Bad/Good Things That Happen Without the Aid of a Deity

[Pyrrho]

That post was hilarious with the misused words.  Thanks for the laugh.

 Because I like to learn, please tell me what words that I misused. I promise I won't take any offense. 

I am ready to take offense for you.  However, you did misuse some words; I have made alterations with errors crossed out and additions in red, though I may have missed something; I am not trying to be overly critical, and am not an English teacher:

Christians often claim that coincidences are the result of their god guiding them. If you have to drive around and around a parking lot looking for a space, god might be trying to tell you not to visit that store on that day.

I thought it would be interesting if atheists describe described weird coincidences that happened in their life lives. 

The night we met neither my husband or nor I wanted to go out. Both of us were pressured by friends to go to a certain nightclub. My husband happened to work with my friend so he and his friends sat at our table. The coincidence of our meeting was just that, a coincidence that happened to work out well for both of us.

Every single time that I make a pot of coffee, my neighbor stops by for a visit. She loves coffee. I could believe that she  has coffee ESP but I think it is more likely that my coffee neighbor drinks a lot of coffee and we practically live in each other's homes.

I am working at building a new entertainment center. My husband, sweet guy that he is, set up a portable canopy to shade me as I sanded and then vanished varnished my masterpiece. Unfortunately when the wind blew, my canopy toppled  and knocked over the stain I was  using. I suppose that I could see that as proof that some higher power doesn't like the particular stain that I am was using or just wants wanted to screw with the first wood project that I ever made.

It might be interesting to describe some unusual things that happened to you that are just strange coincidences and have no meaning beyond that life is weird sometimes. 

I don't think it was worth mentioning, and would not have bothered to raise any of this myself.  Posting online tends to be informal writing, with plenty of typographical errors and other issues.

I say, go ahead and be offended that someone brought up the matter at all.

[Longhorn]

“Everything happens for a reason.” One of my favorite idiotic phrases uttered by the religious imbeciles. Murders, rapes, cancer, people starving to death, people with no shot to even live/enjoy a life, etc.

I know someone who says that a lot, and for a period of time I believed it too

But it's such dumb baseless assertion eventually you have to realize shit just sorta happens, and it doesn't care why you think it does

[Minimalist]

Every thing happens without the aid of a deity because :  (All Together Now!)

THERE ARE NO FUCKING GODS.


We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

[The Grand Nudger]

I was talking to my SSG at a Bradley range once about deer hunting and a small clutch of deer came over the burm into my 25 mike mike at that very moment.  klankklankklankklank


The gods of the hunt reward their faithful servants!

[Nope]

 Because I like to learn, please tell me what words that I misused. I promise I won't take any offense. 

I am ready to take offense for you.  However, you did misuse some words; I have made alterations with errors crossed out and additions in red, though I may have missed something; I am not trying to be overly critical, and am not an English teacher:

Christians often claim that coincidences are the result of their god guiding them. If you have to drive around and around a parking lot looking for a space, god might be trying to tell you not to visit that store on that day.

I thought it would be interesting if atheists describe described weird coincidences that happened in their life lives. 

The night we met neither my husband or nor I wanted to go out. Both of us were pressured by friends to go to a certain nightclub. My husband happened to work with my friend so he and his friends sat at our table. The coincidence of our meeting was just that, a coincidence that happened to work out well for both of us.

Every single time that I make a pot of coffee, my neighbor stops by for a visit. She loves coffee. I could believe that she  has coffee ESP but I think it is more likely that my coffee neighbor drinks a lot of coffee and we practically live in each other's homes.

I am working at building a new entertainment center. My husband, sweet guy that he is, set up a portable canopy to shade me as I sanded and then vanished varnished my masterpiece. Unfortunately when the wind blew, my canopy toppled  and knocked over the stain I was  using. I suppose that I could see that as proof that some higher power doesn't like the particular stain that I am was using or just wants wanted to screw with the first wood project that I ever made.

It might be interesting to describe some unusual things that happened to you that are just strange coincidences and have no meaning beyond that life is weird sometimes. 

I don't think it was worth mentioning, and would not have bothered to raise any of this myself.  Posting online tends to be informal writing, with plenty of typographical errors and other issues.

I say, go ahead and be offended that someone brought up the matter at all.

See that is the flying spaghetti monster's way of telling me that I shouldn't shred paper, have a discussion with my husband and children while writing a post. The lesson learned is to only do one thing at a time. 

[Saxmoof]

Every single time that I make a pot of coffee, my neighbor stops by for a visit. She loves coffee. I could believe that she  has coffee ESP but I think it is more likely that my coffee drinks a lot of coffee and we practically live in each other's homes.

Let's not rule out the possibility that God does exist but only has the power to satisfy caffeine cravings

[Drich]

'Bad/Good Things That Happen Without the Aid of a Deity'

so....everything?

LOL Yes. Everything

This was sort of inspired by Christians who claim that certain unusual things that happen in their life is proof that god exists. Everyone has weird things happen to them.

If this were true.. Then why is my highlights of my life story so hard to accept? It is not only the unusual factor, it the frequency. these things take me off guard. This last Saturday TRich was driving our 05 dodge in the rain when out of no where it made some noise then bam, the rear end locked up causing the truck to skid out of control. She usally 9/10 takes the interstate home. If she had and this happened at highway speed I believe that would have cost her, her life. But all that happened was she slid into a curb and broke a tire and rim. When all this happened I thought it was my fault/maintance issue as I never serviced the differential. While waiting for the tow truck I look ed 05 Dodge rear end and it came back with a factory recall for this very issue. Somewhere in hour 3 of waiting for the tow truck I saw a news report of this happening to another guy and he went skidding off the interstate. Now there is a big class action law suit we get to be apart of $$$   because Dodge is not notifying people of this recall. Of those who have been notified they are being told to hold as they try and engineer an inexpensive fix.

[KUSA]

LOL Yes. Everything

This was sort of inspired by Christians who claim that certain unusual things that happen in their life is proof that god exists. Everyone has weird things happen to them.

If this were true.. Then why is my highlights of my life story so hard to accept? It is not only the unusual factor, it the frequency. these things take me off guard. This last Saturday TRich was driving our 05 dodge in the rain when out of no where it made some noise then bam, the rear end locked up causing the truck to skid out of control. She usally 9/10 takes the interstate home. If she had and this happened at highway speed I believe that would have cost her, her life. But all that happened was she slid into a curb and broke a tire and rim. When all this happened I thought it was my fault/maintance issue as I never serviced the differential. While waiting for the tow truck I look ed 05 Dodge rear end and it came back with a factory recall for this very issue. Somewhere in hour 3 of waiting for the tow truck I saw a news report of this happening to another guy and he went skidding off the interstate. Now there is a big class action law suit we get to be apart of $$$   because Dodge is not notifying people of this recall. Of those who have been notified they are being told to hold as they try and engineer an inexpensive fix.

1. This in no way is even the slightest bit of evidence for a sky daddy.
2. If it was sky daddy then why does he do everything half assed? It would have been a lot better for him to just prevent the entire thing from happening.

[Longhorn]

We are pattern seeking animals, so much that we tend to detect patterns even in the absence of them. Coincidences are the same as normal occurrences, they just appear different to our brains because finding patterns is key to our survival. But really there's nothing more to them than that. Things, good and bad, will continue to happen regardless of your opinion of why they happen. In the end, we are dust motes on a dust mote floating in the vast ocean of matter that ultimately-as all evidence points to-doesn't give a fuck. And that indifference is rather comforting to me personally....I would certainly hate to be dependent on a moody, judgemental universe-or god for that matter.

[Nope]

If this were true.. Then why is my highlights of my life story so hard to accept? It is not only the unusual factor, it the frequency. these things take me off guard. This last Saturday TRich was driving our 05 dodge in the rain when out of no where it made some noise then bam, the rear end locked up causing the truck to skid out of control. She usally 9/10 takes the interstate home. If she had and this happened at highway speed I believe that would have cost her, her life. But all that happened was she slid into a curb and broke a tire and rim. When all this happened I thought it was my fault/maintance issue as I never serviced the differential. While waiting for the tow truck I look ed 05 Dodge rear end and it came back with a factory recall for this very issue. Somewhere in hour 3 of waiting for the tow truck I saw a news report of this happening to another guy and he went skidding off the interstate. Now there is a big class action law suit we get to be apart of $$$   because Dodge is not notifying people of this recall. Of those who have been notified they are being told to hold as they try and engineer an inexpensive fix.

1. This in no way is even the slightest bit of evidence for a sky daddy.
2. If it was sky daddy then why does he do everything half assed?  It would have been a lot better for him to just prevent the entire thing from happening.

Also, why doesn't he protect other Christians other than Drich? 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/19/africa/lib...hristians/

ISIS operatives have executed two groups of prisoners, believed to be Ethiopian Christians, in Libya, according to a video released Sunday by the terror network's media arm.

The Ethiopian government confirmed Monday that 30 of its citizens were among the two groups, according to the Ethiopian News Agency.