Okay, that was the damnedest thing. My last post came about 1:15 EST. I have no idea how that happened.
Blooming Onions saved my life*
*This post sponsored by Grizzlebee’s “You’ll wish you had less fun”
Crack Medical Team in State-of-the-Art Hospital Uses Esoteric Knowledge Gleaned From Hundreds of Years of Painstaking Research to Save Injured Girl’s Life – Superstitious Bystander Attempts to Claim Credit, Is Laughed Down
What the headline would have read if there was any justice in this world … .
very odd timestamps…but to clarify:
That was completely called for. That is what turns off a lot of people from Christianity. God may not really work that way (hey, I’m a Deist, I don’t believe in an active God) but the Christians who believe he does turn a lot of people (including myself) off.
Maybe. I guess it depends on the individual and circumstances. If I was in hospital after a near fatal accident, what complete strangers were thinking wouldn’t be much in my thoughts.
People do pick out individual tragedies and focus on them. But they tend to be ones they can relate to. About people they identify with, where they’ve heard the story on TV or newspaper. But in this case it would appear that all that has been passed on is the barest of details and a name. Hard to give anything but passing empathy to this. This is the equivalent of form-letter lobbying;
Dear God,
Please save the life of _____________(name) a ______(age) year old _____(gender) who ______________________________(details of illness/accident, if known). I heard about this from a friend, so don’t know anything about her/him, but I guess that this must be a particularly deserving case. So if you could intervene that would be wonderful.
Don’t know. The “we obviously made up the quotes, so draw your own conclusions about the rest of it” section.