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Postby Stanley Anderson » November 6th, 2005, 3:48 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby The Bigsleep J » November 7th, 2005, 5:19 am

Reminds me of a story I once heard about an island of pumice (floating volcanic rocks sometimes used to clean feat) that formed after the eruption of Krakatoa - people tried to built on it but didn't realize it was a floating island and almost drifted away after a storm.
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Postby Steve » November 7th, 2005, 12:27 pm

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Postby Sarah N. » November 11th, 2005, 11:27 pm

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Postby Kanakaberaka » November 13th, 2005, 1:28 pm

so it goes...
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Postby Kanakaberaka » November 13th, 2005, 1:39 pm

so it goes...
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Postby hana » November 27th, 2005, 4:14 am

That is such an incredible article! Thanks for posting it! Jonathan and I got a good laugh.

It sounded so much like Stanley B.S. that I thought until the end that it could be another one of his inventions.
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Postby Messenger_of_Eden » December 29th, 2005, 7:53 am

"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."--St. Augustine of Hippo
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Postby Kanakaberaka » December 29th, 2005, 9:33 am

Hello Messenger;
Would you be familiar with a company called "Cotswold Collectables" by any chance? They are located on Whidbey Island. They sell G.I. Joe reproductions called the "Elite Brigade" such as the one I am presently using as my avatar.
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Postby Messenger_of_Eden » December 29th, 2005, 6:27 pm

:shocked: NO!!! Never heard of them, but now I shall have to look them up :grin: Believe it or not I LOVED GI joe as a kid. It was a secret thing, my mom did not approve of girls playing with GI Joe :blush:
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Postby Messenger_of_Eden » February 20th, 2006, 6:52 pm

I recently went to a Creationist Scientist's lecture in town--Dr. Kurt Wise--and he revealed one of the latest theories (and he gave us evidence that may support the theory) about the origins of the oil (and why it is indeed an exhaustible supply).

Now of course it is all conjecture at this point, and he freely admitted that, but it was very fun to be allowed into the thought processes of the elite Creationists for a moment.

He said that the original land-mass that God created (and that Genesis testifies was all drawn into one place) may have had massive reefs surrounding it, and out, beyond the reefs, floating vegetation mats--great islands really--of almost subcontinental size , of graduating thickness, even with trees atop the thickest parts. There is ample fossil evidence for the existence of such floating mats. A few small versions even exist in the world today. These floating islands would have supported (both above and below) countless creatures of bizarre and wonderful form, many of which we have evidence in the fossil record today.

When the Flood cataclysm came, these floating islands would have very quickly succumbed to the tidal disruption and would have been forced to the bottom of the ocean, and there by the processes inherent in the death and trauma of the Flood, been turned into the vast reservoirs of what we now know as oil. I can't remember the technical process that he described that turned the mats into the oil. I was too busy reeling in delight, thinking of Perelandra and the "Fixed Land" and the "Floating Land".

Just a very fun speculation, one which frequenters of THIS forum will appreciate as much as I do :cool:
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