From my friend Dr. Ellis off the Skeptalk e-mail listing:
Doctor Wrote:Speaking of Shhhhh, yesterday I was mowing my leaves in my 7 foot fenced enclosed backyard, wearing my in-the-ear partial sound blocking headphones listening to SGU, with my Ear protectors on, oblivious to most of the external sonic world, when I vaguely got the notion someone was yelling at me.
I turned around to see some weird clownish person propped up ON my fence, yelling at me. I shut off the motor, took off the hearing protectors, and turned off the ipod. His name was Jacob O. Berry, and had a calling to speak to me about whether I'd like to hire him to cut my tree limbs or do my yardwork (all of which I do myself). I declined, but he persisted and named a bunch of people I know that he had serviced. He gave me his card, which was nothing about trees or yardwork, so I asked him what the fuck his "Cross card" was about. He told me to check the website about the cross he is building. 100 stories high. In Kansas. He's cutting trees to raise the quarter Billion dollars he needs. That's gonna take more trees than even grow in Amarillo. I suggested he put a windmill on top to generate some income, which he thought was a novel and useful idea. I then told him good luck and go away. I'm glad I chose to view the website instead of asking him to explain his plans, or I'd still be talking to him:
http://www.americancross.org/
By the way, he said it would be hollow, due to tornadoes and all. Smart.
espressofrog Wrote:Talk about blinded by faith, that's some huge reflective surface.
One thing is for sure, I'm very glad that this cross to be erected on mt
Jesus is "a spiritual, but not religious Cross". I thought for a moment
I saw a Christian symbol in it but it was just my paranoia again. I
have to stop doing that.
Doctor Wrote:If I had known it was reflective, I'd have added a solar concentrator to the plans. Just because I don't believe in Al Gore and Carbon Credits does not mean I can't think Green.
Imagine the Southern and Western sides being parabolic solar mirrors, spewing forth the Fires of Hell on sunny days (most of them in Kansas), and igniting all the local corn and wheat fields whenever the cross swayed in the wind and the beam missed the collector at the focal point. The Faithful could kneel down and pray in the fields, and if faithful enough, God would calm the winds or bend the beam. While handling poisonous rattlesnakes, if they are Sure.
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