masterpeastheater
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I know a whackjob evangelical who almost showed up on Jan 6th.
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T.G.G. Moogly
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We should outgrow Princess Alice belief just as we outgrow Santa belief. If as an adult you continue to believe in Princess Alice you are pretty much open to believing and doing all manner of stupid shit.
Elixir
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Why only “almost”?
Did Jesus make him run out of gas?
Did he get raptured at the last minute?
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A Jewish passenger is suing JetBlue claiming religious discrimination after he was thrown off a plane following his refusal to sit next to a woman
The passenger said that he was kicked off the flight from Palm Springs to JFK after trying to swap seats due to his religious beliefs.
www.businessinsider.com
I haven't flown in some time but aren't seats assigned when you purchase your tickets, as in y'all buy your tickets and get seats together so as not to have to sit next to some strange?
Shadowy Man
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This part in particular doesn't pass a smell test:This doesn't pass the smell test. From what's in the lawsuit, there's more to this story. I think dude is just looking for a quick payday. From what is mentioned in the lawsuit, if there be fibbery going on, I hope he gets his financial ass reamed.
A Jewish passenger is suing JetBlue claiming religious discrimination after he was thrown off a plane following his refusal to sit next to a woman
The passenger said that he was kicked off the flight from Palm Springs to JFK after trying to swap seats due to his religious beliefs.
I haven't flown in some time but aren't seats assigned when you purchase your tickets, as in y'all buy your tickets and get seats together so as not to have to sit next to some strange?
There's no way the distribution of passengers is an important part of the weight balance of the aircraft. If that were true, every passenger would be weighed personally before entering the plane. I wouldn't dare fly on a plane the performance of which depended on the weight distribution of passengers.
Elixir
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In a commercial jet? Yeah a couple hundred pounds isn't going to make or break anything. Smaller planes, it can be (is) a problem. I've been asked to move...This part in particular doesn't pass a smell test:This doesn't pass the smell test. From what's in the lawsuit, there's more to this story. I think dude is just looking for a quick payday. From what is mentioned in the lawsuit, if there be fibbery going on, I hope he gets his financial ass reamed.A Jewish passenger is suing JetBlue claiming religious discrimination after he was thrown off a plane following his refusal to sit next to a woman
The passenger said that he was kicked off the flight from Palm Springs to JFK after trying to swap seats due to his religious beliefs.
I haven't flown in some time but aren't seats assigned when you purchase your tickets, as in y'all buy your tickets and get seats together so as not to have to sit next to some strange?
There's no way the distribution of passengers is an important part of the weight balance of the aircraft. If that were true, every passenger would be weighed personally before entering the plane. I wouldn't dare fly on a plane the performance of which depended on the weight distribution of passengers.
But this dude wants accommodation for a superstitious belief that keeps him from being seated next to MORE THAN HALF OF HUMANITY?
In public transportation, I'd say that's a risk that - no matter how grave
- an airline passenger has already tacitly agreed to take. If he wants to represent that his religion makes him a "special needs" case that deserves special consideration, he needs to rationalize elevating his stupid concern over the concerns of others - who might just want him to sit down and STFU.My impulse would be to tell the fucker to get over himself, and kick him off the plane if he can't do that.
Shadowy Man
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The article claims that multiple passengers were willing to change seats with him but the airline employees prevented that. However, given the above claim about the pilot’s comment about “weight imbalance” I am skeptical of the man’s story.In a commercial jet? Yeah a couple hundred pounds isn't going to make or break anything. Smaller planes, it can be (is) a problem. I've been asked to move...This part in particular doesn't pass a smell test:This doesn't pass the smell test. From what's in the lawsuit, there's more to this story. I think dude is just looking for a quick payday. From what is mentioned in the lawsuit, if there be fibbery going on, I hope he gets his financial ass reamed.A Jewish passenger is suing JetBlue claiming religious discrimination after he was thrown off a plane following his refusal to sit next to a woman
The passenger said that he was kicked off the flight from Palm Springs to JFK after trying to swap seats due to his religious beliefs.
I haven't flown in some time but aren't seats assigned when you purchase your tickets, as in y'all buy your tickets and get seats together so as not to have to sit next to some strange?
There's no way the distribution of passengers is an important part of the weight balance of the aircraft. If that were true, every passenger would be weighed personally before entering the plane. I wouldn't dare fly on a plane the performance of which depended on the weight distribution of passengers.
But this dude wants accommodation for a superstitious belief that keeps him from being seated next to MORE THAN HALF OF HUMANITY?
In public transportation, I'd say that's a risk that - no matter how grave
My impulse would be to tell the fucker to get over himself, and kick him off the plane if he can't do that.
It looks like the smallest plane that JetBlue flies is an Embraer ERJ190, which carries about 100 passengers. They also fly A320s, which are larger. The flight was from Palm Springs to JFK so it wasn’t a puddle jumper no matter which.
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What I'm seeing is the overworked, underpaid, staff of a cheapo airline losing patience with a particularly difficult passenger.
He's probably lucky that they didn't wait until the plane was at 25,000 feet before removing him.
Tom
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Yeah, but my atheist friends, 45000 years is not as old as the 400 million year old hammer? 
My word these methods for dating, like the dating of the ivory handle is fascinating don't you think folks?
This hammer could be older than Thor's hammer.
archeology world
My word these methods for dating, like the dating of the ivory handle is fascinating don't you think folks?
This hammer could be older than Thor's hammer.
archeology world
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That's a late 19th century miner's hammer found in a deposit of travertine.Yeah, but my atheist friends, 45000 years is not as old as the 400 million year old hammer?
My word these methods for dating, like the dating of the ivory handle is fascinating don't you think folks?
This hammer could be older than Thor's hammer.
archeology world
And about the website you linked to: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/archaeology-world/
Learner
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Cheers for the link Abs. I'm not advocating the hammer being 400 million years of course. Just highlighting it's the kind of 'stupid things' atheists would say in terms relating to the OP.
Elixir
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Archaeology World
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- Overall, we rate Archaeology World Questionable based on a lack of proper sourcing and a complete lack of transparency regarding ownership and authors.
BTW, recent concretions of millions of years old rock can accumulate on recent metals, and creos have been known to cry about that too.
Learner
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I could have used wikipedia or the tons of videos that are out there on the subject.
I'll laugh with you.
I'll laugh with you.
Learner
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I've used the fact check and Wikipedia has got the same bias and credibility result as the archeology site (get your tissues out). Most here on the forum have been using Wikipedia as a source of information, posting links. I bet I'll find one in your post somewhere.
Archaeology World
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Is Archaeology World one of the recent wave of Russian fake “News” sites? Is that why you linked to them?
- Overall, we rate Archaeology World Questionable based on a lack of proper sourcing and a complete lack of transparency regarding ownership and authors.
BTW, recent concretions of millions of years old rock can accumulate on recent metals, and creos have been known to cry about that too.
southernhybrid
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Wait a minute! Has anybody mentioned Mormon underwear? Does it qualify as stupid stuff religious people do?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/mormon-underwear-temple-garment
That stuff is so sexy. It must be quite a turn on to married partners. /s And, now they can buy it on Amazon. Who knew that Amazon sold holy underwear?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/mormon-underwear-temple-garment
That stuff is so sexy. It must be quite a turn on to married partners. /s And, now they can buy it on Amazon. Who knew that Amazon sold holy underwear?
ideologyhunter
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LSD folks are supposed to faithfully wear the garments after going through a temple ceremony. Supposedly most Mormons have "garment radar" and can spot if you've got them on or not. I have not found any stats online about how many adult Mormons actually wear them. The one LDS co-worker I knew told me she never wore them. (This was in Ohio, where she would have encountered far less social enforcement.) I wonder what the non-compliance % is like. If it's anywhere near the % of Catholics who use birth control (68% of Catholic women) then it's a major disconnect between doctrine and practice. But no one seems to have asked.
Elixir
Made in America
My experiences with LSD are quite different. Folks tend to take OFF their garments and celebrate without the benefit of any temple…
Go figure.
ideologyhunter
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Wikipedia has a page entitled Holy Prepuce, about the Christian reliquary history of veneration of the foreskin of Jesus Christ. In the Middle Ages there were as many as 18 churches/cathedrals claiming to own this object of worship, most of them in France. Almost all of them (the foreskins) vanished during the Reformation and, later, the French Revolution. In our time, the Italian village of Calcata laid claim to the foreskin. That thing really got around. In 1983, it was still being paraded through the streets of Calcata on the Feast of the Circumcision. Yes, there actually is something known as the Feast of the Circumcision. Stay away from the pigs in blankets. Soon thereafter, thieves stole the jeweled case and the foreskin, and where it is now is anyone's guess. Maybe they fashioned Melanie Griffith's lips from it.
I think there's a Twain quote to the effect that every religion has a convincing story for its believers, and a way to show that the other religions are perfectly crazy.
I think there's a Twain quote to the effect that every religion has a convincing story for its believers, and a way to show that the other religions are perfectly crazy.
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March 17 is St Patrick's Day!
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We Irish-Americans are outraged!March 17 is St Patrick's Day!
Outraged I tell you!!!
Tom