At 13:15 09 May 2009, Jim Beckman wrote:
At 21:45 08 May 2009, Nyal Williams wrote:
According to Ambrose Bierce, he says in his book, The Devil's
Dictionary,
that prayer is asking the Almighty to suspend the laws of physics for
one's personal advantage.

That works for me. I mean, why not?
He can do it, and I deserve it.

Jim Beckman

That's first-order narcissism; virtually all glider pilots are afflicted.