(January 12, 2016 at 12:23 pm)athrock Wrote:(January 11, 2016 at 10:09 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: That's the funniest joke I've read all day. Floods are generally unexpected. Noah would have been a working fool to have built a giant boat and loaded it when he was in a local flood.
Generally? Yes.
But you seem to have forgotten that the whole point of the story is that the Hebrew god chose to warn Noah in advance.
What would have happened if Noah couldn't meet the deadline? Would this god have extended it a couple of weeks or whatever? At least Morgan Freeman waited for Steve Carell to finish building the boat before doing his thing, even if the only reason all the animals and onlookers were in any danger at all was precisely because the boat was being built.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
