Christian Coincidence
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2023 3:50 pm
No problem. As I said, I don’t take the insults seriously.
Generational Dynamics proclaims an instinct to hate, oppress and kill those that are different. The tendency to fall into insults when one has lost an argument is apt to involve this instinct, A liberal is different, therefor you wallow in negative attributes which have no basis in reality. It would be generally better to say that liberals want to change the culture to remove flaws than to say they are sexual deviants. Lots more evidence of the former.
The religious tradition of abortion as a sin did occur in medieval times and did involve elements of superstition. The description is accurate, if not the most flattering one possible. You might want to get used to it.
A semi relevant incident.
In my late college days, I was with the Society of Creative Anachronism, smashing my fellows with full weight swords and armor. One of the largest events the society put on involved the East Kingdom (basically, the East Coast of the US) waging the annual Pensic War against the Mid Kingdom (the Mississippi valley). The looser had to keep Pittsburg. One year a battle was fought within sight of an interstate highway. They managed to bring the highway to a full stop just gawking.
But one of our members fashioned himself a soothsayer. Before the major battles started one year, he made his prophecy. “There will be an apparent injury. It will at first seem serious, but it will turn out not to be.” It, of course, turned out to be true. An idiot jumped out of a tree and hurt himself. A pretty predictable minor prophecy. Not evidence of much. But…
In the Christian Fellowship we used to call such incidents “Christian coincidence.” Prayers were common. They may have come true a bit more than expected. None were so out there that you could raise a flag and say “Look at this!” Similar events happened with the Neo pagans. I just noted them and moved on. Minor miracles happened regularly, seemingly without regard to which tradition was followed, Catholic, Born Again, Neo Pagan, Witchcraft or eventually Parapsychology.
The difference with Parapsychology was that lots of incidents were carefully recorded. You had to flip a coin a whole bunch of times, count on an average 50% hit rate, before you could make a statistically significant claim that the hit rate was significant.
Were these people gullible and therefore different? Should one start building up hate, oppression and murder? Let them be. They believed in their magic, and some of them tried to prove it. Those immersed in the European traditions often do not accept the probability shifts, or respect magic cast in other traditions. They would invoke unsupported suspicions of demons involved, or some other such rubbish.
But if religion is about the laws of nature being influence by the mind, you have to go beyond faith. You have to deal with real probability shifts. I chased them. I may have a little less patience than usual with the off the wall assumptions of those who have not.
Generational Dynamics proclaims an instinct to hate, oppress and kill those that are different. The tendency to fall into insults when one has lost an argument is apt to involve this instinct, A liberal is different, therefor you wallow in negative attributes which have no basis in reality. It would be generally better to say that liberals want to change the culture to remove flaws than to say they are sexual deviants. Lots more evidence of the former.
The religious tradition of abortion as a sin did occur in medieval times and did involve elements of superstition. The description is accurate, if not the most flattering one possible. You might want to get used to it.
A semi relevant incident.
In my late college days, I was with the Society of Creative Anachronism, smashing my fellows with full weight swords and armor. One of the largest events the society put on involved the East Kingdom (basically, the East Coast of the US) waging the annual Pensic War against the Mid Kingdom (the Mississippi valley). The looser had to keep Pittsburg. One year a battle was fought within sight of an interstate highway. They managed to bring the highway to a full stop just gawking.
But one of our members fashioned himself a soothsayer. Before the major battles started one year, he made his prophecy. “There will be an apparent injury. It will at first seem serious, but it will turn out not to be.” It, of course, turned out to be true. An idiot jumped out of a tree and hurt himself. A pretty predictable minor prophecy. Not evidence of much. But…
In the Christian Fellowship we used to call such incidents “Christian coincidence.” Prayers were common. They may have come true a bit more than expected. None were so out there that you could raise a flag and say “Look at this!” Similar events happened with the Neo pagans. I just noted them and moved on. Minor miracles happened regularly, seemingly without regard to which tradition was followed, Catholic, Born Again, Neo Pagan, Witchcraft or eventually Parapsychology.
The difference with Parapsychology was that lots of incidents were carefully recorded. You had to flip a coin a whole bunch of times, count on an average 50% hit rate, before you could make a statistically significant claim that the hit rate was significant.
Were these people gullible and therefore different? Should one start building up hate, oppression and murder? Let them be. They believed in their magic, and some of them tried to prove it. Those immersed in the European traditions often do not accept the probability shifts, or respect magic cast in other traditions. They would invoke unsupported suspicions of demons involved, or some other such rubbish.
But if religion is about the laws of nature being influence by the mind, you have to go beyond faith. You have to deal with real probability shifts. I chased them. I may have a little less patience than usual with the off the wall assumptions of those who have not.