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hulitoons

Posted: 03 February 2006 08:08 AM

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I thought this not only interesting, but also enlightening. Some of you (or all) may have already read it….but just in case: http://skepdic.com/miracles.html

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Posted: 03 February 2006 08:18 AM

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Moved to off-topic chat, as it is neither News or a Hoax.

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Posted: 03 February 2006 04:44 PM

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Posted: 07 February 2006 06:05 PM

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It is very interresting that so many people discredit miracles. Perhaps it is not defying the laws of nature; perhaps the laws of nature are more complex than they seem, and according to such laws, these “miracles” are nothing more than a natural occurrance.

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Posted: 07 February 2006 06:28 PM

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sherbiebaby - 07 February 2006 11:05 PM
It is very interresting that so many people discredit miracles. Perhaps it is not defying the laws of nature; perhaps the laws of nature are more complex than they seem, and according to such laws, these “miracles” are nothing more than a natural occurrance.

No, what’s interesting is that sea stars probably had ancestors with bilateral symmetry.

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Posted: 07 February 2006 06:49 PM

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A Miracle is just that and unexplained occurance. We take it just the way it is. There will never be and bound expination. Why question everything in life.

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Posted: 08 February 2006 01:17 AM

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Boogirl - 07 February 2006 11:49 PM
Why question everything in life.

Why not?

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Posted: 08 February 2006 04:31 AM

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Boogirl - 07 February 2006 11:49 PM
Why question everything in life.

Because otherwise you never learn anything?

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Posted: 08 February 2006 05:38 AM

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I was under the impression that most, if not all miricles are just simple illusionary tricks. In Decemebrs issue of Fortean Times they cover miricles performed by Indian Gurus, such as the apportation of ash and religious symbols from “Thin Air”. Some of the crosses that one such guru (Sai Baba) produced were blatantly taken from a neck-chain as they had the hole at the top to carry the chain, and one even had a serial number stamped on the back.
If we classed these antics as miricles then surely David Blaine, and dare I say it, even Paul Daniels are miricle workers too!

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Posted: 08 February 2006 07:26 AM

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Ah Mort, you’ve mixed up all these: Miracles, Magick and magic ... HAHAHAHAHAH!!! Miracles are those ‘things’ or events that are effects from causes…. a bit like mind over matter. Excess adrenaline is caused by extreme conditions that can actually turn an otherwise muscle-challenged mother into a kind of super-human if her baby is trapped.

Magick is the Pagan word for basically the same thing as Miracle except that a pagan is more aware that he/she is focusing through words or conjuring….still mind over matter really

Magic is illusionary tricking or slight of hand

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Posted: 08 February 2006 10:37 AM

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Miracles are those

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Posted: 08 February 2006 11:43 AM

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Charybdis - 08 February 2006 03:37 PM
Miracles are those

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