IS this story good proof of angels? How else could she survive?
Can you say hoax?
Without more facts it is dangerous to comment, however, it is worth mentioning that the illusion of warmth and comfort is reportedly common in cases of hypothermia.
whatever it was, she survived in spite of great odds & feels angels (& I hope, God) were responsible. It’s not proof of angels to anyone else necessarily, but anyone who would try to shake her belief that she was helped by angels & God is a poohead.
It’s true that her hallucinations might have provided her with the mental strength to carry on. The second night seems about the right timeframe for food/sleep deprivation hallucinations to set it. If you were Wiccan, you might say that that kind of focusing of mental constructs (in this case hallucinating or interpreting hallucinations as “angels”) to serve a useful purpose (provide comfort and hope for survival) is akin to “angels existing”. But since your reading World Net Daily, I’m guessing your not Wiccan.
Completely agree with FriarTed. Its not proof of angels or God, but there is no harm done here for her believing and others who want to believe.
If WND said grass was green, I’d have to go check before I believed them.
I take it as proof of evoution, actually, in that natural selection over millions of years has made the human body rugged enough to survive extreme adversity.
Besides, if the angels were real, why didn’t they, y’know, GO FOR HELP or something? Even Lassie could manage that.
snerk
“What’s that, boy? Daniel’s trapped in the lion’s den?! Ma, start the truck!”
“Completely agree with FriarTed. Its not proof of angels or God, but there is no harm done here for her believing and others who want to believe.”
And there is no harm in others expressing skepticism about supernatural explanations and suggesting alternatives. Fighting ignorance and all that.
My mom likes to tell me the story of a little girl who claims she was comforted by Jesus while her Dad went nuts and shotgunned her Mom to death.
I said, “Well, I hope Jesus knows that if I were in a similar situation, I would prefer him to SAVE MY MOMS LIFE first and perhaps comfort me later.”
Oh, please.
If this sort of thing were a regular occurence, then you could argue that it indicates a human ability to survive extreme adversity. Even then though, it wouldn’t be evidence for (or against) evolution. It would simply mean that the human body is pretty darned resilient, nothing more.
Since this is a single event (one which does not necessarily reflect human ruggedness in general), that argument becomes even more tenuous.
“Mischelle followed three elk into Alder Creek Canyon, where she fell. Suffering from a deep puncture wound to her left leg, she was unable to make it out of the canyon. . . . Within hours, a winter storm moved in . . . The search was scaled back Oct. 31 . . . She was finally found Nov. 3.”
—Hmmpph. Some angels they were. Couldn’t keep her from falling? Couldn’t ask God to re-route that storm? Couldn’t get a single searcher near her? Who the hell in Personnel is hiring these angels, anyway?
Well, who supposes that angels have nothing better to do than follow your dumb ass around and save it from death, while continue to neglect the millions of children in Africa. It’s not only delusional, it’s delusions of grandeur. It’s psychotic and solipsistic. Only a poohead would humor a psychotic delusional because they think their pyschotic delusions make the person feel warm and fuzzy.
> Besides, if the angels were real, why didn’t they, y’know, GO
> FOR HELP or something? Even Lassie could manage that.
Well, she was rescued, wasn’t she? Apparently, the angels were, indeed, fetching help during the daytime hours.
] I said, “Well, I hope Jesus knows that if I were in a similar
] situation, I would prefer him to SAVE MY MOMS LIFE first
] and perhaps comfort me later.”
Then again, there is no reason to think that He couldn’t do both at the same time.
And, of course, God doesn’t work that way. Steven Wright had a comedy bit like that. “When I was young, I used to pray for a new bicycle. My mom said that God doesn’t work that way. So, I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.”
> Well, she was rescued, wasn’t she? Apparently, the angels were, indeed, fetching help during the daytime hours.
So, given “B”, any possible “A” that may explain “B” must be true.
I must be God. How else do you explain the fact that I am wearing a blue sweater?
Shit happens.
When it is bad shit, we call it bad fortune, and/or summon an attorney.
When it is good shit, we call it a miracle.
It’s all shit.
So, by her own admission, she survived the first night without any assistance.
Why, then, does her continued survival require a miracle?
Isn’t it more likely that by reducing blood flow to the extremeties her body was able to maintain a high enough core temperature to survive? Doesn’t the loss of both legs due to frostbite point to this explanation?
Angel stories like this one expose exactly what is wrong with American religiosity. We subvert the divine to a supporting cast in our own personal narratives. Harold Bloom says Americans have relegated angels to “pet” status, these creatures that offer us unconditional love.
It’s not being a “poohead” at all. What about the people who do die in accidents, etc. By saying that angels or whatever saved this woman you’re saying they don’t give a crap about a lot of other people. Why didn’t angels divert the planes on 9/11? Why is it that angels only act in ways that can be easily explained by natural causes. etc. etc.
Oh, and like jayjay said, pretty much anything on world net daily after the date is pretty much a crock.