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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Sept 23, 2012 15:01:21 GMT 1
Boy, I feel like I'm spamming this thread, but y'all bunch of nerds have to see this. Awww, so adorable!! I have a similar story, sort of, from my own childhood... my parents (who are not into musicals the way I am and never listened to that kind of music before this event) were watching TV one day when I was about 4 or 5 years old, and I was in the other room playing with ... something, I can't remember what - but the point of the story is what my mother told me I did when an ad for "Phantom of the Opera" came on the TV, and the "Overture" song started playing, and little toddler me came running into the room saying "What's that, what's that?" and I never looked back since - my mother gave me the cassette tape of the Phantom soundtrack for my birthday that year and I eventually broke the tape by listening to it until it died from overuse. So it can be surmised that babies and young children do develop their own tastes in music, and sometimes certain music can help calm the savage baby... ;D
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 23, 2012 15:03:11 GMT 1
I heard babies in the womb calm down with classical music, so that might also help play a part.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Sept 23, 2012 15:12:36 GMT 1
Perhaps...
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 23, 2012 15:23:59 GMT 1
I just realized how strange it is i;m saying that while my avatar is a dinosaur riding on a bycle, like i shouldnt even know this stuff you know.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Sept 23, 2012 15:54:46 GMT 1
And why not? There's nothing better than a diverse knowledge base, dear Gorvar... ;D
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Post by Clint Johnston on Oct 18, 2012 6:26:04 GMT 1
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 18, 2012 10:15:43 GMT 1
Aw, that is cute...
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Nov 15, 2012 0:56:03 GMT 1
Wow. This gentleman is awesome. The medical profession needs more like him. May all the gods bless him and treat him well.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Nov 25, 2012 7:35:27 GMT 1
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Post by Mister Buch on Nov 25, 2012 15:58:06 GMT 1
That is great news. But 'Miracle'? American news is... interesting.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Nov 25, 2012 16:32:08 GMT 1
I say if not a miracle itself, then it's pretty damn close to one... may all the gods bless that man, I hope he continues to recover...
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Post by Mister Buch on Nov 25, 2012 16:48:38 GMT 1
I hate to be such a grump in the face of such good news, but it is nothing like a miracle and shows zero evidence of any act by any kind of interventionist higher power!
It's good fortune, or a medical anomaly, combined with the correct treatment by medical staff. I suppose there is a minute chance that some kind of God decided to quietly save this man as opposed to the many others she, they or he allowed to die that day, but it seems rather unlikely.
I just get very annoyed with this idea of 'miracles' and how the religious use subtle terminology like this as a way of insinuating that random fortuitous events are in some way the direct actions of their God. Just because something is both good and unlikely, doesn't make it 'the behaviour of an otherwise unproved caretaker deity'. That's an extraordinary and dangerously, foolishly illogical leap in reasoning.
Plus, it's unsupported by the faith itself. When Moses parted the red sea, when Jesus ressurected a man after death, when Mohammed made it rain, these were miracles! (Although it's incredibly unlikely that they ever occured.) When something good happens and it also happens to be unusual, that's just good luck. Otherwise miracles would be chalked up every day and we'd have a very long list.
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Massive rant over. Obviously I'm glad to hear of anyone's recovery.
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Post by jklinders on Nov 25, 2012 18:07:00 GMT 1
On a slightly related note, the Red Sea parting thing was and remains a tidal anomaly in that part of the world. Moses had insider knowledge and used it as a trap for the pursuing Egyptians. Moses, I think is accepted as having existed by modern history but from the Bible itself, he was a profoundly harsh man at best, genocidal at worst. The pursuit of the "promised land" was a bloody path of exterminating those in his way and evicting the previous tenants, all with the creator's blessing.
And some folks wonder why I find religion disquieting...
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Nov 25, 2012 18:15:25 GMT 1
Don't get me started on the debates and doubts about the dualist othology viewpoint, such as if god as an all benevolent being, then why such misery befell on innocent people, such as children, when it comes to natural disasters and other things that are beyond humanity's control...
But I don't want to get into that, since that a really sensitive topic I don't want to get into rows with and I still respect on people's worship of their religion. Mind you, I'm a religious person as well...
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Nov 25, 2012 18:20:38 GMT 1
I was merely stating that even if the poor man's recovery is not considered a "miracle" by religious standards (which I understand as I am not technically a Catholically / Christianly religious person), it is still 'miraculous' in a non-religious manner - considering that most people who are shot in the head do not survive it.
Religion aside, since I hate getting into religious debates (I'm sure you all can understand why), it is still a very impressive thing that this man not only survived a typically un-survivable situation, but is on the road to recovery.
That's all that should matter here.
Good for him, I hope he continues to get better.
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