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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 03:47 PM Mar 2014

CNN asks whether maybe God stole Flight 370

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/don-lemon-cnn-guest-wonder-whether-something-supernatural-happened-to-malaysian-plane/

CNN anchor Don Lemon and Decoded host Brad Meltzer bandied about the idea Sunday afternoon that something “beyond our understanding” happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370, that “something” being perhaps supernatural maybe?

“Especially today, on a day when we deal with the supernatural,” Lemon said. “We go to church, the supernatural power of God…people are saying to me, why aren’t you talking about the possibility — and I’m just putting it out there — that something odd happened to this plane, something beyond our understanding?”...

“You can say, ‘Oh, it crashed into the ocean,’” Meltzer continued. “But where are the parts? Where are the pieces? Why did it keep going for seven hours? Why do you have a guy on board who gives his watch and his ring to his wife and says ‘Keep these for my boys in case something happens to me’? And that’s not some stranger, he was a mechanical engineer. Something smells wrong.”

“I’m not one of those believers that aliens came down or anything like that,” Meltzer added. “But you do have to stop and wonder: how does a jet-liner with 200 people on it just disappear?”



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CNN asks whether maybe God stole Flight 370 (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2014 OP
God has a communications problem. randome Mar 2014 #1
I find this in very poor taste yeoman6987 Mar 2014 #8
God raptured an air plane full of 200 people???? Autumn Mar 2014 #2
As an atheist Kelvin Mace Mar 2014 #9
As a christian who figures a lot of the christian belief is Autumn Mar 2014 #12
I wish we had more concern on 9/11 about Politicalboi Mar 2014 #3
Yeah, the rapture is over. notadmblnd Mar 2014 #4
Nope, not God Kelvin Mace Mar 2014 #5
Maybe it was angels!!!! ProudToBeBlueInRhody Mar 2014 #6
More hard-hitting questions from the MSM! n/t Wilms Mar 2014 #7
Excuse me? What does God need with a starship? Orrex Mar 2014 #10
Hmmm... pinboy3niner Mar 2014 #11
Pinboy wins teh Intertubes!! KamaAina Mar 2014 #18
++ FarCenter Mar 2014 #26
I'd listen to the Ancient Alien guy before I'd Skidmore Mar 2014 #13
weepin' jezus on the cross Whisp Mar 2014 #14
Pond-jumpin' Jehosiphat... Blue Owl Mar 2014 #15
Or, according to my pipi_k Mar 2014 #27
Or... pinboy3niner Mar 2014 #32
OK... pipi_k Mar 2014 #36
Beyond the understanding of those idiots could be almost anything. n/t Motown_Johnny Mar 2014 #16
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Vashta Nerada Mar 2014 #17
Teh stupid. It burns! KamaAina Mar 2014 #19
"Big Sky's" too occupied ... 1000words Mar 2014 #20
Never mix god and alien explanations undeterred Mar 2014 #21
A new take on "God Is My Copilot"? Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2014 #22
If he can create the big bang seveneyes Mar 2014 #23
See, that's where pipi_k Mar 2014 #33
So aliens are LOL funny...but with God they are all serious? Rex Mar 2014 #24
Move over 700 Club! reformist2 Mar 2014 #25
At this point, let's call it Deus Ex Machina and be done with it. nt Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2014 #28
OK, something unusual happened and we don't know what caused it. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2014 #29
Oh yeah? pipi_k Mar 2014 #34
No, he doesn't. Your socks are just being sucked into another universe The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2014 #35
Hmmm... pipi_k Mar 2014 #39
No, it's Gremlins. KittyWampus Mar 2014 #40
They're reincarnated. Warren DeMontague Mar 2014 #44
No, She doesn't. KamaAina Mar 2014 #38
Oh... pipi_k Mar 2014 #41
CNN anchors are idiots. AlinPA Mar 2014 #30
Wonder why I can't stand the media. liberal N proud Mar 2014 #31
As many have stated around here, CNN is the other Fox "news". PM Martin Mar 2014 #37
Right, not aliens, no, nothing crazy like that. But vaporized by a supernatural being? Warren DeMontague Mar 2014 #42
See how stupid that sounds? Iggo Mar 2014 #43
Uh, oh...CNN was right! pipi_k Mar 2014 #45
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. God has a communications problem.
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 03:48 PM
Mar 2014

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
8. I find this in very poor taste
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 03:55 PM
Mar 2014

First of all, most folks on the plane were from China which are religions mostly of the Buddhist and Taoism so to ask anything with God is insulting to those folks. I don't have a problem being glib, but this is too far in my opinion.

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
2. God raptured an air plane full of 200 people????
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 03:52 PM
Mar 2014

I fucking missed it!!!!!!!!! I wonder who got the good stuff they left behind.

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
9. As an atheist
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 03:55 PM
Mar 2014

this is one thing I REALLY wish was real.

Do you know how much better this country would be if all these morons were snatched up to their god?

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
12. As a christian who figures a lot of the christian belief is
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 04:01 PM
Mar 2014

horse shit, or camel dung if you will, believe me when I say it's gonna take a hell of a lot more planes to get rid of those assholes.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
3. I wish we had more concern on 9/11 about
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 03:53 PM
Mar 2014

Where are all the parts. Don Lemon is a lemon. Maybe perhaps the Devils Triangle Don.

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
5. Nope, not God
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 03:53 PM
Mar 2014


I apologize. I had been using my mental abilities to keep the Klingons at bay, but I got a headache and one of the little bastards slipped by me.
 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
14. weepin' jezus on the cross
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 04:03 PM
Mar 2014

how freaking ridiculous.

what the heck happened to Lemon? He used to be one of the very few sane ones there at Contains Numb Nuts.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
32. Or...
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 05:06 PM
Mar 2014

...Christ on a trailer hitch.




(iirc, it's from a fundie demonstration outside Terri Schiavo's hospice.)

 

1000words

(7,051 posts)
20. "Big Sky's" too occupied ...
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 04:11 PM
Mar 2014

Though he would like to try:




Big sky looked down on all the people looking up at the big sky.
Everybody pushing one another around
Big sky feels sad when he sees the children scream and cry
But the big skys too big to let it get him down.

Big sky too big to cry
Big sky too high to see
People like you and me

One day well be free, we wont care, just you see
Til that day can be, don't let it get you down
When I feel that the world is too much for me
I think of the big sky, and nothing matters much to me.

Big sky looked down on all the people who think they got problems
They get depressed and they hold their head in their hands and cry.
People lift up their hands and they look up to the big sky
But big sky is too big to sympathize

Big skys too occupied
Though he would like to try
And he feels bad inside
Big skys too big to cry

One day well be free, we wont care, just you wait and see
Til that day can be, don't let it get you down.
When I feel that the world is too much for me
I think of the big sky, and nothing matters much to me.

undeterred

(34,658 posts)
21. Never mix god and alien explanations
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 04:12 PM
Mar 2014

You can get a least a whole days news out of each and they're running out of ideas.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
33. See, that's where
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 05:09 PM
Mar 2014

I get confused...

God created the Big Bang and the universe and everything in it, but...

When he decided to cause the Great Flood, why didn't he just spirit Noah and his family and two of each kind of animal out into his god condo until the flood was over?

Was it being redecorated?

Was the holy ghost having a sleepover?

Why ask a dinky little human to build a boat?

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
24. So aliens are LOL funny...but with God they are all serious?
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 04:35 PM
Mar 2014

I swear some humans are too stupid to evolve any further.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,856 posts)
29. OK, something unusual happened and we don't know what caused it.
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 05:03 PM
Mar 2014

Therefore it's reasonable to assume that God did it.

Or, of course, we could wait until all the actual evidence has been collected, which might take awhile.

But it's easier for primitive thinkers to conclude that anything that can't be immediately understood must have had a supernatural cause. God did it. Of course.



Idiots. At least try walking upright; it's hard on your knuckles when you drag them on the ground all the time.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
34. Oh yeah?
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 05:13 PM
Mar 2014
But it's easier for primitive thinkers to conclude that anything that can't be immediately understood must have had a supernatural cause. God did it. Of course.



Well God steals socks out of my washer, so there!!!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,856 posts)
35. No, he doesn't. Your socks are just being sucked into another universe
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 05:17 PM
Mar 2014

through a portal that opens up in your washer due to a particular combination of centrifugal force and soapy water.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
39. Hmmm...
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 05:22 PM
Mar 2014

will have to see if not adding soap to the water will keep the socks from being slippery enough to get sucked into the washing machine black hole....

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
45. Uh, oh...CNN was right!
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 05:32 PM
Mar 2014

God really did do it.

There's another thread here in GD asking about what would happen if the plane topped 45,000 feet.


That's what happened!


Read this poem...


High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.



The plane got too close to God. It buzzed his face. He thought it was a pesky mosquito and...

SWAT!!!


Those poor bastards never had a chance



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