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July 05, 2003July 5, 2003 HORSEFEATHERS FORCED TO RETHINK EXISTENCE OF GOD Maybe all that wintry weather in June was a clue. Or maybe we should not have dismissed what happened to Becky Nyang on the Greek holiday island of Corfu a couple of weeks ago. Some told her it was a miracle, but most people said it was a million-to-one shot and could never happen a again. There she was on holiday from a job at Heathrow working for Virgin Atlantic and having a ball when a bolt of lightning zeroed in on the lip and tongue piercings of the pretty service agent. “When it hit me all I could see was lightning. It was a bright blue and I couldn’t see anything else.” According to her hometown newspaper in Berkshire Co. she was temporarily blinded and unable to speak (We should hope so as this experience seems to us something worth thinking about.) She suffered burns to her mouth where the lightning hit the two metal piercings. “Two weeks later Becky, of Argyle Road, still finds sleeping difficult and is getting fed up with people joking about the holiday recharging her batteries.” It happened at the First Baptist Church in a quiet little town called Forest, Ohio. According to the Associated Press, a member of the church, Ronnie Cheney, said that the congregation was listening intently to a guest evangelist who was preaching repentance and asked for a sign from God. At that moment a bolt of lightning struck the church steeple, zapped through the microphone, blew out the system and enveloped the preacher. “Amesome, just awesome!” Cheney said The preacher, who was not injured, tried to resume the service but then realized that God was not to be dismissed lightly when he saw the church was on fire. Damage to the church was estimated at $20,000. Cheap at twice the price, O’ ye of little faith, Horsefeathers says.
Posted at 01:54 PM by
 
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Superstition and ignorance of the basic laws of thermodynamics abounds...where is Ben Franklin when we need him?
I know it is very difficult to be indulgent of such ignorance but let us be kind...some of my best friends (and at least of few of my ancestors) were evangelical Christians and for the most part Christianity was a civilizing influence in their lives.
Their greatest problem, beside excessive emotionalism, was being people of one book whose cultural and historical background they barely understood.
Remember, however, that such people are among Israel's strongest allies and they freely send their sons and daughters to fight for America on air, land and sea.
So, even though it is difficult at times (my son and I had difficulty restraining our laughter) we must indulge them and hope that, with time, they find enlightenment. They may be benighted at times, they may have their limitations but they shoot straight and are on our side! I know, I know, they are bores and they are constantly trying to save my soul too but as I often say, "my soul is my business and the soul of the Jews, a godly people, is theirs. I suggest that you cultivate your own garden and leave me to rest in the shade of my own palms listening to my own tunes. And may the God of Abraham bless you!" Such people can be strategic allies, although I know from a Jewish perspective charismatic Goyim are always worrisome but 'twas ever thus. All we can do is cultivate their friendship and keep them on the right side.
MORE IGNORANCE BELOW (with a thread of racialism and hatred):
http://www.hispanicvista.com/html3/063003cc.htm
Incredible! but true!!!
Posted by: Ricardo Munro on July 5, 2003 02:23 PM"Latino” denies us our true Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) identity and heritage."
Olin Tezcatlipoca
"There's nothing worse than a spouting non-prrroducer who no doot lives off his Ma or a rrreasonable fascimile thereof." (Auld Pop)
Here's one of the incipient ethnic separatists/nationalists that anti-227 pro bilingual activists said "didn't exist". Victor Davis Hansen knows they exist. Their zealous appeal to resent and racialism is beyond anything I have ever read in Irish nationalist literature and could have been written by Adolf Hitler (if Hitler were "Nican Tlaca"). George Orwell could have added him to his essay NOTES ON NATIONALISM.
CHARACTERISTICS of Nationalism (Political Ideologies):
OBSESSION: "Nomeclature plays a very important part in nationalist thought" (Orwell: see RAVITCH's LANGUAGE POLICE)
INDEFFERENCE TO REALITY:"Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to politcal predilection." (Orwell)
"Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered." (Orwell)
" Know fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes..."(Orwell)
"Moreover, although endlessly brooding on power, on victory, defeat, revenge, the nationalist is often somewhat uninterested in what happens in the real world. What he wants is to fell that his own unit is getting the better of some other unit...some nationalists are not far from schizophrenia, living quite happily amid dreams of power and conquest that have no connection with the physical world".(Orwell)
"The world is tormented by innumerable delusions and hatred which cut across one another in an extremely complex way, and some of the MOST SINISTER OF THEM HAVE NOT YET EVEN IMPINGED ON THE EUROPEAN CONSCIOUSNESS." (Orwell) {EMPHASIS Mine; this was written after the collapse of the 3rd Reich in 1945}.
"There's only one thing I can say to such a mon.
Number one: learn to get over things and get along wi' people.
Number two Learrrn a trrrade and get a job! That means gettin' up off your duff in the mornin' and hustlin' a wee bit! There's nothing worse than a spouting non-prrroducer who no doot lives off his Ma or a rrreasonable fascimile thereof.
What is a' boils doon tae is that they would love to have the power to make others work for them or if they cood{could} they wad steal from someone else! They would do anything- except work, get along wi' people and produce.
Awa' wi' em! May they a' gae doon in a twister to Auld Nick's sister! The warrld wad be a happier place. Och, Aye! "S trrruth! " (Auld Pop}
Having just seen the Red Sox inflict 2 crushing defeats on the Yankees I was reminded of the following story as proof that if God exists He is not fond of Boston Red Sox fans, who remain convinced that their recent success is just a tease:
In 2035, Boston Red Sox manager Grady Little arrives at the pearly gates and is ushered in. He is shown to his new home, down a back road, actually a small shack with running water but no amenities. From his window he sees a huge mansion on a hill, with a swimming pool, tennis court, gorgeous women and handsome men sipping martinis, and a huge Yankee flag flying atop the roof. He turns to St. Peter and says: "I don't want to complain, I'm happy I got into heaven, but why does Joe Torre get such a fabulous spread while I get a hovel? St. Peter replies: What makes you think that's Joe Torre's house? It's God's.
Posted by: Stephen on July 5, 2003 05:54 PMYale, maybe the explosion that rocked a mosque in Iraq where they were teaching bomb-making, was just another example of a supreme being acting in mysterious ways.
Posted by: RUTH KING on July 6, 2003 08:28 AM... two lightning bolts?
That would cause me to rethink the existence of Zeus maybe. That also makes it particularly appropriate that the first incident was in Greece.
Posted by: IB Bill on July 7, 2003 01:29 PMHOw did the youth get sold on the idea of tongue piercings? I like the lightening hit, though. It went beyond the things I'd even worry about. To say nothing of how awful it must feel to have these doodads stuck near your throat.
CAN YOU CONVINCE PEOPLE OF ANYTHING? ISN'T IT POSSIBLE THIS ISN"T A PROOF OF GOD STORY, BUT ONE OF OUTCOMES WHEN FOLLOWING FASHIONABLE DICTATES?
Posted by: Carol Herman on July 8, 2003 05:21 AM