Re: "When God Made Me" ~ Neil Young song ?


"Bluetele" <bluetele@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Burton Busk" <burtonlmb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > If he'd have cut the corner
> > that morning, we'd have been so much roadkill. That's when I really
> > started
> > believing there was a God.
>
> Aren't there other possible explanations? Some sort of psychic
phenomenon,
> perhaps, would account for that just as easily. Alternately, some visual
or
> aural perceptions that didn't quite register at the conscious level
> registered at the subconscious level. It could have been just be a
> coincidence too, of course.

Could be.

> I'm not sure an all-knowing deity would trouble Himself with such trifles.
> Lord knows, He allows stuff like that happen frequently enough. Maybe He
> feels you're indispensible for some unknowable reason, while all those
other
> people needed killing?

Yeah, that must have been it. He wanted me around to annoy people on RMAS!
No, I'm not saying I'm special, if you're implying that I'm saying that. It
wasn't my time yet, that's how I look at it.

> I don't mean cto be coming off so hard. I'll suspend my own disbelief
> frequently enough when needed.

It was good enough for me. I'll settle for that much proof. The concept of
God is a very comforting thing. Real or not, it works for me.


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