Boy survives Plane Crash

[Rev. Rye]

I think I remember somebody saying, "if 99 people die in a plane crash, and one person survives, it is considered a miracle. Should the families of the other 99 think so?" I wish I knew where this was from.

[Watson]

All I said was 'at least he's alive.' Nice way to use a tragedy to get up on your soap box, guys. :/

[KichigaiNeko]

But at least he's alive.

And now an orphan, with NO family and scant real support.

YAY lucky him, praise be to the god of "Fucking your life up completely" (really Watson!) ....bet ya he's dead (by suicide) by 20?

[Watson]

I didn't say fucking anything about God! I said 'at least he is alive'!

What the fuck guys? Seriously? You can't even have a little ounce of hope that, despite this horrible tragedy, this kid will go on to live a happy life? You can't even bother to try and imagine this kid going on to make the best of his life? Honestly, KichigaiNeko, if he's surrounded by a bunch of people like you, yeah, I bet he will commit suicide by age 20.

[Rev. Rye]

All I said was 'at least he's alive.' Nice way to use a tragedy to get up on your soap box, guys. :/

I was more responding to Elionwy's OP.

What the fuck guys? Seriously? You can't even have a little ounce of hope that, despite this horrible tragedy, this kid will go on to live a happy life? You can't even bother to try and imagine this kid going on to make the best of his life? Honestly, KichigaiNeko, if he's surrounded by a bunch of people like you, yeah, I bet he will commit suicide by age 20.

Well, since I read up on the life of Primo Levi, and his fellow Holocaust memoirist Tadeusz Borowski, a question began to brew in my mind: who ended up worse off: those who died in the Lager, or those who survived? I suppose it's easier to ask that question when one doesn't let life insist on life's own terms. Soon, I found that the same question could be asked for all manner of catastrophes. There's no guarantee that somebody who survived an accident like that would enjoy that fact.

[Paul the Human]

@Watson: I see what you did there.

The subject being "discussed" is how theists tend to praise god during a tragedy and thank him for sparing those that survived and how ridiculous that is. If god is responsible for this kid surviving the plane crash, then he is also responsible for killing the rest of the passengers, robbing the kid of his family, and scarring him for life.

Then a theist says, "At least he's alive." How did you expect them to react? Just as they did... yes... that is obvious. Who's on a soapbox again?

The kid is lucky he is so young. As traumatic as this has been for him, he does have a chance at a happy life. Children are resilient that way. There is the chance, though, that he will never fully recover.

Oh... and resorting to personal attacks? I thought that would be beneath you.

[Watson]

LOL Paul, you clever bastard, you. This is why I like you.

I had no intention of getting on my soap box when I made the post about the boy being alive. I did, however, realize what the outcome would be after a few 'and thanks be to god /sarcasm' posts. Although maybe I was wrong, I thought that the topic's main focus of discussion was to be the plane crash itself and the future of the boy. That was how my post was intended, and thus the misunderstanding. Also, the comment about suicide was not meant as a personal attack; it was meant as an exclamation of my general disgust with the hopeless attitutde being presented here.

I also agree that it's a good thing the boy is so young, and that kids are resillient. Hopefully, he will manage to get through his life happily.

[Too Dark]

This is not a miracle at all, anyway.

He will live with these images and memories in his mind for all his life ... what a life !

[bozo]

Miracles are superstitious nonsense.
Miracles don't happen.
Luck, bad or good, happens.

[Too Dark]

I won't say "luck" actually, but more about circumstance, happenstance/coincidence.