This funny skeptic thing happened to me yesterday (and I just hadta share). Remember the scene in Pulp Fiction where the scrawny lame dude unloaded a whole cylinder of big bullets on Travolta and Jackson, but totally missed. After they killed the poor scrawny guy they had the talk in the car about divine intervention and things happen for a reason bull shit. OK, yesterday...
A customer walks into my work, we haven't seen each other in a long time ( we used to shoot the shit about road bike all the time) and we say the usual shit, How ya been, bla bla bla. Then dude busts out with wow, what a coincidence...dontcha think (meaning us meeting here after all these years). Me, I just kept my my shut and smiled. He ordered a coffee and as I turned to give it to him, wouldn'tcha know it, the cup fuckin' breaks-split right in half. Whoa dude, I'm sorry. I hope I didn't get any on ya.
His eyes lit up, no, THIS, means something(pouring hot liquid into a cold cup) I chose to keep my skeptic mouth shut and just start mopping, then he says, I'll be right back.
(OK, I getting bored with my own story, so I'll cut to that chase people keep talking about..)
So dude comes back with a super old and hella sic arse road bike, mmmm, perhaps 60's maybe 50's, that wouldn't ya know it totally fits my compact frame (hey, I'm small what can I say). I guess he fought off some kinda ailment and was totally sick that is why he is still around today, but it is also why he believes things happen for a reason.
I totally forget the real statistics on this on but...an occurrence that has a one in one million chance of happening, happens, like, 36X's a day (that's not the real number, but ya know). It is a million to bazillion chance of winning the lottery, and yet people win the lottery all the time (some people even several times). Then there is the bad ol' get struck by lighting. The poor person that gets struck by lighting will not be relieved to know...it does have a frequency, not much, but the chance of that occurring is certainly there.
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| A Norwegian family wins lottery three times in six years. |
Recap: Dude walks into my work and thinks it's coincidence...cosmic-n-such. Team Skeptic believes that because we are old friends both living in the same city and I've had the same job for 18 years all add up to a probability (a chance) that this could happen-and it did
(To him) Things happen for a reason, perhaps that is why he survived his illness to be here on this day when he orders a cup off coffee, the cup splits totally in half, but no one gets burned (It's a sign Kriss). Ugh, actually...second law of thermodynamics. that is why the coffee cup broke.
I'm slightly dull in conversations (as well as writing) this week so I hardly said anything while this was all happening, but I guess I could of said...
Things don't happen for a reason, they just happen. To anthropomorphize an event, afterwards, is dookie and meaningless. Statistics and probability dictate the chance occurrences of everything on this physical planet. If it has a chance of happening, given enuff time, the law of large numbers will take over and then people will win the lottery, get struck by lightning or break a cup and get a free bike.No supernatural/cosmic (so called) explanations required.
* One more thing, just because things don't happen for a reason doesn't mean that it is a cold unjust and cruel world. That's what the preachers tell us. The shit just happens, don't attach a human emotional feeling to it...that would be dookie. OK, I'm done.
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