I'm a normal person who happens to be an optimistic cynical realist. Yeah, I know, oxy-moron.
I've finally bored myself with doing nothing. I don't have much to show for the last 5 years except an apartment full of stuff that I own, mostly; just a small amount of debt left. It's time to open the door and end an 18-year run of my couch potato status. Apparently I've been a "mouse potato" for 12 years...it's time to put an end to that, too.
I've done a great deal of research into the history of the Bible, and trying to find out what really happened. I haven't done much in the last 10 years, but there are some things that I do know didn't happen the way everyone believes.
I have a friend who believes Noah built the ark in the Mediterranean Basin. He thinks there was a huge dam at the Strait of Gibraltar, and a very large storm came and filled it up, flooding the "world" and breaking the dam. At the time, the world to them WAS the Mediterranean Basin, and that tiny ark (it was smaller than modern day Aircraft Carriers) wasn't big enough to house EVERY living creature that existed at the time. Even if it WERE true, there is no way all the different insects, dogs and cats we have today were on that ark. Christians and Jews EVERYWHERE would have to give way to the theory of Evolution if they believe that the ENTIRE EARTH were actually flooded. Oh yeah what's with all the houses from 2000 years ago only having a ceiling of 4-6 feet? It's no wonder Goliath, at 9 feet, was a giant. Evolution, maybe. I'm not saying we were hunched over monkeys, but we definitely used to be shorter. Heck, even Egyptian hieroglyphics depict upright humans, and they were drawn around 4000+ years ago.
"If faith is blindly placed in something that you KNOW isn't real, then what is it worth?" --I don't know why I put that in quotes, but you can say it came from me.
