Someone: our thoughts and prayers are with <wherever> Someone else: lololol!!!! thoughts and prayers won't help, you IDIOT!!!1111!! Me: <takes a deep breath...> A community in prayer is complex interpersonal and interactional phenomenon; while atheistic types interpret prayinghttps://twitter.com/MHLut/status/1223645232761311232 …
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Given an expansive definition of prayer, there are both good & bad implementations. Common failure modes include (but are not limited to) unreason & external locus of control. As long as we avoid those, it can make us more loving, more loved, more empowered, etc.
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Anecdote: I've never been religious, but at some point I started jokingly telling close friends that I was praying for them. The irony wore off, & now I see it as a small but genuinely prosocial gesture of care.
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I agree. Prayer is a powerfully evolved psychotechnology. The question is it still useful if people don't believe in the metaphysical part. I think yes, as a contemplative exercise, to orient your intentions towards well-wishing and for the other to know you are doing it.
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Agreed with this. On the metaphysics question, I’ve often found a bunch of despair in myself around metaphysics type topics, which prayer sometimes brings up... attempting to reckon with it has been fruitful, though very difficult
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Yes. The whole class of midwit dunking on dimwit takes is just boring by now. Yes yes its use is not obvious yet people do it, why? It's really an indictment of those that say it to say '2 billion people do X, must be because they're all dumb'
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Sounds right to me. When I've been present for group prayers after becoming an atheist, they've struck me as clearly being about focusing group attention + establishing common knowledge on how local situation connects with deep shared values.
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