"Miracle from Heaven"

[credoconsolans]

Anyone know anything about this upcoming movie?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...en-met-Jesus-woke-cured-lifelong-illness.html

It's another "Jesus saves pretty white blonde girl from chronic childhood disease after she falls 30 feet inside a hollowed out tree and she saw heaven after she hit her head 3 times" movie.

She sees Jesus - who looks kinda like Santa Claus - and her dead grandmother. And says so, AFTER she's probably been on meds at the hospital. She didn't have an NDE, she just was knocked silly. Possible mild concussion if that.

Since the family is from Burleson, Texas and were probably already highly religious, and the girl got her bell rung 3 times, it's obvious the little girl was just imaging her scenario. But what interests me is her disease disappearing.

She had pseudo-obstruction motility disorder. It was diagnosed as chronic, but then it disappeared after her fall. But apparently there are acute types as well and children can get the disease sporadically.

Anyone know any more details about the case or disease?

If this belongs in a different category, mods, feel free to move it.

 

[thebeave]

Wouldn't it have been easier on everyone if God didn't give her the disease in the first place?

 

[Sarpedon]

I have read that spontaneous remissions of various diseases are common. Common, that is in that there are a lot of cases, not common in the way that if you have a disease, it is likely that it will spontaneously remit. There are many cases of remission because there are many, many cases of disease.

According to wiki, the guess is that 1 in 100,000 cases of cancer will do this. It gives no details of other diseases, but I believe that what I read before is more or less on the same lines as that.

 

[bilby]

With 7.5 billion people on the world, one in a million per lifetime events will typically happen 7,500 times (and 300 times just in the USA) in a given person's life. That's about one 'one in a million of this happening in my entire lifetime' every three or four days worldwide, or about one every two months in the USA.

Miracles should be expected to be reported frequently in a world of high population and rapid communications - particularly one where reporters scour the world for something to fill the endless howling wasteland of the 24x7 'news' cycle.

That people remain impressed by tales of the incredibly unlikely is just a further proof (if proof were needed) that people are woefully bad at statistics.

We hear that someone's disease disappeared overnight, and that the doctors say it's a one in a million chance, and we think 'Wow, that can't just have happened by chance!'; but it's actually a more likely event than someone winning the lottery, which we are completely unimpressed by as it happens at least every few weeks.

Sure, it would be impressive if someone you knew personally won the lottery - or had his cancer suddenly vanish. Winning the lottery is impressive. The lottery paying out to someone is not.

But the news media hijack your mind and make you feel that level of amazement despite the fact that the miracle cure would have been reported if it happened to literally ANYONE - and as such is something as commonplace as the lottery paying out.

For millions of years, if you heard about something, then it was personal. But that's no longer the case - and the human mind can't really handle it.

That's why people are scared of terrorism when they fly. Because they have heard of it happening, so their brains assess it as 'likely to happen'. It's a basic cognitive flaw.

 

[ronburgundy]

It would only be a miracle if improbable events did not occur.

 

[aeebee50]

I like stories like this.

 

[credoconsolans]

Wouldn't it have been easier on everyone if God didn't give her the disease in the first place?

But how is god going to prove his power unless he shits on someone first?

 

[ronburgundy]

She probably did not even imagine seeing Jesus. There is likely nothing true about the movie except that a girl who had a disease who had not gotten tested in a while, gets hurt and goes to the hospital. While at the hospital, they test for her disease and its in remission and had been for some unknown time. Then her idiot parents make a big deal of it, pretend the two events are linked and fill the girl's head with false memories (very easy to do with kids) about their experience when they fell. Its also plausible the girl made it all up herself based on seeing the numerous other movies and made for tv specials showing NDE nonsense.