| Sqrl said: The expectation that prayer must be fulfilled that makes your initial statement incorrect. On the issue of discovering that someone else has beaten you to a discovery you fail to note the difference and the flaw in your logic. In your example someone else has found and shared the discovery, as far as I know god has not shared all of his discoveries with us. As I said it is that act of sharing the discovery that gives it meaning, not simply discovering it and being unable or unwilling to share it. |
No, my initial statements are still correct. People are asking God for something in prayer, and they wouldnt be doing so if they didnt want it and think it could be provided.
Your ideas on dicoveries is misguided, and simple life experience make this blatantly apparent. No one wants to rediscover things or invent things that are meaningless. No one is trying to discover electricity, this has already been done. No one is trying to invent the radio, this has already been done. So what are people trying to invent and discover? New things that are improvements that have meaning. People working on discoveries with electricity are trying find new ways to use it, people working with radios innovations are trying to improve them in some way.
