Bible-beater pilots

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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| and in an infinite number of these places there is a guy named Jay Honeck
| who runs a hotel.
|

And the hotel will be full of Gideon Bibles. In fact, there will be an
infinite number of Jay Honecks that are Gideons, an infinite number of Jay
Honecks that are Jehovah's Witnesses, and an infinite number of Jay Honecks
that are Mormons.

So be nice to those missionaries. The person you are being polite to might
just be yourself. :-)

So be nice to those missionaries. The person you are being polite to might
just be yourself. :-)

Augh! Paradox! Illogic!

Must...sterilize...sterilize...sterilize...

I.....AM.....NOMAD.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

So be nice to those missionaries. The person you are being polite to might
just be yourself. :-)

Augh! Paradox! Illogic!

Must...sterilize...sterilize...sterilize...

I.....AM.....NOMAD.

That's my favorite episode



--
Chris W

"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania

I.....AM.....NOMAD.

That's my favorite episode

Mine, too -- although the special effects look so bad now, it's hard to
watch it without laughing.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:udtvb.268751$Fm2.281695@attbi_s04...
So be nice to those missionaries. The person you are being polite to
might
just be yourself. :-)

Augh! Paradox! Illogic!

Must...sterilize...sterilize...sterilize...

I.....AM.....NOMAD.

I have taken much from the other!!

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:udtvb.268751$Fm2.281695@attbi_s04...
So be nice to those missionaries. The person you are being polite to
might
just be yourself. :-)

Augh! Paradox! Illogic!

Must...sterilize...sterilize...sterilize...

I.....AM.....NOMAD.
--
Hey, Jay...put copies of "Atlas Shrugged" in the drawers next to the Gideon
Bibles; that'll freak 'em out.

"Tom S." wrote in message


Hey, Jay...put copies of "Atlas Shrugged" in the drawers next to the
Gideon Bibles; that'll freak 'em out.

....and quickly put them to sleep.

--
John T
http://tknowlogy.com/tknoFlyer
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Tom S. wrote:


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:udtvb.268751$Fm2.281695@attbi_s04...
So be nice to those missionaries. The person you are being polite to
might
just be yourself. :-)

Augh! Paradox! Illogic!

Must...sterilize...sterilize...sterilize...

I.....AM.....NOMAD.
--
Hey, Jay...put copies of "Atlas Shrugged" in the drawers next to the Gideon
Bibles; that'll freak 'em out.

Nope, do the same with an English translation of the Koran. That'll
*REALLY* get people excited.

Or be fair: equal numbers of KJV Bibles, translated Korans, Torahs, and
one or two others; guests take potluck on what religious propaganda
they've got in their rooms!

Hey, I'm an agnostic, they'll all equally unprovable!

Brian.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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|
| Until yesterday I had run into religious fanatics and cult followers in
| every walk of life EXCEPT aviation. I guess I had assumed that anyone
smart
| enough to get their pilot's certificate couldn't be so gullible -- and
| rude -- as to go around trying to "save" perfect strangers.

Well, speaking as a 'religious fanatic,' which apparently means anyone
whose
religious views differ from yours, I would have to observe that pilots on
the whole are extremely gullible and even superstitious.

I have had pilots try to peddle to me everything from magnetic healing
devices to fraudulent investments to legal protection plans (see AOPA, for
an example of a legal services plan that covers almost nothing) to broken
down airplanes.

Gullibility is not reduced by greater intelligence. In fact, I think it
takes a certain minimum intelligence to be fooled.

Of course, if you want to just mess with people's minds, you can offer
them
the Consolation of Haldane as Carl Sagan put it: "in an infinitely old
universe with an infinite number of appearances of galaxies, stars,
planets,
and life, an identical Earth must reappear on which you and all your loved
ones will be reunited. I'll be able to see my parents again and introduce
them to the grandchildren they never knew. And all this will happen not
once, but an infinite number of times....there will be universes, indeed
an
infinite number of them, in which our brains will have full recollection
of
many previous rounds." Of course, in infinite numbers of universes Hitler
(and even worse!) will arise again and work their horrors upon humanity.

But then (I modestly call this Campbell's corollary to Haldane's
Consolation), in infinite numbers of universes, there must also arise
infinite numbers of beings that basically have all the characteristics
ascribed to God -- and not just the Judeo/Christian God, but all the gods
ever imagined, as well as all the devils, fairies, demons, angels,
balrogs,
whatever, as well as beings capable of moving between these universes,
soooooo...... somewhere there really is an Oz, a Middle Earth, or a
Narnia,
and in an infinite number of these places there is a guy named Jay Honeck
who runs a hotel.

And let's not get into the infinite regression that a concept of "god"
requires.

"Tom S." wrote in message
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|
|
| And let's not get into the infinite regression that a concept of "god"
| requires.
|

No, let's not. After all, I personally am very religious. Worse, in the eyes
of many here, I am a Mormon. My concept of God does not require infinite
regression. However, I have no interest in any serious discussion of
religious belief in this forum. (Some would argue that I have no interest in
serious discussion of any topic.) :-)