Do You Believe in God's will/ luck?

vertigoaddict · Thu 27/12/2007 00:00:59

Today I woke up early (2:00-ish am) and decided to eat eggs (since there was nothing else I wanted to eat at the time)

So I picked up an egg from the basket and saw poop, white and brown, covered in every egg (this was after I've cracked two already and put it in the pan)

I washed the third one (soap and rubbing for 15 seconds kills germs, 20+ to be safe) and when I cracked it was inflated (that second shell/skin thingy) inside I can make out something black and greenish (an embryo) great...just great...kinda cool.

I cracked the forth egg above the pan and a black liquid just splashed out and I just threw it away. I just gave up on the Idea and microwave-d instant noodles.

(Factory manufactured foods may be unhealthy, but at least I'm not eating rotting embryos)

There were other bad incidences during these past few weeks and a long time ago.

Are these punishment for my wrong doings? A sign telling me not to eat eggs? a bad luck streak to balanc my lucky days? or just darn f@cked up!

Tuomas · Thu 27/12/2007 00:09:44

My guess is the eggs had just gone bad. This coming from someone who's a complete unbeliever of Godly deeds and yet a grocery-realist.

As they say, shit happens, or in this case, bad eggs happen. I recommend microwaving the egg. Zak did it, and the result was a seat cushion and a lighter, an oxygen tank, and perhaps something I can't remember at the moment

GarageGothic · Thu 27/12/2007 00:25:59

You say you got them from a basket, so I guess these weren't store-bought eggs? I think God is telling you to buy industrially produced eggs from the supermarket, keep them refrigerated and check the expiration date before eating.

Man, I think if I ever found an embryo in an egg it would put me off eggs forever, but then I do have a bit of a bird phobia. I even remove those red dots from the egg yolk before cooking because they gross me out.

shbaz · Thu 27/12/2007 00:28:21

Yep, that's Satan punishing you.

If you happen to be able to afford something really nice for yourself after working overtime for months that's God rewarding you.

PS. What did you do wrong?

Fyntax · Thu 27/12/2007 00:50:57

No, it does however seem like unrefutable proof that the basket as been possessed by a mischievious poltergeist..

I would watch out for the TV...

voh · Thu 27/12/2007 00:54:14

Seriously, if Satan's busying himself by ruining eggs, the dude obviously doesn't have a lot of worthwhile things to do.

vertigoaddict · Thu 27/12/2007 01:12:03

To answer Shbaz:
(my naughty list a few years back)

*Smoked when I was seven, on and off till now. (currently off for 5 months)

*Shoplifted ~~a condom~~ condom(s)

*Burned the carpet

*tortured a lot of lizards (one method was keeping them packed in a jar with no air holes...turned purple, green, etc. I also burned them while dropping them in the pond)

*'Scratched' my brother's door so badly it had to be replaced. (he pissed me off!)

*Shaved my sister's hair, only on one side (I don't remember doing this, but SHE definately never forgot)

*Beat my sister up in my other sister's birthday (beat up as in punch, kick, tear and body slam...my dad likes to watch WWF...she pissed me off too!)

*cut my other sister's hair.

*Lied about my identity on the internet to go into a 18 restricted site. (stopped this)

*Ate alot (Gluttony is a sin...I was fat)

* I don't pray

*more than 27 suicide attempts (obviously I was a coward to cut deep enough)

(that's all I can think of...for now)

Current/ recent sins:

* Cybersex to, not with, an older man (lust is a sin)

* Still don't pray

* do not love or respect parents

*masturbation without performing the cleansing ritual afterwards. (which is technically praying)

there should be more, but I can't think of them right now.

Note: I've changed these couple of years, I'm emotionally stronger now. I'm wiser now. According to the people around me, I'm really nice...

Fyntax: Yes, Bitchney Spears is horrible no?

Voh: That's because people learn from they're mistakes and are so angelic these days.

EldKatt · Thu 27/12/2007 01:20:55

Confirmation bias and the law of truly large numbers are enough to explain most or all of the peculiar events which people tend to attribute to luck or divine intervention.

Stupot · Thu 27/12/2007 01:24:57

Why would you throw an egg away just because it was black? :

vertigoaddict · Thu 27/12/2007 01:27:22

Quote from: Stupot on Thu 27/12/2007 01:24:57
Why would you throw an egg away just because it was black? :

The whole content was black, smelled and had a few lumps here and there.

Khris · Thu 27/12/2007 12:27:40

I went to play on the freeway and nearly got run over. It's probably God punishing me.
Which I find understandable, considering that I basically sin 24/7 (because everything I do is a sin by some religion's standards).

On a serious note: I believe in luck as in coincidence. Bad things just happen. Considering bad luck as punishment (and luck as reward) is ridiculous. Just look at all the 'bad' people getting lucky and all the 'good' people having bad luck.
Coincidence is a nice and simple explanation for that fact. (Unless God likes bad people or indeed does play dice.)

PS: I get the feeling that the point of this thread was to list your sins.

Akatosh · Thu 27/12/2007 12:48:03

Make an experiment: Sin like crazy for 3 years or so and write down the amount of spoiled eggs you get. Then be the worst churchie of a religion of your choice for another 3 years and compare the amount of spoiled eggs you get to that you got before. Of course, you'll have to do that for every religion on this planet because of fairness reasons...

Stupot · Thu 27/12/2007 12:56:59

I can't recall ever having cracked open a bad egg... I should be sainted.

vict0r · Thu 27/12/2007 13:17:59

It's probably just a bad luck strike. If the lumps in the black egg were to form the word "sinner" I would be slightly worried, but some bad eggs? Forget it!

Babar · Thu 27/12/2007 13:21:33

If one egg was bad, it is not unlikely that all the eggs would have been bad, considering that you got them from the same basket. You must have got all of them at the same time, and that time must have been a long time ago, hence the eggs are bad!

space boy · Thu 27/12/2007 13:43:30

Quote from: Akatosh on Thu 27/12/2007 12:48:03
Make an experiment: Sin like crazy for 3 years or so and write down the amount of spoiled eggs you get. Then be the worst churchie of a religion of your choice for another 3 years and compare the amount of spoiled eggs you get to that you got before. Of course, you'll have to do that for every religion on this planet because of fairness reasons...

Even if you followed the scientific method strictly, you won't get any useful results. Everybody knows supernatural beings don't like to be tested and they'll do anything to ruin your experiment. Remember those experiments to find out whether prayer works? God knew he was being tested and decided to not do what the testgroup prayed for.

Stupot · Thu 27/12/2007 13:54:08

Well that's just spiteful... and spite is a sin, therefore God is a hypocrite and thus doesn't exist.

YES \o/
Proved it!!! woohoo.

Snake · Thu 27/12/2007 13:55:17

QuoteI went to play on the freeway and nearly got run over. It's probably God punishing me. Which I find understandable...

I don't think it's God punishing you. I think you almost got run over because, well, it was a freeway after all

I believe that everything happens the way it happens because it just does. Everybody is always looking for a reason for why particular events take place. And because they can't understand it they look somewhere else, ie; God/Satan.

Eventhough I really don't believe there is any sort of God, I still am very intrigued by DejaVu and the paranormal. So I wouldn't say I'm a complete athiest. I believe I'll find out when I'm dead. I am not, for one second, going to believe in something my whole life that could very well be bullshit, fairytales and stories. I'm going to believe in what I find to be more realistic or scientific - what makes sence to me..

If God exists and is who he is believed to be, then I think I will be excepted in heaven because I'm a good person, not because I pray (I don't), go to church (I don't) or revolve my entire life around how God wants me to live it (I don't). God loves the ignorant too

QuoteGod knew he was being tested and decided to not do what the testgroup prayed for.

It's just another thing believers can add to the list of excuses to protect their faith.
"Ah, well... he knows we were testing him... I don't blame him for not playing along...".
And yet again, that's fine, I'm probably going too far. I shouldn't judge what other people believe in. Like I said, I'll find out when I'm dead.

[EDIT]
The makers of TV Plug n' Play games' warranty:

QuoteWarranty is void if unit is broken by the user either by accident or God's will...

I just thought it was funny, I've never seen that anywhere before. Maybe it's everywhere, I don't know.

--Snake

Renal Shutdown · Thu 27/12/2007 14:47:07

Quote from: vertigoaddict on Thu 27/12/2007 00:00:59
I cracked the forth egg above the pan and a black liquid just splashed out and I just threw it away. I just gave up on the Idea and microwave-d instant noodles.

It's not god's or satan's or the tooth fairy's wrath that you should be worrying about. It's the deep running conspiracy led by the makers of instant noodles. They don't want you having healthy foods, so they've set about poisoning the chickens..

..But, seriously. You can't honestly think "Oh no, God's punishing me" without a few deciding factors beforehand, for instance:
1. God exists, and you "believe" in him. IE, follow some sort of teachings or formed your own on what he considers acceptable.
2. You actually care about said deity's opinion of you, and care about the consequences. IE, hell, purgatory, whatever.

Lets say you did believe, and were worried about his opinion of you. If you gave the deity any kind of credit, you wouldn't be sinning in the first place, out of fear of being punished, and in most religions, that punishment comes after death, not after midnight.

I think you're jumping to a clichÃ©d and extreme conclusion, instead of just thinking "Oh, Eggs are bad". I don't get distraugt when I find mould on my bread, I just buy new bread. When a battery runs out, I don't think I'm being punished, I just replace the batteries. If I stub my toe, I don't cry out to the heavens for forgiveness, I just look where I'm walking for a while.

I don't mean to sound cruel, but honestly? I think you're a bit of an attention seeker, and somewhat Emo. For example, you seem far too willing to share that list of sins with us, than most people would. Maybe you should add Vanity to it, whilst you're at it.

Meowster · Thu 27/12/2007 14:52:38

Dude I am not kidding, that list of bad things is pretty bad. Beating up sisters and attempted suicide? You need help. And no, I think it's pretty safe to say that the rotten eggs weren't a sign from god or a punishment. I mean, if I was going to punish you for all that crap then I'd do a lot more than just give you an iffy egg and sit there chuckling to myself while you broke it into a pan.