I had a bizzare religious experience

[Tom/Mutate]

I was reading a website that makes fun of the bible, and it had something about craziest bible verses of all time.  One of them was about big cocks and women having sex with donkeys, and it was really lurid.  I got my bible to look it up, because I wanted to make fun of the passage on websites.   But anyway, when I got my bible, it actually fell open right away on that verse I was looking for, and in that translation it wasn't that lurid, they just kept the point being made while making it less explicit.  I felt kind of guilty for making fun of it and also wondered if it was supernatural that it fell open like that.  I hope its just a coincidence because I dont want to be a Christian.  But it did freak me out though.

[Pyraxis]

To counter your superstitiousness: Confirmation Bias 101

[vodz]

I didn't know Christians were into huge dicks, human or otherwise.
I might have to reconsider my lack of faith.

[Al Swearegen]

If the poor little bugger wasn't freaking out before, he sure as hell is now.  :lol:

[Phlexor]

I didn't know Christians were into huge dicks, human or otherwise.
I might have to reconsider my lack of faith.

I find your lack of faith disturbing... 

[enronh]

I was reading a website that makes fun of the bible, and it had something about craziest bible verses of all time.  One of them was about big cocks and women having sex with donkeys, and it was really lurid.  I got my bible to look it up, because I wanted to make fun of the passage on websites.   But anyway, when I got my bible, it actually fell open right away on that verse I was looking for, and in that translation it wasn't that lurid, they just kept the point being made while making it less explicit.  I felt kind of guilty for making fun of it and also wondered if it was supernatural that it fell open like that.  I hope its just a coincidence because I dont want to be a Christian.  But it did freak me out though.

I've open several books on the exact page I wanted, including the dictionary.

I smell a coincidence, is all.

Pls don't be a Christian! 

[The_Chosen_One]

I think it was a metaphor meaning that all Christians want to do is fuck us up the ass.

[Mr Smith]

I was reading a website that makes fun of the bible, and it had something about craziest bible verses of all time.  One of them was about big cocks and women having sex with donkeys, and it was really lurid.  I got my bible to look it up, because I wanted to make fun of the passage on websites.   But anyway, when I got my bible, it actually fell open right away on that verse I was looking for, and in that translation it wasn't that lurid, they just kept the point being made while making it less explicit.  I felt kind of guilty for making fun of it and also wondered if it was supernatural that it fell open like that.  I hope its just a coincidence because I dont want to be a Christian.  But it did freak me out though.

Creepy co-incodence. Maybe it was God punishing you for wanting to make fun of it.

I'm not a Christian, and it's a shame to see that you were born into a family with religion forced upon you.

[DirtDawg]

Merely a coincidence, but not entirely. You did it.

The book is finite, which narrows it down quite a bit, increasing the possibility that you will find your passages quicklly. Having a vague idea as to where to look in this finite book eliminates most of the rest of book with one more stroke. So you did it on purpose. It's not like the book flew off the shelf, hit you in the head with those pages flapping open and directly encoded your mind with the contents.

As Pyraxis points out, though, you can always just say that God made you smart for a reason.

[DirtDawg]

I think we have all had some of these types of things happen to us, though.

It is in the way we choose to assess an event that makes it important to us or not.

[The_Chosen_One]

God is just another reason for people to avoid reality.

[TheoK]

I was reading a website that makes fun of the bible, and it had something about craziest bible verses of all time.  One of them was about big cocks and women having sex with donkeys, and it was really lurid.  I got my bible to look it up, because I wanted to make fun of the passage on websites.   But anyway, when I got my bible, it actually fell open right away on that verse I was looking for, and in that translation it wasn't that lurid, they just kept the point being made while making it less explicit.  I felt kind of guilty for making fun of it and also wondered if it was supernatural that it fell open like that.  I hope its just a coincidence because I dont want to be a Christian.  But it did freak me out though.

I was looking for a poem for my signature a couple of weeks ago, and the book opened at exactly the page I was looking for, though it wasn't the Bible.

[Alex179]

This has happened to me several times in different books.   It has happened with the Bible as well.   The latest was with a guitar book, I was looking for the page wth the modal system chart and it opened right to it.