FLAT or ROUND Earth?

[JohnEmmett]

It was a very big boat.

Taoist fiction is superior

At first you buy into it

A week later you’re like oh… fiction

 

[AV1611VET]

Wait, Nimrod is a person,* not an insulting term for an idiot?

I'll bet you think a Nebuchadnezzar is just a very large wine bottle; or a Laodicean is someone who doesn't like to discuss religion or politics; or a Jeremiad is just a list of woes, don't you?

 

[Hans Blaster]

Taoist fiction is superior

At first you buy into it

A week later you’re like oh… fiction

I think AV was alluding to his time in the US Navy and what was probably an encounter with a typhoon while at sea. (To give you a fiction angle, I am reminded of the big action climax in "The Caine Mutiny" where the USS Caine barely survives a typhoon.)

 

[Hans Blaster]

I'll bet you think a Nebuchadnezzar is just a very large wine bottle; or a Laodicean is someone who doesn't like to discuss religion or politics; or a Jeremiad is just a list of woes, don't you?

Of course not. Nebuchadnezzar, is a well known king of Babylon (or rather several of them) with his name on buildings and tablets. Not sure why I'd associate it with wine. Never heard of a Laodicean, nor seen Jeremiad capitalized.

 

[AV1611VET]

It was a very big boat.

The Amalekites, the elite desert fighting tribe, probably took everything that wasn't taken into the Promised Land.

Go park your car in a back alley in New York and leave your keys in it.

Come back tomorrow and see if you can it.

 

[AV1611VET]

Taoist fiction is superior.

Truth is stranger than fiction, isn't it?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Truth is stranger than fiction, isn't it?

https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Tao

 

[AV1611VET]

I think AV was alluding to his time in the US Navy and what was probably an encounter with a typhoon while at sea. (To give you a fiction angle, I am reminded of the big action climax in "The Caine Mutiny" where the USS Caine barely survives a typhoon.)

QV please:

Never set foot on a ship.

Worked with the AUTODIN network on NavCOMMSTA, Guam.

 

[AV1611VET]

Of course not. Nebuchadnezzar, is a well known king of Babylon (or rather several of them) with his name on buildings and tablets. Not sure why I'd associate it with wine. Never heard of a Laodicean, nor seen Jeremiad capitalized.

You're a true acadamian and a credit to the scholastic world today, in my opinion.

 

[AV1611VET]

https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Tao

Just wondering: do you subscribe to the Threefold Law of Return?

 

[Estrid]

Near death experiencers have

If you can believe " flood" you can easily believe that
"near" means " after" and hallucinations are reality.


In a way it seems as if those interested in "ultimate
truth" and the basic nature of reality would not
flock to pseudoscience, hearsay, purveyors
of fakersy like AIG, intellectual dishonesty,
conspiracy theory, and just generally be so gullible
for whatever their itchin' ears want to hear.

There are few who are not like that, but very few.

Which nimrod and which empire are you talking about?

Must you ask

 

[AV1611VET]

Must you ask.

Yes, he must.

Unfortunately.

 

[JohnEmmett]

just generally be so gullible

Paranoia…

 

[JohnEmmett]

Just wondering: do you subscribe to the Threefold Law of Return?

Basically yes, Karma

 

[AV1611VET]

Basically yes, Karma

Okay, thanks.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Okay, thanks.

Maybe the bible is partly fiction


But life is fiction I would say

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

But life is fiction I would say

There may be more truth to that than most realize.
Our interpretation of events, our assumptions about other people and the world itself.
Our ascribing of motives and attitudes, etc.

 

[Hans Blaster]

You're a true acadamian and a credit to the scholastic world today, in my opinion.

None of these have a thing to do with my "academic" (rather scientific) work.

 

[SeventhFisherofMen]

MOD HAT ON

Did a slight thread clean, please remember to be courteous to each other. I know it's not always easy but we must try.
MOD HAT OFF​

 

[Angeldove97]

We had a maid from Philippines . The country is like 90 percent catholic.

Talking to her, she wondered how it's
night in NYC and day here.

Turned out she did not know the earth
is round, like an orange. She is far from stupid.

Later reported after a trip home that
her mom and dad did not believe,her
when she she told them.

Cringe