# Blooming Prayers Saved My Life **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 7, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-prayers-saved-my-life/263499 "2004-09-07T16:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-prayers-saved-my-life/263499/21 "2004-09-08T13:14:08Z")
Okay, that was the damnedest thing. My last post came about 1:15 EST. I have no idea how that happened. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-prayers-saved-my-life/263499/22 "2004-09-08T20:26:44Z")
Blooming Onions saved my life\* \*This post sponsored by Grizzlebee’s “You’ll wish you had less fun” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-prayers-saved-my-life/263499/23 "2004-09-08T21:39:29Z")
**Crack Medical Team in State-of-the-Art Hospital Uses Esoteric Knowledge Gleaned From Hundreds of Years of Painstaking Research to Save Injured Girl’s Life – Superstitious Bystander Attempts to Claim Credit, Is Laughed Down** What the headline would have read if there was any justice in this world … . ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-prayers-saved-my-life/263499/24 "2004-09-09T00:18:16Z")
very odd timestamps…but to clarify: > [@](#): > > And this… > > So God doesn’t care if you die, unless you’ve got lots of good friends to put in a word? God’s intervention is a popularity poll. Tough on the alone and unloved. > > …is completely uncalled for. That was completely called for. That is what turns off a lot of people from Christianity. God may not really work that way (hey, I’m a Deist, I don’t believe in an active God) but the Christians who believe he does turn a lot of people (including myself) off. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-prayers-saved-my-life/263499/25 "2004-09-09T11:33:25Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > Er, knowing that your life mattered to a lot of people could very well have helped recovery. Maybe. I guess it depends on the individual and circumstances. If I was in hospital after a near fatal accident, what complete strangers were thinking wouldn’t be much in my thoughts. > [@](#): > > Who are you to know how sincere the people who prayed for her were? People are funny–sometimes they pick a single tragedy to focus on, when a thousand others occurred the same day. Sometimes it doesn’t take very much information about an event to turn it from a statistic to something that feels more palpable. People do pick out individual tragedies and focus on them. But they tend to be ones they can relate to. About people they identify with, where they’ve heard the story on TV or newspaper. But in this case it would appear that all that has been passed on is the barest of details and a name. Hard to give anything but passing empathy to this. This is the equivalent of form-letter lobbying; Dear God, Please save the life of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_(name) a \_\_\_\_\_\_(age) year old \_\_\_\_\_(gender) who \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_(details of illness/accident, if known). I heard about this from a friend, so don’t know anything about her/him, but I guess that this must be a particularly deserving case. So if you could intervene that would be wonderful. > [@](#): > > What section of the paper was this published in? Don’t know. The “we obviously made up the quotes, so draw your own conclusions about the rest of it” section. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blooming-prayers-saved-my-life/263499.md?page=1)