Posted: Apr 06, 2010 6:30 am
hackenslash wrote:I am serious.
I'll take your word for it
This would actually be more remarkable than the opposite in reality.
It depends upon the person (I take it you're not the lonely sort who never gets phone calls. Congrats to you too, then.)
The point here is that coincidence is a really fuckwitted thing to attach any significance to.
Coincidence is too broad a concept for you to believe this, in my opinion, but maybe you aren't as bright as you sound some of the time. I think what you really mean is that coincidences can be dismissed as such from the perspective that they don't directly enlighten you, with only second-hand science being able to do that. Science stands on many empirically observed coincidences.
I am absolutely deadly serious in this. Frankly, you'd be better off believing in some preposterous creator entity than this vacuous bullshit.
Where did I say something about believing something other than to make the observation that WE (myself included) won't be taking anybody's word for it?
Frankly, that should cover it for you for a while, and I have obligations on acquiring a vocabulary in regards to Buddhism. I recommend any reasonably young skeptic from the West do the same. There's plenty of irrational thought globally apart from the Abrahamic religions and pure woo, and the first two Buddhist congressmen were elected in the USA.