The closest I ever came to prayer was one night in 1970 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. I was a 21 Y/O Air Force Ssgt working alone directing fire from an AC-130. I decided to try to find out if there really was a deity and offered my soul to a devil it one existed and proved that existence to me. I had 'Agnostic' on my dog tags at that time and tried to change it to Atheist after that night but wasn't allowed to.
I'm a sort of modern day shaman, but believe that 42 is as good as it gets and, assuming there is a God, he understandably prefers to humbly remain anonymous. Life ultimately making no humanly comprehensible sense whatsoever, ensures we have free will and consciousness, because we must ultimately take them on faith. Harmony neither acts nor reasons, but inevitably wins in the end. For me, the issue is not whether to pray or not pray, whether there is a God or no God, but how to pay it forward and become content and productive. They say there are no agnostics in fox holes, and I say whatever gets you through the night, its alright, but life requires the resilience of personal integrity that can only come from reaching out from within, embracing silence as golden, and learning to be still.
Yes I Do......In My Thoughts.....To What I Would Describe As A "Higher Power".......Describe This "Higher Power" I Hear You Ask......None Of Your Bloody Business Is My Reply..... Cheers Glen.
I pray to the God of the Bible, Jehovah, his principles guide me in my life. He is the one who created all the wonderful things on the earth
I used to, when I was younger. Then I figured God already knows what's in your heart. But I feel strangely abandoned.
One of my coworkers needed something like 2 or 3 prayers before god was going to step in to get him through a bad time. I was going to pray at lunch, but I'd heard that his quota was already met. That was the closest I've come since childhood.