au1929
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 11:09 am
-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.
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-I-1-2-No-U-
 
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Reply Wed 24 Nov, 2004 11:16 am
Organised religion or religion? Surely they are different?
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Thu 25 Nov, 2004 10:48 am
Prayer...and a good doctor will work wonders with some ailments.
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