A conversation I overheard

DasLeben · #1 10-06-2005, 03:24 PM

I hear a lot of conversations going on at work. 98% of them I ignore, since I generally have better stuff to do than to listen to some random people talking about their day.

This one caught my attention though. I only had 1-2 tables going, so I had a bit of free time to mull around trying to look useful. At one of the bar tables, I hear a lady saying "But New Orleans has always been wicked." My ears perked up for a second, and a man proceeded to respond "well, that's why God flooded them off the earth."

I just stood there for a second, watching this group of 6 people around this bar table sit there with serious looks on their faces while talking about the "wicked New Orleans" getting smote off the earth by their god. I couldn't believe the nerve of these people and their self-rightous attitudes.

So what the hell? Do other people really think like this? Absolutely appalling.

swede123 · #2 10-06-2005, 03:27 PM

What other explanation would there be? Other than GWB, that is.

Swede

diebitter · #3 10-06-2005, 03:29 PM

You are correct. They are appalling.

MrMon · #4 10-06-2005, 03:29 PM

Allah did it. This is the subject of serious news reports in the Middle East. Really.

RunDownHouse · #5 10-06-2005, 03:35 PM

One of my coworkers ( this guy, actually) honestly believes that people from biblical times lived to be 300 years old. Somehow the conversation came up, and he tossed that right out there like it was nothing. We had to actually stop him and ask him to repeat what he just said, as he was continuing on while we were trying to figure out if he was joking or not.

#6 10-06-2005, 03:38 PM

I heard people talk about Phucket the same way right after last year's tsunamis. It's a Sodom and Gomora kind of analogy.

Cracker · #7 10-06-2005, 03:39 PM

I was waiting for Pat Robertson to come out with a statement like this. His aides must have had him gagged for a few weeks.

Philuva · #8 10-06-2005, 03:53 PM

Surprisingly a lot of people think like this.

Although if you believe in a God that intervenes in a positive manner (miracles that seem to happen just about every day according to the news), I guess it makes sense that you would believe in a God that intervenes in a negative way as well.

bustedchucks · #9 10-06-2005, 03:54 PM

"I only had 1-2 tables going, so I had a bit of free time to mull around trying to look useful."

it took me a minute to realize you work in a restaurant. i was jealous, like man this guy can play at work, way better than rakeback.

speirs · #10 10-06-2005, 03:57 PM

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"I only had 1-2 tables going, so I had a bit of free time to mull around trying to look useful."

it took me a minute to realize you work in a restaurant. i was jealous, like man this guy can play at work, way better than rakeback.

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lol I was thinking the same thing