"Miracles", why they don't impress.

They typically come in two varieties....

....you've got your hurricane that kills everyone but a baby in a shed, and that's called "a miracle!".

That type always horrifies, yeah, God slaughtered that whole family, messed up that baby's life, but what a miracle...

Also, excellence in human endeavor gets co-opted for this sort of retroactive pattern finding, and that just annoys rather than horrifies.

OR, you get the full out trippy ghost visitation deal.

But, when you really think about it....

....aren't the stories always boring?

The ghost, or saint, or voice in the head, never says anything the person didn't know, or couldn't have thought of.
It's usually some fortune cookie sentiment, or instructions to find some mundane household item, or advice to add more fiber to their diet, or...y'know, dull shit.
That it was a spook saying it is the only fantastical part.

And you can totally get the same effect from LSD, or schizophrenia, or if you have the right sort of chemical makeup, long bouts with sleep deprivation.

And have you ever sat through an LSD story?
Aren't those just as mundane?
Yeah, sometimes they can be hilarious, especially if they end with the dude tripping over their ottoman into the puddle of dog piss on the rug,...but have you ever heard anything of cosmic relevance?

How come Jesus, or Mary, or Saint Jerome, or Kloktar the Venutian, never give the formula for cold fusion, or the blueprints to warp drive, or the protein sequence for universal cancer remission...or, y'know, something really awsomely helpful to the world?

Never comes, always the fortune cookie stuff.

What kind of sick game is being played here by these damned spooks?

Yeah, give me science.

The new nano-scale MRI, now that's a freakin' miracle.

Imagine the medical advances, the cures, the new materials that will come from the knowledge that will unleash.

The liberation from disease, and therefore liberation from despair those cures will bring.

And why didn't God help us out with that? Human ingenuity keeps delivering on all of these promises God seemingly bails on. And wonder why I'm more into empiricism.