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Originally Posted by BigErf
The definition of coincidence is a sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged. The problem that I have with this is that whoever did the defining uses “although accidental” to cut off any other explanations. If a sequence of events play out in such a way that they “seem to have been planned or arranged” then why couldn’t they have been? Who says it was an accident? And what credentials does the definer have that allows them to tell me that what I experience in my own life is nothing but a bunch of accidents that seem to have been planned or arranged? And is the reason that you view them in this way because the definition tells you that they’re accidents?
One of the problems with this is that the way of looking at the world that derives from the argument you're making is one that is fundamentaly unable to differentiate between things that were done by God, things that were done by Satan and things that are infact not direct actions from either god or other factors.
Another is that it then makes impossible to think of it as an accident. Everything that happens then automatically HAS to have some direct meaning. You wont be able to neglect ANYTHING as accidental.
Furthermore, you effectively deny the existence of reliable laws of nature. Which is fine, but seems to me a rather problematic view.
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It’s all about stepping outside of the secular box. Isn’t the goal here to search and find the truth? Well does the truth stop at the dictionaries definitions?
I cant really say anything about this, if this is what it takes to 'step outside the secular box', I simply cannot do that. Your brain might accept this type of (in my opinion very much flawed) reasoning, mine cannot.
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I don’t believe that God makes it easy to be wrong when following your own innate sense. And if it’s so, if I am at the risk of being damned because I followed the wrong “instincts”, then set me up with the biggest ****ing line on the tightest hookers ass because I will see you in hell.
This is one of those things where you cant be unclear. Either you think that something feeling right is an indication of it being right in the eyes of God (God has made you inherently likely to do good) or not. Both have their own implications, which are far reaching. Any inbetween road leaves open many interpreations of things and is worse than both other options.
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No, I don't remember ever NOT following a sign.
And I'm not sure that I could ignore one if I wanted to because they're like an addiction that you give in to. It's a cosmic force that basically dictates your action and this is why I believe that we do not possess free will unconditionally.
Do you 'catch' all of God's signs?
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I see no distinction between God and life.
I figured this as I was writing it down the other night.