When we got to the [Mexican] border, it was raining and really gloomy outside. I prayed for some sunshine for the duration of my stay in my mom's hometown. When we finally did get there, it was sunny and the sky was blue with only a few clouds. It stayed that way until the day I left. That morning, it began to rain and the sky became cloudy again. There isn't any rational explanation I can offer as to why this happened, but it did happen.
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Yeah, same thing happened when I went on holiday to Cornwall. Rained the day before, and all the way there. Stopped raining the moment I got out the car, stayed sunny for the whole 5 days, got into the car to go home, and it started raining.
Funny, the exact opposite happened to me coming home from deployment. Nice, warm and sunny for two months before we got home, and then cold, gloomy and rainy for the two weeks after we got thier. All the prayers of the wives and husbands (who hadn't seen each other in six months) for good weather ignored.
Well, I went to a gay pride parade today, and the weather forecast was bleak. Thankfully, it was sunny for the parade and didn't start raining until after it was over.
Clearly it is the work of Gay Jesus!
While I'm at it...
Why does a board like IIDB attract so many looney tunes anyway? You'd think most of them would consider a board devoted to rationalism and counterevangelism hostile environment and only the absolutely nuttiest would post things like this, and yet FSTDT seems to find it as fertile a source as any other site commonly ridiculed on here.
"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
At least the prayer I share with Voltaire is answered consistently ...
(Of course, there was a particular issue on which Voltaire was the ridiculous one -- Voltaire's racism. Then the Lord in His Infinite Snarkitude brought forth the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and all was well.)
When I was a kid my friend who liked to read about ancient cultures and I once made an offer (a sandwich) to the sungod Ra and asked for sunshine, so we could go to the zoo. The sky did clear up for a while, however as soon as we arrived at the zoo the rain started up again. Man, those Egyptian gods are useless.
@The Sherlockian
"now thye think they have the power to change the weather..."
now? Oh contraire, they have always thought this way my friend. It's like peering back into the bronze age with these twits... back when people believed their invisible sky friend controlled weather, volcanoes, earth quakes and plagues on a whim and a prayer. These people continue to remain in existence despite the advent of science for it is easier to swallow superstition than to open a science book and attempt to understand its contents, amen.
Another fine example that the human mind has big problems comprehending phenomena with huge random components, and tries to find connections everywhere. Even where no connections exist at all.
Countless casino players try to find systems to forecast their "lucky numbers". They all fail, because in reality there are no lucky numbers.
@Whoever
> So what happens if one fundie prays for sunshine, and at the same time another fundie prays for rain? Then what?
Then the one who sacrifices the greatest number of Mana Points wins. Duh.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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