Are we to believe that Noah's boat was the only boat around during the great flood?
Surely there were other mariners already on the sea that could survive a 40 day rainstorm without sinking, right?
Was Noah's the only sailing vessel?
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Re: Was Noah's the only sailing vessel?
Scottie wrote:Are we to believe that Noah's boat was the only boat around during the great flood?
Surely there were other mariners already on the sea that could survive a 40 day rainstorm without sinking, right?
What would the eat? They didn't have any elephants who pooped Papa John's pizza like Noah did they? Or water buffalo who urinated Coke?
Ha....didn't think so.....Creationism wins again....
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barrelomonkeys wrote:Didn't you see Waterworld?
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No one saw Waterworld monkeys....that's why they didn't do Waterworld II...the return of Jeanne Tripplehorn's nude scene.
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Gazelam wrote:It only rained for forty days and nights. Noah was on the Ark for more like a year.
You seem to know a lot about the time issues.
Can you also tell us just how long Snow White slept in her glass coffin before the prince broke the spell and woke her?
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If...and I stress the if....the flood was universal than I suspect no other boat would have survived. The downpour would have been horrible and probably would have flooded any other ship if it wasn't flipped by the probably record waves. According to the account Noah didn't really build a boat, he built a floating cocoon which he could not steer.
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Tarski wrote:You seem to know a lot about the time issues.
Can you also tell us just how long Snow White slept in her glass coffin before the prince broke the spell and woke her?
According to wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White ... ot_summary
Despite having done away with the queen, the dwarves return to their cottage and find Snow White seemingly dead. They cannot bear to bury her, and instead build for her a glass coffin trimmed with gold in a clearing in the forest. The dwarves and the woodland creatures keep watch over Snow White through the autumn, winter, and spring. One day, the prince, who had been searching all over for the princess, learns of her plight and comes to visit the coffin. Captivated by her beauty, he approaches the coffin and kisses Snow White, restoring her to life with "love's first kiss."
Although it's vague...let's assume she was in suspended animation for at least 9 months. Of course that is according to the 1937 Disney film....how the original fairy tell went is possibly different.
I just wasted 3 minutes doing this post........how depressing.
Edit: Off-topic but just saw this on the same wiki page and thought it was funny:
The names of the Seven Dwarfs ("Bashful," "Doc," "Dopey," "Grumpy," "Happy," "Sleepy" and "Sneezy") were created for this production, chosen from a pool of about fifty potentials. Blabby, Jumpy, Shifty, and Snoopy were among those that were rejected (along with Scrappy, Cranky, Dirty, Awful, Silly, Daffy, Flabby, Jaunty, Biggo Ego, Chesty, Bald, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Burpy, Lazy, Puffy, Dizzy, Stuffy, Gassy, Tubby, Mr. Shy, Loser, Flaunty, Flasher, Horny, Hairy and Grabby)
I highlighted my favorite rejected Dwarf names...I don't know about you but I think Flasher and Horny could have been real great dwarfs.
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God wanted everyone DEAD. Even if there were seaworthy vessels, he would have punctured a hole in the hull. He wanted to kill them ALL.
Even little children. Babies. He drowned them all, like kittens in a bag. Even the innocent. And he watched while they drowned, listened to them screaming.
Then he realized he had made a mistake. A hideous, horrible mistake. A sin. He murdered his own children. If it hadn't been a mistake, if he didn't commit an act of unspeakable brutality, then why did he have a need of repenting of it afterward? I wonder if he has to answer to some higher power, on some kind of judgment day, for what he did?
That's the kind of God you want to believe in? One that murders babies? He must not have repented sincerely, because he ordered Moses to kill babies in a freakish spree of genocide a few thousand years after Noah. So he was back to his old baby-murdering habits again, but this time we are not told whether he repented or not. Maybe he felt no remorse the third time around. He's just finished killing the firstborn of Egypt, after all. I guess the sinning gets easier and easier the more you do it. He only felt guilty the first time. He killed and killed but it wasn't enough, because the book of Revelation tells us he wants to annihilate the whole world again, just to prove he can.
That doesn't sound like a real god to me. That sounds like some kind of Bronze Age tribal deity that men with no humanity dreamed up in order to justify their unending bloodshed.
Even little children. Babies. He drowned them all, like kittens in a bag. Even the innocent. And he watched while they drowned, listened to them screaming.
Then he realized he had made a mistake. A hideous, horrible mistake. A sin. He murdered his own children. If it hadn't been a mistake, if he didn't commit an act of unspeakable brutality, then why did he have a need of repenting of it afterward? I wonder if he has to answer to some higher power, on some kind of judgment day, for what he did?
That's the kind of God you want to believe in? One that murders babies? He must not have repented sincerely, because he ordered Moses to kill babies in a freakish spree of genocide a few thousand years after Noah. So he was back to his old baby-murdering habits again, but this time we are not told whether he repented or not. Maybe he felt no remorse the third time around. He's just finished killing the firstborn of Egypt, after all. I guess the sinning gets easier and easier the more you do it. He only felt guilty the first time. He killed and killed but it wasn't enough, because the book of Revelation tells us he wants to annihilate the whole world again, just to prove he can.
That doesn't sound like a real god to me. That sounds like some kind of Bronze Age tribal deity that men with no humanity dreamed up in order to justify their unending bloodshed.