Bible-beater pilots

"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

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"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.

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"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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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
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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.

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"

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"

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"

"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
__________

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"