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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (59325)	10/18/1999 1:02:00 PM
From: Michael M	Respond to of 108807

Seems to me if prayer is all you have to hang on to, it might be a good time to say one. Personally, I kinda stay away from the idea of an interventionist God. On the other hand, if the person doing the praying gains hope, courage, whatever -- sometimes the result is better than giving up. Just ask the Amazin's. Re. your questions -- "no" to the first and "yes" to the second. Mike

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (59325)	10/18/1999 1:04:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If I may comment- I would not want to criticize prayer. It is my personal "belief" (and I put this in quotes because none of my beliefs rise to capital "B" beliefs- I would willingly exchange any of them on proof) that if one only looks at metaphysics through religion one sees only a small spectrum of the possible- but that does not make the religious part of the spectrum less powerful. I happen to think the whole spectrum of "belief"- whether humanistic, religious, scientific- whatever- is all powerful. And prayer is a part of that. Prayer can be a powerful focus of human energy. For whatever reason- (and I personally think there is a quantum mechanical explanation) humans can interact with probability fields and influence things- I believe there was a good experiment documenting this (with radio active decay- if I recall- but I read the article a while ago. So while I would never never wish to see the public sector in any way involved in religion (partly because I respect individual choices so VERY much- because I believe that, for whatever reason, religions do have power- if only because we invest them with such power)- I think a man who chose to lead his company by holding a prayer session every morning might realize some benefits. Of course he might also lose some employees who didn't want to work in that atmosphere- but that would be the companies business.