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3Hotdogs
(13,394 posts)The guy narrating it, had a toop that kept bobbing up and down on his head, as he talked. I got more out of watching the toop than about the debris on the side of the mountain.
When I begin to lose my hair, I know what kind of toop not to buy.
Voltaire2
(14,714 posts)murielm99
(31,436 posts)It is funny.
I had a doctor who had a toop. I did not listen to a word he said, because I kept looking at his bad toop and trying not to laugh.
3Hotdogs
(13,394 posts)And the front of it had a line of gauze where there used to be vinyl, polyester or whatever they make fake hair out of. I looked at this for several years.
One day, he shows up bald on top and trim on the sides. Said his wife told him to throw the damn thing out. Quite an improvement.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)they could repopulate the world.
Voltaire2
(14,714 posts)Ask that idiot Steve King.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Check the section about "Tracing The Goddess." They have to blame a woman, again, for taking up the ways of the serpent. The ways of enlightenment.
Tracing the Goddess
David Deals discovery relates directly to the depiction of a key, but relatively unrecognized Genesis woman in ancient art. In the early post-Flood world, the ancients revered Naamah, the last woman mentioned in the line of Cain (Genesis 4:22), who came through the Flood as Hams wife, and who then instigated the abandonment of God and the return to the serpents enlightenment, and the exaltation of man as the measure of all things.
This information is new to me. I didn't know that men had picked out another woman scapegoat for all the ill in the world other than Eve.
Croney
(4,923 posts)voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)The only difference today is the extent to which this dogma is implemented, although it isnt hard to find the common threads of forced modesty and muzzling of voices.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)But it also might not be Noah's.
Voltaire2
(14,714 posts)Zero actual evidence.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Voltaire2
(14,714 posts)That Noahs impossibility existed.
Only no actual evidence.
So, no.
Iggo
(48,265 posts)Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 25, 2019, 05:59 PM - Edit history (1)
Following his (itself problematic) work, recently, the Chinese were showing wood constructions in the ice, claiming they were the ark.
My guess is that 1) they found the wood constructions were old houses. And 2) then developed the apologetic theory that the houses had surely, however, been made from parts of the old ark.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)but the absence of evidence where evidence should be, according to the theory means that the theory needs re-working.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 26, 2019, 01:46 AM - Edit history (1)
Nonetheless, there may or may not have been a large flood in the past and a large boat. Or something.
Honestly could care less either way.
Voltaire2
(14,714 posts)Er no that is not evidence of the ark.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Ok you win the internets.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Whatever the random place is that it is claimed the ark supposedly exists at.
CanonRay
(14,861 posts)jmowreader
(51,448 posts)The current Holy Lands, Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula were all those people knew about.
Read Leviticus 11 and itll tell you every animal there was in the world of the Bible.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)a imals who would under any other circumstance kill each other. So they decided to get along and just not eat until some future date when enough food was present to eat again without starving to death.
Cartoonist
(7,531 posts)Real or Metaphor? Who should I believe?
Iggo
(48,265 posts):thinking:
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)But literalists, theists and non-theists, will insist on a strictly literal interpretation.
Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)Never mind the bible goes to great lengths to describe the arc and pretty much the whole story is a cut-and-paste from earlier Mesopotamian flood story (which was also taken literally) because all that shit is metaphorical too.
Yep, anytime the bible flies in the face of reality its metaphor to the rescue. So when it comes to talking snakes, talking bushes, talking donkeys, floods, creating the universe inside a week, Samsons magic hair, people turning into salt, zombies, hocus pocus people into existence, and exodus, you guessed it, all metaphor.
Ah but what about the biggest whopper of them all, you say? Nope, not metaphor Im afraid. Jesus still gets to watch you masturbate.
No, really. I mean really no shit. Thats how it works.
SCantiGOP
(14,239 posts)They must have tripped and been killed coming down the off ramp.
And dont forget all the dinosaurs drowned during the flood because Noah for some reason didnt include them like he was told to.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)" . . . some cats, some rats, some elephants, but Lord I'm so forlorned, i just canna find no unicorns . . . "
SCantiGOP
(14,239 posts)And ...humpty-backed camels and the chimpanzees....but sure as Im born, youre never going to find no unicorn.
How the hell do I remember that yet sometimes cant find my glasses when theyre sitting on my face?
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)And don't worry, I do the same thing with MY glasses, except they are parked on top of my head !
I also put pens behind my ears, then wander around looking for where I put down my pen.
Or read an entire paragraph in a book, then realize I have no idea what I just read.
And don't get me started on my cell phone, my car keys or the dog.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)eShirl
(18,792 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)careless
Voltaire2
(14,714 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)PJMcK
(22,886 posts)Girard442
(6,401 posts)...God murdered nearly all of the then extant human and animal population. He did this because of rampant wickedness, which apparently infected not just the adult humans, but the human toddlers, infants, and fetuses. The animals too. He didn't just painlessly *piff* them into nonexistence. Oh, no. He had to subject them to abject terror and a slow agonizing end and He had to have Noah and his family as witnesses to the slaughter.
And people wonder why the Evangelicals like Trump.
SCantiGOP
(14,239 posts)as a prototype of the pacifistic, non-violent revolutionary, the ultimate Community Organizer.
That Old Testament god? An insane, narcissistic sociopath.
Love your neighbor vs Who should I smite today?
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)And don't forget the poor fig tree.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Voltaire2
(14,714 posts)Only that is difficult when the op is about the evidence for a physical ark.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)all those innocent beings dead and for what, the crimes (allegedly) of a few.
What then is it a metaphor for?
Voltaire2
(14,714 posts)Permanut
(6,638 posts)the fundies say "away".
Musta been after that when the kangaroos made their way to Australia. It's a timing thing.
alwaysinasnit
(5,253 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)that no "real" Christians actually believe the myths from Genesis.
Guess they were wrong!
P.S. Where did all the water go?
They let the dinosaurs out first because they drank even more than the elephants.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)How did the freshwater fish survive? Did Noah have an aquarium on the ark?
Cartoonist
(7,531 posts)God added the salt later. He used Lot's wife.
SCantiGOP
(14,239 posts)Thats a lot of salty wife.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)The bible explains all.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(102,480 posts)Also by him:
(pub. 2012)
"The thirst for truth can never be quenched by the empty and seductive words of Plato, Socrates, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Campbell, or any of their deluded, fawning disciples. And yet, the decadent theories of these very men dominate the minds of todays ruling Cainite Moronocracy. Obama, Oprah, Academia, Apostate Christendom, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Malleable Marxist Media foist upon us their atheism, idolatry, sanctified sodomy, chance human reptile descent, and, in place of our history, their concocted mythologyall deftly mingled and neatly packaged within a coercive statist regime dressed up as the promise of a future manmade paradise. A single chapter from the Book of Proverbs or Psalms puts all their disgraceful and unfruitful philosophies to shame. "
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0096XJ7IS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Oh well, he confirms my favorite bible myth so he must be alright!