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Reply #18: I've never gotten the 'miracle' thing. [View All]

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RaleighNCDUer

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Fri Aug-25-06 10:58 AM
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18. I've never gotten the 'miracle' thing.

If something extraordinary happens, with positive results TO THE OBSERVER it is a miracle. If something extraordinary happens with negative results, is it an anti-miracle? Or just bad luck?

A bus goes over a cliff, killing 17 people. A baby survives unharmed. IT'S A MIRACLE! Not so much for the people that died, however. That was just bad luck. Or maybe god had something against them.

OBL is on the run in Tora Bora, surrounded by thousands of people intent on killing him. Was his escape a miracle? To HIM it was. No so much to his enemies.

It's all magical thinking.

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