WessleWoggle on 08 April 2009
| mrstickball said: The lottery is a predictable event. Someone will always win, and at specific times. This was a totally different type of indecent - the man had no knowledge of where his daughter was, and was told to call a place in China (the man lived in the US), at a very specific restaurant, and ask for his daughter. Not only do you have the odds of calling a specific restaurant - 1 in 1,000,000, but the odds of his daughter being at this specific restaurant, at this specific time. Do you know how much higher those odds are? It's about as likely as you giving the coordinates to an astronomer to look for 10th planet thousands of AU away, describing the atmospheric composition, and being 100% correct on all accounts. Big difference between that and winning the lotto. |
You seem to think getting lucky is reason enough to believe in god. If something like that happened to me I would just think I was very lucky, and be happy, and be thankful to where I ended up on the chain of cause and effect.
You should take things for what they are, not assume that they came from a god just because you presupposed that belief. God is not needed for something like that to happen. It can happen by coincidence, or, if you think there just MUST be a force that guided you, why not try to wrap your mind around some other concepts(collective unconciousness, karma, source) instead of just assuming the concept of your religion is the correct one.
