RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
November 27, 2014 at 5:48 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2014 at 5:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 27, 2014 at 5:20 pm)Lek Wrote: Sorry about that. And, by the way, I do agree that the floods in these stories could have been local. They could have been referring to "their" world and using hyperbole.No more possible than the global flood, and no more in evidence. Unless you're talking "noah clung to the roof of his chicken coop while the local stream overran it's banks". Some flood....some god. It's a habit of mine to offer to run some numbers for people who really want to hold onto flood myths. Pick a point on the map. Give me depth and duration. I'll tell you why it didn't (and couldn't) happen.
I have an alternative hypothesis - it's just a story. Not embellishment, not mythicized tragedy, just a story. As an example, what do you think the size of the actual Death Star was, upon which the story was based? How big was the exhaust port that Luke Skywalker fired his torpedo into (I think we all know that no one could hit a 2m target in an xwing - especially at full throttle with Vader on his tail..no matter how many wookies gave the assist)?
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