THE NATURE OF MIRACLES (TRUE or FALSE)
THE NATURE OF MIRACLES (TRUE or FALSE)
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I've always been a Free Thinker for as long as I can remember. To me our personalities our just a collection of Memory, Reason, and Feelings. I believe that what you experience in life makes you as a person no matter what it is, Good/Bad, True/False...It's all about the way you understand the information coming in. Like the whole concept that Wisdom comes with age, or Early Turn out = Early Burn Out (regarding to someone growing up to fast). When you have a child you have a short Time-Window to program their personality to be what you want them to be and the difference between right & wrong. When a child first comes into this existence the parents are its first guide to Fact or Fiction about the world and their Reality of/and Understanding. But the difference with me is that even as a child I learned about the word in a different way, The Logical, Common Sense, and Fundamental Way. I praise my mom for never pushing certain beliefs at me. As a child when All your trying to do is learn about the world, Fit In, and be normal like everyone else, it's hard to make any Logical Sense of existance when most Role Models and even parents are pushing Mythological Beliefs written By PRIMITIVE MEN with NO EVIDENCE to back them up.
Just like Stephen Hawking(the physicist that holds Einstein's chair at Cambridge), I was ALWAYS taking things apart as a child because I was interested in how and why they worked. Because in a way, when you know the ins-&-outs of something, your Master and Control it. I even took apart my "Speak-N-Spell" as a child because I was interested in how this toy was telling Me how to Spell, LOL! I was the first kid in class to look past the beliefs of what other people TOLD ME WAS True and researched the truth for myself. I never believed in Santa Clause, Tooth Fairy, Gods' and so on because I've always had a level of thinking and understanding that was above my age. I'm an "Outside Of The Box Thinker", meaning that I acquire a thought inside of one box in my mind, then think outside of that box, and outside of box2, And outside of box3 so I can examine all My Thoughts and even my system of problem solving with Fundamental and Down-To-Earth explanations...
The whole reason I posted this blog was because of the thoughts that have been floating around in my head based on a comment a friend made recently about Miracles...
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[Dictionary.com = In this view, a miracle is a violation of normal laws of nature by a god or some other supernatural being. Some scientist-theologians like Polkinghorne suggest that miracles are not violations of the laws of nature but "exploration of a new regime of physical experience.
The logic behind an event being deemed a miracle varies significantly. In most cases a religious text, such as the Bible or Quran, states that a miracle occurred, and believers accept this as a fact.
Some modern day religious believers hold that there is a scientific basis for believing in supernatural miracles. They hold that in the absence of a plausible, parsimonious scientific theory, the best explanation for these events is that they were performed by a supernatural being, e.g. God. Therefore, there is probably a supernatural being (i.e., God) that performs what appear to be miracles. However, some scientists criticize this kind of thinking as a subversion, or perhaps deliberate misuse.]
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A someone recently told me that they believe in miracles because the birth of her youngest family members who had numerous life threatening complications prior to being conceived.
The way she used that example to justify a Real Reality meaning for her concept of a miracle puzzled me as to what was her form of "Filtering" the information she took in through out the day and understanding before they were permently burned into the brain's memory bank.
But don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to down play the Event of them surviving their birth and being brought into existence, But rather the whole Concept of understanding the Real World explanation for what happen.
There are numerous factors that play a role in a certain event taking place, and the "Effect" usually can't be duplicated the Exact Same Way a second time around because all the "Causes" that played a part to give the Effect will be slightly different the next time around, depending on the event. This is the Cause and Effect principle, or the Butterfly Effect. To make a long story short though things just happen because they happened that way based on the actions and prior events that take place...Chance, Luck, Probablility, and Medical Technology was the miracal in a REAL WORLD REALITY sense. It's just the way or Concept you think with and base reality on. Everything that you learn, study, observe, or reason with can be put into different Categories/Concepts and ways of thinking so the thinker can understand the information. Just like in school when they show you different Diagrams to help you learn a lesson or skill. There are many other kinds of diagrams out there for the same topic/subject, but their different in their own way with their own reasons for being right...It's just the way in which you take it all in. Our species is advancing like crazy thanks to our Brains and everything has a Logical and Common Sense explanation with real evidence that you can Touch, Understand, and test for your self. And to tell you the truth it shouldn't suprise anyone that when Humans first developed the First Form Of The Conscious Mind(state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc) that the only thing they could come up with for their presence was a "god". And you've got to understand that until science came along there was NO BASIC FOUNDATION of Fact or Fiction, because the whole nature of Science is to Decipher between Fact and Fiction using, PROOF & EVIDENCE. Proof and Evidence have been new added additions to the Human understanding since recent times.
There of two meanings of a Miracle...
1. A term explaining the arrival of a Good Event with Supernatual Involvement?????
2. A term explaining the arrival of a Good Event taking place in respect or to the contrary of the Bad or Alternative Event occuring also!!!!!!
This is just what I think,
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"Miricle" is just another
"Miricle" is just another form of "god of the gaps" it is an excuse to say, "Insted of saying I dont know how or why this happend, I'll give it an ambiguous atribute so I dont have to explore how or why".
It is like when the one minor survived in the coal mine while all the others died, people called it a "Miricle".
What if it were oposite? What if one minor died and all the others lived, people will still call it a "Miricle".
When is it not? When half die and half dont?
It is a trick of the mind that people use that word. Something seemingly is unsurvivable so when the oposite happens they make up a vacuous word based on emotion.
The reality is simple, the physics of the situation plays out to that outcome, nothing more. Low probibility of something is not an excuse to call it magic. Sometimes we never know why something happened, but inserting superman vs kriptonite explinations in words such as "miricle" is not only absurd, but puts up a wall in the future to find natural answers.
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Good read. I was the same
Good read. I was the same way as a kid. I still get ribbed by my mom sometimes for taking apart the vacuum cleaner when I was three.
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