We know, thanks to advances in psychology and neuroscience, that the human mind functions as a hyper-pattern-recognition system; finding causal chains even where there are none. We also know that the human mind tends to twist and reinterpret evidence in order to confirm the beliefs that we already hold. Thanks to the study of statistics we know that, given a large enough system and a great enough umber of events, coincidences and other statistical anomalies are to be expected.
Still, most of us are ever-ready to accept as obvious the interpreted meaning of a few coincidental events. Even if they require that we evoke some vague, supernatural causal chain.
So, to give balance to Gingi Edmonds’ conclusion about this recent plane crash, I have worked up a few alternate explanations.
Scenario 1 – A Naturalist Perspective:
The pilot of the single prop airplane was an extreme anti-abortionist who was aware of the family ties his passengers had. In an act of self-sacrificing glory that can only be described as terrorism, the pilot changed course and then drove the plan down into the ground as close to an abortion memorial as he could manage.
Scenario 2 – A Spiritual Perspective:
God, who apparently enjoys toying with us, caused this plan to crash, killing the family of a family planning clinic owner near an abortion memorial. He then inspired Gingi Endmonds to use the crash as a warning to abortionists thereby showing the cold heartlessness of man by exposing the incredible hypocrisy of thos who claim to defend life and love the unlovable, yet still take some joy in the death and grief of others as long as it gives them some smug sense of superiority.
Scenario 3:
Some people got in a plane and it crashed which is extremely sad, but unfortunately, people die in strange ways all the time. We should leave this poor man to grieve with those who care about him.
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It seems that humans will never run out of ways to shock me.
Here’s a short recap of the situation:
- A plane crash in Montana kills 14 people including seven children
- Pro-Life activist, Gingi Edmonds, points out that most of the plane’s occupants were family-members of a man who owns a chain of family planning clinics which also performs abortions (the article can be found here)
- Gingi also points out that the plane crashed in a cemetery that has a memorial for aborted fetuses
- Gingi infers from these facts and the unknown cause of the crash that this may be a wake-up call for abortionists
- It comes out that one of the women on board was 5 months pregnant
This just sickens me from a rational as well as a moral standpoint. To turn around in the face of a horrific event and blame this man for the death of his family seems astoundingly heartless. This is God’s justice? The slaughter of innocent children and one of the unborn babies He is supposedly so keen on protecting? Not to mention their parents and the pilot. In a time when this God clearly does not speak to us in any public fashion, does He enforce His moral law by the slaughter innocents that are tangentially related to a sin and hope that the rest of the world sees the coincidences surrounding the deaths? I suppose this would not be wholly outside of his character.
Excuse me sir, would you mind putting your beer down and oogling this naked women for a few minutes?
Cosmo recently published an article that might leave women feeling insecure about their bodies.
Also, studies show that college students drink a lot on the weekends.
I think maybe he just wanted to have one last flight and go higher than he’d ever been.
Politics and business must be informed, in some way, by the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. You get so caught up in the quest to get things “just right” that you completely forget the fact that Goldilocks just broke into your fucking house and is stealing your shit.
