...Talk about a mircacle

dee1949
dee1949 Posts: 1,425
edited September 2010 in The Clubhouse
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/nyc-man-plunges-40-stories-lands-on-car-survives-dpgapx-20100901-fc_9437082


...I guess it wasn't his time!!!! He really must be bummed.
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  • packetjones
    packetjones Posts: 1,059
    edited September 2010
    i would be pissed.... Guess he should have went head first, that's the secret.
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited September 2010
    WOW! This is something else!
    DARE TO SOAR:
    “Your attitude, almost always determine your altitude in life” ;)
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2010
    Yes, it was totally the rosary beads that saved him. Not dumb luck. Apparently God hates kids who die of cancer every day but steps in to save this suicidal dipshit because someone left some plastic trinket in their car. Makes total sense.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,384
    edited September 2010
    I guess even Darwin needs a day off.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited September 2010
    Wow the "Rosary Beads" may have saved his life gave me a chill.

    Nice. I believe every life is here for a purpose.

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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,046
    edited September 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Yes, it was totally the rosary beads that saved him. Not dumb luck. Apparently God hates kids who die of cancer every day but steps in to save this suicidal dipshit because someone left some plastic trinket in their car. Makes total sense.

    Dude, you are awesome. :D
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited September 2010
    bobman1235 wrote:
    Yes, it was totally the rosary beads that saved him. Not dumb luck. Apparently God hates kids who die of cancer every day but steps in to save this suicidal dipshit because someone left some plastic trinket in their car. Makes total sense.
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    Dude, you are atheist. :D

    Fixed.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2010
    Not atheist, just, if there's a God, I truly hope He doesn't save people based on $.30 worth of build-a-bear beads left in someone's car.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited September 2010
    The "Higher Power" got it right with these geniuses !;)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO3lONc_tpM&feature=related
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited September 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Yes, it was totally the rosary beads that saved him. Not dumb luck. Apparently God hates kids who die of cancer every day but steps in to save this suicidal dipshit because someone left some plastic trinket in their car. Makes total sense.


    Beat me to it. Good post. :D
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited September 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Not atheist, just, if there's a God, I truly hope He doesn't save people based on $.30 worth of build-a-bear beads left in someone's car.

    OK.

    God or not, should he gain a new found appreciation for his life, this dumb **** may get the opportunity to do some good with the life he previously took for granted. If Rosary beads are seen as a sign for their faith by him or others, I don't see the problem with it.

    I've seen good things come out of situations that seemed horrible at the time, even with kids who have cancer.

    Faith isn't supposed to be easy.
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited September 2010
    Demiurge wrote: »
    OK.

    God or not, should he gain a new found appreciation for his life, this dumb **** may get the opportunity to do some good with the life he previously took for granted. If Rosary beads are seen as a sign for their faith by him or others, I don't see the problem with it.

    I've seen good things come out of situations that seemed horrible at the time, even with kids who have cancer.

    Faith isn't supposed to be easy.
    I agree. Despite the effort this guy has put to terminate his life it didn't work. As fas as I am concerned, rosary beads and any other faith gadgets don't do anything it is the spirit and faith you put around them that produces the fruits/miracles. bobman, I understand your comparision with the young lad dying of cancer while the guy wanting to end is life is being saved. Life works in mysterious ways but always for a reason. You don't know what this guy is tasked to do in let's say 3, 5, 10 or even 30 years. In the case of young kids dying from cancer or other deseases well, often that is their task to touch people around them through their sickness and death. I am sure you at one time or another you heard people close from those kids testify of their courage, faith and hope. Just that in it self is quite an achievement for humanity (or at least some of it).
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  • doctorcilantro
    doctorcilantro Posts: 2,028
    edited September 2010
    "survives"....in critical condition. Wouldn't be surprised if he is a quad or para now.
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    doctorcilantro Posts: 2,028
    edited September 2010
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited September 2010
    ...50 years from now....I wouldn't put it pass tv networks to have a SHOW called.....

    - "Stupid Events Survived" !!!!@!

    Does anybody watch REALITY ? TV ????

    Yeah!!! it's as real as my arse!!!

    Sorry!! my Arse is real!!
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2010
    TECHNOKID wrote: »
    bobman, I understand your comparision with the young lad dying of cancer while the guy wanting to end is life is being saved. Life works in mysterious ways but always for a reason. You don't know what this guy is tasked to do in let's say 3, 5, 10 or even 30 years. In the case of young kids dying from cancer or other deseases well, often that is their task to touch people around them through their sickness and death. I am sure you at one time or another you heard people close from those kids testify of their courage, faith and hope. Just that in it self is quite an achievement for humanity (or at least some of it).

    I'm sorry but I just don't believe that for a second. The "everything happens for a reason" mantra is just something people tell themselves to make them feel better. It doesn't hold water under any kind of scrutiny, it's just a convenient way to write off horrible events. Awful, awful people are allowed to live and torture thousands while good people and children die alone and unknown every minute of every day. There may very well be a God, but if He has ANY control over things on Earth, he's a giant ****. If I were a faithful man I'd do everything I could to convince myself that God has no hand in the goings on of living humans, cuz otherwise I'd want NOTHING to do with him.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited September 2010
    They should make this a commercial for how comfy those back seats are.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited September 2010
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    Wow the "Rosary Beads" may have saved his life gave me a chill.

    Nice. I believe every life is here for a purpose.
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    Dude, you are an Agnostic. :D
    Demiurge wrote: »
    Fixed.
    Now it's really fixed. :D
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited September 2010
    exalted512 wrote: »
    They should make this a commercial for how comfy those back seats are.

    Sort of like the old Timex commercials; "Takes a lickin and keeps on tickin."

    One point many are overlooking is the issue is not that some type of 'force' intervined and saved the life of this guy, but rather it was the rosary (magic beads) that did the saving.


    "The car's owner, Guy McCormack, of Old Bridge, N.J., told the Daily News he's convinced that rosary beads he kept inside the Dodge saved Magill's life."
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  • wz2p7j
    wz2p7j Posts: 840
    edited September 2010
    Hmm, I'm an atheist and an alcoholic. And those are my good points! :cool::cool:

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,696
    edited September 2010
    "Magill isn't the only New Yorker to survive a high-rise fall. Window washer Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories from the roof of a skyscraper in December 2007, and doctors expected him to walk again."


    It's my understanding that window washer Alcides Moreno fell into a street vendor's cotton candy machine, the sweet, sweet spun magic buffering his fall and saving his life.

    Unfortunately, Magill is now a Type I diabetic.


    And the Big Guy Upstairs (pat. pending) doesn't pick and chose to let maroons like Magill live while children die of cancer. Bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. The BGU ( or whatever name you wish to call the BGU ) is a possible source with how to deal with the mess(es) afterwards, IMO.
    Mr. Skydiver can choose to do something productive if he lives ( kind of doubt it ); his choice.
    Or next time he can climb higher, fall further and complete the job; his choice.

    If he takes the latter choice, maybe he can fall and land on Carrot Top, which would make it a good thing.
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  • wz2p7j
    wz2p7j Posts: 840
    edited September 2010
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    "
    And the Big Guy Upstairs (pat. pending) doesn't pick and chose to let maroons like Magill live while children die of cancer.

    Well, what exactly is the BGU's job description then? :confused::confused:

    Chris
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  • warren
    warren Posts: 756
    edited September 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Yes, it was totally the rosary beads that saved him. Not dumb luck. Apparently God hates kids who die of cancer every day but steps in to save this suicidal dipshit because someone left some plastic trinket in their car. Makes total sense.
    Bobman 1235 you are on it!!!!!
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,953
    edited September 2010
    wz2p7j wrote: »
    Well, what exactly is the BGU's job description then? :confused::confused:

    Chris

    You can ask him that when or if you ever get there.:p


    Personally,I don't think it was a suicide attempt. The kid most likely was thrown off by someone he owed money to for a night of hard partying,or gambling debts.
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    edited September 2010
    tonyb wrote: »
    Personally,I don't think it was a suicide attempt. The kid most likely was thrown off by someone he owed money to for a night of hard partying,or gambling debts.


    No. My understanding from anonymous sources is he was a cable non-believer. Then he went to a home with a decent stereo and cables, was amazed at the difference, realized he had been a fool with his previous belief, and decided to end it all. Perhaps he was saved to be the prophet to lead all cable naysayers from their darkness into the light. ;)
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited September 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I'm sorry but I just don't believe that for a second. The "everything happens for a reason" mantra is just something people tell themselves to make them feel better. It doesn't hold water under any kind of scrutiny, it's just a convenient way to write off horrible events. Awful, awful people are allowed to live and torture thousands while good people and children die alone and unknown every minute of every day. There may very well be a God, but if He has ANY control over things on Earth, he's a giant ****. If I were a faithful man I'd do everything I could to convince myself that God has no hand in the goings on of living humans, cuz otherwise I'd want NOTHING to do with him.

    If I were a Faithful man (and I am) I would learn as much about the relationship between God and man as I could (and I do). Then I could make a clear assesment about where to place blame. To do otherwise is wrong.

    You cannot place the blame for everything that happens on God. Man does horrible things to man; God does not do horrible things to man. The blame should be placed where it belongs, the person/people doing the wrong.

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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited September 2010
    headrott wrote: »
    the blame should be placed where it belongs, the person/people doing the wrong.

    Greg
    Are you suggesting that we have our own freewill to choose to do good or bad? ;)
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2010
    headrott wrote: »
    You cannot place the blame for everything that happens on God. Man does horrible things to man; God does not do horrible things to man. The blame should be placed where it belongs, the person/people doing the wrong.

    And that's fine, but you can't say that and then every time something GOOD happens you can't credit God. Either God's hand is in things or it isn't. Instead there's this selective nonsense that happens where every time something good happens it's all "God stepped in and saved!" whereas when something bad happens it's either 'ther'es a plan" or "God doesn't do bad things, people do." You have to choose one. If you're gonna be a whacko and say God stepped in and saved a suicidal jerkoff from jumping off a building, then you have to also acknowledge that he could have stepped in in millions of other much more worthy cases, and didn't.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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    edited September 2010
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    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited September 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I'm sorry but I just don't believe that for a second. The "everything happens for a reason" mantra is just something people tell themselves to make them feel better. It doesn't hold water under any kind of scrutiny, it's just a convenient way to write off horrible events. Awful, awful people are allowed to live and torture thousands while good people and children die alone and unknown every minute of every day. There may very well be a God, but if He has ANY control over things on Earth, he's a giant ****. If I were a faithful man I'd do everything I could to convince myself that God has no hand in the goings on of living humans, cuz otherwise I'd want NOTHING to do with him.

    You're speaking from the belief that life on Earth is all there is. You're born and you die and everything in between is essentially meaningless. You're definitely not alone in the thought and maybe you're right that it comforts others to believe otherwise. Still, your seeming faith in nothing really isn't any more valid than another's faith in something bigger than themselves.
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