To be honest, I've found it very difficult to maintain interest in our discussion, given the number of days between posts and how many times I've had this sort of discussion before. So I'll just summarize what I see as the key points.
First, I didn't mean to say or imply that religious people are completely lacking in critical thinking skills, and they only acquire them in college. I thought I and others had made that clear earlier. The point is, we all have some level of critical thinking skills and college is one means by which people enhance them, which could be a primary factor in people leaving religion during their college years.
Now on to the main point, namely prayers being answered and receiving revelations from gods. I'll be blunt....I've heard pretty much everything you've said in response to what I told you about my past experiences and such many, many times before and I've never found any of it persuasive. In fact, from my perspective it makes the whole deal even less believable. Like I said, it depicts a god who in response to people desperately seeking its help, guidance, input, or even presence is like "You didn't ask the right way", or as you put it "You aren't ready for the answers", so just leaves everyone hanging and does absolutely nothing to make anything better. If a person did that, we'd instantly recognize them as being an inconsiderate jerk, but when it comes to gods believers make up all sorts of excuses to explain why their gods just aren't there.
Also, don't assume that my experiences with Christianity ended when I was 15. Later in life I reexamined the faith, including attending different churches and meeting with church leaders. In short, I saw the same fundamental problems with the faith and got the same unsatisfying and (at times) ridiculous answers as before. So I finally decided that Christianity just isn't for me. Then after looking at other religions and such, I ended up concluding that I am simply not a religious person and religion just does not resonate with me at all. And to be clear, I'm very happy and satisfied with that. It's who I am and I feel I'm being true to my nature.
Regarding your religious experiences, I apologize if it seemed like I was trying to dissuade you away from them. We all have our own experiences and backgrounds, and far be it from me to try and act as if I can speak authoritatively about what you've been through.
And that brings me to my final point, i.e., the difference between your reaction to my experiences and my reaction to yours. When I told you about mine and how they didn't agree with yours, you immediately went into apologetics mode and spent a great deal of time trying to explain away my conclusion, persuade me that I'd done something incorrectly, and should try it all over again. But when you told me about your experiences, I didn't do that. Sure, I shared some of my thoughts about it all, but that's literally all it was....me saying "this is what I think", not anything like "well this is where you were wrong".
That's an interesting psychological dynamic and seems to be yet another important and fundamental difference between us. You tell me about your experiences and I mostly just shrug and think "that's nice". I tell you about mine and you immediately start trying to convince me that I had it all wrong. You could have just said "Well, I hope it all works out for you" or something like that. That you didn't is rather fascinating from a human behavior standpoint, but that's another topic.