Bible-beater pilots

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:39:38 +0100, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

that it is the cause of the belief system that they
monger power.


I can't see that I said that.

You didn't. It's either a strawman (my bad) or (IME) the place people
who don't like churches usually go next.

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:31:04 -0500, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:

Dean Wilkinson wrote:

After that, I
learned to be rude as hell to people like that.

"Do I know Jesus? Sure! He's the Mexican scag dealer up on tenth street."

LOL!

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...


Dean Wilkinson wrote:

After that, I
learned to be rude as hell to people like that.

"Do I know Jesus? Sure! He's the Mexican scag dealer up on tenth street."

If he was born in Bethlehem, why does he have a latino name?

-Ron

Santa Claus did not die for your sins.

Anyone ever run into this before? What did you do?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


After you get converted to *that* religion, then they can start
recruiting for the Gay Pilots Association. Talk about a ruined lunch!
I thank my aching back and years of hard work every time *I* fly.

Blue Skies
Art @HTH
N5217D

My Dad's advice for me has always been (he's an agnostic) "If you want to
remain friends with someone, never discuss religion or politics."

And of course don't forget the "Great Pumpkin!" ;-)

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:Wwfvb.262377$Fm2.278122@attbi_s04...
|
| 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.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
...
| 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. :-)

CJ, you're starting to scare me
--
Jim Burns III

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P: Introibo ad altari dei

A: Ad deum qui laetificat juventutem meum

(shall I continue?)


Jim



"Jay Honeck"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Of course, I'll bet you can't recite the 1963 version of the Catholic mass
-aloud...so nyah! :-)

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

Oh great, now I'm getting "join your local church" and prayer spam email.
--
Jim Burns III

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