Three-year-old boy missing in woods for two days says bear kept him safe
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Who put a stick up your butt? Do you also go around telling kids that Santa doesnt exist?
What's wrong with praising God when nothing sort of a miracle happened. For all we know that bear could have seen that boy as a snack and as far as I know most bears don't exactly see eye to eye with people anyway.
You don't have to believe it god, but it doesn't mean you can just shit on people for believing in god. She is basically saying her son surviving is a miracle. She is fucking emotional because she got her son back alive. Sometimes it is easier for people to accept something completely unlikely happening by calling it a miracle.
Quit being a edgelord.
Yes, my post somehow translates into me telling kids Santa doesn't exist, good job, proud of you.
WINDIGO
W I N D I G O
THAT ISN'T A BOY!
I'm pretty sure children can telepathically communicate with animals or some shit
that edge
Very constructive argument.
Black bears may be the least likely to attack, but they are the most unpredictable. You're still in danger while in the immediate area of a wild black bear.
you're not as smart as you think you are
My neckbeard grew 3 inches when I entered this thread
How dare people choose to believe in a god or gods and thank them when things go right or curse them when things go wrong. It's such a harm to the world as a whole, am I right?
Except it's not. I'm pretty much an atheist myself, but I'm not stuck up and against people believing what they want to. As long as that belief isn't a detriment to the survival of the world as a whole, who the fuck cares if someone believes in a god or some other mystical force?
Also if you really do think about the reasoning a bit, in religions with deities, it is implied that the god or gods created all life. Therefore, god created that bear, and thanking that god for creating that bear makes sense. Same applies to the surgeon example. These people aren't exactly discrediting the surgeon or the bear, rather they are showing their gratitude that such a surgeon or bear exists. For them, they exist because god created them, or at least the templates that would become them.
Again, I personally don't believe that, but why should I get so upset if saying such a thing is not a negative impact on our world? It would also be incredibly rude to say to the person saying that in such a scenario. Just let people be happy and believe things if they aren't harmful.
People draw comfort from religion. But I admit I just find it a tiny bit uncomfortable when people thank God for what they see as miracles given to them in particular as so many other people suffer. And I get it; I understand the world sucks and people need to find warmth and comfort when they can. But on the other hand, it's like how there will be news pieces on children living in severe pain and complete disfunction due to some illness and the comment section will be swarmed with, "This child is a miracle! A gift from God!"
But it's so petty and dumb for my mind to go to those things. But that is why I've sort of developed an instinctual negative reaction to those types of comments, even though it's completely unfair to this family who is just so relieved right now.
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I remember some podcast talking about these stories and how a lot of the time it's kids being found perfectly fine days later several miles away in a different mountain valley from where they went missing, and all they remember about the experience is that something furry was carrying them the whole time
Clearly we have magical fursuit men in the woods looking out for us all
Playing devil's avocado, in a hypothetical twelve hour long life saving surgery, there can be hundreds of complications that can end the person's life that are beyond what the surgeon, their supporting staff, and his tools may be capable of preventing.
So yes, counting your blessings no matter what you believe in is very appropriate.
And they sound like Sean Connery.
I think even under those circumstances the one we should be really thanking is the bear. Going through med school is hard enough when you're a 200 lb bear, so when an American Black Bear performs life-saving surgery without opposable thumbs we really to appreciate their accomplishments.
yeah, i read the headline and saw search efforts were hampered by a major storm and instantly thought of missing 411
I wonder what petting a bear would feel like?
Weird shit happens indeed, in a weird and unpredictable chain of events no matter the argument or belief, and one could argue there is no other way.
Surgery with bear hands is completely unsanitary, I still wouldn't be thanking the bear.
religion did literally nothing at this time.
Bears with access to trash cans and family pets don't hiberante
God also told his best friend to kill his own son just to see if he would do it and he nearly did isn't God great lol
Well, bears are low level gods in some religions
I just laugh when someone says something along those lines because it means they didn't read any passage from the Bible.
We have a quote system on the forum, you know. So I assume the only reason you're not using it is so you can straw-man everyone in the chain of replies.
Also it's pretty dishonest to imply I'm "bigoted" or "intolerant", so far I'll I've done in this thread is clarify an objection:
And then clarified my position on the topic.
You might disagree with the second paragraph, but if we were in thread about antivaxers, there wouldn't be this kind of push-back against the idea that beliefs and ideas can be harmful.
Ideas and beliefs are not people, they are not something that can't be changed (race, orientation, etc) – they're something that should be challenged and considered daily (this is literally the point of education, the scientific method, and argumentation).
a bear saved a mother's son, mother says "thank god he didn't die", entire thread is now a religious argument..
it's beyond pointless... are you on a crusade to get bears recognition?
If you fail to see how any ideology can lead to harm, then you're plain ignorant.
And god-forbid I express criticism against religion, that's "hate mongering against people" when I'm clearly focusing on religion, not people. How apocryphal.
Maybe you have the privilege to not directly see the harm religion can do.
but I live in SLC, home of the LDS faith, and I've directly seen the horrible effect it has had on our local government, our education, and the hundreds of thousands of people that live here. The outright suppression of LGBT, and women's rights has been abhorrent in even recent history.
You've clearly expressed no interest but to strawman me and call me names, so maybe you're the intolerant bigot?
We should all be thankful that God decided to spare the boys life after sending him off into the wilderness.
God is in the public domain so you can make him whatever
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