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Something I don't really understand is when Christians ask other people to pray for them or for someone they know (usually when they are sick or injured or undergoing surgery). If they believe in a god, and believe that their god hears their prayers, why do their own prayers not suffice, and why do they need other people praying for them too? Do they think that their god is more likely to listen, if more people are praying? Is the god so busy, it will be more likely to notice and pay attention, the more people are praying for a particular thing? Do they think their god is vain, in it will only grant requests after having its ego massaged by having multiple people demonstrating their belief in it? Ie, "You're sick and are asking me to heal you... I don't think that is good enough reason to heal you." Vs, "You're sick, and a hundred people are asking me to heal you; well, I suppose I will give in and heal you after all..."

If you think of prayer more in terms of sending "good vibes" to a person, that I can understand. The more people sending good vibes, the better, if you believe in that kind of thing. But with prayer as in supplication to a god or higher power, the number thing doesn't make sense to me.

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I keep wishing I had my camera for various things. Like taking photos of certain documents before I send them away, so that I have a record of them. I have the webcam, but the quality of the photos it can take isn't very good.

I did use the webcam yesterday to record a few short vids of the yellow meditation/echo room, because the wind was blowing the shear curtains out from the windows so nicely.... I was able to stretch the cam's cord from this room into the other one via the HVAC vents... but then the first vid was over 6 MBs, and in the 2nd vid I intended to record some echoey voice sounds too, but the microphone turned out to not be working :(

So maybe I'll get enthusiastic about that again and try on another day. Still haven't had time to figure out how to get my vids into a format Youtube accepts; that would probably be better than posting them on my site in wmv format.

If the bank is going to deny one of my checks because they suspect it is fraudulent, why don't they just call me and ask?? Instead of just denying it, and letting me find out in my next statement, or when the other party contacts me about it? That's the 2nd time this has happened.

Oh, they emptied my recycling bin today!!!!! It's so wonderful!!!!

The electrician was supposed to call me back today with the estimate. But he didn't.