I guess I shouldn't be surprised

[uberllama42]

The turnover between Obama's birth certificate going public and http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6351917&mesg_id=6351917">this was dizzyingly close to zero. I can't wait to see what kind of predictions people come up with. What are the chances anyone says Obama's going to lose?

[lizerdbits]

1. Why do people believe that

circling planets cause events? So if I get killed by a drunk driver it was somehow written in the stars? That person was driven to drink and drive by the universe? Horoscopes are funny. "This really amazing thing will happen to you today." Or I could stay in bed all day and then it's wrong. Hell, it's wrong anyway.

Once on a day with a friend about 10 years ago we were window shopping and it started raining. The store we went in was sort of a general woo woo shop with astrology stuff. We picked up a book and did the requisite calculations based on our birthday/birth place for kicks. Then you looked in another section to find out how your life was going to turn out. Mine said I was really eager to start a large family. I guess a piece of the sky hit me in the head years before because I can't stand kids for more than 20 minutes and try to avoid them. :rofl:

[Heddi]

2. no

If you get killed by a drunk driver it was because subconsciously you WANTED to be killed by a drunk driver.

Haven't you been reading?

Anyhoo.

I'm a nurse. Work at a HUGE hospital with tons of very educated and talented nurses.

A few months ago, the dad of one of the girls I worked with died. She was pretty close to him, and has been really distraught over it.

Last week she said she went to a psychic---actually, a psychic came to her, was at a friend's house doing readings. For only $40 she got a reading and it was SO RIGHT ON!!!111 The psychic knew her dad had died. Knew she had a daughter BUT THERE WAS NO WAY THE PSYCHIC COULD HAVE KNOWN THIS!!!1 I said 'Except that the psychic was a friend of your friend...." Oh, but see, there's NO REASON AT ALL that the friend would have mentioned the dead dad or new daughter. NONE WHATSOEVER.

SO the psychic does a reading and just KNOWS ALL THIS STUFF and how dad is happy and she even knew THE FIRST LETTER OF DAD'S MIDDLE NAME!! oh my god. And she knew that dad was good with his hands--he was! He really was! HOw did she know that? She knew SO RIGHT ON That dad loved all of his kids SO MUCH and was SO SAD when he died because he didn't want his kids to be SAD OH MY GOD.

I just sat there and nodded my head and ignored as much as I could. It had been a long night, I'm a travel nurse (work for agency, not directly for the hospital) and don't want to get on anyone's bad side. I felt like telling her that I would have charged her no money and would have been able to tell her just the same amount of things as this psychic.

[lizerdbits]

3. Oh that's right

we choose when we die. I guess kids who die of genetic diseases or cancer are just really depressed and don't want to live. :eyes: Or maybe their parents didn't love them enough. :eyes: Or some other bullshit.

[Heddi]

4. God didn't love them enough

because they didn't pray enough because they didn't pay enough because they weren't pretty enough because they weren't smart enough because they weren't perfect enough.

[Orrex]

5. Don't you know anything? God's love for them is without bounds!

In fact, he loved them so much that he kept them safe while they were alive, and then called them home when it was time.

Or something.


I remember some nonsense along these lines when some missionary got shot down in Colombia. The family declared on GMA that God had taken her home.

Excuse me while I :puke:

[realisticphish]

6. scenario:

*50 children murdered by a psychopath, one survived*

parents: God was looking out for little Johnny that day

and apparently slaughtering the other children.

[Orrex]

7. I've read about that kind of scenario online

It's called, I believe "argument from incomplete destruction." The other formulation is "Mary Smith was the sole survivor of the plane crash because God was protecting her."

Nice for Mary. Not so nice for the other 249 godless passengers.

[realisticphish]

8. don't worry

it was their time to go...

[Random_Australian]

9. Heh, that's from the "300 proofs of God's existence" page

My favourite one is the Argument from Guitar Mastery

1) Eric Clapton is God.
2) Eric Clapton exists
3) Therefore God exists.