tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088173983283266154.post2569720147313054255..comments2023-05-10T05:24:11.622-04:00Comments on Jim, not Mike: A Breath Away From...Jim, not Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17375672012080692689noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088173983283266154.post-75159572541531020262011-05-15T22:08:28.714-04:002011-05-15T22:08:28.714-04:00I had issues with America's reaction to his de...I had issues with America's reaction to his death. While I cannot mourn him, I also cannot rejoice in the death of another, no matter how evil that person may be. Do I think the world is a safer place without him? To a degree, yes, excluding those who will try to avenge his death. <br />On the God issue, you know where i stand. I don't think God picks and chooses who lives and dies; he gave Adam and Eve free will in the garden and he gives it to us every day, hoping we will make the right choices but already knowing what we will do. I don't necessarily believe God saved you that day, it was circumstances, but I don't think Bin Laden saved you either. Either way, I am glad you are here!KJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14874769369160385196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088173983283266154.post-25440369808542108022011-05-04T00:43:54.353-04:002011-05-04T00:43:54.353-04:00I have to agree with the what ifs of life and clos...I have to agree with the what ifs of life and close calls with death and can understand where you are coming from on this.<br /><br />I was almost hit by a motorcycle getting off the bus in kindergarten by a man who used the railroad track by our house as a ramp to jump his bike. (He later jumped into a tractor trailer that was crossing the road and died.) I also almost drown while going tubing in the Potomac. (thank goodness for neighbors and and ex that still cares to pull me out from under the current.) And last summer, if I had not had a helmet on during the infamous Vespa crash it could have been my skull split open on the sidewalk instead a scratch on my helmet.<br /><br />And the pivotal choices, there are too many! If I would have gone to college after school or if Mom wouldn't have walked out, I would never have ended up in Hagerstown. <br /><br />It's the chaos theory at work in all of our lives. Bin Laden was a part of that, whether we admit it or not.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13697061146175265708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088173983283266154.post-18743690562355392122011-05-03T11:24:34.418-04:002011-05-03T11:24:34.418-04:00It is strange, sometimes, to think in our lives of...It is strange, sometimes, to think in our lives of close calls or other "what ifs". What if, when I was 12, the guy who hit me with his car had been going a little faster? What if I'd never taken that internship in CO and met my husband? So I can see how this what if in particular would move you.Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04021191690448319166noreply@blogger.com