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- nicktomyskins, on 06/30/2009, -1/+62that child must have had its tray table up and its seat back in the full upright position
- amnesiac87, on 06/30/2009, -4/+38Bet you any money that Samuel L. Jackson was behind this.
- pwner, on 06/30/2009, -5/+37This kid was lucky, the other 150 weren't. Stop calling this a miracle. A miracle is if the other 150 people reappeared in the airport alive.
- harrisbradley, on 06/30/2009, -2/+32Unbreakable
- deeboe, on 06/30/2009, -1/+24They called him Mr. Glass!
- EeekiE, on 06/30/2009, -8/+27A Miracle?
A plane just crashed killing hundred of people...
A miracle?? - andyb747, on 06/30/2009, -1/+19The One.
- Talphin, on 06/30/2009, -2/+18A miracle is something that is not otherwise physically possible. Someone surviving a plane crash is physically possible. Unlikely, but very possible.
Not a miracle. - Altotus, on 06/30/2009, -2/+15How lucky is a toddler if she lives through seeing her entire family die in a fiery crash? Not very, I think.
- Subduction, on 06/30/2009, -6/+18I suspect that you and I share many of the same beliefs, yet I've taken an instant dislike to you.
- eifersucht12a, on 06/30/2009, -1/+12Miracle? Just highly unlikely. If you're going to say God saved the kid, he also murdered all the others and brought the plane down to begin with. :|
- BassMastr, on 06/30/2009, -2/+12What about the other kids on the plane? Sounds to me like if Allah did save this kid then he's a real ***** for letting the others die.
- neio, on 06/30/2009, -1/+10According to the CEO of the airline he blamed high waves and strong wind for the crash, I didn't realize they were sailing, and aren't airplanes supposed to endure high winds at 800 knots an hour?
Lets just call it what it is, they (pilots, maintenance crew) ***** up. - Roget, on 06/30/2009, -0/+8That's because they were sinfants.
- Ki77erB, on 06/30/2009, -2/+10Damn, that is exactly what I said. This is the beginning of Unbreakable.
- Alli3388, on 06/30/2009, -2/+9Inaccurate. It was a 14 year old girl, not a young child. Girls are often married by then in that part of the world... Good that she's alive - but just sayin'...
- Draous, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7I'm glad God has to kill hundreds of people for Miracles to happen.
- mac888, on 06/30/2009, -8/+15miracle, shmiracle
- deeboe, on 06/30/2009, -4/+10I think they point was, A miracle, not miracleS
- broncfan23, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7Well, you saved the wrong one since it's a girl.
- saucercrab, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5I guess all of those people who met a violent end didn't have an angel?
- CrazedLeper, on 06/30/2009, -1/+6Let's all ease up off the TV and maybe read a book on fractals or something.
- solid12345, on 06/30/2009, -1/+6He better grow up to cure cancer
- eifersucht12a, on 06/30/2009, -1/+6Pedobear now is not the time!
- powerclicks, on 06/30/2009, -1/+6Jules: Don't do that! Don't you ***** do that! Don't blow this ***** off! What just happened was a ***** miracle!
Vincent: Chill the ***** out, Jules, this ***** happens.
Jules: Wrong! Wrong, this ***** doesn't just happen.
Jules: Kid should be *****' dead now, my friend! We just witnessed a miracle, and I want you to ***** acknowledge it!
Vincent: Okay man, it was a miracle, can we leave now? - Warren803, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5I think his point was to state that sometimes people are hypocrites when it comes to miracles. When people die, it's a tragedy, but if it's a miracle...it's the work of God. You dont ever hear people say that the deaths were the work of God, and that the miracles are just plain luck. But if God does exist, he had just as much a part in the deaths as in the miracles.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5The child is probably the anti-Christ
The faithful better start building bomb shelters - LawScholar, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5Skurt, the person you replied to specifically said they do not believe in god or miracles. ***** read the posts you reply to.
- CompTechNSX, on 06/30/2009, -2/+6dugg for Weird Al - Albuquerque
- Subduction, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4And what would you be saying about Christians who immediately begin asserting that the 150 people died because they lacked sufficient faith in god?
You would be calling them disgusting opportunists, using a tragedy to try to advance their particular world view. Brushing past the terrible or wonderful human aspects of this story in a fairly sociopathic effort to score debating points.
"Miracle" is used in a very general sense these day to describe any positive event that runs counter to standard probability, but not if you're an Atheist who sees a non-secular plot around every corner.
So please, you don't have to take every opportunity to cleanse every discussion. As a fellow Atheist I ask you, just let us enjoy one shred of good news out of a terrible situation without indulging your own personal needs for philosophical pedantry. - Remmiz, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4You're good. The Island is somewhere (or somewhen) in the south pacific.
- sh0rtstop00, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4you bastard! MJ would be so pissed right now
- pegothejerk, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4How is it that everyone is calling out a miracle and not stating the truth - the odds of surviving a plane crash still suck BIG time and it'd be nice to have those odds increased a bit 100+ years into flight.
- Draous, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4All the other 152 peoples guardian angels must have been on their smoke breaks.
- geezor, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4The glass is 99.3% empty.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4You appear to have inferior reference-getting abilities.
- jaymzdean, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Solar flare ocean wave?
- illDecree, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Draous:
did you happen to read the first part of his sentence? ... ya know, the part before the comma - FritoPendejo, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is
they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff,
then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What
was THAT?!"
- Jack Handey - JT114881, on 06/30/2009, -3/+6In about two months I am going to be flying from Manila, Philippines back to Boston, and all these recent plane crashes make me nervous as hell.
- ousthouse, on 06/30/2009, -1/+440,000 planes landed safely today... that's 40,000 miracles! You must be a very religious person.
- zip000, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Just because you don't believe in god or miracles - and I don't either - is no reason to be rude about an amazingly unlikely event like this.
I think the word "miracle" has mostly lost it's supernatural aura anyway. - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Good thing this wasn't an "airfrance plane", whatever the hell that is.
- Subduction, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2You're missing the point entirely.
The point is that you and Pwner and the few others pursuing this are the ones hanging out in an unrelated discussion policing our speech and checking our every word for its implications against your world view, and expecting us all to stop our discussion to debate whether a single word implies too much against something you personally believe.
You're acting just like the radical right in the Christian community - jumping into unrelated discussions and telling us all that that we have God to thank and that we should say our prayers. What's right and what's wrong is not the point - it's that you are running around taking use of a single world to stop everything and lecture the room on metaphysics.
When a group of people are sitting around talking about the wonderful event of a girl managing to survive in the midst of tragedy, it just doesn't matter whether they call it a miracle, a blessing, or choose to say "thank God," simple common courtesy says that it is not an invitation to begin lecturing the room on how their particular phrasing demonstrates how deeply philosophically deluded they are. That's simply how they happened to phrase it.
But oh no, you're a hammer running around looking for a nail. God forbid we should say something the wrong way -- uh oh, now I've done it... - thesonofdarwin, on 06/30/2009, -2/+4Sound a little like The Langoliers (Stephen King miniseries movie). I agree with you, however. It's not a miracle* and it's not douchebaggish to point that out.
*Unless you are using the non-standard definition of the word because "miracle" typically ascribes the feat to a supernatural force. It's people explaining [currently] unexplained events with unprovable explanations that led to the creation of religion in the first place. No need to remove our logic hats at the drop of a new mystery, people. - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Anyone freaking out about how many plane crashes there have been this year? Airbus is looking pretty *****. I'm going to stick with Boeing.
- glinsvad, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2It's basic physics. Smaller bodies tolerate larger accelerations.
- faskippy, on 06/30/2009, -7/+9What the hell is with the friggin' AIRBUS???
- cambob76, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2I don't think so. It is unexpected that someone would survive, but I think it is just cause and effect producing this result, however unlikely.
- Faithless327, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Nah, she was found in the water. It's clearly not her weakness.
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