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This may sound blasphemous…

…but sometimes I wonder if God created the concept of ambivalence as an autopilot mechanism for answering prayers.

Well, see… many-a-times when people say that their prayers are answered, they are actually seeing the silver lining in their dark cloud. And see again, nothing in this world was created perfect; everything has its positives and negatives. I mean, zillions of people pray to God every moment, how does He manage? (Well, of course I am imagining all this using my mortal capacity. Perhaps to God managing quadrillions of prayers per second comes as naturally as our breathing.) But assuming His world functions similarly with ours, He may have simply created a human world in which answers are everywhere for the intelligent us to find, so that He does not need to micro-manage every single detail unless absolutely necessary. Consequently, His prayer-answering process becomes more efficient.

Alright, that was me channelling Freakonomics.

Let’s look at it another way, uneconomically. Maybe the act of God answering prayers is simply to help us see, acknowledge and accept the existence of these positives in the midst of all the negatives. Freakonomics or not, the fact is, He has planted the positives EVERYWHERE.

Ok. I like this conclusion.

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