XPost: sci.psychology.psychotherapy, alt.consciousness, talk.origins
From: earle.jones@comcast.net
In article ,
"Uncle Davey" wrote:
> Użytkownik "Therion Ware" napisał w wiadomości
> news:5fpak09cf2m418kkftksq4jvm1k0d8df9m@4ax.com...
[...]
> > As an interested onlooker, I can't help but wonder if you're not
> > simply giving significance to your survival in terms of your religious
> > beliefs. After all, presumably one could find any number of devout
> > Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, Atheists and so on who've
> > survived similar incidents each of whom will assign their survival to
> > their respective Gods, or simple (complex?!) luck of the draw. And of
> > course, to get anthropic about it, we never hear from the people who
> > don't survive.
> >
> > While I can see that an incident like that might reinforce your
> > beliefs, with the best will in the world, given that such incidents
> > aren't unique, do you think that such things say anything about the
> > actual existence of a God?
>
> It's not just the fact of survival, but how I just couldn't figure out how I
> escaped unharmed in that situation.
>
> Uncle Davey
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Where I come from, it's called 'shithouse luck'.
earle
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