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RE: Questions about noah ark
April 3, 2017 at 7:51 pm
(April 3, 2017 at 7:23 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: That's not a mountainside, it's a cut for a highway. Just plain old Missouri hills just like those in the near ground and far distance. The Ozark Mountains are mostly limestone, IIRC. Please correct me if I'm wrong. when you say the mountains and hills are made of limestone, does that mean the flat lands aren't? Could it be that when the continent was undersea, the moving water caused the loose fossils to pile up, thus forming hills and mountains the same way sand piles up to form sand dunes?
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RE: Questions about noah ark
April 3, 2017 at 8:09 pm
(April 3, 2017 at 7:51 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: (April 3, 2017 at 7:23 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: That's not a mountainside, it's a cut for a highway. Just plain old Missouri hills just like those in the near ground and far distance. The Ozark Mountains are mostly limestone, IIRC. Please correct me if I'm wrong. when you say the mountains and hills are made of limestone, does that mean the flat lands aren't? Could it be that when the continent was undersea, the moving water caused the loose fossils to pile up, thus forming hills and mountains the same way sand piles up to form sand dunes?
The limestone beds spread out over much of US, remains of the great Cambrian Era oceans. The glaciers shaved down the hills north of the Ozarks, running up into Indian and on into Pennsylvania. (I-44 is on the northern edge of the Ozarks.)
Look at the layers in that picture. They're created when the critters die and fall to the bottom. They're generally flat, or were flat until a geological event tilted them.
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RE: Questions about noah ark
April 4, 2017 at 5:26 am
(April 3, 2017 at 7:45 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: "As in every case, "god" is not one of the ways!"
Except perhaps the way madness lies.
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.'
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RE: Questions about noah ark
April 4, 2017 at 6:43 am
(April 4, 2017 at 5:26 am)Cyberman Wrote: (April 3, 2017 at 7:45 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: "As in every case, "god" is not one of the ways!"
Except perhaps the way madness lies.
Just an excuse to be crazy, not the cause of the crazy.
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RE: Questions about noah ark
April 4, 2017 at 6:55 am
(April 4, 2017 at 6:43 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (April 4, 2017 at 5:26 am)Cyberman Wrote: Except perhaps the way madness lies.
Just an excuse to be crazy, not the cause of the crazy.
Believing in an imaginary sky daddy is definitely one of the causes of crazy.
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RE: Questions about noah ark
April 4, 2017 at 7:03 am
Believing in a god or gods is just a subset of "believing stupid shit".
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April 4, 2017 at 7:04 am
Yeah but they had to start somewhere.
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RE: Questions about noah ark
April 4, 2017 at 7:10 am
The inclination to craziness has a potpourri of choices. Some of my cousins are snake handlers, one runs a "crystal training academy" in Orange County, CA.
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RE: Questions about noah ark
April 4, 2017 at 8:01 am
(April 4, 2017 at 6:43 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (April 4, 2017 at 5:26 am)Cyberman Wrote: Except perhaps the way madness lies.
Just an excuse to be crazy, not the cause of the crazy.
When the two become indistinguishable, we have a problem.
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.'
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RE: Questions about noah ark
April 4, 2017 at 9:26 am
(April 4, 2017 at 8:01 am)Cyberman Wrote: (April 4, 2017 at 6:43 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Just an excuse to be crazy, not the cause of the crazy.
When the two become indistinguishable, we have a problem.
I know some very calm and reasonable people who are deeply religious. They keep it tucked away, you'd never know how much they love Jesus. They believe the passage where "Jesus" says to hide away when praying. She's MD. and he does magic for McDonnell-Douglas.
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