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 %ISOLATED VULNERABLE PEOPLES QUESTIONS DICHOTOMIES 041023
%UNARTICULATED TACIT ASSUMPTIONS BELIEFS CONVICTION 041023
  %COLLUSION GAMES MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION DISHONESTY 041023
   %OUTSIDE AUTHORITIES UNILATERALLY ANSWER PRAYERS 041023
%MEDIDATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS NATURAL CAUSES EFFECTS 041023
  %CONTRIVED EXCLUSION INCLUSION SUPERIOR RELIGIONS 041023

     It is difficult to deal with any one of the following
questions  in  isolation from  other  questions;   perhaps
within the list below, perhaps not in the list below.

     It  is  difficult to deal with any of  the  following
questions   without   beginning   with   at   least   some
unarticulated: assumptions, beliefs, convictions, etc.

     It  is   difficult   to  transcend the unarticulated:
assumptions, beliefs, convictions, etc.  --with  which  we
almost   unavoidably  approach  many  of   the   following
questions.

     Outside authorities cannot helpfully and unilaterally
answer FOR US any of the following kinds of questions,  or
unilaterally   tell  us  how  we  should  respond  to  the
following questions:

 1.  Is prayer effective?
 2.  How does God respond to our prayers?
 3.  What kinds of prayers are most powerful?
 4.  What kinds of prayers are most helpful?
 5.  What are the benefits of praying?
 6   Does it make sense to pray, if there are no benefits.
 7.  Can we pray without being conformists?   How so?
 8.  Must we conform to be able to pray?  Conform how?
 9.  Must we be theists to be able to pray?
10.  How can non-theists pray?
11.  What fundamentally different kinds of prayer exist?
12.  Can  we  be taught to pray,  if we do not  know  how?
13.  How do non: Jews, Christians and Muslims pray?
14.  How can we know if our prayers have "worked".
15.  Can praying "work" even if we do not see effects?
16.  What is the point of "praying"?
17.  How can God listen to all prayers at one time?
18.  What must God be like for praying to make sense?
19.  Can God answer mutually inconsistent prayers?
20.  How  long  does it take for a prayer to get  to  God?
21.  How long does it take for a answer to get back to us?
22.  Does our God answer prayers from other planets?
23.  Does our God answer prayers from other galaxies?
24.  Do prayers travel across space instantly?
25.  Do  prayers  interact with  physical  objects/beings?
26.  Do  prayers travel via waves,  particles  or  e-mail?
27.  Can non-verbalized prayers be answered?
28.  What is the point of ritualized prayers?
29.  Can we avoid  all  kinds  of  prayers?
30.  Can we avoid  being affected by all kinds of prayers?

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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