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Title: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: Tom/Mutate on August 18, 2008, 12:24:06 AM
I was reading a website that makes fun of the bible, and it had something about craziest bible verses of all time.  One of them was about big cocks and women having sex with donkeys, and it was really lurid.  I got my bible to look it up, because I wanted to make fun of the passage on websites.   But anyway, when I got my bible, it actually fell open right away on that verse I was looking for, and in that translation it wasn't that lurid, they just kept the point being made while making it less explicit.  I felt kind of guilty for making fun of it and also wondered if it was supernatural that it fell open like that.  I hope its just a coincidence because I dont want to be a Christian.  But it did freak me out though.
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: Pyraxis on August 18, 2008, 12:27:14 AM
To counter your superstitiousness: Confirmation Bias 101 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias)
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: vodz on August 18, 2008, 06:10:02 AM
I didn't know Christians were into huge dicks, human or otherwise.
I might have to reconsider my lack of faith.
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: Al Swearegen on August 18, 2008, 06:35:09 AM
If the poor little bugger wasn't freaking out before, he sure as hell is now.  :lol:
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: Phlexor on August 18, 2008, 11:17:46 AM
I didn't know Christians were into huge dicks, human or otherwise.
I might have to reconsider my lack of faith.

I find your lack of faith disturbing...  :vader:
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: enronh on August 18, 2008, 11:51:22 AM
I was reading a website that makes fun of the bible, and it had something about craziest bible verses of all time.  One of them was about big cocks and women having sex with donkeys, and it was really lurid.  I got my bible to look it up, because I wanted to make fun of the passage on websites.   But anyway, when I got my bible, it actually fell open right away on that verse I was looking for, and in that translation it wasn't that lurid, they just kept the point being made while making it less explicit.  I felt kind of guilty for making fun of it and also wondered if it was supernatural that it fell open like that.  I hope its just a coincidence because I dont want to be a Christian.  But it did freak me out though.

I've open several books on the exact page I wanted, including the dictionary.

I smell a coincidence, is all.

Pls don't be a Christian!  :laugh:
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: The_Chosen_One on August 19, 2008, 11:30:42 PM
I think it was a metaphor meaning that all Christians want to do is fuck us up the ass.
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: Mr Smith on August 20, 2008, 05:31:54 AM
I was reading a website that makes fun of the bible, and it had something about craziest bible verses of all time.  One of them was about big cocks and women having sex with donkeys, and it was really lurid.  I got my bible to look it up, because I wanted to make fun of the passage on websites.   But anyway, when I got my bible, it actually fell open right away on that verse I was looking for, and in that translation it wasn't that lurid, they just kept the point being made while making it less explicit.  I felt kind of guilty for making fun of it and also wondered if it was supernatural that it fell open like that.  I hope its just a coincidence because I dont want to be a Christian.  But it did freak me out though.

Creepy co-incodence. Maybe it was God punishing you for wanting to make fun of it.

I'm not a Christian, and it's a shame to see that you were born into a family with religion forced upon you.
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: DirtDawg on August 20, 2008, 06:38:50 AM

Merely a coincidence, but not entirely. You did it.

The book is finite, which narrows it down quite a bit, increasing the possibility that you will find your passages quicklly. Having a vague idea as to where to look in this finite book eliminates most of the rest of book with one more stroke. So you did it on purpose. It's not like the book flew off the shelf, hit you in the head with those pages flapping open and directly encoded your mind with the contents.

As Pyraxis points out, though, you can always just say that God made you smart for a reason.
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: DirtDawg on August 20, 2008, 06:49:34 AM

I think we have all had some of these types of things happen to us, though.

It is in the way we choose to assess an event that makes it important to us or not.
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: The_Chosen_One on August 20, 2008, 08:26:53 AM
God is just another reason for people to avoid reality.
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: TheoK on August 20, 2008, 09:17:23 AM
I was reading a website that makes fun of the bible, and it had something about craziest bible verses of all time.  One of them was about big cocks and women having sex with donkeys, and it was really lurid.  I got my bible to look it up, because I wanted to make fun of the passage on websites.   But anyway, when I got my bible, it actually fell open right away on that verse I was looking for, and in that translation it wasn't that lurid, they just kept the point being made while making it less explicit.  I felt kind of guilty for making fun of it and also wondered if it was supernatural that it fell open like that.  I hope its just a coincidence because I dont want to be a Christian.  But it did freak me out though.

I was looking for a poem for my signature a couple of weeks ago, and the book opened at exactly the page I was looking for, though it wasn't the Bible.
Title: Re: I had a bizzare religious experience
Post by: Alex179 on August 20, 2008, 10:03:36 AM
This has happened to me several times in different books.   It has happened with the Bible as well.   The latest was with a guitar book, I was looking for the page wth the modal system chart and it opened right to it.