The inPhonite Migration: iPray, youPray
Posted on | October 20, 2008 at 7:07 am | 7 Comments
There’s plenty of decent prayer applications for the Palm platform, but I was worried that when migrating to an iPhone, I’d have to give them up. Not to worry! There’s an iPhone application called Pray in the iTunes app store that should do everything I require of a prayer app.
Okay, I’m kidding. Well, kidding about needing a prayer app and about Palm ones existing. But not kidding about there being one for the iPhone (iTunes store link here).
And it sounds really… special… I’ll let the blurb explain it:
Pray on your iPhone! Take the next step in Intentional Prayer. Just like intentional prayer vocalization, practice writing your prayers to sharpen their focus and capture your attention. Then symbolically “send” your prayer to its Destination.
This application costs 99 cents at the app store. Well, I guess if you’re gullible enough to believe in the power of prayer (oh c’mon, don’t act surprised, you know how I feel about this stuff), then you’re gullible enough to spend a buck on an application that helps you sharpen your praying focus. If it were me, I would just use the built-in iPhone Notes application to write down the prayers. But then I’d have to delete them to emulate the sending of the prayer to its Destination.
Seriously, if you need your iPhone and a $1 app to help you pray, I’m not sure you’re really in touch with your deity.
I suppose if you believe in the power of affirmations, like Scott Adams does, then something like this might help you achieve your desired goals. Heck, that’s kind of the secret of The Secret, isn’t it? But really, do you need your iPhone for that? It looks like it doesn’t even save your prayer. After you send it, it’s gone. You can’t go back and look at your past prayers to check their progress. This app really needs a Prayer Database.
All that aside, my favorite part of this whole thing is the disclaimer:
NOTE: Your prayer is never sent anywhere. Your personal prayers never leave your iPhone. The sending of your prayer is only symbolic.
Let’s read that again: Your prayer is never sent anywhere. But if pushing this button makes you feel better, than go ahead and push this button! Couldn’t they at least have e-mailed it to Pat Buchanan or the North Pole? That’s just sloppy programming right there. Prayers should never be sent to /dev/null.
Latre.
Jogged Today: No, but I did go walking yesterday and I listened to my jogging “Fast Temp” playlist on the iPod nano while doing it.
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Walking:
- “Only One” (Pet Shop Boys)
- “Here Comes the Flood” (Inspiral Carpets)
- “Moon Crazy” (Blue Öyster Cult)
- “Pocket” (Immaculate Machine)
- “Unconditional” (The Bravery)
- “Nobody Here But Us” (Therapy?)
- “What If We Give It Away?” (R.E.M.)
- “Love & Me Make Three” (Violent Femmes)
- “Grace” (Supergrass)
- “The Sons Of Cain” (Ted Leo)
- “Nicole” (Ash)
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “my digital read out on my irrigation timer does not display numbers fully”.
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7 Responses to “The inPhonite Migration: iPray, youPray”
October 20th, 2008 @ 7:21 am
You know how there’s a town in I think Indiana called “North Pole,” and there’s this whole tourist thingy, and they get kids’ letters sent to Santa and sometimes answer them and all that? I think I’ll buy a patch of land somewhere, call it “Heaven,” and direct prayers to be sent there c/o God (which of course would be the title of the hypothetical town’s chief executive). That way, prayers really could be answered – by God, even!
October 20th, 2008 @ 8:02 am
It’s Santa Claus, IN.
October 20th, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
There is a North Pole, AK. “Where the Spirit of Christmas Lives Year Round.” I wish I was kidding about the motto.
October 20th, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
Yes, Virginia…
…there is a group here in Santa Claus called the Santa’s Elves. They’ll make sure your child’s letter to Santa receives a personal reply. Here’s the address: Santa Claus, PO Box 1, Santa Claus IN 47579.
Merry Christmas!
October 20th, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
My wife downloaded an Obama campaign app that does pretty much the same thing I think.
October 20th, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
With every item I’ve bought at the grocery store and every book I’ve checked out at the library and every meal paid with by credit card and possibly every email and transcribed phone call being in a database, it makes me want to start praying to know that there is some part of my life that won’t be in a database.
October 22nd, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
it makes me want to start praying to know that there is some part of my life that won’t be in a database.
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