Mythbusters: The Flood of Noah's Day vs. "The Holy Hand Grenade" and other sci-fi stories 😁

[John 12.24to28]

"However, E·liʹsha sent a messenger to tell him: “Go, wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”  

 

At this Naʹa·man became indignant and started to leave, saying: “Here I said to myself, ‘He will come out to me and stand here and call on the name of Jehovah his God, moving his hand back and forth over the leprosy to cure it.’  Are not the A·baʹnah and the Pharʹpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Can I not wash in them and become clean?” With that he turned and went away in a rage.

 

His servants now approached him and said: “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, would you not do it? How much more, then, since he only said to you, ‘Wash and be clean’?”  

 

At that he went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of the true God. Then his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little boy, and he became clean."

[Pudgy]

Do you type all that, or transcribe from speech? Just reading it tires me out .. I can’t imagine typing that much.

Boilerplate?

 

[Pudgy]

… and grey type is WORK to read ….

 

[John 12.24to28]

Cut-n-paste, it's the wave of the future, lol...

 

Seriously, though, prayer - what's the big deal? Why not try it?

 

"Naaman", I know I'm just a "little girl" as far as understanding a lot of the life experience and battles you have gone through, and I know you have to keep up appearances. But really, who of your acquaintances will know if you try? What do you have to lose? Nothing. Evolutionary theorists believe in nothing anyway - they believe the end of life is nothing. You only have something to gain by trying. Why not just give it a try? (You just might like it!😃)

 

 

 

 

[John 12.24to28]

1 hour ago, Pudgy said:

Do you type all that, or transcribe from speech? Just reading it tires me out .. I can’t imagine typing that much.

Boilerplate?

 

 

(Funny to hear that, coming from multiple profiles.🥸😷🤠)

 

Who is(are) the one(s) doing more typing really?

[John 12.24to28]

40 minutes ago, Mankeptforunnaturalporpoises said:

Bob Dylan

 

...speaking of floodwaters...

 

"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'"

 

 

 

[John 12.24to28]

20 minutes ago, Mankeptforunnaturalporpoises said:

The more appropriate song for this thread would be ‘Man gave name to all the animals’ surely 

 

"Man gave names to all the animals

In the beginning, in the beginning

Man gave names to all the animals

In the beginning, long time ago

He saw an animal as smooth as glass

Slithering his way through the grass

He saw him dissappear by a tree near a lake" (Bob Dylan)

 

Have you ever seen a snake, down by the lake?

 

"Back to my home, I dare not go, for if I do, my mother will say..."

 

 

[John 12.24to28]

1 hour ago, Mankeptforunnaturalporpoises said:

2 hours ago, Pudgy said:

Do you type all that, or transcribe from speech? Just reading it tires me out .. I can’t imagine typing that much.

Boilerplate?

 

This. It’s a lot of verbiage. 

 

Hey, you guys, what’s an elephant’s favorite font to use?

Ella font. 😆

[John 12.24to28]

39 minutes ago, Mankeptforunnaturalporpoises said:

animals

 

Since we're talking about animals now, how about a horse joke...

 

A young cowboy buys a horse from the town preacherman. 

 

The preacherman explains, “to make the horse go, you gotta yell, ‘Thank God!’ And to make it stop, yell, ‘Hallelujah.’” 

 

The cowboy rides off. 

 

He rides all day, gets tired, and starts to nod off in the saddle when he notices he is about to ride straight over a cliff. 

 

Searching his memory, he frantically yells to the horse, “Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” 

 

The horse grinds to a stop just at the edge of the cliff. 

 

The cowboy wipes the sweat off his forehead. 

 

”Phew!” the cowboy sighs. “Thank God!”

 

 

[John 12.24to28]

5 hours ago, Pudgy said:

Even “hard evidence”, depending on what it is, how it is evaluated, and who is doing the evaluation, and what their objectivity, unconscious agenda, and dozens of other factors is, is open to interpretation...

based entirely on your experience

 

So, do the experiment today. You'll get your "hard evidence". Then you can interpret it and evaluate it yourself instead of taking my word for it (or rejecting my word, as is the case at present). Instead of rejecting my word without any evidence to the contrary, do the "experiment" and then you'll have a better foundation to stand on, instead of just opinions and assumptions.

 

4 hours ago, AudreyAnnaNana said:

 

"Faith is the assured expectation of what is hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities that are not seen."

 

4 hours ago, Pudgy said:

Paul had first hand hard evidence.

I do not.

Neither do you or anyone now living.

 

I did the "experiment" and I got my first hand hard evidence. When was the last time you conducted that "experiment"? What prevents you from doing it today?

 

4 hours ago, AudreyAnnaNana said:

I have.

 

I told you I have to go for now, but in the meantime, why don't you try a little experiment? Today. It won't cost you anything except maybe your pride. Test the theory.

 

Get down on your knees. Literally. Ask Jehovah respectfully to show to you that He exists. Ask Him. Say, "Jehovah, if you really are there, if you really are the True God, then please, will you make it so incredibly obvious to me, like getting hit by a two-by-four or a ton of bricks, because I can't believe it and I can't see it. If you're real, please show me, Jehovah."

 

You know how to do scientific research according to the scientific method. Test the hypothesis with this unprejudiced experiment. See whether you get your feedback or not.🙂

 

4 hours ago, AudreyAnnaNana said:

(Oh, yeah, and when you say your prayer, remember to ask Jehovah to show you the evidence "in Jesus name," because Jesus is the one who will carry out your request, if you are brave enough to do the experiment...😉)

 

3 hours ago, Pudgy said:

I don’t need to do that.

 

"“What do you think? A man had two children. Going up to the first, he said, ‘Child, go work today in the vineyard.’  In answer this one said, ‘I will not,’ but afterward, he felt regret and went out.  Approaching the second, he said the same. This one replied, ‘I will, Sir,’ but did not go out.  Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said: “The first.” Jesus said to them: “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the Kingdom of God.  For John came to you in a way of righteousness, but you did not believe him. However, the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him, and even when you saw this, you did not feel regret afterward so as to believe him.""

 

You're not the first one to say those words.

[Pudgy]

I don’t know where you got the impression that I don’t pray and I’m not a believer in Jehovah God and his Son Christ Jesus, probably because you asked me a series of questions, and I answered the first one, usually, and you may have thought I answered different ones.

Listening seems to be a lost art, as well as reading for comprehension.

If your reply is based on what went before, it helps to carefully read what a person has actually written. Otherwise your replies (… and you have VERY long replies … to me a LOT of work …) is based on false assumptions. 

I do just the opposite, usually, I reply to someone exactly as if I diagrammed the sentence, even though I know what they actually wrote is not what they meant.

[John 12.24to28]

Okay, @Pudgy🙂

 

Then you already know that when you take 💖Jehovah's hand...