RE: If these resident theists really talk to god..
September 24, 2013 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2013 at 1:29 pm by Cyberman.)
(September 24, 2013 at 1:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: He must have missed mine as well (and I'm almost certain we had a conversation about it not long ago). Twice I have been close to death - bilateral pulmonary embolism in October 2011, and bacterial pneumonia as a complication of influenza in January 2013, both documented in threads here that I wrote from my hospital bed (although there was little said about the most recent, I was too damn sick).
Number of times I prayed: zero.
He'll never admit it, but he is nonetheless quite mistaken.
Queue Drich explaining that I wasn't dying enough in 1..... 2..... 3......
Not to put too much emphasis on personal experiences, but there was that time almost a year ago when I was a gnat's cock away from bleeding to death in a hospital bed. The only thing that went through my mind, other than a sense of relief at going where Sam had gone before, was the thought that I didn't want to get the pretty nurse who was monitoring me into trouble, so I pressed the emergency alert button. Had I not done so, I would definitely not be here typing this now.
Number of prayers= zero.
Oh, and it's 'cue' in this context.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
