(September 30, 2018 at 7:49 am)Brian37 Wrote:(September 30, 2018 at 7:43 am)emjay Wrote: I tend to agree with you; it depends what is meant by the vague term 'miracle', and using the definition they've used of 'a fortuitous event believed to be caused by divine intervention... ', that suggests not just theism to me but any type of superstitious/woo/spiritualist thinking; anything that reads supernatural meaning into coincidences or good luck.
It's not a huge surprise to me, even the 18-24 bracket. I know this is not the most balanced sample of British people, but I'm currently watching Big Brother and the youngest one there is talking with a straight face about the Big Brother house being possibly haunted, and he's 18, and others are talking about positive and negative energy and being psychic etc, also with a straight face. So there are those demographics out there and it is pretty normalised/casual in society, and fed into by the media, so yeah, not a huge surprise.
I could care less what it is used for, it is a misused word sure, but still just another sappy meaningless word people use to justify getting something important or minor.
There is no magic to getting a parking spot or surviving a plane crash. It is still a word used based on ignorance, selection bias and sample rate error.
It still amounts to focusing only on the times where conditions favored you, and ignoring all the times those similar conditions don't favor you or others.
I know... I totally agree.
