Effectiveness, how to address?

Month, Day: 169, Loftiness, Will (Grace)

The Aqdas has an instruction to repeat the Greatest Name 95 times a day. Too, in God Passes By, the prayer of the Bab (Remover of Difficulties) was mentioned as being appropriate for frequent use. That is, one could say it almost continually (1000 times a day).

In essence, prayer is expected to have results; assuming such results, would any of these be measurable? The short answer would be yes; why else would we have science and prayer? The longer answer would consider several things, such as measurements, effective use, and a whole lot of other things. That is, not everything can be subsumed under a measurement system.

Don't agree? Try to count the sand particles on a beach including those under water. Actually, one could scoop a hole and count what came out. But, residue handling is necessary to account for lost particles. 

Residue? Yes, that which is considered non-important to some scope of reference. Modern methods make great use of this approach that relegates things to be inconsequential, even people.

Yet, any of those can use prayer if only to have strength to put up with their tribulations, lot of which originate from people and their misdeeds. 

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So back to the beach, do you think that you could count the particles without destroying the beach? No. But, again, modern overlays would provide a good estimate which could be operationally effective in some situations and within bounds.

Of course, who cares? And, why do we need to know this? And, more questions can come to mind. But, we have to know. For one, all progress seems to push many toward the inconsequential state. Too, the hubris that comes with such progress warps "value" into usage that fails those who are of the inconsequential class (tight loop).

Right now, the trick question is whether a focus on science, mathematics and technology is a silver bullet. Of course, we know that it's not.

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So, we should want to hear about effective prayer schemes. And, it's more than prayer. The use of the Greatest Name is a type of affirmation. Consider this: it, too, is a focus mechanism whose power we have not understood.

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03/12/2013 --

Modified: 03/12/2013