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Torah: 24% done. We're in the story of Noah and the Flood now, and here follow some ramblings on the subject.
I was thinking about global warming. If we go and melt the ice caps, the water's jolly well going to cover rather a lot of the mountains.
If one was very sweetly naiive, one could deny this; didn't God promise never to flood the earth again? But God didn't promise to stop us doing it ourselves, and that's just what we're doing, oh dear.
Noah, upon being warned that a flood was going to drown everything that wasn't on the ark, spent his time getting on with building the ark. This is one reason we say that Noah was a righteous man in his generation - he was only the best of a bad bunch, he didn't spend time doing a massive humanitarian relief aid thing (= arguing with God) like Abraham did. (One imagines the ark as being rather like a floating Smithsonian Zoo, with little ecosystems all over the place.) Anyway, look at us, we're flooding the earth, and we're not building an ark, are we, oh no, but we're not really doing anything much about preventing it happening either. Arguing with God would probably be easier than arguing with the leaders of the power-hungry nations, really.
Which led me to think: when the sea levels rise, high ground is going to be at a premium (just look at New Orleans), and it's going to be the rich people with the guns who get the land. One wonders what Noah saw from the ark. Were the rich people withguns armies clustering together on the hilltops fighting for space? Did any of them swim out to the ark? Did Noah have to beat them off? (I suppose if he housed all the fierce things with big teeth on the deck, they'd do it for him)
Well, anyway, it should be interesting. You can use this flood simulator to see whether your house is going to be submerged. Enjoy!
I was thinking about global warming. If we go and melt the ice caps, the water's jolly well going to cover rather a lot of the mountains.
If one was very sweetly naiive, one could deny this; didn't God promise never to flood the earth again? But God didn't promise to stop us doing it ourselves, and that's just what we're doing, oh dear.
Noah, upon being warned that a flood was going to drown everything that wasn't on the ark, spent his time getting on with building the ark. This is one reason we say that Noah was a righteous man in his generation - he was only the best of a bad bunch, he didn't spend time doing a massive humanitarian relief aid thing (= arguing with God) like Abraham did. (One imagines the ark as being rather like a floating Smithsonian Zoo, with little ecosystems all over the place.) Anyway, look at us, we're flooding the earth, and we're not building an ark, are we, oh no, but we're not really doing anything much about preventing it happening either. Arguing with God would probably be easier than arguing with the leaders of the power-hungry nations, really.
Which led me to think: when the sea levels rise, high ground is going to be at a premium (just look at New Orleans), and it's going to be the rich people with the guns who get the land. One wonders what Noah saw from the ark. Were the rich people with
Well, anyway, it should be interesting. You can use this flood simulator to see whether your house is going to be submerged. Enjoy!