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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 |
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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 |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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!" ;-) |
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"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. |
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"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. :-) |
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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 |
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Oh great, now I'm getting "join your local church" and prayer spam email.
-- Jim Burns III Remove "nospam" to reply |
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