There are 7.1 billion humans on Earth. Let’s assume that 60% of them do prayers. That is 4,260,000,000 people who pray. Assume that each person says ten prayers per day. That is 42,600,000,000 (42.6 billion) prayers per 24 hours. There are 86,400 seconds in 24 hours. Divide 42.6 billion by 86,400 and we get the answer of 493,055 prayers per second that God must receive. If the average prayer lasts one minute then God must listen to 29,583,333 prayers continuously on a perpetual basis. No time off to eat, sleep, go potty, take a vacation, or have a coffee break. As God is listening to all those concurrent prayers coming in from all over the planet Earth, God must continually monitor all 7.1 billion humans in case any one of them starts saying a prayer.

In my not so humble opinion, this is [expletive] impossible. The only rational answer is that god does not exist. So when you say a prayer you are talking to the wall and wasting your time.

Not just that -- but out of all the billions of star-systems
in all the billions of galaxies, I doubt God just walked in
this one.

So, let's add in just one-trillenth of infinity, to account
for our fellow prayer-givers on those far off sister planets.

And... let's see now, infinity divided by one-trillion is
ah, er... infinity.

That sounds like about the correct number.

UD

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Thank you for praying. God is not available at the moment due to the demands of a half million wives. Angels are standing by to take your call. Please enjoy these Mormon hymns as you wait for the next available angel. Your service is our pleasure.

Wait, finish the math! According to mormon doctrine, one day for God is equal to 1,000 years on Earth. So that means one second for God is equal to 31,536,000,000 Earth-seconds. So multiply *that* by the number of prayers per Earth-second, and that means it's actually 15,548,982,480,000,000 prayers started per second. That means 932,938,948,800,000,000 prayers happening at any given time, from God's perspective, and each one lasts approximately 0.0000000000031709791983 seconds, from God's perspective.

Of course, the believers' response to this is that god is magic and he has the mental capacity to handle it.

Heaven sounds like Hell to me at this point. I get tired of answering my cell phone 100 times a day.

You folks don't understand....but the truth is that the mentality of God is so awesome (omniscience) that He is able, at one time, to comprehend ALL things....including the actual and the possible. The Bible says his knowledge is "unsearchable, without measure". He already knows our prayers, past and future. Nevertheless, His knowledge of future events does NOT coerce our will. Man's volition and God's omniscience co-exist.

Obviously there are some contradictions between the idea of
God as a person and the idea of God as the creator and
sustainer of all things.

As a person, God can be thought of as interacting with human
individuals, as Father, or Savior, or whatever.

As the sole creator of the cosmos, God can be thought of
as plotting the course of every photon in every galaxy that
exists, while moving an infinite number of virtual particles
into and out of existence, simultaneously, for eons upon eons.

The two roles appear to be irreconcilable to the human mind.
Either one of the two must be false, or they both must be so.

Then again, the human mind does not have much experience in
comprehending infinity, eternity, or paradoxes.

For Mormons, take what I just said and multiply that human
ignorance many, many times over.

UD

he listens to the same number of prayers that mickey mouse listens to.

zero

SUPER TBM ANSWER ...

Just imagine how many Texts, and Facebook Page Updates, and how many E-Mail Messages, and Cell Phone Converstations,and EBAY Bids, are formed and transmitted every 24 hours world wide --

These are all handled my MEN and MACHINES !!! So an unlimited all knowing, and all powerful being, handling all the world's prayer requests would be a breeze.

See you did not think it through like a TBM !!!!!

JB

And that is only the prayer category...

Let's not forget that he also knows who has been naughty or nice, sorta like Satan Claus.

He knows how many times we break the 10 rules.

He knows all about our deviant, sexual appetites.

He knows how many grains of sand are in the ocean.


This guy is a fuggin genius...

breedumyung Wrote:
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> And that is only the prayer category...
>
> Let's not forget that he also knows who has been
> naughty or nice, sorta like Satan Claus.
>
> He knows how many times we break the 10 rules.
>
> He knows all about our deviant, sexual appetites.
>
> He knows how many grains of sand are in the
> ocean.
>
>
> This guy is a fuggin genius...


I *know* about those naughty, deviant sexual appetites of yours Breedum, and I must say, I *can* loan you Dasher and Dancer, but *not* Vixen. And only after January 1. I'll leave a little something in your stocking this December as a reindeer...errrr...reminder.

saviorself Wrote:
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>
> In my not so humble opinion, this is impossible.
> The only rational answer is that god does not
> exist. So when you say a prayer you are talking
> to the wall and wasting your time.


Not true. God could be a massive, dense, light-years-across cosmic computer. Maybe all that dark energy is really a complex soup of intelligent algorithms processing unheard of amounts of information. XD

I'm pretty much joking, but my agnostic self says that if there is a "God", its more like a living machine or a permeating force of nature than a person. But I seriously doubt "God" exists.

According to Mr. Diety: 4-5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZDcS-rMf4

Thanks a lot. I followed the link, watched a few of those; next thing I know I've spent hours on YouTube. This is all your fault ;)

What gets more prayers? Holy shi t or god dammit?

I'm a "sonofabitch" prayer myself, and if you capitalize it like this: "SonofaBitch" it fits into the whole god thing.

God must be the most autistic being in the universe if he can focus on all those prayers.

Ofcourse he is!
And narcistic and all!..

He wants our undivided attention all the time! Our absolute worship and obedience.

In short.. he's a jerk. The kind of person I would not spend a day with, let alone eternity...

I think it's easy for God to listen to a few hundred billion prayers a day--he doesn't answer any of them.