More Religious Nutters

[Dry]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
In WW2, the German armies were numbered. You find everything from 1st to 20th Army. Except 13th.

No row 13 nor 17 in Lufthansa planes... quite disturbing the first time you notice.

[Thoth]

Dry: Why no 17?

[DrSpike]

I'm not at all religious but I think it's perfectly rational not to want to have 666 as your dial prefix or anything else in that vein.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Kuci - So be it. If refusing to smile and politely nod in the face of such absurdities gives me a "bad name", I'll gladly take the label.

You didn't just "refuse to smile and nod", you went out of your way to post a [lame] troll for the religious people on this board. And when several atheists think your complaint is silly, maybe you should rethink it...

If you notice 90% of my threads are about silly people (my other thread today was the dead deer...). Religious people just provide lots of fodder.

[Whaleboy]

I would say that there is a difference between superstition and sentimentalism, for example, I'm an atheist but my family's Jewish and I still eat kosher. I can understand why you wouldn't want to have 666 then for sentimental reasons if that number is "just the done thing".

Having said that, I can't see why this is such a big deal - it's just a stupid number. If it's superstition that's informing the desire to remove the prefix then frankly these people need to seek help.

[Patroklos]

I don't see anything wrong with people not wanting 666 in their prefix, I do find it hilarious that there are self righteous retards who actual care that they cared

Get a life

[Dry]

Originally posted by Thoth
Dry: Why no 17?

It's a good question. I asked my german contacts, but they didn't knew.
I later read somewhere that for some people 17 was another badluck number, but it didn't said why.
I think Lufthansa has a conservative approach about those badluck numbers.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by BlackCat


We have several roads, places, willages, towns etc named after thor, odin and other names connected to the asa religion, but I have never heard about anyone move due to this - I guess that I probably could find some churches on such roads, certainly in willages .

Either youve totally missed the point, or you dont know a thing about Tolkien.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Yea! The prefix of the Beast has been vanquished!

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Jesusland, students continue to attend high schools named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

I guess you gotta have your priorities.

Why, oh why didn't we let the South leave when we had the chance?

well obviously its too honor what he did whupping yankees during the war, not the mistake of being a figurehead for the klan after the war. Much as we continue to honor Jimmy Carter

BTW, is there a Nathan Bedford Forrest HS where THESE people live? If not, why is it their problem? I for one, wouldnt call someone a nutter for wanting to rename such a school.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Omni Rex Draconis
No, it is you who does not understand that there is no distinction between superstition and religion. But that's your problem.

Theres clearly a distinction between "magic" and religion. Most folks use the word superstition for "magical thinking" ("If I live on a street named 666, bad things will happen to me, cause the number is cursed"). Some folks use the word superstition to include religion, basically for polemical purposes. Since many believers in religion DO engage in magical thinking, its any easy polemical tool.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Agathon
Mysticism is bollocks. Even if people have such experiences, there are better explanations than religion.

People used to believe that getting sick was due to the disfavour of the divine. Mysticism is no more rational than that.

Most mysticism is just poor man's Neoplatonism without any of the interesting bits.

You might have noticed that many of us have similar opinions about philosophy in general. And as for communism...

And like I told Wezil and BlackCat, I'm not interested in a/theism arguments. Try BK.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Elok

You might have noticed that many of us have similar opinions about philosophy in general. And as for communism... \.

That's because you're being irrational. The question of whether it is reasonable to believe in God is a philosophical question (or at least philosophy might be able to tell us what the correct form of the question is).

And I'll take you on and thrash you in a debate about the merits of communism any day.

Call me a hippie, you whippersnapper!!!

[Thoth]

Originally posted by Dry

It's a good question. I asked my german contacts, but they didn't knew.
I later read somewhere that for some people 17 was another badluck number, but it didn't said why.
I think Lufthansa has a conservative approach about those badluck numbers.

It's certainly a new one to me. After a bit of Googling, it looks like it's an Italian thing.

the number 17 also holds negative connotations for Italians, who consider it to be as unlucky as the number 13.

It has been suggested that the superstition is related to the Roman numerals for the number 17, XVII, and an anagram of them, VIXI, which in Latin is the past tense of the verb to live.

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[Wezil]

The chinese have an issue with the unlucky number "4".

[Aeson]

Change their prefix to 69 and be done with it already!