James Thomas Rook Jr.

In post WWII Germany the U.S. Army commanders MADE the German townspeople excavate the mass graves of Nazi Victims, many of which had not fully decomposed, and drag them with their bare hands to areas for identification for grave registration.

Along with really pulling the Nazi's and Imperial Japan's teeth, and completely destroying both systems ... that worked ... so far.

We are now into a period of time that historical commentators are calling "The Long Peace" ... as historically there is now more "Peace on Earth" than there has ever been in the history of Civilization ... and has been since the end of World War II.

That war was over in 1945 ... that was 73 years ago ... and by comparison there was nothing like it before, and has been nothing like it since .... a truly global war waged around the world.

... but then again, I am just a Barbarian.

Amen!

.... she's the one in the bottom left ... looks a LOT like Bill Gates.

One day someone will want to do a scholarly dissertation on your life, for their Doctoral Thesis, and search the electronic media sites for your history, and nothing will be there.

What to do?   What to Do?

They will probably make something up that cannot be contested, like the time you got a mail-order bride (or groom as the case may be), from some 5th world country, and she (or he) was delivered by ground shipping in a large cardboard box, and after hosing out the box, you both lived there happily-ever-after, on the verge of starvation until the other died ... then you ate B.L.Ts for two weeks, before you slowly, and painfully, died of trichinosis !!

I would not get on that thing for the first three years of operation.

Perhaps the United Nations could influence the United States Army to supply dehydrated water for these poor souls.

Each sealed  plastic bucket has enough powder to make a gallon of pure fresh, crystal clear water.  You just tear off the bucket's plastic seal, and add a gallon of fresh milk.

Seriously though .... If I knew where I lived would be out of water in about a month ...I would go somewhere else where there WAS water.

Those who stare at trees for a solution do not do well.

Adapt and Improvise!

11 hours ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

@James Thomas Rook Jr. If you don't care about Child Abuse, why don't you just say so ? 

WOW!    It's amazing what some people get out of an obvious shaggy dog story !

I felt sorry for a man who had no shoes ...

... until I met a man with no sense of humor, and who misunderstood EVERYTHING!

9 hours ago, Noble Berean said:

Honestly, if we start reasoning that God created pre-Adam humans, wouldn't it make more sense to throw out the whole book as inspired by God? Because at that point we have strayed so far from the Bible's narrative.

The point is (sigh....) that while anthropologists called them "humans" (Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens, etc. ...) If God only considered pre-Adamic humanoid animals  .. then they would be considered by God as "pre-humans" and not as humans .... the first humans having a capacity for true spirituality .... and the first humans to have the opportunity to live forever, and never die, STARTED with Adam and Eve.

We have apes and chimpanzees closely approximating humanoids ... and although they can learn about 300 words and sign language in complete sentences ... they are not humans, and my best guess have no theocratic potential.

It's like having a junk yard full of used cars that never had street legal registration documents ... yes... they are fully functional cars... but without documentation ... they are not allowed the privileges of fully documented and licensed cars.

You cannot with any semblance of intellectual integrity ignore thousands of TONS of hard evidence of prehistoric hominids ... so how does it all fit in?

I have given this years of thought, and this is what I came up with.

To say that a half million years (or whatever the number really is...) of humanoid fossils do not exist is as intellectually dishonest as saying with a straight face that Dinosaurs never existed.

With my concept of a created "Homo Theocraticus" (Adam and Eve), you can have your cake, and eat it too, without being intellectually dishonest!

It is only a theory, but it fits BOTH the other two.

There is a LOT more, but you get the basic idea.

If you consider the fossil record, which besides this specific instance, consists of thousands of TONS of hard evidence that only an agenda driven person would ignore ... and the emergence of "Homo Theocraticus" about 6,000 years ago by direct creation of Jehovah God, it becomes VERY clear who Cain "married" and had children with after he was judged by God for killing his brother, Able.

The Earth had been filled with pre-direct-creation human prototypes before Adam and Eve were created .... by various gene pool groups.

I do not have Polaroids ... but this theory solves ALL the problems with reconciling the Bible record, with literally TONS of hard evidence that cannot be ignored .... except by the determined ignorant.

As Kermit the Frog says "It's not easy being green .."

In my considered opinion, those that lose a war should be MADE responsible for clearing the mine fields.

In post WWII Germany the U.S. Army commanders MADE the German townspeople excavate the mass graves of Nazi Victims, many of which had not fully decomposed, and drag them with their bare hands to areas for identification for grave registration.

I usewd to do that ... before I found out about Asthma Rescue Inhalers devices.

.... Luke.

I once raced Paul Newman from the stoplight at the Malibu pier, to Ventura County on Pacific Coast Highway, but that is another story.

That's ONLY 10.529 people a year!

And strictly speaking, pedestrians are not really participants.

Even so, that is only 0.0288 people per day, which is ONE person per 34.6648 days.

So, more or less .... one person is killed on average about every month street racing in a City and County the size of Los Angeles, and in reality is one giant city.

I am amazed it is such a LOW number.

 

The population averages somewhere around 4 million for Los Angeles County, so in a month's time only 0.000025% of the population gets killed in car races.

That is by inspection less than your normal everyday car accidents.

By the way ... if memory serves, this I believe is the FIRST time Harrison Ford was in a movie.

 

Green manikins have special training to stay out of your peripheral vision ... always in your "blind spot".

There are six in the room now , behind you.

Is this a purified BLOOD FRACTION?

From Wikipedia:

History

In 1905, Paul Carnot proposed the idea that a hormone regulates the production of red blood cells. After conducting experiments on rabbits subject to bloodletting, Carnot and his graduate student Clotilde-Camille Deflandre ^[20] attributed an increase in red blood cells in rabbit subjects to a hemotropic factor called hemopoietin. Eva Bonsdorff and Eeva Jalavisto called the hemopoietic substance 'erythropoietin'. K.R. Reissman and Allan J. Erslev demonstrated that a certain substance, circulated in the blood, is able to stimulate red blood cell production and increase hematocrit. This substance was purified and confirmed as erythropoietin.^[16][21]

Who knows which man will win which world?

... anyone with teeth was a sissy!

35 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

You know, as much as I think James is the plague personified, every once in a while he offers up an absolutely precious vignette of life.

Yeah .... I grew up before vaccinations, which we did ourselves  with muddy sharp sticks, and even so, I got every "childhood disease" known to man.  The Health Department put a QUARANTINE poster on the front door, so I would barefoot at the age of eight, sneak out the back window to the top of an oil tank , and drop to the ground into piles of broken Coca-Cola bottles, the impact spreading disease and vermin that fell off, leaving a trail of blood to the community playground, where we would swing cats in buckets in our version of "horse shoes", which is a whole other subject.

The concept of child abuse was totally unknown.

... after Dad got black lung disease, we rented some bottom land near the river, and with a two handled post-hole digger, supplied Home Depot with post holes for a few years ... but after a particularly violent thunderstorm, a river of mud wiped out our home, and the entire stockpile of post-holes we had dug.

We  considered it a mixed blessing, for at least we had mud pies to eat.

Child abuse is sometimes a cultural construct.

My family grew up in the Appalachian coal mining areas of West Virginia.

I remember when I was a toddler, still in diapers, my Father made me go into  the horizontal coal veins too small for him to get into ... and holding a candle, I had use a plastic spork to dig coal, to bring lumps of coal carried in my diaper, back to the main shaft.

Those were good times ... me and dad, a half mile below the surface, working together, filling up rope attached wicker baskets which my mom would pull to the surface by hand.

We would trade a bushel of coal for acorns to feed our pet pig, who only had three legs.

Covered in coal dust, we would sit there in the dark, lit by my single candle, and share our B.L.T. sandwich.

Good Times!

I remember the Quadium Bomb from the 1955 Book, "The Mouse that Roared".

...also known as the "Q-Bomb".

I remember after Windows 7 came out, and before Windows 10 came out that Bill Gates was going to announce plans for Microsoft  to build a nuclear powered car, that would get 23,000 miles on a small, replaceable U235 based fission reactor about the size of a football, but there were concerns that every other product Microsoft put out, turned out to be a bomb.

... and sure enough, out came Windows 10.

( ... merely a lame attempt at a joke ... I mean ... about the car ..... )

3 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

There was a study in the Sun not long ago .....

...probably due to the 11 year cycle of solar flares and sunspots.

I never did trust those Solarians ....

Probably Mr. Google.