[WS:] That is not the most fishy part of the story. The supposed miracle occurred AFTER he kicked the bucket. Just think about. If I stand next to a dying person and wave a magic wand or say a magic word or something of that sort and that person is cured afterwards, you can observe a cause - effect relationship between me doing something and a person being cured (assuming, of course, that I have supernatural powers.) But when the miracle in question occurs some time after I die - how can anyone know that it was I who did the miracle and not someone else? I mean, it could have been some other dude with supernatural powers doing his abracadabra which cured the nun, which was unobserved, so what makes them think it was Mr. Wojtyla? Believing in the miracle and supernatural powers is one thing, but even if you do you need to get your facts who's done it straight, no?
Wojtek
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 14, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12191423
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> "The Vatican credits him with the miraculous cure of a nun said to have had
> Parkinson's Disease."
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> So Mr Wojtyla could cure some nun's parkinson's, but he couldn't cure his
> own? Miraculous!
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> Shane Mage
> "When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things
> are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
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> When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
> things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)
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