Are coincidences always coincidental?

Coincidences don't do a thing that clashes with my materialistic and ungodly narrative. In fact it would destroy my materialistic and ungodly narrative if there weren't a constant stream of coincidences.

So thanks for doing something to brighten my day and reinforce the truth of my materialistic and ungodly narrative. Cheers!

Nice to see that you and Albert are so close in your views.

It's very difficult for most people to believe in "divine" intervention, especially when explaining a simple event as "coincidence is extremely easy...

Such as: a group of people travelling together on a bus, which then gets a flat tire, which results in everyone being late...


But, when there is an unusual event of a large group of people, scattered all over town, ALL being late in arriving to the same place, because of their own unique reasons... That get's much harder to write off as "coincidence"...


You'll NEVER convince the members of the 1950 West End Baptist Church choir that "Coincidence" saved their lives when their church exploded, only two minutes after they were all supposed to be there, because they were ALL late.

unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/West_End_Baptist_Church

Even most skeptics would have to, even if for a split second, have to wonder about this event!

But, No matter what happened, the most important things is, at least no one was killed!


I myself am not sure what to believe when it comes to "coincidences"...

But, if "divine" intervention really does occur... Then I do believe it happened with 1950 West End Baptist Church choir!

Here are a few interesting additional cases of "Coincidences" from:





1.) White Star Line stewardess, Violet Jessop, was assigned to work on all three Olympic Class liners and... survived...

A.) The RMS Olympic collision with the HMS Hawke in 1911...
B.) The sinking of the RMS Titanic from a collision with an Iceberg in 1912...
C.) The sinking of the HMHS Britannic after it hit a sea mine in 1916... In addition, As Violet jumped into the water, she hit her head on the keel of the stricken ship before being pulled into a lifeboat, crediting her survival to her thick auburn hair and earning her the title of 'Miss Unsinkable'.

Additional Trivia - During her retirement years, she claims that one stormy night, she got a spooky call from an unknown baby she saved during the Titanic disaster, who laughed at her and hung up.



2.) In August 1913, the Monte Carlo roulette wheel in Monaco took millions of dollars from Gablers who insisted on betting on red... Because, the roulette wheel hit on Black 26 times in a row!



8.) In 1954, Ann Hodges, became the only person in history to have experienced a confirmed meteorite strike... Ann was asleep on her couch when a meteorite ripped through the sky above eastern Alabama, crashed through the roof of her house, bounced off a console radio and hit her on the hip... Unbelievably, she suffered no major injuries (except a large bruise), and was hospitalised only as a precaution.



9.) In March 2009, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was officially recognised by the Japanese government as the lone survivor of BOTH the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945!

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on a business trip in Hiroshima, Japan, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Despite being three kilometres from the blast zone, he was temporarily blinded and suffered horrific burns over the top half of his body. But he was alive. The following morning, he braved the radiation to catch a train back home and to the site of the second atomic bomb, Nagasaki. When the city was targeted two days later, Yamaguchi once again found himself within three kilometres of ground zero, somehow escaping further injury.



10.) Shenandoah National Park ranger, Roy Sullivan, holds the Guinness World Record for being struck by lightning more times than any other person. In the time between 1942 and 1977, Roy was hit by lightning on SEVEN separate occasions and survived them all, gaining the nickname of the 'Human Lightning Rod'.

When I first read this story, I thought: God (if he exists, which I don't believe) must be lousy at micromanagement.
After all, if he did intervene on that day, why didn't he just prevent the church from exploding? It would have been much easier than engineering a series of events that make sure that everybody is late.

Then I read the story, and came to the conclusion that there was nothing miraculous about that event.

The cause for the church exploding was a gas leak. And gas smells. Meaning: If anybody had been on time that day, they would have noticed the gas leak, and could have done something about it, which not only would have ensured that nobody died, but also that the church didn't explode.

But, because nobody was on time, the church exploded.

Conclusion: If God did intervene on that day, he wanted the church to be destroyed, but he didn't want anybody to be killed.
One explanation for this, if God did exist and intervened on that day: He wanted to give the West Baptist Choir a warning, telling them that the West Baptist Church is a false cult, and give them a chance to leave the congregation out of their own free will.
This would mean bad news for those members who did not leave the church afterwards. They would have ignored God's warning.

But, luckily for Western Baptists, God most likely doesn't exist, and neither does afterlife; and therefore, dead Western Baptists who did not leave their faith are not burning in hell.

Oh yes, the battle of Midway is a fascinating one. Although my favourite Naval battles are the River Plate and the Bismarck battle.

Midway had a great movie made about it, too. There's allegedly a remake on the way by Roland Emmerich, which I'm sure will suck great big sweaty elephant balls.

I'd say, by definition.... Y-yes?

This is going to turn into one of those "you have no idea how statistics bear out" threads. I can smell it. 

I was once dealt two straight flushes in consecutive hands - a Jack High followed by a 7 High - because Jesus or because I lived in Vegas at the time and played thousands of hands a day so the odds were it would eventually happen? Say what you want but I'm going with "because Jesus".