(September 15, 2011 at 3:56 am)tackattack Wrote: So what exactly were the odds that a friend from a few years ago that you don't regularly see outside your usual bar, spoke at length for years about disbelieving God, happened to be walking by the bar at the moment you were smoking a cigarette and that you had noticed him and bothered to exchange a greeting and start a conversation?
Well, we do live in the same city, and my guess is that if my slutty ex-girlfriend whom I haven't seen in 5 years, showed up outside the bar on a random chance and I ended up nailing her - somehow THAT wouldn't be an act of god.
... but I run into an old friend of mine who now just happens to believe in god - and yeah, that's predestination.
People see what they want to see.