# Whaddya mean, why YOU? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2006, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757 "2006-09-07T06:10:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/21 "2006-09-07T21:22:53Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] [Air crash survivor asks “Why did God do this to me?”](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/06/kentucky.survivor.ap/index.html) [/QUOTE] If I read correctly YOU were the CO-PILOT and it was partly your responsibility to be sure you knew where you were going, which runway, etc. etc. Quiturbitchin! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/22 "2006-09-07T21:24:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Polehinke hasn’t mentioned the crash and doctors have encouraged family members not to ask him about it, Cruz told The Associated Press. In other words, he doesn’t know what happened. He doesn’t know who lived or died. He may not have any recollection of the moments leading up to the crash. Let’s reserve judgement. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/23 "2006-09-07T21:35:51Z")
FWIW, the focus of my objection here was the guy immediately bringing god into it. As his mom said, sometimes an accident is just an accident. Sometimes there are mistakes. Like me opening this thread. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/24 "2006-09-07T22:15:04Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] FWIW, the focus of my objection here was the guy immediately bringing god into it. [/QUOTE] The focus of my objection is that what he said after a seriously traumatic event shouldn’t be held against him. I am a hard core atheist and I might even have said something silly like “thank God” after getting smashed up in a plane crash. He probably had at least a slight concussion or on pain meds or both. Now this were two years later and he was on the motivational speaking circuit or said something like that after breaking his arm before a big football game I would agree with you. This is a different story. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/25 "2006-09-07T22:16:09Z")
**hajario** , despite our differences, I have to concede that you’re right. In this case. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/26 "2006-09-07T22:44:27Z")
**King of Soup** , we need an applause smiley. God as the Intelligent Shitter…that thought is going to stay with me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/27 "2006-09-08T12:52:10Z")
Thank you, **ryobserver** (read it 3 times as **nyobserver** , thinking to myself “At last! A positive review!” Oh, well, your name is cleverer), that’s very kind of you. By the way, does anybody know anything about this cease-and-desist order I just got served on behalf of **lieu**? Anyhow, since I should justify my presence in this thread on other than self-amusement grounds, I’ll chime in to agree with…um, looks like pretty much everybody at this point: if a person in the extremes of physical and emotional pain and turmoil, which are being chemically blunted, resorts to a deeply inculcated personal worldview (that includes God) to make sense out of his predicament, and if it seems his perspective has shrunk to the point of near-solipsism, I think I can understand and forgive that, even if in calmer and soberer moments the person’s attitudes might make this attempt seem insincere. I’ll also thank the always-forbearing **Rilchiam** for letting me be stupid in her thread. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/28 "2006-09-08T17:43:51Z")
People thank God for their good fortune all the time. Why shouldn’t they do the same for the bad? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/29 "2006-09-08T20:07:41Z")
[QUOTE=ouryL] People thank God for their good fortune all the time. Why shouldn’t they do the same for the bad? [/QUOTE] Because it’s equally ridiculous to attribute good fortune to god? ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/30 "2006-09-08T20:30:40Z")
He should of had [God as His Copilot](http://www.cruel.com/weblog/18167/god-my-copilot-not-yours). Oh, and a [obligatory](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037746/) one of these. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/31 "2006-09-08T21:50:50Z")
Well my answer to the OP is, and the question, ‘Why me ?’ is, ‘why the hell not you?’ ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/32 "2006-09-09T05:26:52Z")
It’s feeling a little like the complaints towards the statement on this thread are veering towards the territory of “How dare this guy say something about God being at all involved in anything that happened to him, even if he is religious? Can’t he see how ridiculous the concept is? Hmph, idiot.” ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/33 "2006-09-09T07:49:07Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] What are you talking about, I thought he was supposed to be a guy 😃 . [/QUOTE] Ha, ha! It took me ages but I finally got it. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/34 "2006-09-09T11:00:42Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] He should of had [God as His Copilot](http://www.cruel.com/weblog/18167/god-my-copilot-not-yours). Oh, and a [obligatory](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037746/) one of these. [/QUOTE] I wonder if anyone has ever done a study about the impact of a plastic Jesus glued to the aircraft dashboard on the crash rate. Are planes that ride with Jesus less likely to crash? Or more? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/35 "2006-09-09T11:55:33Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] I wonder if anyone has ever done a study about the impact of a plastic Jesus glued to the aircraft dashboard on the crash rate. Are planes that ride with Jesus less likely to crash? Or more? [/QUOTE] “I don’t care if it rains or freezes…” ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757/36 "2006-09-09T12:39:02Z")
[QUOTE=Leaper] It’s feeling a little like the complaints towards the statement on this thread are veering towards the territory of “How dare this guy say something about God being at all involved in anything that happened to him, even if he is religious? Can’t he see how ridiculous the concept is? Hmph, idiot.” [/QUOTE] Yeah that’s pretty much what we’re saying. Well ok, not exactly. Speaking for myself, I’m saying God (if there is one) very apparently doesn’t go around rewarding the good and punishing the bad…not in this world anyway. Time and tide come to all men. It’s not anti-relgious, it’s anti a smiplistic view of theology. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whaddya-mean-why-you/371757.md?page=1)