I talk to my cats!!!

They do not answer, but stay by me it seems as if they are reassuring me it will be OK in the long run!!

Well one can surmise by the way they act they care!!!

We will survive this, most of us anyway, just live day by day!!!

It is all we all have together is day to day!!!

Ha! You've got to be kidding me. No, it has not occurred to me to pray or talk to a supposed God. However, as we face this pandemic, I did share with my teenage son things that I want him to know before I die. It was a very lovely moment for both of us.

Short answer: No.
Long answer: Fuck no!

This is an agnostic/atheist group, dude. Not sure if you understand that or what it means.

If someone put a knife to your throat and threatened to kill you unless you love him, could you really love him?

If your god were real that's exactly how it operates.

I think you've wandered into the wrong forum.

I engage in a fair bit of self talk and that has only increased in social isolation, I don't think I would call myself a god, after all, I actually exist.

Are you serious, right now? There is no god. And, if there is a creator, we're nothing more than an abandoned project. Prayer is no more effective than wishes. Wash your hands, cough into your elbow, and maintain distance from others. Get tested if your circle overlaps that of anyone infected. I'm atheist in the foxhole, and atheist on my deathbed.

I talk to my dogs and cats, at least they respond to me.

You're kidding right?

I don't think we do that here

Probably won’t find anyone here of that school. What I will say though is introspective and selfish prayer is deeply offensive.

If there were such a power then there is only one prayer that has any worth.

Pray for the best of things for all things.

There is nothing else.

Not God but I have started praying to Humpty Dumpty for protection. Same thing.

Umm no!!! Lol

Not me. God bless my quarantine... Lol!!!

Actually didn't occur to me to do so. I suspect when I forget about this post in 5 or so, it won't occur to me then either. Geez I hope I don't piss her off... she might give me the covid.

Nope and, if there is a god, it can kiss my ass for this horrific pandemic that's been bestowed upon us.

Sigh. Why would I do such a silly thing like that?

Never occurred to me!

I have done no such foolish thing.

On what grounds?

IF there were a god who had power over anyone's personal survival, then why would such a being allow a pandemic disease to evolve in the first place?

This is part of the logical paradox surrounding the question of any god's existence in the first place. If god exists, and is benevolent, then god is powerless, because god doesn't stop bad things from happening to people. If god is omnipotent, then god is not benevolent, because god allows or even causes bad things to happen.

So, even if I allow that god exists, prayer is pointless. Who the fuck am I to be singled out for consideration, when someone like Tom Hanks & wife get the virus?

That's the funniest question I have heard in a long time! I know it may be true for others but none on this site.

Why?

Nope

I would think that everything taking place in the world right now would add strength to the argument that there is nobody, magical or otherwise, in charge.

Nope, God has nothing to do with fixing this but his minions are selling quack cures and some of these are "big names" in the world of religion, so much so that most people, regardless of their own beliefs, know who these people are. God and his minions, I suspect will make matters worse as many believe, only we Godless will die, while they, the good pious Christians will be spared, invoking the passover as an example. They are in for a rude awakening.