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      I believe god is omnipotent and omniscient so I just prayed once for a good and healthy life. To pray often is to doubt god’s power. I don’t wanna out god in a box like that. Plus god has a divine plan that is obviously unable to be altered so why should we interject our own opinions into it? Seems like hubris to me.

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    Doing my morning walk through the churches in my neighborhood and there’s two old churches side by side, both rocking out, one sort of blues riffs, one a little more traditional rock. And as I often do, I stood for a moment taking it in - this is the Southern culture I think is fascinating and rich and… then I realize the blues one is now just doing a call and refrain “I don’t need no - evidence” over and over, and my dog’s like “let’s get the fuck out of here” and so we did.

    But it’s cute for a second if you don’t try to focus in on it. This is how religion should be taken in, and then hustle your ass along.

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    I heard one black box where the pilot’s final words were just a very resigned, almost conversational, “Goddamnit.”

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      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.

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      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.

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    Since final reports are usually public, someone with enough time could go check.

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      Are you telling me that there are public unedited black box recordings? Because that sounds like something that would not be made public.

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        A quick search shows that at least two Federal agencies are involved [FAA and NTSB] in any investigation. You could probably do a Freedom of Information Act search.

        The usual process is to release an edited version.

        I’d think that unless there was a compelling reason, like an allegation that the pilot deliberately crashed the plane, they’d respect the crews privacy.

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        You are correct. The public only receives written transcripts of the relevant sections of tape only. Off-topic conversations, meaning anything that is not relevant to the air accident, are not released. The audio files are not released to the public.

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          So the satanic government must be hiding the prayers to satan that all pilots are required to do by the satanic FAA!

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            The very last words are often relevant to explaining the sequence. They are often “oh shit!” or equivalent as the ground appears in front of them. It can help tell the difference between a flight crew that knew what was going on but couldn’t fix it and one which lost situational awareness

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        Yeah, there was a website that had all the unedited transcripts and some recordings from crashes. I don’t think I remember reading any real prayers, that’s unless you count something like “oh God, oh god” as a prayer. Mainly just a lot of swearing and a mix of panicked or resigned statements. Most are just a couple sentences long, seems like most crashes go from fine to catastrophic very quickly.

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        Only relevant sections are published, but I’m sure that’s plenty of material to draw a decent sample.

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    According to the most recent studies, it turns out the name of God is

    “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH”

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        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.

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          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

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            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.

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      Heretic! There is only one true god and its name is SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

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    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?

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      To me, the logic is similar to "I can PROVE God exists. Look at the way this banana fits in my hand… "

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      I’ve gone bungie jumping; no revelations, just adrenaline.

      Fallen out of trees; sudden stop hurts like fuck.

      Jumped into water from at least 10m; wet, fun.

      Other drops at various speed and landings. No ancient forgotten knowledge acquired.

      All data I’ve collected personally indicates you do not get revelations at less than a 50m drop.

      Note: not peer reviewed, sample size small, subject survived all falls with no more than minor injuries.

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    That maxim, “There are no atheists in foxholes,” it’s not an argument against atheism — it’s an argument against foxholes.

    - James K. Morrow

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    Ok it’s funny but black box doesn’t record audio from the cabin. Pretty sure it just has like flight data. From the airplane sensors. And logs of actions. ?

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      That’s what satanic media wants you to think. But actually, everyone on a plane has a microphone and all the audio goes directly to the big black cube in the middle, to be recorded and stored forever.

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      “Black box” usually refers to both the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder as a nebulous whole - some FDRs are also configured to record pilot mics as well but that’s not standard.

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    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

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      Yeah. It’s like doctors ; they really love it when people thank God for saving a patient. Usually it’s the dumbass family but it’s really a special moment when it’s the dumbass patient themselves.

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        What’s our opinion on thanking God for blessing doctors with the talent to save your life/lives of others? A bit more empathetic?

        (I’m not suggesting this is necessarily my belief, but for those who profess a love for God/Allah/etc, I think it is fair to both thank the creator they believe in as well as the people who work on them on earth).

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      Yeah. “This violent tornado missed my home so close! Oh thank you, god!”

      Noone ever asks why their god created the tornado in the first place. Not even the neighbor whose house has been obliterated. He’s probably thanking god for being alive. It’s bizarre.

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        I remember seeing an SUV that had this in vinyl on their back window (paraphrased, I don’t remember the exact wording): “RIP so-and-so - God cured his suffering and took him to Heaven.”

        So, God either gets credit for killing the guy, or he gets credit for saving the guy. No matter what, God comes out as the good guy!

        I have no idea how people live in this mindset.

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          It’s purely emotional, irrational thinking, solely serves the purpose of giving a weak mind an easy way to feel better about bad things that happen.

          My mind doesn’t work that way, I can’t auto suggest myself out of logic - and to me, that kind of thinking is what is fundamentally wrong about this world. It makes people susceptible to all kinds of intellectual dishonesty.

          If you can lie yourself into believing obvious bullshit just because it’s comfortable, you will also be easily influenced by liars, charlatans and demagogues.

          I highly doubt that people like Trump would be possible In a predominantly atheist society with people who are used to scientific scepticism.

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        I used to tell those types of people that gay, Trans etc was a test. Except it’s not the gay and trans people being tested. And they failed.

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      That was the El Faro, a ship lost with all hands due to improper maintenance and poor decisions made by the captain. Lots of sailors from Maine were aboard.

      El Faro VDR Audio Transcript 8510451 ver1 0 | DocumentCloud https://share.google/ssY87GllAqZqADCuF

      I hate my phone for making share.google links, but that’s the transcript, pg339 for shaggy