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Thursday, July 2, 2009

News A Mystery to Me

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:57 AM

From CNN:

"She didn't feel a thing. She found herself in water," Paris-based Kassim Bakari told French radio RTL after speaking to his 13-year-old daughter Bahia who was recovering Wednesday in hospital in Moroni.

"She could hear people talking, but in the middle of the night she couldn't see a thing. She managed to hold on to a piece of something," said Bakari, whose wife was also on board the doomed flight and is presumed to be among the 152 victims.

"She said she was ejected from the plane," Bakari said.

Bahia, who lives in Marseille, escaped with just cuts to her face and a fractured collar-bone as the Yemenia Airways Airbus A310 tried to land at Moroni airport at the end of a four-stage flight from France.

The wonderful vagueness of this miracle. It happens in the dark, in a moment of complete confusion. Like Hume's God, voices are heard but bodies are not seen. Something opens and closes. You slip and slid on the folds of time. The wall of this reality rips—for a second there's an opening to another reality. You enter it and return from it without knowing.

A miracle that is instantly grasped or witnessed with both eyes is so much weaker (and less true) than this type of miracle—a miracle that happens in the night when all cows are black.

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Bloviating twaddle and nonsense. She never left reality, time did not fold.

Posted by Banna

on July 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM

"Voices are heard but not seen" Are you seeing voices Charles? Have another bucket of wine.

Posted by heywhatsit!? on July 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM

Maybe someone should tag her and make it more of a miracle.

Posted by Zoroastronomer on July 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM

my mind is now completely blown. can i leave early?

Posted by Max Solomon on July 2, 2009 at 9:42 AM

I'm starting to enjoy Charles' nonsense. I like articles like this where it's like "Interesting, didn't know that... WTF? Reality distortion fields?! What loon... oh, wait, it's Mudede."

Nothing too simple and factual to be turned into a masturbatory self-impressed flight of fancy, eh? I admire the perseverance, if not the habit.

Posted by also on July 2, 2009 at 10:16 AM

SERIOUSLY CAN I HAVE SOME OF WHAT YOU'RE SMOKING?????????????????

Posted by Swearengen on July 2, 2009 at 10:16 AM

It sounds like a description of being born

Posted by Vince on July 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM

Miracle my ass. How about the dead? Are they less special than this girl, or did they fall through the wrong rip in the time-space continuum? I'm pretty new to Slog and thought that those who criticized you were overdoing it, but now I get it. Your posts and your logic are really, really lame.

Posted by Skeptika on July 2, 2009 at 10:48 AM

I heard her father interviewed on the BBC last night. I can't imagine what he's going through. Joy that his daughter is miraculously alive and grief that his wife is not. He has three other young children at home as well (the surviving daughter is the oldest) and none of them had yet been told of their mother's death. He couldn't do it.

Breaks my heart.

Posted by PA Native on July 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM

yeah, some miracle. i'm so glad that after "god" chose to put that jet in the water and kill all those people he "miracled" this girl's ass.

Posted by taint on July 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Top this (also from CNN):

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe…

Posted by Toe Tag on July 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM

Did he just call her a black cow?

Posted by subwlf on July 2, 2009 at 1:29 PM