Sales will sky rocket, and he'll have you to thank! ;)

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He reminds me of the editor for the first magazine I ever wrote for, save for the fact that Pinkowski knows how to draw. (This didn't stop my editor: he was one of a long legacy of science fiction magazine editors who decided to start their own magazines because nobody in their right minds would buy their stories or their art.) He also has a sense of humor, which is much more than can be said for my ex-editor.

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Yeah, drat it, and he's cute, too. Seriously cute in the 1980s, but still not bad at all right now. If he wouldn't try to save my soul I'd probably love to talk with him too.

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And it looks like he was somehow aquainted with Jerry Orbach! I have to admit, the guy is growing on me.

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I was starting to wonder if I was crazy...though quite frankly, I can't imagine Lenny arguing this theory.

"Nobody puts Babysaurus in the corner...EXCEPT GOD."

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the location of the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah.

I want to know what they did in Gomorrah that was so bad. We know all about the sodomy they invented in Sodom. Many of us are big fans, and would be paying them huge royalty fees if God hadn't smote them before they had a chance to patent sodomy.

But what did they do in Gomorrah? Gomorry? Is it as much fun as sodomy? Inquiring minds want to know!

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Actually, all five cities were wicked and inhospitable. Lot choosing to live in one was a sure sign of how far he'd slipped from Abraham.

So, God got rid of all the cities so Abraham and his family could live without those pesky rapist types.

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The abuse of hospitality was even more of a transgression in that place and time than it is in this day. Most people cringe at the suggestion that Lot was prepared to give the men of Sodom his "two daughters that have not known man" (Gen 19:8), but even that was more acceptable than having guest-right violated.

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So, if you have guests who want sodomy, you're an evil sinner if you give it to them, and inhospitable if you don't. Either way, your city gets smote.

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I'm declaring my brain broken :) I'm not sure which did it, though: The paradox, or your icon.

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They were inhospitable.

Don't laugh. It's true. The angels went down to them and tried to find a place to stay, and only Lot would let them in; and then the men of the town tried to get Lot to let them gang-rape the visitors. So God destroyed the towns. It's later moralists who said it was about the homosexual sex.

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Don't forget the part about Lot offering the mob his virgin daughters.

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You know what's the really sad part about that? Later, Lot is the one who they "give it up" to. Sort of makes you wonder how many "True Christians(tm)" actually read the Bible.

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Among other things, midrash says that each man marked his coins and when a beggar would come through town, they'd give him coins, but nobody would sell him food or let him leave the city. So the poor beggar would starve and die, and they'd all go and collect their coins.

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I'm always delighted to find someone familiar with midrash.

And it's true that the big offense they committed was being inhospitable.

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Oh, I love traditional midrash. I've been collecting it in my head for years. I'm not so keen on most modern midrashim, but occasionally I stumble across something I really like.

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Pardon my ignorance, but what's the midrash?

Sorry if this doubleposts...LJ hiccuped my last one.

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It's a traditional explanation of a Biblical verse, based on reading into the wording.

JewFAQ's definition says that Midrashim "are basically stories expanding on incidents in the Bible to derive principles or Jewish law or to teach moral lessons. For example, there is a midrash about why Moses wasn't a good speaker (he put coals in his mouth as a child basically as a way of proving that he wasn't greedy), and another one about Abram discovering monotheism and rejecting his father's idolatry (that's a nifty one: basically, he smashes up all his father's idols except the big one, then blames the mess on the big one, as a way of showing his father that the idols don't really have any power). Some of them fill in gaps in the narrative. For example, in Gen. 22:2, why does G-d say, "thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac." Wouldn't the name alone be enough? One story says that the narrative is skipping out Abraham's responses. "Take thy son." "Which one?" "Thine only son." "But I have two!" "Whom thou lovest." "I love them both!" "Even Isaac." (I'm not sure this is a traditional one -- I got it from a questionable source -- but I like it)."

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Thanks for clearing that up for me. I really appreciate it. :)

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Sure! No problem.

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where do you think "gomorrhea" came from???

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I can't stop watching the young lady in your icon. Completely mesmerized. Blame the testosterone.

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Is anyone else seriously disturbed by that second cover for Christan SF? With Jesus and a little baby surrounded by aliens? Gah. That really streached my worldview.

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The little girl he's holding also looks like some sort of alien/human lovechild. Red and yellow, black and white, and...tentacled.

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ha!

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he admires carl sagan in the same way that charles manson admired the beatles and "helter skelter."

And now sagan, lennon, harrison are all dead while manson and this guy live on.

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We used to get folks like this with websites like this over on the Usenet group, sci.archeaology. Yes, I still remember the whole Noah's Ark and David Rohl hype of circa ten years ago. Definitely religious events and "discoveries" that now reside in the "Where Are They Now?" file.

When all else fails...manipulate the data.

The day guys like this can keep up to the standards in the same way that all other archeaological, egyptological etc. professionals have to do, then we will actually be ready for the Second Coming.

"Just remember; as professional wrestling is to us...so are we to God."- Unknown.

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I remember watching The Power of Ten years ago in my Seventh Grade science class, but I had no idea it had anything to do with Carl Sagan. It's like the past calling out to me.

The things you learn every day.

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I have got to get the recipe for those Sulphur Balls. Sounds way better than salty chocolate balls.

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HAHAHAHAHA!

Ron Wyatt -- another wacky SDA. No, seriously -- though most of the perfectly nice, intelligent Adventists I know roll their eyes whenever his name comes up. Actually, an ex of mine had parents who bought wholesale into Ron's wackiness ... even though ELLEN WHITE says that Sodom and Gomorrah are underneath the Dead Sea (which is why the water is the way it is. Um. Somehow.).

Wyatt was a running joke in my Old Testament History class (in college). I loved my professor. He was a sharp, intelligent, funny man ... who thought Ron Wyatt needed to be set on fire.

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Pinkoski seems to be in love with wyat. I half expect to see a comment on his site along the lines of "You've never read (insert manuscript) until you've read the original wyat version"

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Mmmm...Carl Sagan.

It's almost okay...if "Billions and Billions" is his favorite Sagan book.

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All those dinos attacked the arch only to be killed by angels?
Right. It would make a great film plot.

Only question: Why should flying dinos drown in the flood?

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Maybe the rain beat on their wings so hard, they just got tired eventually.

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Oh, flying dinosaurs survived. One of them brought Noah the olive branch...

...pterosaurs, on the other hand, did not survive the angelic onslaught.

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How about all those AQUATIC dinosaurs? Plesiosaurus, Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, um...there's more that I forgot.

As if I recall correctly, it actually says somewhere in the Bible that the aquatic critters did OK. :)

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The point that I was making was that aside from birds, if you count them, there were no flying dinosaurs. Neither were there aquatic dinosaurs. Pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and icthyosaurs were not dinosaurs. They were all however, archosaurs.

But then again, what does taxonomy have to do with creationism! Nothing!

Wacky flood!

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Nessie... Duh. U all R SO dum! U don't no anything. I new about this stuff 4ever.

*feels so dirty*

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that is the best site on the internet. ever.

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