Kthulhu

Grad Student: Test subject #7832A ready for launch, professor!

Professer#1: Launch!

**Zooooooom**
**crumple**
**splash**
**BOOM**

Professor#2: You know for a second I thought he was gonna make it.

Professor#1: So did I. He did get good height and distance though. Nice form but it's still a failure.

Professor#2: Noted.

Grad Student: Test subject #7833A ready for launch, professor!

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If I believed in a hell I'd so be going there...

~The Thing That Should Not Be

Proctors_Gambit

Cue Benny Hill Music as kid skis past woman sunbathing who jumps up topless.



Honestly, the credit God gets for fucking everything.
Kid lives : It was God's guiding hand, praise god.
If the kid had died, would it have been Gods fault?

I find the christian idea that God intervenes sometimes and a whim more disturbing than the idea that he intervenes not at all.


-Gambit

winstonjen

Must be the one of the versions we have today.

scombrid

I was tempted to respond that the kill switch failure was actually God trying to call the little girl home for whatever reason and that her surviving was actually Satan's intervention subverting God's plan.

I like the people on that board though and would rather not engage in theological bickering since the godspeak was just typical programmed platitudes. (despite the feeling that this statement and this statement reek of people itching to "witness".) Besides, one dissenter posted that had a guardian angel been present that the little girl wouldn't have been put in danger in the first place and the thread immediately died.


OOO I just remembered a story that my 8th grade theology teacher (parochial school) told when praising god for watching over her family.

She described an incident where her 8year old daughter was climbing the ladder to get on the high dive at the pool and slipped backwards at the top of the ladder. She fell straight down and land squarely on her feet. Had she fell any other way her back probably would've been broken. An angel must have guarded her decent. Oh yeah, both ankles were shattered. Praise be to God.

Abel Stable

My favorite "miracle" story was the night in 1950 when a church exploded, but no one was hurt because all fifteen members of the choir were late for practice. Here's the snopes page on it. In the end, thats one amazing coincidence! I wonder how people would have reacted if it were a Hindu temple.
Bet Jung got all excited about it too.
:notworthy Thats a terrific idea! How could they possibly argue against it? She could have gone straight to heaven, but now she gets her chance to go to hell, too. Thank god for free will.