Hmm. I play poker differently...

I put my opponent on a range of hands based on real world evidence and observation. I then call or fold based on the mathematically probability he actually has a particular hand that beats me compared to what's in the pot and what it costs me to call.

If anything, I lean towards skepticism at the table and am considered a payoff wizard

Sorry Jumping so far backwards, going to bed now and cba to read the rest of this stagnant thread.
If I touched a cross and instantly got into an accident I would sooner believe God caused the accident, than that God saved me from the accident, but I guess you know it was God that saved you because God is good, and we know God is good since he saved you (and the book says so).
The jerking out of the hand sounds like perhaps he hit a bump (put there by Satan LDO) or perhaps even just what happens when a car begins to skid. I am not sure about the last option I have been playing it scenario in my head and can't quite decide what sort of forces would be acting on the steering wheel as you begin the skid, I think not enough to JERK it left any more than the wheel wants to turn left when not skidding. So hitting a bump seems like the most likely way.

This obviously supports your theory though since the Devil doesn't have the power to just reach out and grab the wheel, he can make pot holes though!

Nice imagination.

There was no pothole.

Splendour, what's more likely, that (1) there was a pothole or something that you're overlooking or missed that caused the swerving of the car or (2) that the very laws of nature themselves were suspended in your favor?

Sorry this thread is over a year and a half old.

I'm not revisiting it because someone resuscitated it.

It's over and done with.

Just like this life once I leave it.

God is going to resuscitate me and I'm never going to want to return to this life. I've got something better to do.

I was responding to a post of yours that was less than two hours old. But I suppose if you think that a MIRACLE is more likely than you overlooking something, then well...I can see why you want this thread buried.

I don't feel like re-reading the thread.

I just don't see why someone who wasn't there should be able to ascribe factors to a situation that didn't occur.

If you're sitting on a jury and the jury recesses to consider the facts of the case do the jurors get to change the facts?

No they don't. And if they do you should pay attention to it.

The bible at the end of the Book of Revelation says not "to add to the words of the book"....

If you're adding things that aren't realistically relevant how can you arrive at the truth?

All you did is take someone else's story and corrupt it.

Why does some human being who wasn't even there get to re-write "my true life story"?

If you don't understand why your witness account is considered to be compromised during an accident then I really don't know what else to say.

Just stop.

If I listened to you I'd never be able to do anything real in life.

You can study Myers/Briggs personality types.

Some people are naturally more realistic while some are more imaginative.

It makes you wonder why there's an imbalance.

But Christians have always said the Gospels are an account of God's reality.

Imo all you're doing is fooling yourself into upsetting the God intended order of things by your pursuit of philosophy.

Of course, God could be tolerating that to allow you to learn how to think.

Who do you really think the best philosopher in the world is anyways?

It's God. He established government, law and order and religion to guide people while their minds are evolving.

Don't people have to constantly adjust to new knowledge in this world? Is that adjusting ever going to stop? No not unless you get fixated on negative things and go the wrong way in your own mind.

Study up on the topic of "forgiveness". Doesn't the brotherly love ability to forgive act like a patch on relationships.

If people couldn't forgive (make peace) then we'd be at war constantly.

The human race seems to be getting better at making peace initiatives but we still have problems with it. Look at Netanyahu in the Middle East. Isn't he a hawk because that crazy terrorist Aminejad is constantly making statements advocating the annihilation of Israel?

Religion is a mind/body/relationship problem.

You should try getting in sync with it instead of cherrypicking against it all the time.

There might of been an on-topic sentence in there somewhere.

Do you ever give it a rest?

I'm not on topic because this is an old thread.

I don't even remember the original point. I've written dozen and dozen of threads and I can't spend all my time re-reading old threads.



But you should learn to give it a rest....The fact that you can't indicates you are hyper-competitive.

Read the bible. God institutes the Sabbath as a day of rest for a reason....

People need their rest.

A person with 18,210 posts telling me to give it a rest. Heh.

So the Devil on earth can grab steering wheels? I didn't realise he had Dominion of earth in a similar way to our Lord. Good to Know.
If he is so powerful why don't you worship him? serious? They both do nasty stuff, both are all powerful, both look after their own.

You should learn to change gears in your mind for your bodies sake if nothing else not just on the poker table, y'know.

Didn't you know thinking on a high level can be exhausting. Some people even lose brain mass as they age.

So learning to rest could be very advantageous to you in your chosen profession. Actually, I don't know anyone who can afford dementia or Alzheimers.

God likes to keep our minds busy 6 days a week but he gives us the 7th to rest and take care of ourselves and re-connect with Him. He must have some purpose that's good for us and not just for Him. Because looking out for His people always seem to be the first thing on His mind.

I might have been wrong.

I haven't thought about that event a lot in my life recently.

So please just drop it because I haven't been thinking on it lately to have a clear recollection of the impression that those events made on me.

But I did drive over the patch of ground where the accident occurred and its a very high traffic highway. There are no potholes on that traffic circle.