I was just drifting off, with the History channel on. Something vaguely interesting about the Exodus, and whether it actually happened. A good question. A very valid question. Worthy of something that calls itself the History channel.
But just as I’m drifting off I hear this: some “expert” suggesting that skeptics (us evil bastards) don’t want to believe in the exodus because that would mean beleving in god. (Something that us evil bastards are deathy opposed to).
Uhhhhh…yeah. That’s really relavent to an historical debate. The Jews being slaves in Egypt and then staging a revolution to get out is of course evidence of the hand of Yahweh. Much in the same way the discovery of Troy proves the existences of Zeus and Athena.
I hope that’s the dumbest thing I hear today…but that might mean turning the TV off…and hiding under the bed.
Yeah, the History Channel is basically the Bible and Nazis. I’m actually surprised that they don’t combine the two more often, like “How the Nazis Killed Jesus” or “Was Hitler the Antichrist?” or something.
My favorite line was from the Discovery Channel, though: “Box jellies are the Ferraris of the jellyfish world.” No word on what the Hummers, VW Bugs, or Honda Accords of the jellyfish world are.
Oh, for the days when it was “The Hitler Channel!”
The History of Gummi Bears (Part II: Triumph uber Your Fillings)
Bible Code - As if the Bible wasn’t boring enough already
Nostradamus’s lost Quatrain rediscovered: " A Spongy King / Leaves falling from Pythineas Tree / A purple swelling among the lobes / use Burma Shave"
The History of drywall, and the rise of the Spackling Class
UFO! Roswell! Aliens did so use 1940’s industrial materials!
The Bible counter-code: see, you just gotta hold it up to the light like this!
The History of Shit We Eat when were’re too lazy to cook.
R. Lee Ermey doing progressivley less military history and more shilling for Rumsfield
My Grandmother is way ahead of you there. She believes there’s a very good chance that Satan will raise Hitler from the dead so he can become the Antichrist. Somehow I don’t really see the majority of the population rallying around a newly-zombified Hitler, though. I dunno, maybe once only us godless heathens are left behind that idea won’t seem so far-fetched.
They had a show on this weekend called “The Antichrist” which I was half watching while making dinner last night, and they had Benny Hinn on to comment on how he believes that the rise of Israel in 1948 is bringing about the end of the world and that we are living in the “end times”. If Benny Hinn is being taken seriously by the History Channel, than I’m totally done with them.
Anyone who’s seen Southpark The Movie will tell you that it’s not going to be Hitler, it will be Saddam Hussein. Although he’s got to be killed by wild dogs, first.
Crud, I actually watched about an hour of the stupid show …
They are trying to claim that teh Hyksos were the Israelites, based on teh old testament bit where Daniel [I think, I am NOT going to try to look anything up!] had purportedly the powers equivalent to the Pharoh and wore the ring of power [or some such nonsense] You know, the dream interpreter dude. Personally, the Hyksos from what I vaguely remember were traditionally believed to have been nomads from further east - like from Ur or some other area of mesopotamia.
I can go with the whole santorini blow causing some of the plagues, but I really draw the lines at the slaying of the eldest being attributed to CO gas seeping up. They claimed the reason it left the jews alone was they were awake and partying, and not laying down where they could get suffocated. They went on to claim that the eldest sprogs of the egyptians [and the animals] croaked it because they were ‘honored’ and slept on low beds in the houses, and the other poor slobs of less honored station slept on rooftops, on wagons and so forth. Squeeze me? So, the eldest calf slept snugged in with eldest sprog, and all the other animals slept on the roof with the rest of the schlubs? Where was Dad, sleeping on the roof with the scummy second son and assorted worthless daughters?
Not that I particularly believe in the whole exodus/plague thing personally, but lets get real. Not a lot has changed lifestyle wise in egypt for the poor, and when it is hot, everybody sleeps on the roof to get the breeze. Animals all stay together, so if one would have been gassed, all of them would have been gassed.
In all, : :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:
Harold Ford, Jr.'s ad, running for senator says in effect that soy beans will solve the energy crisis.
Pure soy bean oil or call it pure bs. Plant soy beans coast to coast and it won’t supply but a few percent of the nation’s oil needs.
I hope the voters in his district are smarter than he is!