I hate it how Christians attribute random events of life to "miracles."

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
OMG, latest quote. "Thank god that he sent me to Florida when he did. I wouldn't have learned HALF of what I learned about the antiques business and how to run my own shop had I not been in god's will right then."

:roll:

when quoting you should capitalize the G so we know what context this person was talking in... with the lower case g it makes it sound like the comment was tongue in cheek.

 

[mchammer]

Go say something to them and report back.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: mchammer
Go say something to them and report back.

Apparently he is too tolerant to say anything out loud about it

 

[Nik]

Dain, does it really matter? Who freaking cares? I don't see how it negatively changes the way you live your life and in a way that you cannot control or ignore.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: mchammer
Go say something to them and report back.

They aren't my guests. If I were having a discussion with them, I'd blast them with my over-under and be done with it. I'll leave that to my grandfather.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: dxkj
I hate how Heathens always think these 1 in 1,000,000 things that happen are just random, and not being directed by some greater power. Sure there is a chance that everything will line up and these things will happen, but for how often they happen, it is obviously a miracle most of the time.

The chance that my life would end up with me replying to this thread is easily greater than 1 in a 1,000,000.
It must've been GOD that set me up for it!!!!

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: GuideBot
Dain, does it really matter? Who freaking cares? I don't see how it negatively changes the way you live your life and in a way that you cannot control or ignore.

Yo noob, he has like a bizzillion more posts than you, you dont earn first name privileges until you hit 1000 at least.

dx

 

[spaceman]

hate is great

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0

Originally posted by: dxkj
I hate how Heathens always think these 1 in 1,000,000 things that happen are just random, and not being directed by some greater power. Sure there is a chance that everything will line up and these things will happen, but for how often they happen, it is obviously a miracle most of the time.

The chance that my life would end up with me replying to this thread is easily greater than 1 in a 1,000,000.
It must've been GOD that set me up for it!!!!

Translation

chance > 1 in 1,000,000

might want to reword

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: ncircle
hate is great

Would you say you have a love eight relationship?

Oh most assuredly

No Say it!!


"We have a love Eight relationship!"


AWWWW

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: mchammer

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: dxkj
I hate how Heathens always think these 1 in 1,000,000 things that happen are just random, and not being directed by some greater power. Sure there is a chance that everything will line up and these things will happen, but for how often they happen, it is obviously a miracle most of the time.

......riiiiighhhtttt

Originally posted by: mchammer
Way to tolerate others beleifs :thumbsup:

Do you know what tolerance is? Tolerance is respecting the right that they can say what they want. Qualifying the beliefs isn't beling intolerant it just means that one has a negative opinion of those specific beliefs. Think of tolerance as an abstract concept and specific beliefs as being able to be criticized.

So you don't think anti-gay protesters are intolerant then?

The question is if "anti-gay protestors" would tolerate a "gay" to be who they are or not. If the answer is no, they don't believe that gays should be the way they are, then they are intolerant by definition.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: GuideBot
Dain, does it really matter? Who freaking cares? I don't see how it negatively changes the way you live your life and in a way that you cannot control or ignore.

Yo noob, he has like a bizzillion more posts than you, you dont earn first name privileges until you hit 1000 at least.

dx

GuideBot is a special exception.

 

[hellokeith]

My grandparents have done this. It's kinda annoying.

On the upside, they aren't taking Christ' name in vain like every 3rd word on this forum.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: GuideBot
Dain, does it really matter? Who freaking cares? I don't see how it negatively changes the way you live your life and in a way that you cannot control or ignore.

Yo noob, he has like a bizzillion more posts than you, you dont earn first name privileges until you hit 1000 at least.

dx

GuideBot is a special exception.

Look at the post above yours, relates to gay tolerance, so I guess I can let you two slide

 

[mchammer]

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: mchammer

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: dxkj
I hate how Heathens always think these 1 in 1,000,000 things that happen are just random, and not being directed by some greater power. Sure there is a chance that everything will line up and these things will happen, but for how often they happen, it is obviously a miracle most of the time.

......riiiiighhhtttt

Originally posted by: mchammer
Way to tolerate others beleifs :thumbsup:

Do you know what tolerance is? Tolerance is respecting the right that they can say what they want. Qualifying the beliefs isn't beling intolerant it just means that one has a negative opinion of those specific beliefs. Think of tolerance as an abstract concept and specific beliefs as being able to be criticized.

So you don't think anti-gay protesters are intolerant then?

The question is if "anti-gay protestors" would tolerate a "gay" to be who they are or not. If the answer is no, they don't believe that gays should be the way they are, then they are intolerant by definition.

No they would not be, only if they tried to prevent them from being gay.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

If I were to shuffle a deck of cards and lay out each one, face-up, side-by-side in a sequence, the probability of the resulting sequence no matter what it is is 1 in 8 x 10^67.

Does that mean that every time I shuffle a deck and lay the cards out I'm witnessing a miracle?

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: mchammer

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: mchammer

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: dxkj
I hate how Heathens always think these 1 in 1,000,000 things that happen are just random, and not being directed by some greater power. Sure there is a chance that everything will line up and these things will happen, but for how often they happen, it is obviously a miracle most of the time.

......riiiiighhhtttt

Originally posted by: mchammer
Way to tolerate others beleifs :thumbsup:

Do you know what tolerance is? Tolerance is respecting the right that they can say what they want. Qualifying the beliefs isn't beling intolerant it just means that one has a negative opinion of those specific beliefs. Think of tolerance as an abstract concept and specific beliefs as being able to be criticized.

So you don't think anti-gay protesters are intolerant then?

The question is if "anti-gay protestors" would tolerate a "gay" to be who they are or not. If the answer is no, they don't believe that gays should be the way they are, then they are intolerant by definition.

No they would not be, only if they tried to prevent them from being gay.

Read my first post -- consider "tolerance" in the abstract concept of "recognizing one's right to exist." End the definition there. The definition is or it isn't.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: hellokeith
My grandparents have done this. It's kinda annoying.

On the upside, they aren't taking Christ' name in vain like every 3rd word on this forum.

Jesus H. Christ, them too?

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: dxkj
I hate how Heathens always think these 1 in 1,000,000 things that happen are just random, and not being directed by some greater power. Sure there is a chance that everything will line up and these things will happen, but for how often they happen, it is obviously a miracle most of the time.

You have defined miracles as events that have a probability of 1/1,000,000 or less. Lets say that every second each person experiences an event, ignoring the fact that a million things could have happened to that person in that second. Just go with seconds to make things easier.

Based on that, there are roughly 300 miracles happening in the US every second. There are 7000 miracles in the world every second, 420,000 miracles every minute. There are 25,920,000 miracles in the US every day. Think about that, 26 million miracles in the US every day based on the fat kid rolling dice ?religion?.

Let?s look at it from another perspective. There are 86400 seconds in a day, 604800 seconds in a week. A person experiences 0.6048 miracles a week. Put another way, everyone experiences a miracle every eleven and a half days. That is a little over 2 miracles a month. The average person in the US will experience about 2200 miracles in their lifetime based on the fat kid rolling dice ?religion?.

I can?t guarantee that you?ll notice all the 1 in a million things that happen to you, but the world isn?t limited to one event per second. If I tossed a million knives at a million people from a foot away I would hit almost all of them. Should the douche that I missed because I hiccupped consider it a miracle that I only killed nine hundred thousand nine hundred ninety nine people?

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You?re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. That miracle wasn?t Joseph, Mary, Jesus or any other deity acting in your favor. It was the result of you not ****** it up like you did the 999,999 other times.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Bible says "In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." They seem to be practicing this.

Also a miracle is when God violates a natural law to accomplish something. Putting you in the right place at the right time is not a miracle. The term "miracle" gets misused.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I had dinner with my grandparents and their friends whom they haven't seen in ages, tonight. The couple kept sharing these stories about minor, everyday events and then attritubed them to god. WTH...do they *seriously* think that god determines when their car tire blows out? Do they really think that it was God that made them run into an old friend that they hadn't seen in a year? Come on, these are seemingly educated people who spout this crap. I find it almost nauseous. My grandparents are getting a little edgy also, but the couple keeps doing it.

You know what? Here's some tap water, turn it into motherfvcking wine. Here's my friend with cancer, heal her. Here's my dead friend, raise him from the grave. Otherwise quit fvcking talking to me about the angels that you see. Come back to me when you quit hopping up on LSD. :roll:

-1 for use of the word "whom". It's overused nowadays, and makes one sound pretentious.

 

[Squisher]

I like how god has killed a half a million in Darfur, or the miracle of the 300K killed in the Asian Tsumami, or the real hoot of the New Orleans floods. Thank God!

 

[upsciLLion]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: hellokeith
My grandparents have done this. It's kinda annoying.

On the upside, they aren't taking Christ' name in vain like every 3rd word on this forum.

Jesus H. Christ, them too?

You were much funnier when your head was between my legs.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: mchammer
Way to tolerate others beleifs :thumbsup:

Too bad he's right.

Just because someone else believes something, doesn't make it believable or even valid.