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Oct 6, 2019 14:05:03   #
Wonttakeitanymore
 
rumitoid wrote:
I have had many what can be called supernatural events. If you related you had those same experiences, I would be highly skeptical. Ergo, they are pretty much unbelievable. As far as get what you need, I had four. I will give you the best one.

I was working as the manager of an emergency shelter in Las Vegas, NM. Free room and board and a stipend of $100. I was doing a wash and when my three pairs of pants came out the dryer, all were frayed at the knee. This really depressed me. I could not even afford thrift store pants on my money. I paced the living room for about twenty minutes before I was able to get it together and come to a true peace over my situation. At that exact moment of release, there was a knock at the door. I opened it and a man was standing there with pants in his hands. He asked, "Do you take clothing donations?" I answered yes we did and he handed them over. All three pair were 31x31, my perfect size...and not easy to come by.
I have had many what can be called supernatural ev... (show quote)


Not coincidence! U we’re blessed!! Thank God!

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Oct 6, 2019 14:30:28   #
Rose42
 
Wonttakeitanymore wrote:
What people assume are coincidences are A loving father in heaven choosing to remain anonymous!!!


There is no such thing as a coincidence. Of that I am certain.

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Oct 7, 2019 05:06:35   #
Singularity
 
rumitoid wrote:
We have what we call coincidences, miracles, and the unexplained. Things that appear to defy our usual understanding of the world. Most of us reach for a reasonable explanation within our knowledge of how reality works, even if it does not totally explain the circumstances. The elements to dismiss depend on questioning the minds of such accounts. And basic physics makes us relax in that look.

Others by their belief system accept such phenomenon as God's will or some other force in the universe. The rational ridicule such beliefs. Nothing in science can account for these occurrences. Psychic power is dismissed as a lucky guess or like reading palms: untrue as to its nature, a scam. The true explanation is eluded by confidence in what science tells us.

But what if it isn't? We assume coincidences are just that, yet the only "proof" of that assumption is what we presently believe, fixed in supposedly strict laws of what is possible. A person gets the sense a long lost friend will call out of the blue, and they do. Nothing in our worldview, as presented by the "professionals," has any margin or space for the reason. It also has no argument against it!

Christians and others claiming miracles, are presumed deluded or sick in some way. Their account of what actually occurred somehow flawed. In the eyes of Science, it has to be. It does not fit their idea of reality. Even with some pretty convincing truth of a miracle, it is assumed that a vital piece of information has been omitted or lost.

There is something more. Rest assured.
We have what we call coincidences, miracles, and t... (show quote)


Of course we humans get the feeling that things work out for the best. We are optimists and at least half of the time, they naturally and rationally do! The miracle, the something more, is that we can simultaneously analyze the numbers and still groove on the feeling.

That is how come the answer to the title question of your thread is, " Yes, naturally!"

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Oct 7, 2019 10:45:32   #
Gatsby
 
Rose42 wrote:
There is no such thing as a coincidence. Of that I am certain.


A few years back I went to a auction sale, found something that I wanted; to get it I had to buy
everything from here to there. Since it considered poor manners to leave your junk behind,
I loaded up everything and went home. Amongst the "junk" was a tire and rim for a chevy
pick-up, large 5 bolt pattern, which I had no home for. A few weeks later I was coming home
from work at 2 something AM, when I saw a beat up old chevy pick-up with a very shredded tire
parked in front of a closed Casey's store.

Turned out that the driver had no spare, no cash, and barely enough gas to make the 90 miles home.
I told him that I would be right back and not to worry. Much to his shock I returned with that homeless
tire and rim and helped him put it on. He felt terrible because he had nothing to offer me,
until I told him that the only payment which I would accept was for him to help someone else
someday. He shook my hand and promised that I would be repaid.

All I did that night was to repay a favor that had been done for me, on the same terms, long ago.
Godspeed to the truck driver who planted that seed in my heart so many years past.
I have repaid that debt many times, on those terms, and in so doing warmed my heart many times.
My only hope is that that "favor" will make it around the world some day, and live on longer than I do.

Was that all just coincidence?

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Oct 7, 2019 23:01:02   #
Rose42
 
Gatsby wrote:
A few years back I went to a auction sale, found something that I wanted; to get it I had to buy
everything from here to there. Since it considered poor manners to leave your junk behind,
I loaded up everything and went home. Amongst the "junk" was a tire and rim for a chevy
pick-up, large 5 bolt pattern, which I had no home for. A few weeks later I was coming home
from work at 2 something AM, when I saw a beat up old chevy pick-up with a very shredded tire
parked in front of a closed Casey's store.

Turned out that the driver had no spare, no cash, and barely enough gas to make the 90 miles home.
I told him that I would be right back and not to worry. Much to his shock I returned with that homeless
tire and rim and helped him put it on. He felt terrible because he had nothing to offer me,
until I told him that the only payment which I would accept was for him to help someone else
someday. He shook my hand and promised that I would be repaid.

All I did that night was to repay a favor that had been done for me, on the same terms, long ago.
Godspeed to the truck driver who planted that seed in my heart so many years past.
I have repaid that debt many times, on those terms, and in so doing warmed my heart many times.
My only hope is that that "favor" will make it around the world some day, and live on longer than I do.

Was that all just coincidence?
A few years back I went to a auction sale, found s... (show quote)


No way was that coincidence.

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