Protestantism

» pink101 - Be Serious

In response to Brian's Blog On Amputees posted by HeadZenCards:
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To deny there is any power in prayer is as bad as to claim there is. The two claims tend to cancel each other out.
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When I was a younger man I studied the art of hypnosis. I was intrigued with the ideas of the supernatural and I had a very hungrycuriosity.
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Anyway, the basic theory of hypnosis--the thing on which it works--is that belief plus expectation equals the possibility of a hypnotic state. "I believe it and I expect it to take place." Whammo!! You are a great subject.
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The method of hypnosis begins with the idea of a pretense. The operators starts his "patter" with something like this, "I want you to imagine that the things I'm about to say are actually true." And, the hypnotist goes on from there. "Think of this," he says, "as though it were actually happening.".
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A very peculiar power exists within hypnosis. Persons can actually gain control over what seems like a totally uncontrollable behavior or action of their body. Smokers can breat the habit that has controlled their life for decades and over eaters can break their eating habits. Why is that?
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The facts are that some prayers ARE answered and the question arises, "Why do some prayers get results and others do not?"
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All the jibs and jabs aside, there are serious sides to the prayer question. Rather than taking unprovable jabs at people who believe in prayer, it might be a better idea to learn why some prayers do work?
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Some do, I'm sure you are aware of that.
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-- posted by pink101