If you are going to save the day and you are hearing what I say, and if you do not believe in me, do not thing my love if for free, I will not take nothing less, but a deeper love. We all need a miracle every now and then. A miracle is something which would never happen had nature, as it were, been left to its own devices. This idea of overriding is essential; however, it is certainly subject to various variation and additions. Only a true miracle can be worked by God or by his specially deputed agents. Others even build into their very definition of miracle some reference to the purposes for which Authority is supposed to be prepared to consider making such an exception. Certainly, most theist theologians are also at great pains to maintain that a miraculous event could not properly be considered a violation, since it would not really represent any infringement, of the fundamental hierarchical order. It is not against the principle of craftsmanship (contra rationem artificii) if a craftsman effects a change in his product, even after he has given it its first form. There would be no point in trying to show in this way that a miracle must ultimately be no violation of regularity unless it were taken for granted that it apparently is such a violation. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 9

This point is fundamental, and it needs to be stressed more heavily today that in the past. For in addition to the traditional theist reluctance to ascribe to the Deity anything savoring of unseemly irregularity, it is nowadays usual to encounter a certain shyness about any apparent repudiation of scientifically accepted modes of explanation. Those things that are properly called miracles which are done by divine agency beyond the order commonly observed in nature (praeter ordinem communiter observatum in rebus).  To seize the fundamental point that a miracle is an event which violate the ordinary course of nature is to appreciate that the notion of a miracle is logically parasitical on the idea of an order to which such an event must constitute some sort of exception. This being so, a strong notion of the truly miraculous—a notion involving something more than the notions of the merely marvelous, the significant, or the surprising—can only be generated is there is first an equally strong conception of rule and of exception thus gives concepts of the miraculous an inhere instability. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 9

It is perhaps relevant to notice how this tension has been felt in the history of idea. Where there is as yet no strong conception of natural order, there is little room for the idea of a genuinely miraculous event as distinct from the phenomenon of a prodigy, of a wonder, or of a divine sign. However, once such a conception of a natural order has taken really firm root, there is a great reluctance to allow that miracles have in fact occurred or even to admit as legitimate a concept of the miraculous. We may summarily reject all miracles, prophecies, narratives of angels and demons, and the like, as simply impossible and irreconcilable with the known and Universal laws which govern the course of events. However, it can be shown that there is an order does it begin to be possible to show that the order is occasionally overridden. The difficulty (perhaps an insoluble one) is to maintain simultaneously both strong rules and the genuine exceptions to. Biblical miracles, including the crucial physical resurrection of Christ bar Joseph, did in fact occur, and that this in turn proved the authenticity of the Christian revelation. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 9

When faced with something which is found to have actually happened, there we have an achievement which nature, left to her own unassisted devices, could never encompass. For instance, in a footnote to section X, of the medical records of a Mlle, physician De Sylva reported: “It was impossible she could have been so ill as was proved by witnesses, because it was impossible she could, in so short, a time, have recovered so perfectly as he found her.” However, the study of abnormal psychology and of psychosomatic medicine has since show miraculous recoveries are perfectly possible. Another instance that established a miracle of Universal eight-day eclipse had occurred in January 1600, then our present philosophers and scientists, instead of doubting the fact, certainly though this was a sign and a violation of nature. Occasionally, I do indeed think about my (still) being alive or my going to be alive at some later time, but my own present or future existence is certainly not the subject matter of all my thoughts, although all my thoughts must occur while I am alive. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 9

I was just thinking about life and how much I want to enjoy myself and am ready to move beyond all the games that people seem to like to play because life is truly short and I want to enjoy my life, I do not want to be stuck in the center of the web of a bunch of people who are evil and have nothing better to do, but try and make one’s life miserable. I am willing to let go of relationships because I do not believe in holding on to anything that is going to cause me nothing, but pain and stress, and I think the fact that I left go really surprises people, but there are over seven billion people in the World and if you do not want to act right and show concern for me, then someone else will. And you have to understand that it is not hard to get over someone who does not treat you right, and while people may still think I am stuck on one person, I am not and I honestly find it annoying that they play games without even knowing where I am in my life. You see, there is this possibility that death means the total disintegration and dissolution of my World. The death of myself is well described phenomenologically by the terms of void or encounter with Nothingness, and that scares me. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 9

I keep telling you all that I want to move on, I want to let go, I want to meet someone else. This experience of you all trying to use a romantic relationship to exploit me and constantly making up stories is scary to me. I feel like you people are terrorizing me and it makes me feel how sort life is. And I do not know what to do besides do research until someone exposed the situation, but I want to life my life and focus on my house and career. The confrontation with my own death submerges me into the deepest state of anxiety. When I fully realize what my own death means I seem to myself like a falling body into a dark and infinite abyss. The disappearance of the observer in the thought of one’s own death entails, in a sense, the disappearance of the World itself. If anxiety is not allowed to interfere with honest analysis, and if I think of my death as the end of everything, then, in a manner of speaking, I must think as well of the termination of the Universe itself. Hence, my image of the death of myself is tantamount to asserting the end of the World. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 9

It can hardly be denied that there is some truth in this account. When people think about their deaths they do get pictures of voids, of falling through dark abysses, and the like. To bring home to themselves the utter finality of death, people say things like, “With my death, my World comes to an end.” It is true that in order to think of my death, it is not enough to think of the cessation of my heartbeats or other bodily functions—I must also think of the cessation of my experiences. I watched someone very close to me die right before my eyes, and I had forgotten about that experience, until recently. And it seems like just yesterday, the evil room was dark and there were a lot of strange people around doing strange things, and there was so much darkness in the room, and to see his lifeless body laying there with his eyes wide open…just thinking about it right now makes me tear up, but I shut his eyes for him, and it seems like moments later he was being hauled out of the house in a body bag, and it is an experience I will never forget. Just when I thought no one care, you were the answer to my prayers, you lifted my spirits up, and you know it, that is why I have faith in you. Come on and rescue me. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 9

It must indeed be granted that with my death my World comes to an end; for in this context my World is just a rhetorical way of referring to me or my life. It may also be taken for granted that the end of my life or my World is, in a manner of speaking, the end of everything if the manner of speaking amounts to the qualification that it is the end of everything for me or in my experience. People who envy the young because they have many years ahead of them certainly do not suppose that the World will be annihilated when they die, and the same is unquestionably true of anybody who makes his will. However, I possess to a high degree the Victorian wish to retain a belief in God and exemplified one of the more extreme forms of the Victorian obsession with immortality. There are disembodied spirits, that we ourselves are spirits who can survive bodily death, and that some of us are even now sometimes in touch with the spirit World. The worst fear is the fear of spiritual extinction or spiritual solitude; the true security is in the telepathic law. If there is a spiritual World, we can expect it to manifest itself; if there is a spiritual realm, it is governed by discoverable scientific laws. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 9

The self or personality of which each of us s consciously aware is only a fragment of a much larger self, manifestations of which are hindered but not rendered impossible by our present connection with a physical organism. The religious upshot of observation and experiment is the law of the spirit World as it is of our own World, and the development is continuous from this World to that: as men here grow in holiness, so spirits there grow in love and wisdom. Although there may be something like an inconceivable union with the Divine, the growth in the spiritual realm is endless. The spirits see more of the laws of the spiritual realm then we do; they see enough to know that despite the existence of the evil, Universe is basically good. And because love and joy and wisdom are rooted in the nature of things, evil can be refuted and a sound morality can be established. Mysticism is the immediate feeling of the unity of the self with God. Mysticism is that attitude of mind in which all relations are swallowed up in the relation of the soul to God. Let me tell you, know I need a miracle. It is more than physical what I need to feel from you. I truly believe you are a divine miracle sent to me by God. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 9