2007-05-11 10:37:39 · 33 answers · asked by hello 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yup.
Honestly.
You have no idea how completely and totally certain I am that there is no god.
Perhaps I'd pray to the pilot?
My single thought would be of my daughter, and leaving her fatherless.
2007-05-11 10:40:25 · answer #1 · answered by Morey000 7 · 8⤊ 2⤋
Yep. I can honestly say that if I was in a crashing airplane, I wouldn't pray to any god. And hey, guess what... I already almost died in 2004 yet I'm more vehemently Atheist than I've ever been in my life. I saw, and/or experienced, nothing to convince me there's any god. So there goes your little theory. I didn't pray to god then and I won't pray to god in the future. God doesn't exist. I attribute my survival to fantastic doctors.
2007-05-11 10:50:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. Don't get me wrong - I still find myself "praying" from time to time, but I also know it's just me voicing my wishes. There's nothing wrong with that.
Now, I wouldn't pray on a crashing plane because of all the nasty things that happen to a person during a plane crash, like bursting ear drums, clothes melting into the flesh, and such.
2007-05-11 10:46:10 · answer #3 · answered by abulafia24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No -- that should be fairly stupid, pretending to ask a magic guy that would not exist to do something... i became into on a flight from l. a. to Tokyo approximately 6 years in the past. We hit extreme turbulence, dropped better than 800 ft in 5 seconds...with human beings and drink carts and suitcases flying everywhere in the plane's indoors. between the engines (on a twin-engine 777) died, the captain got here on and instructed each and every person to buckle up and prepare for an emergency, and it became into particularly extreme. i did no longer pray to any mythical god...in spite of the undeniable fact that i became into relatively hoping the pilot had adequate guidance and adventure to handle the undertaking. thankfully, he did...and each little thing became into high-quality. You adult adult males are continuously going on approximately "no atheists in foxholes" and "I guess you will pray to god if your plane became into crashing" and "all atheists get scared on their deathbeds and pray..." i do no longer understand why such concepts look to charm to you, yet they are patently fake. Peace.
2016-11-27 19:31:17 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, I mean really, really honestly, yes I can say I would not be praying to god. Which one would I choose anyway? I would be calming myself and coming to terms with the end and trying to make it as happy as possible. Mostly, I would be afraid of how much it might hurt.
2007-05-11 10:41:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
septicemia after being impaled. no i can't remember thinking about god then,
car crash, upside down in ditch numerous broken bones and punctures. nope no god there.
trapped on a rotten limestone sea cliff during a storm. i spent most of the time thinking of my family and cursing myself for not checking the weather before i climbed it.
why do some people find it so hard to believe that there are people and whole societies, especially in europe, for whom god is just a myth and calling on it in times of peril would be totally unnatural to their make up. honestly, it just would not occur to most people here to do such a thing.
2007-05-11 10:51:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly....I was attacked 2 years ago when I was getting off work at midnight...I thought my life was ending but no I didn't pray...on Dec 29th 2006 a tornado ripped through my apartment complex...I was in the bathtub hanging onto my dog for dear life...and I wasn't praying then either...even when my living room window blew out all I was thinking is..."This is the end..."...god appeared nowhere in my thoughts during either time....sorry to burst your bubble....
2007-05-11 10:43:49 · answer #7 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, sheep, I can. :P
But even for those who would, it is not a fair judgment to take what someone would do in a moment of desperation and characterize someone with it. For example, I am a total pacifist, but if I 'walked in' to someone raping my girlfriend, I would not be surprised if I didn't start swinging. Does that make me equal to a thug who employs the same level of violence in mugging someone? Of course not--just like it wouldn't make an atheist a theist.
2007-05-11 10:45:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd rather pray to the pilot. God won't do a darn thing for you. If you pull out of it, it will be because of the pilot.
God is only in the imagination of the superstitious anyway.
2007-05-11 10:45:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Instead of thinking to myself in conversational tone addressed to an imaginary being, I could be spending valuable time with any nearby loved ones. I could be calling any relatives on a cell phone. I could be trying to calm down nearby passengers. I could be trying to prepare for the crash in so many ways besides asking an invisible friend to prolong my death.
2007-05-11 10:43:42 · answer #10 · answered by Michael 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've been in serious life-threatening situations many times and have never prayed to any gods.
2007-05-11 10:44:44 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋