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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

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 🤷

I have never prayed to god and I've never been in a plane crash.

I am constantly praying to god, and I've never been in a plane crash. Checkmate atheists!
- Yeah if you account for all the wank sessions you were broadcasting to your creator, the reason you're still alive is either proof of there not being a god, or a very perverted one.
I say "jesus christ" about a lot of things. Does that count as praying?
- I think that's actually a sin
- Since it has the same effect, it might as well.
I occasionally pray to aliens and I've never been in any kind of crash
I have never prayed to Sam Jackson and I've only been on one plane that I saw a snake on.

So this person believes their god wants people to be in fear and panic, begging for their lives, and to die anyway? Thats so fucked up.

Christian God is a narcissist and will burn you for eternity for not praising him properly. This is nothing new.
- God breaks his own rules in the ten commandments. God tells us not to be jealous of our neighbors while describing himself as a jealous god.
Yes, that’s straight up how the Abrahamic God is described in scripture
wants people to be in fear and panic, begging for their lives
Ha, sounds live the average CEO. That, and if whatever someone prays for shows up, it's because they made it happen. And if it doesn't show up, it's because the praying person didn't put in enough effort.
- The Abrahamic God in its most popular forms is exactly that. It's poor, ignorant person's idea of a powerful ruler.
- god pls no
What's so fucked up about human sacrifice? Gods have been demanding them all the time.

"I have no evidence for any of this but I know in my heart it's true!"

Sums up all major religions in one sentence.
These facts don't align with my feelz.
"I don't know it for a fact... I just know that it's true".

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

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

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.
- إن شاء الله
Heretic! There is only one true god and its name is SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
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.

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

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
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.

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
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.
To me, the logic is similar to "I can PROVE God exists. Look at the way this banana fits in my hand... "
- I did not think you were going to say hand lol

I’m pretty sure there are at least four where the last thing on them is “allahu akbar”

Technically counts as a prayer to a god...
- It’s even the same god
- "Allahu akbar" could even be roughly translated in intention as "oh my god", or "dear lord", or "HOLY SHIT!". Yes literal translation is "God is great", but what the fuck is "Oh Jesus in heaven" if not that.
Same thing, different name :P
- OHHHH GANESH SAVE ME!

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?

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.
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
Shit, cats do that. Do they also pray to god?
Why would cats pray to themselves?
Praying is retarded.
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.

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

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.
- 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.
HiS wAyS aRe MyStErIoUs
it's like removing the tariffs to reduce grocery prices
It is always either "God works in mysterious ways" or "It was a test from God".
That's what is called codependency
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.
- 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).
"it" is crazy work lmao

Yes, a large percentage of the population is religious, that doesn't make their religion true

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.

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
- Surely if it was a miracle there'd be some supernatural residue left over. Holy ectoplasm.
- why is this being downvoted
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.

"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.

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. ?

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.
- They ask you to stow the tray if something happens because the microphone is on the underside of the tray and hears you better that way
That plus pilots' mics.
"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.

Actually, I've seen a compilation of plane crash last recordings, and literally all of them are pilots screaming at each other to maneuver and/or cursing at the top of their lungs.

What's hilarious is proof that religious propaganda is wrong is always extremely easy to find. Yet your dipshit demented christian grandparents or parents will regurgitate that trash non-stop anyway.

Satanic media, how old is this?

It's 2025, mister
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.
Hail Satan!
- Hail yourself
You're right! If it was today, they'd call it Woke Media.
The asiana crash was in like 2016 or so?

Is that the same god who chose pedo Antoinette the horse dick sucking Russian traitor?

It's a non-denominational "generic" type god.

Either prayers don't work, or they make god super duper angry.

Ever read the Bible? God is a sadistic, genocidal monster. He probably laughs at plane crashes.

https://www.planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm

Well that looks like an interesting link that I will never click on. Don't feel like crying today, thanks.
- There were some things that could be interpreted as prayers, but the vast majority were not.
- Ngl some are kinda funny. Only a handful seem to be related to a God tho.
"Pete, sorry" and "I love you, Amy" are just so raw
I counted and only 3 guys mentioned God.
tag yourself I'm the "Oh shit, this can't be!" and the "That's it, I'm dead" guys

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.

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.
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.

Does 'Oh, fuuucckkk!' count as a prayer?

No, because that is an expression of acceptance.
Praying is at the "negotiation" stage of coping with impending doom.
Only for the purpose of posthumous Mormon baptism.

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.

They do know that a lot of black box voice recordings are public right? Or does she believe they are edited?

A lot of publicly available ones are indeed cut to preserve the dignity of the deceased. If it's not safety or causal-related, they remove stuff fairly frequently.
There are plenty of places you can find dredged up, un-edited versions and there's a lot more cursing involved, among other things like personal messages to loved ones.

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

Are you telling me that there are public unedited black box recordings? Because that sounds like something that would not be made public.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Only relevant sections are published, but I'm sure that's plenty of material to draw a decent sample.

One Dot = One Prayer

You're supposed to pre pray before you get on the plane.

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.
yeah i'm sure that would stop the plane from crashing.
- As long as one person on board prays, the flight arrives safely. The plane that prays together stays together.
- The problem is, everyone's praying to God, you gotta pray to Cthulhu, that motherfuckers got your back.

No one laughs at god in a hospital. No one laughs at god in a war..

We are laughing at your dumb post because it references satan, as if satan, a demigod, needs a news channel to trick you into defying an omnipotent god.

Meme or not, but it surely got me uneasy how people behave when they know they are just about to die.

Aka „we have the most followers, our speak must be truth”

Guess nobody other than a Christian has ever been in a plane. Or maybe only Christians get in plane crashes because the others have prayers that work?