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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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Flockhart wrote:
> Forest Fan wrote:
> Do you want me to except your beliefs and just let you spend
> eternity
> in the Lake of Fire?
>
> I want you to accept my beliefs.
By making you feel better?
> Forest Fan wrote:
> Do you want me to except your beliefs and just let you spend
> eternity
> in the Lake of Fire?
>
> I want you to accept my beliefs.
By making you feel better?
Forest Fan wrote:
> Do you want me to except your beliefs and just let you spend eternity
> in the Lake of Fire?
No, but we certainly don't want to hear you ramble on for another 3,000 odd posts about how we are all going to die and you are going to heaven with a dude named God. None of us want your beliefs forced on us, and you are the most forceful ignorant person on this forum.
*accept by the way.
> Do you want me to except your beliefs and just let you spend eternity
> in the Lake of Fire?
No, but we certainly don't want to hear you ramble on for another 3,000 odd posts about how we are all going to die and you are going to heaven with a dude named God. None of us want your beliefs forced on us, and you are the most forceful ignorant person on this forum.
*accept by the way.
Forest Fan wrote:
> Our purpose in life is to serve the Lord. If we do that and except
> Him, you can carry out your purpose in life.
*accept him; the Lord will be most displeased.
> Our purpose in life is to serve the Lord. If we do that and except
> Him, you can carry out your purpose in life.
*accept him; the Lord will be most displeased.
Forest Fan wrote:
> Do you want me to except your beliefs and just let you spend eternity
> in the Lake of Fire?
I want you to accept my beliefs.
> Do you want me to except your beliefs and just let you spend eternity
> in the Lake of Fire?
I want you to accept my beliefs.
Do you want me to accept your beliefs and just let you spend eternity in the Lake of Fire?
Forest Fan wrote:
> Flockhart wrote:
> Yep i'm with Edgy on this.
> The more you push religion the more we will rebel against it.
>
> The more you harden your hearts, the harder I will try to tell the
> Gospel.
We've heard it before, most of us were taught it at school, and we made our decision then.
Now amount of arguing, or quoting the bible will change our mind's, we made our choice and it is disrespectful of you not to accept it.
You can believe what you want, now let us do the same.
> Flockhart wrote:
> Yep i'm with Edgy on this.
> The more you push religion the more we will rebel against it.
>
> The more you harden your hearts, the harder I will try to tell the
> Gospel.
We've heard it before, most of us were taught it at school, and we made our decision then.
Now amount of arguing, or quoting the bible will change our mind's, we made our choice and it is disrespectful of you not to accept it.
You can believe what you want, now let us do the same.
I know you might not like it, but I have to please Jesus and not you.
*sigh*
Flockhart wrote:
> Yep i'm with Edgy on this.
> The more you push religion the more we will rebel against it.
The more you harden your hearts, the harder I will try to tell the Gospel.
> Yep i'm with Edgy on this.
> The more you push religion the more we will rebel against it.
The more you harden your hearts, the harder I will try to tell the Gospel.
Edgy wrote:
> As a Noteable, voted for because of my views and opinions, the way I
> express them, and that I was voted because people considered me as
> someone with intelligence on these forums, I am advising you to
> either take a break, or open your mind. Otherwise you're going to
> find yourself banned for your views, and I'm sure that is something
> both Special Reserve and yourself want to avoid.
Why would I be banned? For telling the Truth? For willing that all you have Eternal Life? For willing that I can meet you in the New Jerusalem? For wanting all you to turn from sin?
I just want you to have Christ like I have. How selfish would I be, if I didn't tell you. I'm sorry, there's a fire in my bones, just like Jeremiah had to share the Gospel, I can't not tell it, I just can't. I'm sorry.
> As a Noteable, voted for because of my views and opinions, the way I
> express them, and that I was voted because people considered me as
> someone with intelligence on these forums, I am advising you to
> either take a break, or open your mind. Otherwise you're going to
> find yourself banned for your views, and I'm sure that is something
> both Special Reserve and yourself want to avoid.
Why would I be banned? For telling the Truth? For willing that all you have Eternal Life? For willing that I can meet you in the New Jerusalem? For wanting all you to turn from sin?
I just want you to have Christ like I have. How selfish would I be, if I didn't tell you. I'm sorry, there's a fire in my bones, just like Jeremiah had to share the Gospel, I can't not tell it, I just can't. I'm sorry.
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