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Fate?
Do you believe that there is a reason for your continued living? I do. Not because of some religious teachings or fanciful message from God, because I have had an experience that changed my thinking permanently. Almost a year ago, on the same day as my end of school prom, I climbed a gate to take a shortcut home with some friends. It was a fence I’d cut over plenty of times before without a hitch but this time I got my shoe caught and fell head first onto the concrete floor below. Unfortunately for me I wasn’t knocked unconscious but lay bleeding in a state of wretched agony, and I well and truly thought my number was up.
I was taken to hospital and had my head x-rayed, they thought that falling at least 9 feet I would have some damage to my skull – nothing. Ordinarily a head injury patient would have to spend a few days in hospital recovering and having their progress monitored. I was out within a couple of hours.
The chances of my dying from a 9-foot fall and landing on my head were 60% - mostly the odds of my neck being broken and the oxygen supply to my brain being severed were what should have killed me, there was also a chance that my skull could have cracked and fragments of bone could have penetrated my brain. Then there is the odds of brain damage – surviving an accident like that is 40%, surviving without any sort of brain damage or long term side effect is very small. The impact alone was enough to be able to render my brain damaged, the blood loss from my head could have deadened nerves in my face and brain leaving me with memory loss or the inability to perform certain functions, the impact on my head could have crushed my cheekbones and also punctured my eyeball. But I’m fine.
The thing is, I didn’t even need stitches, just a few sterilised bandages over the cut and some facial swelling. The changes of me coming out of the incident totally fine, besides a small scar, are in the single figure percentages – not favourable odds for me.
Before the incident I thought life just ‘was’, but it changed my perspective of things entirely. We’re all here for a reason, our aim is to find out what.
Do you believe that there is a reason for your continued living? I do. Not because of some religious teachings or fanciful message from God, because I have had an experience that changed my thinking permanently. Almost a year ago, on the same day as my end of school prom, I climbed a gate to take a shortcut home with some friends. It was a fence I’d cut over plenty of times before without a hitch but this time I got my shoe caught and fell head first onto the concrete floor below. Unfortunately for me I wasn’t knocked unconscious but lay bleeding in a state of wretched agony, and I well and truly thought my number was up.
I was taken to hospital and had my head x-rayed, they thought that falling at least 9 feet I would have some damage to my skull – nothing. Ordinarily a head injury patient would have to spend a few days in hospital recovering and having their progress monitored. I was out within a couple of hours.
The chances of my dying from a 9-foot fall and landing on my head were 60% - mostly the odds of my neck being broken and the oxygen supply to my brain being severed were what should have killed me, there was also a chance that my skull could have cracked and fragments of bone could have penetrated my brain. Then there is the odds of brain damage – surviving an accident like that is 40%, surviving without any sort of brain damage or long term side effect is very small. The impact alone was enough to be able to render my brain damaged, the blood loss from my head could have deadened nerves in my face and brain leaving me with memory loss or the inability to perform certain functions, the impact on my head could have crushed my cheekbones and also punctured my eyeball. But I’m fine.
The thing is, I didn’t even need stitches, just a few sterilised bandages over the cut and some facial swelling. The changes of me coming out of the incident totally fine, besides a small scar, are in the single figure percentages – not favourable odds for me.
Before the incident I thought life just ‘was’, but it changed my perspective of things entirely. We’re all here for a reason, our aim is to find out what.
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Your happy as well, aren't you?
Forest Fan wrote:
> I'm happy because I have Jesus.
Good for you.
> I'm happy because I have Jesus.
Good for you.
English_Bloke wrote:
> I don’t apologise because I want you all to know what a miserable
> world we live in.
>
> Only kidding. How can anyone not be happy when you live in a world
> with people such as, Jeremy Beadle and Keith Chegwin?
Those two are enough to turn anyone to violence.
> I don’t apologise because I want you all to know what a miserable
> world we live in.
>
> Only kidding. How can anyone not be happy when you live in a world
> with people such as, Jeremy Beadle and Keith Chegwin?
Those two are enough to turn anyone to violence.
I'm happy because I have Jesus.
I don’t apologise because I want you all to know what a miserable world we live in.
Only kidding. How can anyone not be happy when you live in a world with people such as, Jeremy Beadle and Keith Chegwin?
Only kidding. How can anyone not be happy when you live in a world with people such as, Jeremy Beadle and Keith Chegwin?
Fosco wrote:
> Suicide. Killing children. Eternal damnation.
>
> This used to be such a happy forum.
These things need to be said, murder or otherwise.
> Suicide. Killing children. Eternal damnation.
>
> This used to be such a happy forum.
These things need to be said, murder or otherwise.
Flockhart wrote:
> Not at all, why do you think they would have commtted suicide in the
> first place, because of fear of what would happen to them and you
> think it is possible to kill yourself without suffering beforehand.
> We fear death above all else.
I don't, I will finally be with the Lord after so much waiting, in fact I'm looking forward to it, except I expect the rapture instead of death.
> Not at all, why do you think they would have commtted suicide in the
> first place, because of fear of what would happen to them and you
> think it is possible to kill yourself without suffering beforehand.
> We fear death above all else.
I don't, I will finally be with the Lord after so much waiting, in fact I'm looking forward to it, except I expect the rapture instead of death.
Fosco wrote:
> Suicide. Killing children. Eternal damnation.
>
> This used to be such a happy forum.
I appologise because i have played my part in it.
> Suicide. Killing children. Eternal damnation.
>
> This used to be such a happy forum.
I appologise because i have played my part in it.
Suicide. Killing children. Eternal damnation.
This used to be such a happy forum.
This used to be such a happy forum.
Forest Fan wrote:
> Flockhart wrote:
> Forest Fan wrote:
> So according to your theology, I can go kill a load of children and
> hey, I'm sinless!
>
> Nope your conscience will punish you.
> Although isnt what you are saying exactly the same thing, if you
> accept jesus your sin's will be washed away.
> So i can kill a load of children, then accept jesus and i'm home
> free.
>
> So according to Flockhart if I did kill a load of children and then
> committed suicide, I would have absolutely no punishment.
Not at all, why do you think they would have commtted suicide in the first place, because of fear of what would happen to them and you think it is possible to kill yourself without suffering beforehand.
We fear death above all else.
> Flockhart wrote:
> Forest Fan wrote:
> So according to your theology, I can go kill a load of children and
> hey, I'm sinless!
>
> Nope your conscience will punish you.
> Although isnt what you are saying exactly the same thing, if you
> accept jesus your sin's will be washed away.
> So i can kill a load of children, then accept jesus and i'm home
> free.
>
> So according to Flockhart if I did kill a load of children and then
> committed suicide, I would have absolutely no punishment.
Not at all, why do you think they would have commtted suicide in the first place, because of fear of what would happen to them and you think it is possible to kill yourself without suffering beforehand.
We fear death above all else.
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