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Please pray for my safety- our safety

I’m not in danger, but those of you who know my true spirit, I ask for prayers and especially prayers for good health and safety.- mindful
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JonathanC · 61-69, M
Prayers don't do shit. Just a silly superstition.
Mindful · 56-60, F
@JonathanC i empathize with how you feel. But I do believe in hoping good things. For others. If you are a person of hope, then I would appreciate kind hopeful thoughts. I value those as well. But you may simply pass over as well.
@JonathanC It’s akin to casting a spell.
JonathanC · 61-69, M
@BlueSkyKing Or blowing out your birthday candles.
@JonathanC No, here is a better definition.

Prayer
A recited incantation designed to force or cajole a deity or deities into changing the normal, existing, or probable course of events in the universe, obtain an advantage, or avoid a divine penalty. Also an expression of gratitude or adulation, or an affirmation of continual fear, made to a deity.

A prayer is often accompanied by a promise or a sacrifice (the firstborn, money, giving up a favorite vice, not lying, a select bit of food the priests can eat) to seal or satisfy the agreement.