The last time I prayed was a day before Mick Jagger went into surgery. About a month ago.

My prayer was fully answered.

When was the last time you prayed?

Was it fully answered?

My current repeated prayer is that we have a baby girl in September.

Do you pray repeatedly?

Thank you for sharing.

And did you use the true order of prayer ?

Dave the Atheist Wrote:
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> And did you use the true order of prayer ?


Why would ex-Mormons use that?

This morning.

Not this decade.

Throughout my life, my prayers were “answered” with the same frequency that could be expected from random chance.

or longer.

Last night. I prayed that my wife wouldn't ask me to lead our nightly prayer before supper. My prayer was answered.

Aside from that, which has become a daily ritual since marrying my wife, it's been decades since I've done anything approaching a heartfelt prayer.

A sincere prayer? Around 1998 when my family experienced a death. Insincerely? In the last week to say grace over the food.

Mormons insist there are only a handful of verbatim prayers. They can include this because I've been saying for decades without any real change.

Asking for a favor from a deity to change something from his perfectly ordered universe... never... I do meditate in the mornings though just to settle my mind before the day starts...

Is "Holy fuckin' mother of ghawd!" a prayer?

On the issue of prayer and flipping a coin being similar in outcome, "Please, ghawd, make it stop!" doesn't seem to have any additional efficacy.

Prayer v. Luck?

I think it's all random, and you can plot it all on the Bell Shaped Curve.

When I'm having a really bad day I pray, "Take me now Sweet Jesus."

Nothing ever happens. Just like when I used to do the Moroni's challenge. Bupkis. Like talking to a wall. Well, with the wall you can get a slight echo if you aim at the corner.

Also, I think there would be less car accidents if people would stop asking Jesus to take the wheel.

So I just go back to doing what needs to be done.

Been quite a while. Haven't seen the point of it for decades.

When was the last time you didn't pray ?

I didn't pray to know that the BoM is not true (I mistakenly prayed to know if it was true):

"And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true;"

Not since I was a child. I never saw the point of asking for special favors.

The last attempts at prayer a few years ago were for human suffering and world problems (nothing for myself). As usual, nothing changed (in fact, got worse).


Then I prayed for all the people in the negative control groups for all those studies about the impact of prayer on illness. This was sort of a joke, but intended to show that they have no grounds to show which people didn't receive prayers. I prayed for 'em all! (Surprise, no impact either way.)


This was quite a while back. I stopped talking to myself and an invisible friend who never talks back in any meaningful way.

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> ... I prayed... [and] My prayer was fully answered.
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> When was the last time you prayed? Was it fully answered?

I prayed you wouldn't ask.
It wasn't answered properly.

> Do you pray repeatedly?
No. I do nothing repeatedly...

Except breathe

[Because I have to]

Since I am alive

+1 Yup

Well over 30 years ago during my last days of church.

I prayed I could be fully conscious sooner than later. Sleep walking without full consciousness is not pleasant for me.

and I don't pray. Sometimes in desperation I may pray. When I worked for Autoliv in Utah for 2 days--the first day was so horrible that on the drive home, I wanted to drive off the side of the road in Sardine Canyon. I came home and wrote to my therapist. I was at a very bad place after losing my job, but I reached out to my therapist. And I talked to my parents. I may have thrown something out into the universe asking for help.

Oddly enough, I will say that there are many times I've felt my parents helped me, so I keep talking to them.

I've said before that not long after my father died, I drove by the baptist church that is about 1-1/2 blocks from my house. It had some saying on its "board" about God and praying. It occurred to me that I know my dad and mom. I don't know God if there is one.



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I talk to myself all the time. I just no longer pretend there is an invisible man in the room with me. I guess you could just say it was a small change in the way I pray.

HH =)

Real Prayer? I can't remember how long ago that was. And it's likely it wasn't "answered".

Fake Prayer? Like when I visit my parents and they think they are helping me feel the spirit by pressuring me into giving a family or pre-meail prayer? I think that was about a year ago, and again, no answer.

Prayer is one of weirdest things about religion that once I started thinking about, made no sense at all.

First, we assume that God is perfect and has perfect knowledge. We also assume he's got the very best possible plan for us (see first assumption). We, as flawed imperfect beings presume to impose our will, changing God's perfect plan for us by begging him to go against said plan.

If we aren't asking him to change that plan, then we're supposed to be thanking him for everything that goes on in our lives, good and bad. This makes him, at best vain, for wanting constant thanks for doing good, or worse an abuser who threatens more violence if they aren't appreciated enough.

Prayer just doesn't make sense with a truly perfect and benevolent god.

When my Catholic sister asked if we could gather round and say the incredibly repetitive rosary prayer for a terminally sick relative. I told her that I was good for the first bead but if the message did not get through with that try, the odds dropped dramatically. I prayed that she would not ask me again and that prayer was answered.

1980.
On my mission. I desperately prayed to get some indication that the church was "true."
No answer of any kind.
In fact, there's no evidence of any kind any prayer I prayed was ever answered in any way.

Which is one reason I stopped doing it 39 years ago.

No prayer is needed to know this truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyLY8YDWzrQ

Yay!!! I prayed for your return and look!!!!!

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> Yay!!! I prayed for your return and look!!!!!


Yay !!!!! Prayers are answered... Yay for Hie..

Me too! Praise Jay-sus!

The last time I said a prayer was during Easter services. When I attend I usually only recite the lord's prayer. Sometimes I mess that up because of the different bible translations.

My ex asked a similar question as OP when I resigned. She asked me when was the last time I truly prayed and felt the spirit. I asked her which god she wanted me to pray to and which spirit to listen to. I had recently read an article concerning the holy spirits of various non-Abrahamic religions and remembered some of their names, which I started to recite to her. It did not go over very well.