“Heretic! I Excommunicate You!!!”
-Pope Alessandro Ludovisi
Hmmmm…
Ask her why, if faith is all that is necessary for a plane to fly, why the same thing doesn’t work with, say, buses. Or, for that matter, why you can’t flap your arms and soar into the air by wishing hard enough.
I think it’s a combination of ignorance (lack of knowledge) and stupidity (extreme gullibility, lack of common sense, etc.)
Barry
I know alot of people like that.
If you believe you won’t get cancer, then you won’t. If you believe you’ll be cured of whatever disease (or refuse to give it energy) then you will.
If you believe that the war in Iraq won’t happen (if you refuse to give it “energy” is the phrase I think she used) then it won’t. Because nothing happens without people directing ‘energy’ toward it…something like that.
It makes it more comforting for them, I suppose, as they see themselves more in control of things. Of course it’s infantile madness, but oh well.
It’s mostly women who believe this stuff I would bet.
Aw, don’t be silly…of course it’s the faith of the passengers…and Barney’s the pilot!
On a serious note, I would characterize her answer as ignorance. After all, you managed to educate her. It’s the stupid people who don’t learn, not the ignorant.
Egads, that has got to be stupidest thing I’ve ever heard! Everyone knows that planes fly because pilots believe they can. Why, if it were left up to passengers, imagine what terrorists could do just by not believing!
Has this woman even thought this through?
Airplanes fly only because I believe they can. I work day and night to keep them aloft. I do it selflessly and thanklessly, out of a sense of duty. I inherited the job from a cousin, and will pass it on to-----someone, I don’t know who. In the meantime, whenever you travel by air, remember who is keeping your airplane aloft, and safe from harm. Donations would be greatly appreciated.
Poor uninformed girl. I hope someone’s told her that exposing her breasts can help prevent the flu.
Nah, the entire cargo transport crew is made up of priests and bishops in order to compensate for the deficit in “uplift.”
Another vote for dazzling, incomprehensible, stunning, world record-setting and almost mind-numbing idiocy. Does this woman manage feed and clothe herself without any assistance?
Permit me to be the first to predict a Darwin in her future.
Oh, and for the record, single seater jet fighters [with their tiny little wings] must be flown by cardinals or better in order for them to get off the ground.
Come’on Priceguy, I want to know. Does this dame wear crystals on a regular basis? Does she have one of Reverend Ike’s “prayer cloths” at her desk?
I don’t know who’s dumber, the woman in the OP or Jessica Simpson.
Although I do have to say, if I was to fly a plane, it would only be on a wing and a prayer. And I’d be willing to also bet that there would be a heck of a lot of people praying as well. 
And according to lieu, Jessica may have the flu. We need to all get together and wish her well!! Wish Wish wish wish
How do military drones fly? Do they put a plastic Jesus on the dashboard?
I’ll betcha she asked her daddy when she was young and her daddy made something up like Calvin’s dad does.
Knowing about the Bernoulli Principle isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.
The original, awful 1962 Mets had a young pitcher named Jay Hook who lost 19 games. Hook studied engineering in the offseason (he eventually got a Masters degree in thermodynamics) and once took the trouble to explain the Bernoulli Principle to a reporter in the locker room.
Casey Stengel (the Mets manager) walked by later, looked at Hook and said “If only you could do what you know.”
Sorry. That’s the only story I have that involves the Bernoulli Principle.
Now if pigs could run really really fast…
Must have been some mean-ass rolling blackout. It hit Italy too.
Did Newton describe the princliple of rolling blackouts: An electric company at rest tends to make all other electric companies rest too.
If we all clap our hands another airplane will get its wings!
No, nothing like that. In fact, this was the first time she actually said something really new agey, and yet I had her pegged as a woolly-thinking, soft-brained, new age type from the moment she opened her mouth on day one. I hate it when my prejudices turn out to be true. It makes me wonder which of my other preconceptions are true as well.
capacitor, it was a mean-ass blackout, but there were several days between ours and the one in Italy.
Lynn, I love you.
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Originally posted by Priceguy
And yes I know my explanation of flight was simplified. You go in depth with someone like that when you’re already annoyed for a thousand different reasons. And besides, that’s not the point.
Well, you used small print. Besides, isn’t “The wing pushes air down when it’s moving, so that pushes the air up. Newton’s Third Law - every action has an equal and opposite reaction” a simpler explanation? 