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"Steven P. McNicoll"
There is damn little in religion that can be proved or disproved. Did God create the Big Bang or was the Big Bang created by God? And was God's first attempt at man a dinosaur? Surely God didn't screw up the first time, throw it all away, take a million year nap and decide to start over? -- Jim Burns III Remove "nospam" to reply |
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message ... "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. And let's not get into the infinite regression that a concept of "god" requires. |
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P: Introibo ad altari dei
A: Ad deum qui laetificat juventutem meum Ah, another abused child! :-) I personally recall the English version better, so that must have been post-Vatican II. So I'm probably remembering the 1965-ish version... Remember what a thrill it was to actually SEE the priest, facing the congregation? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"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!! |
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"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. |
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They feel a strong conviction to share the Lord's message with
folks who don't believe. They are going to a casino rather than a church just as Jesus hung out with tax collectors and other 'sinners' The funny thing is, neither Mary nor I gamble. We ONLY go to the casino because: a) They pick us up for free b) The buffet is great! (And cheap!) Once I told the Real Estate guy that fact, he seemed quite gratified. It did not, however, sate his desire to preach. Personally, I feel that we work too damned hard for our money to donate it to organized criminals. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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While we're on the topic of spelling : Jay, it's Prairie du Chien (not
Chein). Thanks. I tend to spell it interchangeably, since my chell specker doesn't recognize it! I prefer to refer to it as "PDC". -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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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" |
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"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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Oh great, now I'm getting "join your local church" and prayer spam email.
Guess they've given up on me... ;-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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