1. 祈禱不能影響的事情

1.1. 真人真事

一天, 當我踏入公司的門口,

一公司裡的同事, 興高彩烈地跑到我面前, 問我, “你另一半的姐姐情況怎樣,”

我回應, “她患上了末期直腸癌, 要進行手術把直腸切去(colectomy).”

她用筆記把時間, 日期一一擇下.

我不清楚為何要那麼詳細資料, 我隨後就走進辨公室…

過幾天, 她又走到我面前,

她又問我, “你另一半姐姐情況怎樣, 手術成功嗎?”

我回應, “手術已做好, 她已在家休息, 多謝關心”

她隨即地說, “我和幾位教友作”同步祈禱”, 所以手術成功”

我回應, “colectomy的成功率是86%”

我又隨後就走進辨公室裡…

三年後, 她走到我面前問, “你另一半的姐姐情況怎樣,”

我對她說, “醫生話她只有幾星期命, 她現還清醒, 亦相當激動.”

她無言地走開了.

再過了幾星期, 她又問,” “你另一半的姐姐情況怎樣,”

我回應, “她已過身了.”

她看來比我更難過.. ….

我安慰她說, “初時, 醫生已說--->末期直腸癌只有三年命, 其實她已賺了, 不必難過.”

1.2 Do prayers work for cancer? (祈禱, 真能醫病嗎?)

STUDY 1 Prayer and self-reported health among cancer survivors in the United States, National Health Interview Survey, 2002. J Altern Complement Med. 2008 Oct;14(8):931-8.

Among 2262 men and women with a history of cancer, 68.5% reported having prayed for their own health and 72% reported good or better health status. Among cancer survivors, praying for one's own health was associated with several sociodemographic variables including being female, non-Hispanic black, and married. Compared to persons with a history of skin cancer, persons with a history of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, a cancer with a short survival period (e.g., pancreatic cancer), or other cancers were more likely to pray for their health. Persons who reported good or better health were more likely to be female, younger, have higher levels of education and income, and have no history of additional chronic disease. Overall, praying for one's own health was inversely associated with good or better health status.

STUDY 2 Complementary and alternative medicine in cancer patients - analysis of influencing factors in Turkey. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2009;10(6):1083-7.

Of the patients (49.1% female and 50.9% male) 78.2% had been living with a cancer diagnosis for more than two years. Of the 23.6% of patients with breast cancer and 21.8% with lung cancer, 87.2% uses CAM (72.7% received alternative treatment and 65.5% complementary treatment). Alternative treatments apply herbal treatments concomitantly such as honey, garlic; balsam apple, iscum album, tar oil and 29.1% of them only use stinging nettle. As a complementary treatment; 60% of patients pray for healing and 16.4% of them have massage regularly. Patients explained that they were using the alternative medicine in order to mitigate effects of the disease, to prevent its recurrence, to increase blood values, to feel psychologically relieved; and they were using complementary medicine just to feel psychologically relieved. Of 60% patients chose not to share their CAM practice with doctors and nurses. 36.4% of them use CAM on friend advice, 20% under media influence, 36.4% on their own initiative and 21.8% under family influence. The satisfaction from CAM is 61.1%. The rate of those who find alternative medicine expensive is 21.8%. There is statistically no correlation between CAM practice and age, gender, marital status, location they live for a long time, education and financial status of patients (p>0.05). The average of total hopelessness score of patients is 8.09 +/- 2.59, there is no statistically meaningful correlation between hopelessness score average of patients who use CAM and who do not use (p>0.05).

1.3. 評論

末期直腸癌生還機會只有5-10%., 生還機會率基本上是近乎固定. 祈禱/拜神是很難更改其機會率. 基督徒應找擇D難度低些, 如傷風等project作同步祈禱, 去穫得成功.

2. 祈禱可致順景成功的事情

2.1平均機會率

 在”平均機會率” 事情上, 祈禱/拜神卻可能(最起碼, 在感覺上) 是相當靈驗的! 何解?

擲一粒骰子, 在足夠次數, 每一號碼出現的次數是相同的.

人生活有起有落, 如沒有特殊因素, 喜傷也和擲一粒骰子相同的:

  1………..2………..3…………………4……….5…………6

好好…..幾好……好掛?…..VS…….麻麻……..弊…..….大穫

原來, 人的喜悅是和perception (知覺) 有關   而perception卻由”價值觀, 當時心情/環境所影響.. 一些人相信得到某些神靈如黄大仙, 耶穌等在無形中的支持, 看事情, 尤以知覺就有所不同, 例如把OUTCOME (麻麻) 睇成”好掛”, 把”好掛” 睇成” 幾好”… 那麽, 那些人有了信仰就感覺上事事順利… 其實, OUTCOME率一直冇改變!

2.2 結論

一些情況下, 正面的perception影響了自信.. 可更冷靜處事, 成功率相應提高.

3. 總結

一殺那光輝(自信) 不是永恆, 我地應以分析問題為主, 以知識和經驗充實自信, 那就可延續”高成功率”

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說明

本人無意開罪一般善良的基督徒及冇踩過中華信仰的基督教/天主教教會….

此文只是回響以下及頰似基督教文章:

1. 祭祖與孝道

http://ngvt.joinbbs.net/archiver/?tid-254-page-2.html

2. 改邪歸正——從民間宗教、邪教、氣功邪術到基督正道

 http://b5.ctestimony.org/gxgz.htm

3. 基督徒面對民間宗教的問題

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/lk1591q/article?mid=1419&prev=1843&l=f&fid=34

4. 基督徒如何面對祭祖的問題

http://www.joytown.org.tw/joytown_list.php?LT_sn=7

5. 飛越迷信

http://www.harley.com.tw/grace/new_page_38.htm