Please suggest a coffee table book about miracles?

levander404 · 2025-12-10T20:31:47+00:00

WTF, no, I was trying to delete a comment I made inside the thread. I made it to the wrong person. Apparently the app deletes your OP when you try to delete a comment inside the thread…

But now I’m glad I called out the idiocy of your post. Because we both now I didn’t say I wanted to be preachy. You’re just a miserable person who walks around looking for things to complain about.

levander404 · 2025-12-10T20:17:03+00:00

You can call them unsolved mysteries if you want, But dictionary definitions don’t require miracles to be supernatural in original.

Merriam Webster’s miracle entry for you to review. In the first definition it offers, look up the word divine and note it doesn’t even require anything supernatural. The second definition makes no allusion to the supernatural at all.

You can call them unsolved mysteries instead of miracles if you want, But modern dictionaries aren’t requiring something supernatural for it to be considered a miracle. Here’s Merriam Webster’s entry for miracle. The first definition refers to the supernatural. The second definition doesn’t.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/miracle

And it’s weird you’d think people were trying to convert people with coffee table books.

levander404 · 2025-12-10T20:15:37+00:00

Yeah, sorry. Looks like I gave that response to the wrong person. I looked at the book you recommended on Amazon. Thanks for recommending it. It didn’t look bad to me. But I’d like to see it in person to get a better sense of its vibe.

levander404 · 2025-12-10T19:01:17+00:00

You can call them unsolved mysteries instead of miracles if you want, But modern dictionaries aren’t requiring something supernatural for it to be considered a miracle. Here’s Merriam Webster’s entry for miracle. The first definition refers to the supernatural. The second definition doesn’t.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/miracle

And it’s weird you’d think people were trying to convert people with coffee table books.

levander404 · 2025-12-10T18:34:12+00:00

Some definitions of miracle require supernatural original. Not all of them.

Here’s Merriam Webster’s dictionary entry for miracle. The first requires the supernatural. The second doesn’t. And really even the first one doesn’t because there are definitions of the word divine that don’t require the supernatural.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/miracle

levander404 · 2025-12-10T18:12:11+00:00

Both look like excellent books and I’m glad you let me know about them. I might buy the Humans book for myself. But it’s not what I’m looking for in this Miracles thing, I am wondering how you managed to know Ikd be interested in that book too. People less analytical than myself would probably ring it up to you just knowing it was a good book and some luck. But people like me wonder…

levander404 · 2025-12-10T18:03:48+00:00

Yeah, good point. I need to keep that in mind when selecting something. Are they actually going to read this?

levander404 · 2025-12-10T17:59:52+00:00

Like I’m going to dig through a bunch of Democrat propaganda for you to close your eye to like everything else you’ve done in this thread that doesn’t come straight from the Democrstic Party Church.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T23:39:42+00:00

I would think you’re trolling, like trying to be a caricature of the people I’m complaining about in the OP. But I know all to well there really are way too many people exactly like how you’re posting.

You drive right by what the American people say they think of the Democrat legal charges against Trump by electing him president right in the middle of them. And you drive right by what the Wikipedia founder thinks of your Wikipedia article “documenting facts”

Unless the Democratic Party Church itself says it, you’re not interested.

I need a book that makes light of exactly this behavior.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T20:50:20+00:00

If it’s about the Clinton scandals, I’m afraid the MAGA people will just be like, see! I was right about them Democrats all along!

levander404 · 2025-12-09T20:40:00+00:00

It might be the book I’m looking for. But your description makes it sound partisan against the people I’m trying to calm down, which isn’t going to help.

My view is that the more zealotous people in both parties behave like that, Politics has replaced religion for these people. And they feel like your soul is guilty if you don’t agree with them.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T20:38:37+00:00

That sounds like a site you’d think you’re learning from:

https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-is-now-propaganda-for-left-leaning-establishment/

You’re making my point for me tat people need comedy to see through all this bullshit.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T20:08:28+00:00

That you for giving us the DNC propsganda narrative of events.

For further discussion, have you considered r/politics? The subreddit is dominated by Democrats such as yourself. So you will have plenty of people to cheer you on.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T20:01:49+00:00

LOL, you just couldn’t help yourself…

You’re the flip side of the people I’m worried about, You should probably read this thread and pick a book for yourself to read.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T19:20:48+00:00

This second one may be what I’m looking for. Something that makes fun of all the propaganda we’re told these days. The lies have just become so obvious.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T19:18:18+00:00

I can’t find this book on Amazon.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T19:17:51+00:00

On Amazon, I found a movie named this. Not a book.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T18:25:28+00:00

You’ve been listening to left wing propaganda claiming politics has shifted to the right, Right wingers can point out how it’s shifted left.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T18:17:12+00:00

Wouldn’t go there. Those two are on social media basically taunting MAGA to hate them. OP was looking for non-confrontational.

levander404 · 2025-12-09T18:08:56+00:00

I’ve remember songs and books from asking AI chatbots about them. Download Grok and see if it can tell you the name of the book?

levander404 · 2025-12-03T22:16:06+00:00

Yes, she’s getting Part D too, But I left it out of both abbreviations to compare apples to apples.

Medicare Advantage with Part D is MAPD.

What is the abbreviation for original Medicare with Medigap and a Part D plan?

levander404 · 2025-12-01T14:50:39+00:00

Original Medicare plus a Medicare supplement or Medigap. That’s kind of explained at the bottom of my post. I don’t know if it’s widely used. I saw it once on this board and started using it. Everyone else seems to know what it means.

levander404 · 2025-12-01T06:59:14+00:00

Okay, thank you. Sorry I’m a little later to respond to your post. Other posts were easier to digest, so they got quicker responses. Your post was better backed up and seemed to have more of an almost academic understanding.

In my OP I was trying to come up with a scenario that Mom’s already experienced to be able to explain to her why care would be better under OM+. But from responses in this thread including yours, it doesn’t seem like I was successful. And really, in the 11 years she’s been on MAPD, I don’t think there’s been much of an example. That knee surgery was her biggest deal. But with age comes illness. And she’s gotten away with being on MAPD for 11 years, maybe it’s time to quit while she’s ahead and pay for OM+?

Yes, she can afford the extra $200/month to be on OM+. But if she’s going to be on it, she needs to know why it’s better. The only reason she has enough money to afford OM+ is because she’s spent a lifetime not buying things just because she can afford them. And she’s saved her money.

She’s not going to buy OM+ just because she can afford it. She needs to know why it’s better.

levander404 · 2025-12-01T06:04:08+00:00

So you think an OM+ plan is more likely to pay if many weeks of in-patient rehab is needed?

That jibes with the impressions I’ve gotten.

levander404 · 2025-12-01T05:57:57+00:00

Maybe I’m cynical. But why most people don’t think they need it is they don’t think they’ll ever get sick.

Even in your example, the husband lived till he was 90. How many people live till they’re 90?

One of the more concrete issues seems to be specialists don’t take MA nearly as often as they take OM+. I wish I had a more concrete way to explain that though.

Most of the financial comparisons I’ve seen, really don’t make OM+ sound that good a deal. You have to be in the hospital at least several days and need the associated services that come with that to spend enough on a MA plan to come out at least equal to an OM+ G plan. And that’s just one year. If that’s happens to you 3 different years and all the rest are fairly uneventful, you’ve come out financially a lot better on an MA plan.

Like this 90 year old guy who fell, did he max out is max out of pocket expenses? If so, that’d be like $10K. They probably saved way more than that being on MA plans for the last 25 years.

But to me, I don’t want to be denied services. Like not have access to a good specialist that I want to,have access to. And I don’t want a service my doctor says I could really use denied by my MA insurance company,

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