How much does god want prayer?

What if tomorrow for no particular reason the world starts to straiten itself out? Big businesses stop polluting and start massive campaign to clean the earth, car manufacturers change all their cars to electric until they can find a cleaner fuel, politicians fess-up to all there various crimes, and people in general just start to be nicer and act better. Wars stop. Millionaires feed the hungry. Earth simply becomes an idyllic place. But on the same day all organized religion falls and all people stop believing or caring about any spiritual deity. There’s no praying, no singing of hymns, no church services, or anything else that has to do with anything religious.

Now before I you start typing please keep in mind I’m not trying to say that these things are cause and effect, and if that’s the way you feel that’s okay, but it’s not what this post is about. Also keep in mind it’s a hypothetical situation, and as I’m sure you have your own opinions about what the world would really be like if all religions fell, again this post isn’t about that.

Okay. Here’s the question: If the world became a wonderful place with no crime, pollution, or hunger but everyone began to forget about god and all religious things, would god be mad? Would god be mad enough to take it all away and go all biblical on us (plagues, famine, hoards of locusts,…)? The true question would then be, how much does god want prayer and worship? Is god being praised more important than the overall health of Earth and humanity?

Thats a good question really makes you think. I think God would see the way we would be living in this world as a type of praise to him so he wouldn't smite our asses.

[ilbastardoh]

Here's something stupid to think about. At one point in time called the "big bang" everything was in the same "space", what if what we call time is a different configuration of a whole. What if there is no separation between you or me, I mean this is logical if we assume the total amount of energy in this universe is fixed. This universe is still only a point, but the way the energy is arranged changes our perspective of it.

Think of a spiral that is stretched verticaly, and you view it from the top where the widest part is. Our perspective of this universe is at the top of the spiral, at this point the spiral is so large that it looks flat, similar to this Earth. This part is the only one we can comprehend, but it's not the whole. It goes both ways.

Basicaly this breaks down to, you are in this world and this is all you can comprehend. When you expand your definition of the world, you expand with it, and you can comprehend more. The same goes for your concept of what you are. What if the only thing to do in this life is to experience the concept of yourself? This would explain why a lot of psychological theories seem to work. A lot of times, the concepts that are intended to be constructed by each one of us individually, are forced down our throats by society, often times narrowing our perception of reality. The trick is not to do things for reward but to do things because you'd like to experience yourself being a certain way.

[Hexadecimal]

Wrong thread you're replying in? Because you made no fucking sense AT ALL in the context of this thread.

Wow that's some deep shit ilbastardoh, how does it relate?

To answer your question chaos_guy, god loves prayer like a fat kid loves cake.

[ilbastardoh]

quote:Originally posted by Hexadecimal:

Wrong thread you're replying in? Because you made no fucking sense AT ALL in the context of this thread.

In that case I don't think the creator cares one way or the other, in what we state to be so. It doesn't matter to the creator wether you pray or not. Prayer is a tool, unfortunately we don't understand how it works. It's similar to a sword, we know what it is and what it's supposed to do, but using it is another story.