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I just saw that on the weather channel a few minutes ago, it don't even look real. They said the guy walked away with only a few scratches after he was cut out . I guess it just wasn't his time or something, and looks like a miracle of divine intervention.
I'd say! I have a friend who rolled his small pick up on black ice. When he finally saw his truck days later the whole cab was crushed flat except the one small area where he was sitting. Made no sense whatsoever. Divine intervention? I'm a believer!
I'd say! I have a friend who rolled his small pick up on black ice. When he finally saw his truck days later the whole cab was crushed flat except the one small area where he was sitting. Made no sense whatsoever. Divine intervention? I'm a believer!
I'd say! I have a friend who rolled his small pick up on black ice. When he finally saw his truck days later the whole cab was crushed flat except the one small area where he was sitting. Made no sense whatsoever. Divine intervention? I'm a believer!
I was a passenger in a wreck (in a 1990 bmw 3 series) where we hit a tree while upside down. The cop who responded told us to go buy a lottery ticket, haha! We flew over a deep creek bed @ 50mph, it was ridiculous.
No, actually, it does fit the definition of a miracle...
Okay, look. I'm glad he survived. It's a really neat 'chewing gum for the mind' piece and a nice little news bit. The chance of that happening is doubtless fairly slim.
It is not, however, inexplicable. And I do not and will not hold the outcome to be 'supernatural in origin.'
It is something that occurred. There was no twiddling of matter and energy by some intelligence we can't conceive of through some method of transmission we've never observed.*
I'll give you the second definition though, I guess. A wonderful event.
(* and if there had been, and we called it 'supernatural,' it would still only be so until we learned to observe and measure it, at which point it would cease to be supernatural and would instead be called science and knowledge)
Only one thing I can say...Holy s---! Also, I have been in 2 horrible rollovers in my life, one with no seatbelt (yes, I was young & dumb), & *something* saved me, other than chance.
If we sent crash test dummies through the rollovers you went through, say, 100 times, they might come out totally unscathed 3 times, with only minor "injuries" 17 times, and with major "injuries" 10 times. They might have a whole range of catastrophic and/or life-ending injuries 70 times.
Would there have been some benevolence reaching in from another dimension to somehow alter the physics (matter and energy) in the 30% of the times when the dummies "survived?" Umm, no.
In the case of the man pinned between two semis, if we somehow replicated that, say, 1000 times, maybe the dummy is as unscathed as this guy only 1 or 2 times. Maybe it only "survives" 12 times in 1000. Maybe it's horribly crushed 950 of the 1000 times we run the simulation. Maybe this outcome only occurs 1 out of 10,000 times. Supernatural, then? Intelligent manipulation of physics by an other-dimensional super-hero? Nope.
Actually, if we were to somehow *exactly* replicate every micrometer and nanosecond and milligram of your rollovers and this semi incident, which we could never do, but if we could, the results would match what happened in the real world 100% of the time.
I think (or hope, anyway) that most thinking adults understand what I said to be true, but that for some reason that eludes me, some of them like to simple-mindedly play pretend every now and then.
I always wonder what people think of the times when the supernatural physics-twiddler DIDN'T exert its influence. Was it just being a jerk? Did those people deserve to die? Was it stretched too thin at that moment, busy twiddling physics elsewhere? Does it have quotas? Or is it random? Let's go with random.
Originally Posted by ocnjgirl I really don't think it is the wrong forum...this major accident as well as this particular man himself are all over the news today both TV and online, and IMO it most definitely qualifies as a Current Event.
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I'd say! I have a friend who rolled his small pick up on black ice. When he finally saw his truck days later the whole cab was crushed flat except the one small area where he was sitting. Made no sense whatsoever. Divine intervention? I'm a believer!
My sister in law, her husband and a friend had a similar accident in a mini-truck back when they were truly mini. The cops figured the only thing that saved their lives was the fact they were stuffed so tight in the cab, as it rolled a few times. All three walked away with hardly a scratch.
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I had to post this image because, not in my wildest dreams could I imagine a full-size pickup being so completely shredded with the lone occupant ending up in a body cast of twisted iron... with only two cuts.
Someone said it's just physics; and though I agree, it doesn't take away from the fact that this was truly a miracle he survived such overwhelming physical odds in such a spectacular fashion.
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