Poll: What Constitutes A Miracle?
- Thread starter NC3
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Something has a one in a million chance of happening. Nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine times it doesn't happen, fair enough you think, it's a million to one shot. The one time it does happen 'IT'S A MIRACLE HALLELLUJAH!'. Then with modern day media reporting all these million to ones and people start to think 'this happens all the time, this must be at work!
Imo, just an effect of the brain. We unconsciously try to make sense of everything so really complex stuff or massive/tiny numbers just go straight over our heads, the brain then makes sense the only way it can (it's unlikely to happen just like that so someone must have made it happen!). Also why 'can you explain it?' 'no' 'then it's a miracle' (see: House - pretty much every damn episode for examples of this discussion).
Yes I am aware I just made everything I said pretty much discredited by citing House as an example, which makes no conventional sense. IT MUST BE A MIRACLE!
Stop the planet please, I want to get off now.
Imo, just an effect of the brain. We unconsciously try to make sense of everything so really complex stuff or massive/tiny numbers just go straight over our heads, the brain then makes sense the only way it can (it's unlikely to happen just like that so someone must have made it happen!). Also why 'can you explain it?' 'no' 'then it's a miracle' (see: House - pretty much every damn episode for examples of this discussion).
Yes I am aware I just made everything I said pretty much discredited by citing House as an example, which makes no conventional sense. IT MUST BE A MIRACLE!
Stop the planet please, I want to get off now.
Well a miracle is an event so improbable that it must be an act of god or of devine nature.
For example: a talking snake in paradise
Making a woman and a man of clay (Adam and Lilith)
Making another woman of a rib (Eve)
Parting a sea with hand gestures (Moses)
In one night slaying every firstborn child in Egypt
Raising the dead (Lazarus)
Making an angel the ruler of hell
Making people live for over 800 years (Noah)
Making Paris Hilton a superstar
It seems God thought miracles were a good idea at first but he seems to have changed his mind over the last few hundred years .
For example: a talking snake in paradise
Making a woman and a man of clay (Adam and Lilith)
Making another woman of a rib (Eve)
Parting a sea with hand gestures (Moses)
In one night slaying every firstborn child in Egypt
Raising the dead (Lazarus)
Making an angel the ruler of hell
Making people live for over 800 years (Noah)
Making Paris Hilton a superstar
It seems God thought miracles were a good idea at first but he seems to have changed his mind over the last few hundred years .
air spontaneoulsy turning into gold...
a friend of mine met his girlfriend over WoW.. and yes got laid...traceur_ said:
ouch, that just passed harshness by a mile. That statical probability of me getting laid would maybe at 50%MaxTheReaper said:So basically, to shorten that:Shadow Law said:
A miracle would be any of you ever getting laid.
Sorry. Just kidding, I love you all.
I don't believe in "miracles," especially those of a divine origin.
A miracle is something where the only explanations for an event that exclude a higher power are less logically supported than ones that include it.