April 6, 2025

Prayer: Miracle or Myth? The Science of Belief

Prayer: Miracle or Myth? The Science of Belief
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In this episode, Justin & Erik explore the mysterious force behind prayer and its eerie intersections with the paranormal. From miraculous healings to unexplainable protections and ghostly encounters tied to spiritual rituals, we dig into real stories where prayer seems to reach beyond the veil. Is it divine intervention, human intention, or something else entirely? Tune in as they unravel chilling accounts and discuss the unseen energy that may be listening when we speak into the silence.

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Welcome, Welcome, Well do Para Truth Truth, What's up everybody,

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and welcome to a brand new episode of Paratruth Reborn.

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This is a pre recorded show on one seven point

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seven f M and the United Public Radio Network. As always,

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my name is Eric and I'm justin and today we

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are talking about the history of prayer and its role

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in spirituality. You know, prayer is something that a lot

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of people do, and it's not even always a spiritual

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people who do it, which is a little odd to me,

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I think. But hey, and so what we're gonna do

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today is kind of cover really most of the basis

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of how prayer formed, or how people think prayer formed anyway,

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and kind of go through its history is to how

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it's used today. I think prayer, especially in these days

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twenty twenty five, has been increasing a lot for a

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lot of people, and I think that there's a lot

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of people who have been growing spiritually in various ways

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as well. I've talked to various reiki healers, Christians, a

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number of different people from various faiths who are saying

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more and more people are starting to show up and

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seek healing and protections, and so prayer is really something

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that people have always used to try to connect with

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the spiritual and in particular with God. Now, animism and

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magical thinking are some theories in which propose that prayer

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in its earliest forms stemmed from animism, which is the

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belief that spirits inhabit natural objects and phenomena. This could

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be anything from like trees to you know, the little

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items on your desk, for example. And I think there's

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a lot of things that stem from that. Scripturally speaking,

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it says that the Lord's spirit is in everything he created,

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all things there. You can see the Lord in all

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of his creation. And I think there's to some sensors

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like the idea of a spirit within all of these things,

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especially living things like trees, flowers, obviously breathing creatures like

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animals and people and so on and so forth. But

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the water is another one. It says that it obeys

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the Lord, so we can think that it too has

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some sort of life source of some sort. Now, magical

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thinking is where rituals and incantations were used to influence

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this supernatural and so this is more like virtualistically creating

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something in order to promote a certain thing to happen.

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You know, I think you know, you think of prayer,

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you think of just praying to God and asking for something. Well,

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there are other various faiths or belief systems which they

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may light a candle and let it burn out while

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meditating on whatever it is they want to happen. And

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we see that a lot work and practices. Same thing

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with like cord cutting. People will use a string and

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identify it with something that they want to break themselves

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from and they'll cut that string. So there's you know

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a couple of different ways that people kind of use

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meditation in prayer in specific ways to help them specifically.

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One of the biggest things, I mean, you stated this

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about prayer, but a lot of other faiths outside of

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what most people think of Christianity for praying is the

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intention of you've already received it, but you've already You've

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said this multiple times that when you're praying as a Christian,

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you should pray that you've you're you're already it's already

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coming to you, or you're you're already receiving it.

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Yeah, I mean that's something that's been stated a couple

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of times throughout scripture. But yes, the idea is when

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you pray for something, believe that you've already received it

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and it'll be given to you. Now that we have

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to be careful with because it doesn't necessarily mean that

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if you pray for all the money in the world,

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you pray for this car, you pray to have this

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person be your wife or a husband or whatever, doesn't

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mean that's going to happen. So you know, you can't

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take that out of context, and I think a lot

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of people tend to, unfortunately, But the idea behind it is,

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whatever you pray for, make sure you have faith in it,

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or faith in what you're asking. Like if you just

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ask and your doubting that you'll never get it, why

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do you deserve it? You should really want whatever it

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is you're asking for, and maybe if it's in the

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Lord's will, he will bless it to you. Now. Of course,

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I'm speaking from a Christian perspective, but there are other

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belief systems as well that have done something very similar,

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And I just talked about the wicked practices who these

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are individuals who believe or claim that they have performed

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various magical rituals to manifest things in their lives quote

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unquote types of prayers and they do various things to

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do that, Like I said, one is letting candles and

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focusing on an intention. Another is writing the intention down

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in the sheet of paper and burning it and letting

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it off into the air. Another is writing down your

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intention whatever it is you want to manifest, and repeating

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it over and over and over a certain number of times.

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And we're talking about like hundreds in many cases, or

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for a certain specific amount of time fifteen to twenty

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minutes or more. So there's just a various, very different

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way though, in which we uh kind of accumulate our

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prayer the way that it's designed, you know, like for

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for hey Christian for example, or anyone who's like somewhat

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related to the Christian faith, you know, who actually prays

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to God. Uh. You know, we are praying and then

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relying on God to respond to us with whatever it

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is that we're asking for. Whereas when you were doing

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a ritual, you're just putting it out into the universe

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and you're just hoping for anything to reach back and

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bless you. You know, many times I'll think it's the universe.

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Other times you're reaching out to various gods. You know.

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That's one thing in various uh which practices where depending

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on you know, what your practice is, you might be

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talking to various deities or associating yourself with various deities

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over the course of a year. So it's constantly changing.

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It depends on what you want, what you're looking for.

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But yeah, you know there's still like an interconnection though,

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you know, because it's all kind of begun or began

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in one place and then just kind of split off

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in various directions. Mm hmm. Well, and.

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I think that's a lot of face will will. I

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shouldn't say a lot the the three Abrahamic face really

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base their religion around prayer, or it's at least part

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of their practice, where as like uh any polytheistic religion,

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it's more of a ritual than what we think of

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as prayer in the Christian faith, like you were just

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describing with lighting a candle and stuff like that, I

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want to say, with like Hinduism and Buddhism, there isn't

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really prayer per se. I mean, they do a lot

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of meditation, which can be prayer, but they don't they

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don't describe it as prayer, I don't think.

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Yeah, and some will some will argue that prayer, even

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prayer to God is in in itself a meditation in

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many ways. You know, you're meditating on your words to God,

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You're meditating on your your communication with Him, and so

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for for many people, that draws comfort to you. And

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as opposed to you know, you're you're you're using prayer

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as a form of communication to connect closer to God,

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to the spiritual and so you know, we tend to

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use that, uh to try to form some such some

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sort of bond. You know, we we reason by through prayer.

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We we often make decisions based on prayer. There are

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people who are atheists who do the same thing. They

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just do it to themselves. You know, they'll be talking

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in their mind and then answering their own questionquestions and

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kind of working things out, almost like it's a therapy session.

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I do it. I'm guilty of that, but it kind

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of helps to build an understanding within your own mind,

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especially if you're going through things that are kind of difficult.

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You know, and of course, obviously I believe that you know,

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when you're talking to God, you're not just throwing something

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into the universe or throwing something to or gently handing

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something to the Creator. Of the universe. And so this

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is someone who's fully capable of answering prayers, no matter

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how crazy they might sound or how miraculous they might

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have to be in order for them to be answered.

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But yeah, you know, prayer is definitely something that is well,

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it's ancient to begin with that. Let's time there, there's

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no real identity as to win prayer like officially started.

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But one thing that I did found was in gener

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This is four twenty six. I believe it actually talks

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about prayer, and it's the first time that prayer is

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actually even mentioned within the Bible, and I thought that

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was kind of cool. Let me just pulled up here,

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so it's Genesis, not lost it in any moment, all right,

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So Genesis four twenty five and twenty six, but we'll

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just do twenty six. So God appointed for me another

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offspring instead of able for Cain killed him. And this

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is Adam's wife, So this is Eve we're talking about.

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So Eve bore Seth and to Seth. Also, his son

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was born at some point later in life, and he

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called his name Enosh. At that time, people began to

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call upon the name of the Lord. So all of

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those times that time before, you know, from the Garden

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of Eden all way up to when Cain killed Abel

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and years past that. We're talking anywhere from thirty to

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one hundred plus years before Seth had his son, prayer

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didn't exist. It wasn't until this very moment that people

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started to pray. And this was after Genesis three. Genesis

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three is you know, you think about the the fall

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of man, who we think about the first murder, we

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think about the hardships about life, you know, and so

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prayer begins and it continues to wrap up or more

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as we get into Genesis six, and of course he

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had the flood and all the horrible things that start

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to happen because of the angelic slash human hybrids known

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as the Nephilm that are walking around and causing all

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kinds of trouble. So prayer just starts to maximize. And

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we see King David as one of the highest people.

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I don't mean highest as in, like you know, most

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popular and most important, but just one of those people

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who has used prayer the most. And we see that

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a lot in the Psalms. A lot of the songs

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are written by David or said by David, and those

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are all prayers, and there are a lot of psalms

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to read through. So you know, you think back by

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to then how quickly prayer ramped up, and how important

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it was in the early faith of the Christian of

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the early Christian faith or the Jewish faith in this case,

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because Old Testament, and how much that translates to what

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we still do today. I mean, Jesus said prayer is

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extremely important, and he even shows us multiple times how

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to pray. Uh, And I think that's really important. I

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think there's a reason for that. M m.

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Yeah. And you know, getting the information for this episode

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was rather fascinating to me because I didn't know that

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prayer went as far back as it does. You know,

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ancient humans would try to pray to appease nature. You know,

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they were surrounded by the power and unpredictable, unpredictability of nature.

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So they were praying to whatever was out their spirits, gods,

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whatever the case may be, so that they were not

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having inclement weather, they weren't having droughts. I believe you

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do see that in the Bible too, right.

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I mean you tend to see it from people who

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are not God fearing people. So these are usually people

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that God, God is against in most cases. You know,

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you have to consider the power of like a thunderstorm,

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the power of, you know, an earthquake. People would think

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that some if there's an earthquake, that there is a

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God who is against them. Think of the power of

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an eclipse like that was really strong for people, when

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the sun goes black, like it scared people. So they

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would be praying to nature, to whatever they can and

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hopes that whatever God would relent from whatever disaster He's

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about to bring on them. Now, these people didn't realize

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in some cases anyway, that these storms weren't necessarily just

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a natural part of the fallen nature of the world,

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or even just a natural part of the world in general.

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You know, the earth has a spinds out axis and

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it whipped up all these winds, and there's all these

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geological formations that can change the weather. Oceans, for example,

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large bodies of water. We see that a lot on

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the Sea of Gala Lee. There's a lot of storms

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that happen throughout the scripture, and so yeah, you know,

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people become very scared. And one in particular that I

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think of as Job or the Book of Job. So

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Job was asked to go preach, basically, to to tell

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a certain city to repent, and he didn't want to

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do that. So he gets into a boat with a

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couple of other guys who were not who didn't know God,

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and they get out on this boat and all of

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a sudden, the storm kicks up and the waters, you know,

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kick in and push the boat around, and they're scared

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for their lives. Job he's at the bottom of the

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boat just sleeping. He don't he doesn't care, and so

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they wake him up, like they pray to all their gods,

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and nothing happened. The waves continue to crash and continue

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to threaten to break up the boat. So they turned

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to Job and say who is your God? Like are

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you running from him? And he says by yeah, you know,

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basically God is the Lord of Israel. And they get

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fearful and they're like, well, pray to him that, you know,

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we can, we can be free, and he does them, well,

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just throw me over the ship, just throw me off

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into the water and it'll be it'll be, it'll be free,

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and so they do that and then all of a sudden,

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the waves stop and these three men who didn't know

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the Lord suddenly do and they fall down on their

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knees and start worshiping him. So God uses these things

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sometimes in order to bring people to him, but he

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also uses them to create turbulence on those who disobey him.

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we see that a lot throughout Scripture as well. And

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only really talk primarily on the Holy Bible, so you know, obviously,

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if there's anyone out there who knows anything else about

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various prayers from other faiths, i'd love you guys have

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chime in, send us emails or messages or whatever. That'd

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be fantastic, or if you're in the chat here as well,

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please do that. Yeah.

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Something that I'm not sure that anthropologists are correct on,

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but basically they believe there argue that prayer in a

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broad sense kind of represents human civilization, and when we

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started praying is when civilization started really coming about, because

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that showed a sense of intelligence that you're thinking of

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something else causing things instead of being just afraid of

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everything around, as they believe the cavemen, where they were

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just reacting on instinct instead of just or instead of

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trying to make sense of things. So that was fascinating

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don't know what quote unquote cavemen were like truly. We

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know how they might have lived or you know, how

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they might have cooked, or what type of tools they use,

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but we don't know what the mind you're like, We

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don't know that they were just kind of you know,

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like the movies always make them look like they're just

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these idiots that walk around slapping sticks on stones and

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trying to figure out life. But for all we know,

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they were extremely intelligent, more so than even us, you know.

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like Adam and Eve being the first human beings, they

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were not dumb in the very beginning. They knew language,

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they knew how like what things were. Adam named all

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of the animals that exist, at least at the time.

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is ridiculous. Instead, I think that humanity just simply has

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a God shaped hole and all of it. And so

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we naturally want to turn to somebody or something that

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can help us in areas where we simply cannot help ourselves.

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You know, life is scary, so and if we can't

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handle it ourselves, we believe that there has to be

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someone who can, because it can't just be you know,

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trouble all the time and just random chance, or at

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least it shouldn't be random chance. You know, I think

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I always ask this question. I always have this question.

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I should say I don't always ask it, but I

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have this question in my mind. Like the people who

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don't believe in God. Now, mind you, a lot of

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the rules that we have, a lot of the laws

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we have actually are based on Christian doctrine. And so

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if we didn't believe in the God, if God didn't exist,

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we would potentially have no law for humanity. And therefore,

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what good even matter? Like people say, oh, it's to

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be you have to be a good person, you have

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to do this. It's like, why if there's no consequence,

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why do you have to be good? If there's no God,

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why do we have to be good? Why do we

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have to do anything? We can just literally do the

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worst things to humanity ever and be completely cool with it.

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At least that's the way it should be. But no,

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there are consequences, and the consequences extend way beyond just

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human rationale and human consequences. It's not just going to prison.

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It's not just possibly a death sentence depending on what

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you did. It's a possible eternity in hell and fast

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scripture says, don't be afraid of the person who can

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kill you, but be afraid of the one who can

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kill you, and after he has killed you, has the

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power to throw you into hell. Like that's a scary

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thing to consider, because life is isn't really what is

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it mortal? It isn't truly mortal. Our human bodies are mortal,

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but the soul within is eternal or immortal. So that

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is definitely something that I think is important to recognize

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when it comes to not just prayer, but just the

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law that we have and why they're established in the

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first place. Mm hmm.

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Now we'll go over some of these religions that that

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I came across that used prayer. I mentioned that the

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ancient polytheistic religions like the ancient Greeks ancient Romans, but

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Best thing I can think of is a crutch, but

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it's not exactly correct for ceremonial prayer. It was very

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highly formulaic and ritualized in in the these traditions, ancient

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ancestor worship that was used quite a bit in ancient

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times for religion. I believe even in today's day and age,

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those that recognize the Native American culture that they're one

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of them, that they still will talk about their ancestors

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and praying to their ancestors for help. It'll be interesting.

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We are having a Native American woman come on as

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a guest for a book, so it'll be interesting to

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kind of talk to her about shamanism, which is what

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the book is about. But they there was a mention

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of Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Those are the three Abrahamic religions.

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All of them use prayer. Something that I had only

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recently understood is in Islam it does mention Jesus, Adam, Moses,

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but they're brought up more as prophets. The same for Mohammad.

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Mohammad is a prophet then like for example, Jesus is

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not mentioned as being the son of God in Islam,

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and I guess Hinduism they do use prayer Hindu traditions

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often taking place as part of pujah, which is a

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sans is Sanskrit for adoration. So I was mistaken there.

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whole idea of there being Jesus, not being the son

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of God but just simply being a prophet. The thing

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is like at the end of the Gospels, after Jesus dies,

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before he's resurrected, but after he dies, the Pharisees learned

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that his body disappeared, or not the Paris Yeah, no,

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it was the Pharisees. They learned that his body disappeared,

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and they realized they were wrong. He must have actually

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truly been God or his followers came and stole the

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body in the middle of the night. So in order

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to keep it a secret that he disappeared, that he

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potentially rose again on the third day, he actually paid off.

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rumors that Jesus wasn't the man of God, he wasn't

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the son of God, but was just a prophet who

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was stolen by his people after he died. And so

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I find Islam interesting because that circulation continued, and that

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even happens with modern Jewish religions as well. Well, you know,

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people who are the Jewish faith but not Christian, they

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don't necessarily believe that Jesus has come yet. They're still waiting.

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just a prophet and not the son of God. So

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you know that that rumor still definitely translates to various

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faiths throughout the world. And it's a growing fate that that.

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M So, something that is very interesting about prayer is

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the psychological effect it has on people when they're praying.

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So I wanted to include this in our conversation today

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because part of this this show, this episode, I should say,

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is to kind of show how prayer does actually work.

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Scientifically speaking, So I'll read a couple and Eric if

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you want to read a couple something that prayer effects

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in our lives. Prayer can affect our lives by fostering

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a deeper connection with a higher power, offering comfort and guidance,

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and promoting emotional well being and spiritual growth. That doesn't

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say that by praying that you're actually communicating with a

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higher power. It's just that is the belief. So that

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is why it makes people feel better because they feel

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they're communicating with their higher power. Prayer is a way

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to communicate with and connect with a higher power by

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fostering a sense of closeness and understanding, and prayer can

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help individuals find clarity and direction in life, aligning their

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actions with their value and beliefs. I feel that one

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is very true. No matter how you pray, whether it's

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praying to God, meditating, doing some type of ritualistic prayer,

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it does bring so long as that's what you're asking

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for in prayer and meditation is direction, it will offer that.

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Well, it's it's it's you know, like what I said

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it it is a type of meditation in some cases

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when you're going through a difficult time, you know, And

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that's like the next one. The prayer can provide solace

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and hope during difficult times, uh, usually offering a sense

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of peace and resilience. Now that's not for everyone, but

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I know when I'm going through really difficult time, when

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I'm feeling like battered and broken and just I don't

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know where to turn and rock bottom, sometimes the only

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way to turn is up. You know. You got to

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look up and ask for help, you know. And I

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get that there are people out there who think, oh,

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if you just ask for help, you kind of try

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your mind and up believing something that isn't. But I disagree.

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You know. I think if you look up and you pray,

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no matter who you're what you're doing for prayer, someone's listening.

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And I think the Lord is always listening when he

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hears prayer. Again, whether or not he answers, it's a

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whole other subject in and of itself. But prayer can

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also encourage I'm sorry. Prayer can also serve as a

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calling ritual, helping to reduce feelings of anxiety, fear, and worry. Now,

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there are some people who actually use prayer repetitively in

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order to control their anxiety. For example, the Lord's prayer, right,

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we all know that are our father or not? Who O,

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my goodness, our father? How would be a name that

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can come that will be done on earth? It is

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in heaven? Right? Uh? Now people will repeat that, my goodness,

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I need to drink.

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Well something that I would I would love to ask

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somebody that practices Islam is if this is kind of

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a similar reason why there's prayer at a certain time

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of day and you always have to pray, I believe north,

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but they they pray for quite a while, usually sometimes

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an hour or even more. So it would be interesting

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to talk to somebody the pressure.

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like I was saying, it's the same aspect as when

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you're repeating something. You know, prayer is often positive, right,

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You're usually asking for help, you're hopeful. As someone with

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obsessive composite disorder, I won't say I always pray. I should.

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I don't always, But sometimes I try to trick my

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mind and like it's going to be okay, it's going

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to be okay, it's gonna be okay. It's not real,

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it's gonna be okay, And I try to formulate and

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trick my mind and believing everything is okay, because it

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likely is. You know, my stems from fear. In general,

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anxiety and fear kind of mashed together. And I can't

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say why some things are I mean, most things, it

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just made no sense. And rationally speaking, I know that

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they make no sense. But as someone with my disorder,

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it can't be helped. It's a chemical imbalance, and so

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you have to try to create this I hate to

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say illusion, but you need to find a way to

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comfort your mind so you can get past the compulsive

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part of the disorder. But yeah, you know, praying is

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a very good one and I do use that often.

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I talk to God. I focus in on what He

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might be saying, what the Holy Spirit might be saying

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to help guide me through things, especially in those situations.

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The prayer can also encourage a focus on the positive

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aspects of life, which foster feelings of gratitude and hope

469
00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:59.160
as well. It kind of all accumulates here for the

470
00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:03.039
most part. Again, when you're keeping things in prayer, whether

471
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:08.599
it's through like literal words or meditation or what have you,

472
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:11.599
these things tend to grow. You know, we took all

473
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:16.039
the spiritual growth, and it definitely works when you're constantly

474
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:17.799
in prayer with God.

475
00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:27.319
Something that I have practiced in the past. I don't

476
00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:30.440
know if it ever truly worked or it's just something

477
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:33.960
that is meant to make you feel like it is.

478
00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:38.880
But I read The Secret several several years ago and

479
00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:44.839
started using those practices of gratitude and positivity and stuff

480
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:50.319
like that. So it is interesting that prayer also is

481
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:52.000
a way of offering that as well.

482
00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:54.720
Sure, yeah, I'd say there's there's some things that I've

483
00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:57.720
that I have done and considered doing again, and that

484
00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:01.119
is whenever I have a bad thought, ors I feel

485
00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:03.640
like something is wrong in my life or something's not good,

486
00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:06.799
you take, whether it's your phone or a sheet of

487
00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:09.519
paper and a pen, pencil, what have you. You start writing

488
00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:12.200
down things that are good, Like if there's something negative

489
00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:15.079
happening in your life and that's all you can focus on. Pause,

490
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:18.000
take a moment to start typing into things that are

491
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:20.559
good in your life or positive, and you start to

492
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:24.400
shift your focus. You start to show yourself like, oh, yes,

493
00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:26.400
this thing is very negative. We'll look at all these

494
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.279
positive things that have happened and are happening and that's

495
00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:32.359
a good way to train your mind to focus on

496
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:34.279
that stuff. That's what we want to do is focus

497
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:39.119
on the positive anyway. Simple fact, people can't get through

498
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:42.440
life feeling negative all the time. And sadly, some people

499
00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:44.519
don't make it through life feeling negative all the time,

500
00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:48.519
their lives cut short by their own hand. It's sad,

501
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.880
but it's a thing. So we need to be mentally aware,

502
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:55.920
have discernment, and try to grow ourselves by focusing on

503
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:59.480
these positive aspects of life instead of just the hardships.

504
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.039
A lot of people these days currently coming through a

505
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:04.759
lot of hardships because of let's face it, Donald Trump.

506
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:08.640
They're not doing very good some of these people. And

507
00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:10.240
then we have other people who are doing very good.

508
00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:13.079
And so now there's like this on top of this

509
00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:15.279
negativity and all the things that are happening, there's this

510
00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:18.960
clash between these two people groups, and that's causing even

511
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:21.920
more mayhem a destruction in many ways, especially in the

512
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:27.400
minds of individuals around our country of the US. So again,

513
00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:30.000
when we see things like that or feel certain negative

514
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.759
things happening, we need to focus on the positive in

515
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:38.599
order to grow and move past these obstacles. M. H.

516
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:39.880
Yeah, for sure.

517
00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:45.599
And then the last I keep sorry, guys, I keep

518
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.720
having to turn up my brightness and turn it down

519
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:50.200
because one screen is black and the other screen is

520
00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:55.599
white and it's just weird. But the last thing here

521
00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:59.640
is that prayer can provide an opportunity for introspection. This

522
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.359
kind of follows along with what I just said, allowing

523
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:07.039
individuals to examine their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Again, when

524
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:09.759
you're focusing on those positive things and the negative things,

525
00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:12.400
you start to see why you're focusing on those things,

526
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:15.119
and that of course is very very important.

527
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:24.799
M Yeah, this part was something that was I'd found

528
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:27.519
to put in our show notes, and I think it's

529
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.680
a powerful thing for us to talk about, is how

530
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:36.319
has prayer affected our lives personally. I think we've talked

531
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:43.039
about this numerous times, even just last episode and the

532
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:49.960
continuing episode onto Tim Sedano's Saedano's show, about how we

533
00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:54.039
went through kind of a cleansing process when we kind

534
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:59.480
of were starting or in the midst of doing paranormal stuff,

535
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:04.880
and it really did change both of our lives because

536
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:09.440
we were kind of both and even moving forward a

537
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:12.880
little bit for me after I'd moved back to North

538
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:16.840
Dakota and was going through some stuff with the partner

539
00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:23.920
I had at the time. Meditating and trying to pray

540
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:26.880
to a higher power really helped me through a lot.

541
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:32.920
But that initial cleansing, I think is really what brought

542
00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:38.920
us to consider prayer as a tool for us even

543
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:39.360
more so.

544
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:43.440
Yeah, one hundred percent, and I'm with you, Like, you know,

545
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:46.719
I noticed that what I'm praying, like when I take

546
00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:51.000
the time to actually pause and reflect and pray on things,

547
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:53.239
because like I'll pray a multitask at the same time,

548
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:54.800
and I will tell you my prayer life at that

549
00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:57.480
point is not that good because I'm so focused on

550
00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:00.719
trying to split my prayer with whatever else I'm doing.

551
00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:04.360
But when I actually take the time and dedicate a

552
00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:06.480
certain amount of time throughout my day, usually in the

553
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:09.800
morning or at night, and or at night, I start

554
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:12.679
to notice that as I spend more time doing that,

555
00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:16.280
the more my relationship with God grows, the closer I

556
00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:18.559
feel to Him, the more I start to feel convictions

557
00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:22.000
about certain things or guidance in certain things. And that

558
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.960
is something that is really promised to us in the scriptures,

559
00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:27.639
like the more you talked and communicate with God, the closer,

560
00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:31.199
he'll grow with you and to you. And there are

561
00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:32.920
things that we can do too to even help us.

562
00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:35.639
Like you were just talking about the meditation stuff that

563
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:37.840
we did once upon a time, Well, there's one thing

564
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.039
in there that during that meditation that we did that

565
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:43.079
I still would be willing to use and have used

566
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:45.440
in the past. And this is something anyone can use,

567
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:48.280
I know, and I understand like some Christians out there,

568
00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:52.320
they might find this as a more of a pagan

569
00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:54.960
type thing, which I disagree with. I think is just

570
00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:59.199
a way to help to focus your mind when we

571
00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:03.960
need to let go of negative things sometimes. You know,

572
00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:05.679
there are a couple of ways you can do. One

573
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:07.320
thing that I do is I'll take these negative things.

574
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:09.639
I'll pretend I'm gripping them really tight in my fists,

575
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:12.880
and then I will just say, Lord, I release these

576
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:16.559
to you, and I imagine letting good like I open

577
00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:18.800
my hands, or imagine all these things floating up to

578
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:22.000
God right and landing at his feet. Something else that

579
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:25.679
is very helpful in terms of visualizing this is again

580
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:27.559
writing down these things that are negative to you on

581
00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:30.880
a sheet of paper. Write down everything that's bothering you,

582
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:33.760
no matter how great or small, and then once you

583
00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:36.960
have that, fold it up and light it on fire

584
00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:41.000
and let it just burn away. You're not doing anything.

585
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:43.480
You're not casting anything into the universe. You're not creating

586
00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:51.119
some sort of spell. All you're doing is visualizing all

587
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:55.519
these negative things in your mind to disappear, and it

588
00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:57.920
helps relieve that for some people. I'm one of them.

589
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:01.880
And so I think there are various ways that we

590
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:04.280
can go about doing that, you know, doing something similar

591
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:08.119
to that in terms of how prayer would help us

592
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:10.920
in one way or another, but also how we can

593
00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:15.320
use little devices to help us pull our focus.

594
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:20.960
Yeah, there's really no wrong way to pray in my opinion.

595
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:24.360
I know, like you mentioned, a lot of Christians would

596
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:28.360
would argue with that. But except for like, if you're

597
00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:33.079
praying for somebody to die or for us to go

598
00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:36.760
to war with the country or something like that, that, no,

599
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:41.840
you shouldn't be praying for that stuff. And a higher power, God,

600
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:44.320
whatever you want to call it, would not want you

601
00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:48.679
to be praying for the destruction of somebody else or

602
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:49.760
an entire.

603
00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:53.079
Nation for that matter. Right, But.

604
00:37:55.119 --> 00:38:01.239
Yeah, and the one in sence I can remember where

605
00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:07.559
I was having some major problems and I'm like, I

606
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:09.840
really need some help. I don't know what to do.

607
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:14.880
And I heard our grandfather's voice. Now that this could

608
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:17.159
have been God, it could have been Angel just using

609
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:19.480
in voice that could have been our actual grandfather, I

610
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:23.639
don't know, but I heard him say everything is going

611
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:26.760
to be okay, kiddo, and that's what he would always

612
00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:31.079
call us as his grandkids, as kiddo or kid or

613
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:37.840
you know whatever. So it comforted me in that time

614
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:43.000
because not only was my prayer answered, it was a

615
00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:44.239
voice that I knew.

616
00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:46.639
Right, I will say, I want to what I want

617
00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:52.079
to do here for a moment is I kind of

618
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:56.039
want to charge people with something like I want I

619
00:38:56.119 --> 00:38:59.199
kind of want to just tell everyone who's listening, if

620
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:04.760
you don't pray, or you don't pray often five minutes,

621
00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.519
not even five minutes, two minutes a day for the

622
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:12.239
next seven days, pray, make it a consistent thing and

623
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:17.000
see what happens. Because I strongly believe that if we

624
00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:25.800
pray continuously or consecutively per day, whether it be two minutes,

625
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:28.440
whether it be twenty minutes, I truly believe you're going

626
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:31.639
to see things changing your life for the better. There

627
00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:32.960
are a lot of people not pray, and there's a

628
00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:35.599
lot of people who aren't meditating, But I do think

629
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:39.239
that it is something worth doing, and so I want

630
00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:41.639
to challenge our listeners to take the time and pray.

631
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:45.960
I think you'd be pretty surprised at what happens when

632
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:46.639
you turn to God.

633
00:39:48.920 --> 00:39:54.840
Yeah, for sure. And it's something that many people, even

634
00:39:55.320 --> 00:40:03.199
those that practice religion, some times, tend to forget about because,

635
00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:05.960
like you mentioned, with your life, you get they get

636
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:10.239
caught up in their daily lives. Then don't don't reach

637
00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:11.400
out in general.

638
00:40:11.639 --> 00:40:14.199
You know what else is an issue? And I'm number

639
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:17.960
one on this problem. Instead of going straight to prayer

640
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.079
in the morning, I'm it on my phone and I'm like,

641
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:23.440
I'm going to pray in a moment, and you know,

642
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:27.000
so there is something you need to you. We definitely

643
00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:31.440
need to work on disconnecting from the world in order

644
00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:34.079
to to to grow in our prayer lives, for sure,

645
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:36.880
because everything's everything's going to try to put your attention

646
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:39.519
away from God. That's a guarantee, no matter what it is,

647
00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:42.119
no matter how subtle. So we need to be very

648
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:45.400
alert when it comes to that kind of thing if

649
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:48.360
we want to grow well.

650
00:40:48.519 --> 00:40:55.920
And even coming from a less real, real religion perspective.

651
00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:02.000
You should be unplugging at least once a year anyways,

652
00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:06.159
just getting away from everything and not paying attention to

653
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:10.079
the world, especially with the way things are going right now.

654
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:15.719
So right, A couple of things I want to bring

655
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:20.039
up is scientific evidence that prayer works. And I found

656
00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:27.239
these two different cases from the National Library of Medicine,

657
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:32.800
and both of these fascinated me. But Eric, I'll have

658
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:35.239
you read the first one and I'll read the second one.

659
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:42.360
Yeah, sorry, guys. So a study was done with two

660
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:47.920
hundred and nineteen consecutive infertile women aged twenty six to

661
00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:53.960
forty six years who are treated with invert retro fertilization,

662
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:59.519
embryo transfer and shale South Korea as soul. I'm sorry,

663
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.199
soul career. See Justin is my investuture. He's always helping

664
00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:12.280
me out. The women randomized into distant prayer and control groups. Now,

665
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:15.920
prayer was conducted by prayer groups in the USA, Canada,

666
00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:20.360
and Australia. The patients and the providers were not informed

667
00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:24.639
about the intervention, but the investigators and even this statistics

668
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:32.639
statisticians they that's a hard one, did not know the

669
00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:36.400
group allocations until all of the data had been collected.

670
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:42.519
Thus the study was randomized, crippled, blinded, controlled, and prospective

671
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:46.039
in design. The study found that the women who had

672
00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:49.800
been prayed for had nearly twice as high a pregnancy

673
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:52.840
rate as those who had not been prayed for. That's

674
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:58.400
fifty percent versus twenty six percent. Furthermore, the women who

675
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:02.360
had been prayed for showed a higher implantation rate than

676
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:05.119
those who had not been prayed for, a sixteen point

677
00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:09.119
three percent versus eight percent. And finally, the benefit of

678
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:17.159
prayer were independent of clinical or laboratory providers and clinical variables. Thus,

679
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:22.480
this study showed that distance prayer facilitates implantation and pregnancy

680
00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:29.679
and most likely that it works period. Right, they make

681
00:43:29.719 --> 00:43:34.960
it sound like prayer only works for implantation and pregnancy. Okay, silly,

682
00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:35.920
silly people.

683
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:41.840
Scientifically that I mean, you really can't say prayer works.

684
00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:45.840
So yeah, it is fascinating of itself. And that's why

685
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.039
I really wanted to include this one is because it

686
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:58.239
does show that this was done outside of science. Yes, science, science, well,

687
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:06.960
my mic science kind of recorded all of this data,

688
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:15.199
and of course did the IMVA true embryo implantation, but

689
00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:24.760
it was really that religious people that were really tracking

690
00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:26.920
it more so than science. Science was.

691
00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:32.440
Well, and I think, well, I don't know. It's hard

692
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:37.039
because it doesn't say who the investigators were. Yeah, it

693
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:40.280
doesn't tell us whether they were religious or not. So

694
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:44.480
the investigators were simply people who wanted those statistics, that

695
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:48.519
were interested. They wanted to see whether or not prayer word. Now,

696
00:44:48.519 --> 00:44:51.679
whether or not they were religious or scientistic or atheist

697
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:54.159
or whatever, I don't think matters in this case. But

698
00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:57.760
the point is that the study was randomized and triple blind,

699
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:01.840
meaning that all of the people investigators, the people who

700
00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:05.679
do the statistics, the original scientists who were working on

701
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:08.320
the implantation and stuff, and none of them knew this

702
00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:11.559
was actually going to be happening. It was an outside

703
00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:14.199
source all together, and they wait until the end to

704
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:17.559
find a show like, Okay, well here's this information. And

705
00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:19.400
i'd like to think, and I hope I can find

706
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:23.679
more info on that, but that this party, a third

707
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:28.599
party who has no you know, who's not swayed one

708
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:30.679
way or the other, would be the one to conduct

709
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this because I will say that if if they were

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just Christians conducting this, we would probably try to find

711
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it in favor of prayer. If it were atheistic scientists

712
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:42.880
doing this, they would try to favor it on like

713
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away from prayer and try to make those work.

714
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:54.039
So yeah, all right. The other study that I found

715
00:45:54.480 --> 00:46:00.320
showed the effect of intercessory prayer on wound healing in

716
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non human primate species, which makes it go even further

717
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:09.039
in how the power of prayer actually does help.

718
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:11.159
Yeah. Also, I've got a question, do we have to

719
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say non human primate species or was it important that.

720
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:19.360
Well, what primate science? It is belief that we are primates.

721
00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:25.480
So sad, so sad, I'll pray for them. The sample

722
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:29.639
comprised twenty two bush babies with wounds resulting from the

723
00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:35.440
chronic self injurious behavior. These animals were randomized into prayer

724
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:39.400
and control groups that were similar at baseline. Prayer was

725
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:42.920
conducted for four weeks. Both groups of bush babies additionally

726
00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:52.760
received elch trip to fan. The person conducting the study,

727
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.880
signed just by the name of Lesniak, found that the

728
00:46:56.960 --> 00:47:01.239
prayer group animals had a greater reduction in wound size

729
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:06.280
and a greater improvement in hermit God, I can't even

730
00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:12.800
say these words hermatological parameters than the control animals. The

731
00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:16.599
study is important because it was conducted in a non

732
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human species. Therefore, the likelihood of placebo effect was removed.

733
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:27.239
What are your thoughts on that.

734
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:35.639
I mean, prayer works, bro, I'm just saying so scientific

735
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of you. No, I mean it's clear, like I mean,

736
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just with those two studies alone that in these cases,

737
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I mean, you have to look at the facts, right,

738
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you have to look at the statistics here, the facts

739
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that were handed to us. Now, unless we were actually

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there studying it ourselves, we don't know for sure, like

741
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what the control group was, who the people were that

742
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were up in it. But if indeed the animals that

743
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were prayed for healed faster and better than the ones

744
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who are not, then there's a strong, you know, understanding

745
00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:18.199
or belief that when we pray, there is spiritual intercession

746
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for those animals. And we know that in the scriptures,

747
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:25.480
God commands us to protect the animals, you know, And

748
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it's why there's so many people who are like against

749
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.840
hunting for sport, who are trying to protect animals on

750
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the streets and you know, get them out of bad situations.

751
00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:37.880
That we are literally commanded to protect animals, and a

752
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:40.519
lot of people don't think that animals are important to us,

753
00:48:41.480 --> 00:48:43.719
And in fact, we constantly kill animals left and right,

754
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:47.760
just by accident, like just you know, third party, you're

755
00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:50.639
throwing plastic away or pollution.

756
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:54.400
But I think hitting them with my car, and I

757
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:55.920
feel really bad every time.

758
00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:59.360
I do sad is that you just said every time

759
00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:01.159
you do it. You've done it many.

760
00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:07.360
It's happened several times, all by accident, and it's been

761
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:11.800
two birds and a squirrel and a rabbit.

762
00:49:12.119 --> 00:49:15.079
I took out a squirrel last year accidentally, the baby squirrel.

763
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:20.119
Like that guy. Anyway, positive thoughts, let me, let me

764
00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:27.880
show you how positive thoughts work. But no, so like,

765
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:31.960
I think it's very important to that we see that

766
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:35.519
there's a spiritual connection. Has to be a spiritual connection

767
00:49:35.639 --> 00:49:37.119
or whatever you want to call it. You know, if

768
00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:38.960
you if you're not into the spiritual, you don't believe

769
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:43.719
in God, you have to accept that prayer is indeed working.

770
00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:45.960
So there's something happening behind the scenes of what we

771
00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:49.800
as humans can see with the naked eye or even

772
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:54.719
here with our ears. There's something that is changing the

773
00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:58.599
not just the spiritual, but the biological aspect of a

774
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:03.320
creature so that it heals faster, or should that certain

775
00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:07.440
things work better? And I think that's crazy, like crazy awesome?

776
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:14.360
Yeah, real, So all right, I'm sure I probably already

777
00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:16.679
know the answer you're going to get me.

778
00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:18.519
I just read the question.

779
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:25.800
But it does work, yes, I mean I would agree

780
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as well, just going over those scientific studies and seeing

781
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:34.440
the stuff that has happened in both of our lives

782
00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:39.440
with prayer. I do believe it works. Do either of

783
00:50:39.519 --> 00:50:42.599
us do it as much as we probably should know?

784
00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:48.920
Probably not, But that is something as a human being

785
00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:54.480
we need to descrive to be better at. So we

786
00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:58.679
do encourage y'all to explore the practice of prayer for yourselves.

787
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:03.639
It can be a source of strength, resilience, and spiritual

788
00:51:03.639 --> 00:51:08.320
growth along with everything else we said earlier, and share

789
00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:11.199
your stories with us. We would love to hear how

790
00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:14.920
prayer has changed your lives, whether you've been doing it

791
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:18.920
for years or you hear this podcast and decide to

792
00:51:18.920 --> 00:51:22.079
start doing it. Put it in the show notes. You

793
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:24.719
can reach us, out reach out to us on social media,

794
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:32.480
email us at Paratruth Radio at gmail dot com. But yeah,

795
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:35.000
we love hearing it and we would love to share

796
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:38.639
the things we hear on the podcast as well. I

797
00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:42.239
think it's a good thing to share how the power

798
00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:44.119
of prayer actually works, right.

799
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For those who maybe are not sure how do you

800
00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:54.599
start praying, or maybe on how to go about continuing

801
00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:56.920
praying regularly, because I think that's the one thing that's hard.

802
00:51:56.960 --> 00:51:59.119
You know, many of us can pray once or twice,

803
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:02.800
but it's hard to keep consistent. And so I encourage you, like,

804
00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:04.599
if you want to give prayer, try it. If you're

805
00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:09.280
going to, you need to learn to commit yourself for starters.

806
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:12.000
It's just like anything else. It's like eating healthier, it's

807
00:52:12.039 --> 00:52:14.039
like getting into the gym and working out more often. Right,

808
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:15.960
you need to commit yourself. You got to find motivation.

809
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:19.119
Set a timer for the same time every single day,

810
00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:21.599
no matter what time of day that is, and just

811
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every time that timer goes, take a moment, pause and pray.

812
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:27.079
It doesn't have to be a five minute prayer. It

813
00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:29.039
could be a thirty second prayer in the middle of

814
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:31.960
your work day. You know you're feeling stressed, take a

815
00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:36.440
moment to pray, ask for some help, ask for relief, consistently,

816
00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:40.559
make it a consistent habit, and then as you consistently pray,

817
00:52:41.480 --> 00:52:44.039
that'll become a discipline and the next thing, you know,

818
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:49.199
you're praying without need to be motivated by a timer

819
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:52.280
going off on your phone or some other sort of

820
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:55.559
you know, mechanical way to remind you of things to

821
00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:58.159
do these things. And there are plenty of books out

822
00:52:58.159 --> 00:53:02.159
there too that you can use to help you as well.

823
00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:06.280
And again, you know, Jesus made it very clear in

824
00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:09.119
the scripture is that prayer doesn't have to be long winded,

825
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:12.880
and it shouldn't even necessarily be long winded saying the

826
00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:15.280
same things and repeating words over and over again, but

827
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:18.480
instead should be like the Lord's prayer, which is very

828
00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:20.519
simple and straightforward. And I will say it right here,

829
00:53:20.599 --> 00:53:23.239
right now again, just so you guys know how simple

830
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:27.960
prayer is. Our Father, who are in heaven, how lovely

831
00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:31.559
that name the Kingdom, Come thy year, will thy will

832
00:53:31.599 --> 00:53:34.000
be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give

833
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:37.039
us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses,

834
00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:39.599
as we forgive those who trysp us against us. Lead

835
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:45.719
us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Done. Now,

836
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:47.960
I encourage you that if you're going to use that prayer,

837
00:53:48.440 --> 00:53:53.159
take the time to really connect to it and visualize it.

838
00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:55.440
That prayer is not meant to be said over and

839
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.800
over again. It's just an idea, an example of how

840
00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:03.960
we should pray. Pray for God's will, pray for forgiveness,

841
00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:08.280
pray for the good health of other people. And that's

842
00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:10.599
you know. And of course give all your worries up

843
00:54:11.519 --> 00:54:14.039
like God wants your worries at his feet. That's what

844
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:18.079
he says, that we have a heavy yoke. He wants

845
00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:19.440
to take it from us and give us his light

846
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:23.239
yoke so we can walk with peace. So yeah, we

847
00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:25.159
encourage you. You should give it a shot.

848
00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:29.480
I will say it is definitely easier said than done.

849
00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:30.840
It is, but.

850
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Yeah, so make sure you like, share, subscribe no matter

851
00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:40.519
where you're listening or viewing this. Also make sure you're

852
00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:43.440
checking out all the shows on United Public Radio Network.

853
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We've got a lot of great ones out there. This

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has been a pre recorded show on one oh seven

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point seven FM, New Orleans and United Public Radio Network.

856
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I'm trying to think if there's anything we have to

857
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talk about. I don't think there is, but we do

858
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have a guest next week. We did have to reschedule

859
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:07.480
them for them this week, so stay tuned for that.

860
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We got a lot of great episodes coming up. A

861
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lot of them have just me and Eric discussing some topics,

862
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:19.719
so we're excited about that until next week, where you'll

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find us the same time, same channel.

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My name is Justin and i'm Eric Pace.