Could've

[Illuzion]

This event is why I'm agnostic. I swear I could've died that day, but I didn't. I was getting out of the shower and I slipped and fell crashing into a table that was propped up against the hallway. Table probably weighed a ton and was made of solid wood. Somehow when it fell I wasn't crushed under it's weight though. The hallway was too narrow, but in any other room in the house that thing probably would've killed me. Call it what you will it was fucking scary.

[vonunov]

Agnostic as in you don't rule out the possibility of a god existing, owing to close calls like this?

The term really just means you take the position that the existence of a god is unknown or unknowable; it isn't really a good way to describe this sort of (even uncertain) faith arising from apparently significant events.

The same goes for taking it in the other direction (doubting the existence of a god because this sort of thing happened).

Many people could have died on many days. Many do and many more don't, on the whole.

I am a clumsy person. I come near to slipping in the shower daily. Falling in the home is a fairly common cause of serious injury or death. Someday it may be my bad luck, and I'll be in that statistic. For now, I don't chalk my survival up to any higher power, nor my brushes with potentially fatal injury, but rather to chance (or is it my lightning-fast reflexes, ho, ho).

Shit happens, and sometimes the conditions are in your favor. We tend to seek patterns in everything, and if there aren't any, we make them up. The truth is that almost nothing is nearly as significant as it usually seems. This is at once terrible and freeing. On one hand, to accept this denies us many potential sources of meaning in daily life; on the other, we don't have to spend too awfully much time worrying if some happenstance was a sign of something greater.

[Illuzion]

Many things happen in my life that make me think there is something out there. It's little things like this and many others that should never of happened, but they do.

[James Comey]

Heh, similar things are happening in my life, I suppose, which make me think there's some kind of god that interferes with the world. Though I definitely remain skeptical, too.

[darkmind15]

damn

[Ky]

I have a lot to say on this (mostly an affirmation, from a Christian standpoint, of what you're saying), but I'd prefer not to start a religious argument.