You're really having a difficult time with this, huh. Well, we can try one more time. I'll even break it down piece by piece and that should make it easier for you to understand. Here goes.
I was right. You can't read.
You're right, I should be more like you. Kinda like how you claimed I was pretending to be a doctor when in fact I've never once mentioned that in this thread or hell even this website. Take your own advice and learn to read or think or whatever it is you can't do.
I compared the enigmatic phenomenon of the mind helping to heal the body (using cancer as an example) to prayer helping people's minds/bodies simply because they believe it works.
Here was the original post, and I will go ahead and bold what I called you out on:
"There are effects of prayer that are not fully understood. Much like people who beat cancer due to positive outlooks and attitudes,
which science has no explanation for."
(I like how you left the bold part out, by the way.) So what I did was ask you for an example of one of these medical miracles. My guess is you're just assuming these types of people are out there. Here's another way to look at it and perhaps you can see where the breakdown in communication is occurring.
Example:
friendfromlowry: I think praying is a lot like flying pigs -- they're both amazing!
steel valley football: Hey, what are flying pigs? I've never seen one so I don't understand your comparison of the two. Can you clarify?
friendfromlowry: (insert clarification of what flying pigs here)
Here's what our convo looks like instead:
steel valley football: Praying isn't understood, kind of like a really sick cancer patient who overcomes the odds because of their positive attitude.
friendfromlowry: Hey, who are these people you're talking about? As an experienced medical professional, I'm wondering if you know what you're talking about. I agree that a positive attitude is crucial in overcoming any serious disease, but it never works beyond scientific understanding.
steel valley football: (instead of clarification, insert a half-dozen posts on how friendfromlowry can't read and is speculating and using unfounded facts)
So you see where the problem is, right?
Just to sum things up, I don't have a problem with the proposal that people pray because they think it helps. Whatever gets you through the day, who cares. What I'm asking you is who are these people that are beating out disease beyond scientific reasoning? Do you have any examples? How do you know they exist and are in fact beating out while stumping the scientific community?
Somehow, you took that as me saying that prayer heals cancer. Then you foolishly asked why people don't just pray to heal all their cancer/sickness.
"There are
effects of prayer that are not fully understood.
Much like people who
beat cancer due to positive outlooks and attitudes, which science has no explanation for
"
Everything has been underlined and bolded for you. What more can I do to emphasize what YOU are saying??
If you could read, you wouldn't have stated that I suggested praying has any correlation to cancer. That seemed to be your whole argument, no?
This was from a couple days ago but I just wanted to emphasize how my original argument was asking you about the miracle patients you claimed existed.
If you could read, you wouldn't have stated that I suggested praying has any correlation to cancer…… I compared the enigmatic phenomenon of the mind helping to heal the body (using cancer as an example) to prayer helping people's minds/bodies simply because they believe it works.
Blah blah blah and so on and so forth. You're contradict yourself all over the damn thread but it's getting late and this is too easy. Do you have any answers for the questions I asked or should I expect more of "If you could read then you'd see I didn't compare cancer and praying because you're not reading and you fail at reading and don't read as well as I do because you use unfounded facts and don't read blah blah"
Oh and make sure you remind me what the unfounded facts were, by the way. Can't stress that enough.
