Tuesday, February 2, 2010

coincidence?

All bullshit aside, it is a little difficult to overlook all the funny “coincidences” that have happened to me that have given me just what I needed (more than what I could have wished for) or wanted at just the right time so many times in my life. What kind of truly reasonable person would deny that it takes some kind of pathological ungratefulness to deny the degree to which we are being babysat by this series of “coincidences”. The exacting conditions which must be met to keep earth the exact distance from the sun as to maintain the correct temperature to maintain life on this planet are so diligently maintained should astound even the most skeptical mind. I know, I know, these are merely meaningless coincidences in a chaotic universe in which any combination of conditions is possible. Maybe these are just a series of coincidences. Nevertheless, they deserve some observation at the very least. My wife counted 70 channels on television, 70 channels that on more than 15 occasions has failed to yield even one program with something that added to me. When I say “added to me”, I mean that if one examined the intentions that shine through each program, one would find that the people who put these shows on were only trying to either illicit a negative emotional response, or money from us, the viewers. If the ends justify the means, or on the flip side of the coin, the ends shed light on the intentions behind the means, then the fact that we are living in a place tailored to our biological needs sheds light on the intentions of these “coincidences”. Any skeptic is basically trying to look behind the veil to get at the intentions of the joker who is standing in front of him. If this skeptic was to look closely at the effects of these coincidences, he would have to conclude that this chaos yielded an extremely rare gem in leaving these very conditions in place for so long as to allow these autonomous beings to develop.

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