(February 2, 2018 at 10:05 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(February 2, 2018 at 9:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: So you are putting the clearing the money-lenders out of the temple tale into the Utter Bullshit category. Yes?
I put it in the category of blubber looking thing so salted as to be unsafe to eat. But there could have been some small piece of real blubber there.
Yet so mundane as to be inconsequential. Using the same criteria for reportage, we would see the astonishing comic book adventures of Clark Kent (Look, across the street - it's an accountant! It's a solicitor! No; it's Clark Kent, jobbing newspaper reporter! "You'll believe a man can take a dead-end 9 to 5 job to pay his rent!")
How about Peter Parker, the amazing Man-Man?
Or my favourite, the incredible Visible Man.
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.'
