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stefan



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:17 am    Post subject: hmm ... maybe sometime prayers are answered ...  

... or maybe some people are just superlucky

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DiscGo



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:05 am    Post subject:  

I saw that last night on the news, and I still think it is awesome!


Imagine how much that must of sucked until the money did show up.
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davis_b_1



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:17 am    Post subject:  

Can you imagine the feeling that would run through your body when you realized you just tossed 200k out in the garbage.
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JP



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:20 am    Post subject:  

:2thumbs: Great story
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Don



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:23 am    Post subject:  

I don't understand what praying had to do with the story; god put the bag on top for them? It had to be there. They knew it was the right truck. It would have been stinky and taken awhile, but they would have found in eventually. Damned lucky it was on top, that's for sure. How is that god related? :ne_nau:
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Ih8grvty



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:52 am    Post subject:  

davis_b_1 wrote: Can you imagine the feeling that would run through your body when you realized you just tossed 200k out in the garbage.

It is not the feeling that would run through my body, it is what would be running out of my body, down my leg and filling my shoes, and puddling around my feet, that would concern me.
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parrothead_madness



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:45 pm    Post subject:  

Don wrote: I don't understand what praying had to do with the story; god put the bag on top for them? It had to be there. They knew it was the right truck. It would have been stinky and taken awhile, but they would have found in eventually. Damned lucky it was on top, that's for sure. How is that god related? :ne_nau:

Is that a turd floating there in the punchbowl? :roll:
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Don



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:57 pm    Post subject:  

parrothead_madness wrote: Don wrote: I don't understand what praying had to do with the story; god put the bag on top for them? It had to be there. They knew it was the right truck. It would have been stinky and taken awhile, but they would have found in eventually. Damned lucky it was on top, that's for sure. How is that god related? :ne_nau:

Is that a turd floating there in the punchbowl? :roll:

:roflol:

But again I ask; what does a turd in the punch have to do with god?

:roflol:
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Jaxx



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:07 pm    Post subject:  

You either believe it or you don't. It is pretty cool either way.
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DiscGo



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:31 pm    Post subject:  

Don wrote: Damned lucky it was on top, that's for sure. How is that god related? :ne_nau:

I see the Zion narrows, and I see a sign of of a higher being, you probably see a narrow passage that was carved out over a great period of time by water rushing through rock.



In the end you are right, but that doesn't mean I am not.
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Don



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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:03 pm    Post subject:  

DiscGo wrote:
In the end you are right, but that doesn't mean I am not.

I completely agree. I'm not trying to take away from your beliefs. I did not mean to offend.

I just cringe sometimes when god is referenced in the media as having done some irrelevant little miracle that actually seems to take something away from god's ultimate power like trash stacking especially when the next story is about boy scouts killed by a tornado. (Usually I would say something like "where was god on that one? I doubt god killed those scouts with a tornado because they're sinners; the boy scouts actually profess a belief in god and keep out the gays, I would think god would aim that twister around them" but I'm trying to apologize for previous offenses not offend more people. Lucky for me anything said/written in parenthesis doesn't count and so can't be offensive).

Remember a couple years ago when that boy scout Brennan Hawkins was lost in the Uintas for a few days and then found alive? I saw a news interview where his mom was saying how grateful she was that god had answered her prayers and brought her son home and right on camera standing behind her (he helped with the search) was the father of Garrett Bardsley another boy scout who had gone missing in the Uintas a year or two before and has never been found. Where was god on that one? (Busy stacking trash so the money is on top?) Or, What are god's criteria for saving one scout over another? Why would one mom's prayer be more powerful than another? How can one be called a miracle; the work of god and not the other? It just does not add up to me.

I have likely offended again. I'm actually not trying to. I seriously contemplated deleting this whole message, but I'll let it stand. It seems to me that if the miracle can be commented on in a positive and believing way without offense than I should be able to question it without offense, right?

I actually like talking about god and belief and religion and spirituality and life and origin, maybe we could continue this discussion in the political section where people are expected to argue a bit...
(but not for a couple weeks, I'm leaving for a 2 week army school in the morning and will likely be away from the forum for the duration).
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DiscGo



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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:40 am    Post subject:  

Don wrote:

I completely agree. I'm not trying to take away from your beliefs. I did not mean to offend.


Who is offended? Not me!


I agree with you about God being over used sometimes. Like when a gangster rapper thanks god for his award about "killing cops", or "smacken' his ho". I don't think God had anything to do with their song, or with them getting those awards.


In the end I think people just have different things that reach them.
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