A good read for Good Friday
Michael Fumento writes about the occurrence in his life of something he generally disbelieves: a miracle.
Cut into the cliffs and filled with sharp, winding turns, [the Pacific Coast Highway] can make for a white-knuckle ride in many parts. As the driver, you take quick glances at the scenery and then shoot your eyes back to the road. A front-page article in the Monterey County Herald would later be aptly titled “The Beauty and Danger of Highway 1.” An accompanying piece: “Rocks and Surf below Highway Become Tomb for Some.”
Those articles would be about us.
It’s well worth your time to read the whole thing here. Happy Easter, everyone.
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MarkV
April 2nd, 2010
4:41 pm
As with any of these stories (“it was a miracle that he/she/we survived”) it looks naïve, irrational and conceited when considered calmly. Every single piece of action that happened, happened because of certain things were in a certain place at a certain time, etc. And why should they not be there? Believing that they were there to save certain person or persons is simply arrogant. Those people apparently believe that they are more important than those, who got into similar situations – and died.
jopar
April 2nd, 2010
4:57 pm
Ole MarkV writes a great comment.
joan1
April 2nd, 2010
5:10 pm
MarkV, I would have to be so mean spirited. Can’t you just err on the side of kindness?
joan1
April 2nd, 2010
5:10 pm
I mean, “hate” to be so mean spirited. Be kind. It feels good.
jt
April 2nd, 2010
6:42 pm
Good post Kyle.
As per the government ,
as a product of the 70’s, (no seatbelt laws, 18 year-old drinking age, cheap booze and smokes,lead and asbestos, muscle cars, acid rain, nuclear winter, global ice age, etc………)
it is a miracle that I am alive. How did we ever survive?
MarkV
April 2nd, 2010
6:43 pm
I feel kind. I am happy when things go well for somebody. But what is “mean spirited” in pointing out that thinking yourself so worthy that a “miracle” is engineered for what happens to you is rather presumptuous?