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Fish must be very holy
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Fish must be very holy
February 7, 2014 at 9:42 am
considering God gave them a pass with the whole "destroy the earth with a flood except 2 of every animal" thing.
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RE: Fish must be very holy
February 7, 2014 at 10:52 am
I think the idea was that a flood wouldn't kill things that could breathe under water. Ignoring that fresh water fish can't live in salt water, and the raging rapids would kill a lot of fish anyway.

It's almost like the people who wrote the story didn't understand much about how things work in relation to altitude and different kinds of waters and ecosystems.
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RE: Fish must be very holy
February 7, 2014 at 11:03 am
(February 7, 2014 at 9:42 am)Boris Karloff Wrote: considering God gave them a pass with the whole "destroy the earth with a flood except 2 of every animal" thing.

Fish are decidedly unholy. That's why god, rather than simply put them out of their misery, cursed them to smell like vagina.
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RE: Fish must be very holy
February 7, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Quote:It's almost like the people who wrote the story didn't understand much about how things work in relation to altitude and different kinds of waters and ecosystems.

Do you suppose that's because they lived in a fucking desert?
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RE: Fish must be very holy
February 7, 2014 at 2:04 pm
(February 7, 2014 at 10:52 am)Chad32 Wrote: I think the idea was that a flood wouldn't kill things that could breathe under water. Ignoring that fresh water fish can't live in salt water, and the raging rapids would kill a lot of fish anyway.

It's almost like the people who wrote the story didn't understand much about how things work in relation to altitude and different kinds of waters and ecosystems.

Not understanding the effects that a global flood would have on the entire earth? No....

It's a good thing god erased all the evidence of this global flood. Except he left the Grand Canyon there to remind us.
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RE: Fish must be very holy
February 7, 2014 at 2:07 pm
Yeah, I've heard the grand canyon used as evidence for the flood, but like Nye said you'd expect stuff like that everywhere if there was a world wide flood.
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RE: Fish must be very holy
February 11, 2014 at 2:14 am
(February 7, 2014 at 11:03 am)Faith No More Wrote:
(February 7, 2014 at 9:42 am)Boris Karloff Wrote: considering God gave them a pass with the whole "destroy the earth with a flood except 2 of every animal" thing.

Fish are decidedly unholy. That's why god, rather than simply put them out of their misery, cursed them to smell like vagina.

That, and ducks. That's why there is a disproportionate amount of evil ducks.
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RE: Fish must be very holy
February 11, 2014 at 2:17 am
Right.

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RE: Fish must be very holy
February 11, 2014 at 2:44 am
(February 11, 2014 at 2:17 am)Minimalist Wrote: Right.

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It's a seagull instead of a duck (still a little white rat with wings as far as I'm concerned), but it's the same idea. Seagulls would have been fine too, the little bastards...

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RE: Fish must be very holy
March 20, 2015 at 1:52 pm
Today...The world eco-balance...is not in balance.......
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