School bus has "Satanic" brake lights

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The same crowd had the wonderful Route 666 in Arizona renumbered to 191. Bastards.

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Matt Besser & Co. on Improv 4 Humans watched a video of a lady breaking the Monster Energy==Satanic cult down at a nutter convention a few episodes ago, and spun some comedy gold out of it. Their best point was, if this woman thinks this is thought-worthy, then I’m about to blow her mind with all the totally obvious evil in the world…

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Better?

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I choose to look at this a different way: don’t we live in a totally wonderful world that people have enough free time to whip themselves into a frothy goo over totally innocuous things? Because, you know, if our education system was dramatically underfunded, and our government was in a complete standstill, and nearly-extinct diseases were killing off our kids because of our willful ignorance, we would obviously not have time to complain about the fucking orientation of the tail lights on a fucking bus.

Oh, wait. Those things are still happening? Fuck.

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“My Lord, I am afraid our plans to open the Gates of Hell have been foiled.”

“What? How? Marketing said our sale share was up to 39%? We only need 51% under our power to begin the opening of the Black Gate.”

“It appears some woman cracked our secret code on the Monster Energy Drink. She’s telling everyone it’s the really the Mark of the Beast.”

“Curses. How could we be so foolish to think they wouldn’t see through our plans? These monkeys are some times brighter than we give them credit for…”

“Not to fear, my Lord, no one is suspecting Google is one of ours.”

“Good, it appears our “Do no evil.” motto has convinced them. Now, as soon as Chrome gains a 51% market share, our conquest of the mortal realm can begin! Mwuahahahaaa!”

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The First Rule of Satanic School Busses is you don’t talk about Satanic School Busses.

Or something.

Just wait until they see the icons for rating purchases at Amazon.com .

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She should try reading the story Convergent Series by Larry Niven. That’ll teach her a thing or two about pentagrams.

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Or it could be intentional. One of them there y’know… stars.

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But these are break lights, on the back, right? So, even if you accept that it’s a Satanic symbol, the children are literally “putting Satan behind them” when they sit in the bus. Some people just don’t think their symbolism through…

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I don’t see the problem. But then I can’t see as much while shielding my eyes from the flashing lights on the tops of the newer buses. Whose painful idea was that?

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What the hell is it about places with “Memphis” in the name and Satanic Panic??? I guess it’s only been 20+ years, we can’t expect to have learned anything.

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It could’ve been a cool way to teach her kids a little about design, rather than about idiotic superstitions. “Why did the designer of the light put them in a star, and can you think of a way to arrange the lights so they will fill up the circle and use fewer lights than a star?” Then give the kids some LEDs, a battery, and a circle of cardboard and have them design new tail lights for the bus.

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Most ancient manuscripts have 666, the 616 variant is pretty rare. Doesn’t prove anything, but still.

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The difference suggests a name ending with n in the Greek and without n in the Latin.

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Yes, if world = USA.

I live in a country where such religious nutters are not taken serious and would probably laughed out of the room (and are not so abundant like in the US).

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Yea, I’m partial to the Nero theory myself, except it gives us so little tto panic about. “There was a bad Emperor! He was exactly as bad as Hitler!” Just not very compelling, is it?

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She’s outraged? She’s not the one who is going to have a hell of a hard time finding a goat small enough to sacrifice on top of those things. Get some perspective, lady, jeez.

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Hilarious!
Christians used to use the pentagram as a holy symbol. It is the path of Venus in the night sky. Proof, so they thought, of a divine creator.

“Anyone who fears a God, if not God and Jesus Christ, should be outraged,”
I completely agree with the kook. They should all be outraged… at every opportunity, make them outraged.

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Uh - I don’t think the Pentagram has ever been a mainstream Christian symbol. I am sure you can find some sect that used it, but it was probably one of those tied to mysticism like the Jewish Kaballa (sp). Especially since in your example you say something about astrology, which most of Christianity rejects. (Or are supposed to.)

Though there are plenty of other uses for the Pentagram besides satan worship and pagans.