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Friday, June 3, 2011

Hey Hugo

My blogger isn't allowing me to comment in my own blog window so - sure. You can ask me about prayer but for now I'll have to answer as a post.
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  1. World of FactsJune 3, 2011 at 12:37 PM

    Blogger is indeed acting weird recently; they did have to restore backups a few times apparently...

    Anyway, I had a question and a little experiment to suggest to help me understand how you perceive prayer and what you get from it.

    First, how do you distinguish between your own self, your conscience, and God, when praying. In other words, the information and/or knowledge and/or skills that you can get/improve while praying must come from an external source. How can you identify elements coming from outside?

    To be clearer, if I am not mistaken, you did mention earlier that our conscience is actually a gift from God, and that we need to listen to it, but that is not God talking to us; correct? I am really wondering what makes you believe that some of your thoughts are not your own? Or perhaps I don't understand exactly what you mean when you say that you get knowledge/insights through prayer? Is there really an interaction with an external source or do you consider that it's already all "in there" and that prayer only makes you access it "within" yourself?

    Ok, now the 2nd question, or the little experiment I should say. It might sound silly but I really mean it, it's not to laugh at you or anything like that...

    First, there are quick questions... when you pray, do you directly ask questions to God? If yes, do you get answers in the form of thoughts that are distinguishable from ideas that your own brain could generate? If yes, could you try the following: (I repeat, it's not a joke) can you try to ask God to "not talk to you about apples". Let me know if you do end up talking about apples or not.

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