Comments on: According to Study, Praying Online Helps Cancer Patients http://www.blisstree.com/articles/according-to-study-praying-online-helps-cancer-patients-57/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:04:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lively Women » Online Prayer and Cancer Patients? http://www.blisstree.com/articles/according-to-study-praying-online-helps-cancer-patients-57/comment-page-1/#comment-44432 Lively Women » Online Prayer and Cancer Patients? Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:48:20 +0000 http://cancercommentary.com/2007/01/06/according-to-study-praying-online-helps-cancer-patients/#comment-44432 [...] b5media’s own Gloria Gamat weighs in over at Cancer Commentary in this post. I left the following comment: I’d be really interested to see the correlation between mental health benefits and non-prayer online support group activities, as well as MH and non-online prayer and non-online support group activities. I suspect that the true benefit is communicating on a personal level with others who share and can validate one’s beliefs, not specifically online prayer. I say this because prayer is a “reverent petition made to God,” which implies direct communication with a higher being, not discussion of such communication in a written forum. Both have benefits, but I think this is a case of comparing apples and oranges, not apples and apples. [...] [...] b5media’s own Gloria Gamat weighs in over at Cancer Commentary in this post. I left the following comment: I’d be really interested to see the correlation between mental health benefits and non-prayer online support group activities, as well as MH and non-online prayer and non-online support group activities. I suspect that the true benefit is communicating on a personal level with others who share and can validate one’s beliefs, not specifically online prayer. I say this because prayer is a “reverent petition made to God,” which implies direct communication with a higher being, not discussion of such communication in a written forum. Both have benefits, but I think this is a case of comparing apples and oranges, not apples and apples. [...]

]]> By: Kristen King http://www.blisstree.com/articles/according-to-study-praying-online-helps-cancer-patients-57/comment-page-1/#comment-44428 Kristen King Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:30:14 +0000 http://cancercommentary.com/2007/01/06/according-to-study-praying-online-helps-cancer-patients/#comment-44428 I'd be really interested to see the correlation between mental health benefits and non-prayer online support group activities, as well as MH and non-online prayer and non-online support group activities. I suspect that the true benefit is communicating on a personal level with others who share and can validate one's beliefs, not specifically online prayer. I say this because prayer is a "reverent petition made to God," which implies direct communcation with a higher being, not discussion of such communication in a written forum. Both have benefits, but I think this is a case of comparing apples and oranges, not apples and apples. kk I’d be really interested to see the correlation between mental health benefits and non-prayer online support group activities, as well as MH and non-online prayer and non-online support group activities. I suspect that the true benefit is communicating on a personal level with others who share and can validate one’s beliefs, not specifically online prayer. I say this because prayer is a “reverent petition made to God,” which implies direct communcation with a higher being, not discussion of such communication in a written forum. Both have benefits, but I think this is a case of comparing apples and oranges, not apples and apples.

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