DarkBronzePlant

So I entered a bathroom stall at work to take care of some business today. Ya know how sometimes people bring in reading material and then leave it in the stall, either 'cuz they forgot or (I suspect in this case) for the next person to read? Well in this case, someone had left this horrible little magazine called "Guideposts." It's like Readers Digest on crack. It's basically just a bunch of Christian glurge stories thrown together in one stinking heap.

Anyhow, this particular issue of Guideposts was open to a short, one-page story. I figured since it was there, and since it was kind of fitting giving what I was doing in the stall in the first place, I glanced through it. This particular story started off with a woman describing how the basement lightwitch in her & her husband's home kept intermittantly failing to work. The husband kept promising he'd fix it (why the woman never did, I don't know... I guess they were a good Christian household, and she dutifully played the helpless, subserviant wife.)

So anyhow, at some point her husband gets cancer and dies. And this woman doesn't want to go into the basement anymore. I couldn't figure out if she was afraid of the dark, or that the lightswitch would remind her of her husband, or what. But she finally does. And the very first time she goes in, halle-fucking-lujah! The lightswitch worked! Praise the fucking lord! God really was with her!



And I sat there, in awe of the capability of the human mind to convince itself that the this all-powerful, all-loving god had allowed her husband to whither away and die, but PRAISE JESUS he fixed the light switch!!!!!

Entropic_Gnosis

thats just bloody odd that is. I really cant imagine what these people are thinking

fando

Not that surprising really. Unexplained phenomenon = God or something similar to most people. We have a habit of filling in the blanks with any explanation handy. It's part of the way our brains work, kind of a survival trait you might say. So to me, it's like watching nature take its course. Free will be damned.

Strawberry

So you did flush the thing down the toilet, didn't you? ...If it were me, I'd shove it in the maxi pad disposal, but I'm bad like that...

Edited to add that a bunch of my relatives get that magazine. It really is pretty funny.

Slavik91

This is exactly like my sadistic game show host theory of God;

God: "Now, I'm going to kill your husband slowly and fix your light switch for you once he�s dead. Then, you have to rationalize, using only these two events, that I'm both all-powerful and all-loving."

Contestant: "ARRRRRRRRRRRG!"

snoiduspoitus

I thought perhaps you were referring to 'Wheel of Misfortune', where the wheel is filled with slots such as:

"Earthquake."
"Trip to Australia."
"Famine."
"Win $1000!"
"Free Spin!"
"Free Choice!"
"Tornado."
"Cancer."
"Las Vegas Adventure."
"Afterlife."
"Hell."