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05-11-2010, 05:41 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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sorry for your loss R-T, at least you've got a positive perspective on the matter. my grandmother has been in her 'final' hospital stay since Easter (stroke), we were all hoping for a quick and painless passing, 6 weeks later she's still cognitive but not any closer to being medically stable.
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05-11-2010, 05:43 PM | #12 (permalink) | |
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How unlikely would you feel some natural occurrence has to be for it to be a miracle? Wouldn't such a probability cutoff be very arbitrary? If I flip a coin a trillion times and get only 1 head, would that be a miracle? And if it *were* a miracle, what about if I did it again and get 2 heads? Or 10? How would you decide when some event is no longer considered "miraculous?"
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A high school classmate died on his second day of Junior Year due to aspirating and asphyxiating on vomit while wrestling with his little brother. One day he was there...the next...gone. I think one reason the idea of "miracles" is so hard for me to imagine is that their application would be so arbitrary, assuming there were miracles and some supernatural being were behind them. I hear survivors of great traumatic events say their survival was a "miracle" but I can't forget all those who weren't saved. If there were a supernatural power behind rare natural events that people perceive as miracles, why wouldn't such a supernatural power dispense miracles right and left? If I could work miracles to save people, I'd be doing that all the time!
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05-11-2010, 06:11 PM | #16 (permalink) | |
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There was a group of about 5 of us who were really close throughout primary. We were only 11/12, Me and 4 boys. One day I was grounded so couldn't go out with them... we used to go down to the river and play on the rope swing thingy, and my mate fell off the rope and into the raging river below. As you said, one day he was there, the next he was gone.
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05-11-2010, 06:28 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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or maybe i'm reading too much into the similarities between the words miracle and mirage. |
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05-12-2010, 02:42 AM | #20 (permalink) | |
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