My favourite part is how people thank God for surviving a disaster. Like, your God put you there and you’re thanking it for saving you from the disaster it put you in? Lol
HiS wAyS aRe MyStErIoUs
I heard one black box where the pilot’s final words were just a very resigned, almost conversational, “Goddamnit.”
Strong chance my final words will be “Oh shoot, shoooot.” Even tho I swear like a sailor, if it’s really bad, I go for clean language.
I heard one where the pilot exclaimed “we’re doing it!” [or something similar] as he managed to fly the 747 inverted, seconds before hitting the ocean.
Please give me the sauce. I need more information on this
Is this supposed to make me believe in God? As if people who die in a plane crash know more about the universe than me somehow? Does falling really fast instill some ancient forgotten knowledge in you?
I think you may have missed the bottom text
This mfer has never heard of selection bias.
What are the bets they’re in the US, and hearing about crashes mostly in the US?
Christianity may be the largest religion in the world, but it’s a plurality, not a majority.
There’s a bias for everything. Maybe even one that contradicts the bias you’re precipitating. I dunno. Whatever
I dunno, seems pretty rock solid that the majority of people aren’t praying to the Christian god [edit: worldwide, which is my point], seeing as nowhere even close to a majority of people on earth are Christian.
There are all sorts of religions out there, and many who don’t believe in religion at all.
I do agree that all humans are prone to bias, that’s why it’s so important to be aware of it in order to mitigate it.
The OOP making some stupid religious claims, definitely is not aware.
Same for the other side. All the countless times where God miraculously saves the plane in the last moment lost to history. No news report, no one will check the black box. It’s just another Tuesday
why is this being downvoted
It’s because they missed the point of my comment. That it’s selection bias to claim that everyone is praying to the Christian god, when statistically, that can’t be true, even if they are praying.
The selection bias had nothing to do with selecting the planes that crashed, but selecting planes that crashed in the US, which is a much more Christian country than many other places.
Because there is no magic sky magician letting kids die a gruesome leukemia death, while saving a specific plane because a special favorite person of his happens to be on board the aircraft. There’s just physics and mechanics and pilots and things going right and things going wrong.
The comment is obviously sarcasm / a joke
Making the sarcastic statement that “we don’t hear about god saving planes at the last moment but it does happen”
Surely if it was a miracle there’d be some supernatural residue left over. Holy ectoplasm.
The absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence
Yes, but absence of evidence isn’t evidence for anything.
It’s wild how many need to find them some scientific method.
I was only pointing out, in my original comment, that I’m sure around the world people pray/say all sorts of things when a plane is crashing, not just the Christian god. But because they’re only focusing on crashes in the US, they are concluding that everyone prays to god (presumably, the Christian one).
so you didn’t know which god saved them either. It could be the flying spaghetti monster. (note the existence of this religion is literally based on your statement)
Isnt it though? If i say i own a car but never carry car keys, my home has no garage or on-street parking spot, that is evidence that i dont own a car.
Wow thats deep
(dunno if you’re being sarcastic)
It’s just a twee catchphrase christians came up with to say you can’t prove a negative. It’s not anything new, and it’s not actually contributing anything. It’s a core aspect of “burden of proof”, and this is just a way of shifting said burden to the people asking for evidence of the divine instead of leaving it on the people asserting that the divine exists in the first place.
Satanic media, how old is this?
You’re right! If it was today, they’d call it Woke Media.
Hail Satan!
IDK. I’ve been unironically referring to LLMs as “the Devil’s machine” or simply “The Devil” lately. :D
I mean, if you use them, they do steal your soul, so it checks out.
It’s 2025, mister
“Pete, sorry” and “I love you, Amy” are just so raw
Well that looks like an interesting link that I will never click on. Don’t feel like crying today, thanks.
Ngl some are kinda funny. Only a handful seem to be related to a God tho.
There were some things that could be interpreted as prayers, but the vast majority were not.
The ones that seemed more explicitly prayer-like appeared to be referencing Islam more than Christianity, too.
The ones who prayed to Satan were saved.
“Are all our prayers answered? Yes, they are. What people who ask that question often don’t realize is that sometimes the answer to our prayer is “no.” Dear God, please make my mother not be crazy. God’s answer: no. Dear God, please let me recover from cancer. God’s answer: no. Dear God, please take away this toothache. God’s answer: alright, but you’re going to be run over by a car.”
-Christopher Durang
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
What’s the difference between “no” and no answer?
Well, she clearly states that God never gives no answer. You see, God is omniscient. He knows what you have prayed for and you, by knowing that he is omniscient, know that He knows. Thus, if you don’t get what you have prayed for then you can safely assume, despite God not explicitly stating as such, that His answer is no.
Lazy worldbuilding be like.
Yes, a large percentage of the population is religious, that doesn’t make their religion true
Who else are they gonna pray to? Joe Pesci?
Odin, Amun-Ra, Perun, Sol Invictis, Jupitor, Zeus, Vishnu, Deified Alexander of Macedonia, Et cetera there are lots of gods outside of fucken Yahweh to choose from.
I’d only pray to Odin if I was worried about frost giants.
Considering I haven’t seen any frost giants lately, I think Odin is doing a great job!
This dude didn’t play God of War 2: Daddy Issues
The FAA obviously
The air traffic controllers that didn’t get paid for the last while
Well, he looks like a guy that can get things done!
According to the most recent studies, it turns out the name of God is
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH”
Heretic! There is only one true god and its name is SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
Allan?
Imagine how shocked the world would be if it turns out the Arabic word for God comes from a black box recording that got swung back in time after a plane crash, with the last bit of the recording being stuck…
that last bit of recording? copilot waking up right before the crash, calling out to the pilot called Allan, but halfway through the word it turns into a scream. All-AAAAAAAH! BOOM.
And the whole world is just stuck on this otherwise insignificant fact. Never mind that someone just dug up carbon-dated 2000-ish year old contemporary technology, proving time travel is possible, or that people 2000-ish years ago managed to somehow make that tech work enough to influence the third largest language in a very significant manner… No, it’s the fact that the Arabic word for God came from a guy named Allan.
I like to think that a small learjet carrying 12 passengers passes through a time portal, and when the captain steps out onto that Tigris plain, he winces at the sun and says “Jesus Christ!” and the people bowed
See that wouldn’t really work. The modern “Jesus” is actually quite far from the original old Hebrew/Aramaic name he would’ve used.
No, it would’ve been Yeshua or Yehoshua (the Bible has some shifting references as to when the longer form of the name might’ve gotten shortened to Yeshua).
Similarly, “Christ” isn’t something used in Aramaic. It’s not even technically his name, it’s more of a title, from the Greek Χριστός (Christos, translating as "anointed), which in Hebrew would be mashiakh - or in direct English translation… Messiah.
Furthermore Yeshua was a quite common name at the time, in Nazareth alone you would’ve found a handful, even though the village was maybe a thousand people at the time.
So, modernized, Joshua Messiah
إن شاء الله
There is a missing L
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To be a party pooper, according to the old testament it’s JHWH or in long, Jehovah.
Nope, “Jehovah” is a latinization. “Yahweh”/“YHWH” is a more accurate rendering.
But in the Latin alphabet, Jehova begins with an I.
Aka „we have the most followers, our speak must be truth”
That maxim, “There are no atheists in foxholes,” it’s not an argument against atheism — it’s an argument against foxholes.
- James K. Morrow
On the other hand, if you’re already on the battlefield…
Praying in that situation splits your attention from staying the fuck alive and is not recommended.
I’d personally prefer something more along the lines of a bear cave, I think 🤷
Praying is wishing, It has the same effect. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don’t. It gives us comfort, because our brains are wired like that, if we can’t get what we want, maybe some authority can give it to us by asking nicely. Expressing it soothes us. It’s like screaming HELP! when you fell down a well. It’s not aimed at anyone in particular, it’s just a cry for anyone or anything to help you, because you’re desperate.
Shit, cats do that. Do they also pray to god?
Shit, cats do that. Do they also pray to god?
Why would cats pray to themselves?
Shit, cats do that. Do they also pray to god?
Yes, and even God can’t understand what is it that they want this time.
Easy, both to be inside and outside is what cats want
Schrödinger’s cat.
No, wait…
Hilarious to consider a deity who’s existence resolves upon observation in an afterlife that also resolves upon death.
It doesn’t ever work. It just occasionally coincides with reality.
And when you’re in a life and death situation, those odds are good enough.
In some cases it does work. Believe can cause wonder healings. Not because of supernatural but because of subconscious.
It’s not aimed at anyone in particular,
But a prayer is directly aimed at one thing. I understand that there are literally hundreds of Gods, but each individual would typically only target one.
Praying is retarded.
I’d hedge my bets too if I knew I had mere minutes to live. I stand to lose nothing and I gain comfort at the end, regardless of whether or not I am rewarded with some kind of afterlife.
I’ve been in a situation where I thought I might well die, and this point of view flitted across my mind, as it is bound to do. Followed immediately by the certainty that this would be the most wretched, hypocritical and worthless way to spend my final moments. If I had no survival strategies to consider or ways to contact my loved ones, I’d rather spend the time looking out the window and admiring the view.
Unless you pray to the wrong entity and suddenly don’t pass the “good person test” of whatever entity judges you.
If being a good person isn’t enough and worship is a must, you got a shitty God.
Couldn’t agree more. That’s generally the philosophy I live by.
