(May 23, 2013 at 10:22 am)pocaracas Wrote:(May 23, 2013 at 12:13 am)Drich Wrote: You can dismiss my work here on this site, my business, and my maritial relationship any way other than luck. As there has been far too many coincidences to be considered just luck.Some time ago, I was testing my luck on a virtual roulette I created with a few lines of code.
The idea was just to bet on one color or the other... zero was a possibility, and that's where the house makes money, if players were half smart...
Anyway, the concept was the standard roulette trick. Start with X credits, start betting one, if you win, bet on the other color, if you lose, bet on the same color, but bet twice as much.
Turns out, you can have a good luck streak and win one at a time...
But you can also have a bad luck streak and loose it all in [X=2^Y, solve for Y ... e.g. 10 spins cost you ~1k credits; 20 spins cost you ~1Million credits] spins.
Coincidence just happens, regardless of any external forces.
Your desire to attribute a reasoning to coincidence is what leads you to accept the god mythology... you're not alone in that... but it is sad that people point it out to you and yet you still persist in attributing a divine
intent in dumb luck.
You got lucky at your job, a fancy client, some word of mouth about the quality of your work from that fancy client and more clients... it happens. Bill Gates made his first OS at home, got lucky with IBM (the big client) and then puff... microsoft was born. I don't see him attributing it to any god.
You didn't get that lucky with the wife.... drug addict, I don't envy you... but you love her.. she got lucky with you.
As for your "work" here on this site... I haven't seen anyone take your views seriously, except for a few theists... those were already bought, so they don't count...
...All of which is why when God provides proof to us indivisually, it is as ironclad and bullet proof as it need to be to withstand any on slought for the one who has A/S/Ked. But if one is outside looking in, it can be easily dismissed.. Why? Because the faith of another will never ensure your own salvation. God demands that we all come to Him personally and find our 'proof' through Him only. I don't tell you these things to convince you to have faith in God. I tell you these things so you know God will set up and carry you through your own set of trials and rewards so that you can know it is Him who is making all things possiable.
