Do you believe in miracles?

[Belegon]

Hi Lauren.





(Abs has asked me very specifically to sub for her, and has threatened me with pictures of fat, old naked men if I don't )

What? Abs promised she would show those pics to no one!

 

[SlickTony]

Weird shit happens in tornadoes, everyone knows that. You read about them. You hear about them. Pieces of straw getting jammed through oak planks and stuff like that.

It sounds like a miracle to me...I mean, you just never know.

...and has threatened me with pictures of fat, old naked men if I don't

That reminds me, does anyone read Rolling Stone? They had an interview with Rodney Dangerfield, in which you saw a lot more of him than most people would want to.

 

[Guest]

re. Rodney Dangerfield

Thanks for the warning, Tony. P.

 

[Boota]

I don't believe in miracles, but I am a devout believer in freak occurences. I've never seen a miracle, but I have seen hundreds of freak occurences.

 

[Blarneystoned]

Call it what you will

Personally I believe there is a kind and loving consciousness in the cosmos ...our occasional brushes with that consciousness leave us scratching our heads and wondering how that was physically possible because it breaks all the rules and all the laws of physics...Call the consciousness what you will..it still remains

Blarneystoned

 

[SlickTony]

A character in one of Barbara Hambly's novels--I think it was The Silicon Mage said that when people pray for a miracle, they're mostly praying that two and two won't equal four.

 

[cantdog]

hate miracles

A miracle is that which produces or strengthens faith. Who needs something like that?

(If it were simply "an act of God," then river blindness, Alzheimers', genocides, diabetes, Tay-Sachs, or multiple sclerosis would fill the bill. Let's hear it for the big guy.)

Miracles are therefore known only by their results. Faith-blinded people are notorious for selective vision. You can never tell what malarkey will sway them.

cantdog