What is prayer?

[durbin]

5. No, surprisingly, we never discussed the act(s) of prayer, I respected their

decisions and their activities, whatever day of the week, whatever time of day.

I never intruded with my "curious" nature upon their acts of prayer, which were usually done outside of my viewing, by the way.

I respect people with sincere religious beliefs, but I would never ask about their prayers in person. The internet seems to be the best place for anonymous discussion of this topic, honestly.

And, by the way, my questions here, have more to do with the nature of what is prayer, something practiced by dozens of religions for the last few thousand years, why the curiosity about my past over the last 50+ years? I went some nice places, met some nice religious and non-religious, non-Chrisitian, non Jewish, non Muslim non anything people, and yet you're curious about my life and not willing to venture into an answer to my questions; questions any religiously trained American should have answers to, I assume, (having been born out of the USA, but a US citizen by birth, 50+ years ago, I had two American parents, not religious, but Americans from birth).


By the way, it seems you are very wary of my questions, and unwilling to answer, but want to question me more?

Why? Maybe prayer that hard to talk about for many believers.