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==Usage==
==Usage==
In colloquial [[English]], a contingency is something that can happen, but that generally is not anticipated. [[Planning]] for contingencies often requires a more [[imaginative]] approach, because contingencies are inherently not obvious. Large organizations, such as [[governments]], are often [[criticized]] for not planning for contingencies because the construction of plans to deal with contingencies often involves [[thinking]] outside the box. Beforehand, contingencies are hard to [[predict]]; this failure to appreciate contingencies ahead of time has led to the formulation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_Law Murphy's law]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency]
In colloquial [[English]], a contingency is something that can happen, but that generally is not anticipated. [[Planning]] for contingencies often requires a more [[imaginative]] approach, because contingencies are inherently not obvious. Large organizations, such as [[governments]], are often [[criticized]] for not planning for contingencies because the construction of plans to deal with contingencies often involves [[thinking]] outside the box. Beforehand, contingencies are hard to [[predict]]; this failure to appreciate contingencies ahead of time has led to the formulation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_Law Murphy's law]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency]
==Quote==
All that night [[Mary|Mother Mary]] was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in [[evidence]], and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of [[women]] fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a [[male]] [[child]]. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible '''contingency''', and laid in a near-by manger.[http://urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper122.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper122.html&line=123#mfs]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
