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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 22, 2021 22:21:09 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 22, 2021 22:41:48 GMT
One of Joe's ancestors pissed off the Almighty.  |
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 22, 2021 23:32:36 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 23, 2021 1:32:18 GMT
The reported date of about 1700 BC (probably from carbon) is within spitting distance of the following. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is believed to have taken place in about 1890 B.C. according to the Biblical Timeline at which time Lot was already a married man with grown daughters. Bishop Ussher in the 17th century dated Abraham’s call as taking place in 1921 BC. Lot was the son of Abraham’s brother Haran who had died while the family still lived in Ur according to Genesis 11 v 27,28. It was a family of close and complicated relationships as Abraham was married to his own half-sister. |
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 23, 2021 20:44:09 GMT
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Post by code on Nov 27, 2021 18:41:28 GMT
‘I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or my grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantative content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.’ www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark/dp/0345409469 |
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Post by nonentropic on Nov 27, 2021 19:03:01 GMT
Sig the Emian was warmer than now so maybe Bikini's
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Post by wheels59 on Nov 27, 2021 19:37:50 GMT
Code that's pretty much the UK now :-(
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 27, 2021 20:09:09 GMT
Code that's pretty much the UK now :-( My condolences.  We in Missouri are not going to partake. |
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Post by blustnmtn on Dec 11, 2021 12:23:04 GMT
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Post by blustnmtn on Dec 30, 2021 16:10:17 GMT
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Post by code on Dec 30, 2021 17:26:31 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 30, 2021 20:01:20 GMT
I'll have to get that one. And I'll raise you this one. In Deadly Earnest: The History of the First Missouri Brigade, Csa by Phil Gottschalk (Author)  |
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Post by blustnmtn on Dec 30, 2021 22:49:04 GMT
I'll have to get that one. And I'll raise you this one. In Deadly Earnest: The History of the First Missouri Brigade, Csa by Phil Gottschalk (Author) I’m 3/4s through and I feel I was a bit insensitive in my recommendation Mo’Boy. It’s from a totally Union perspective. Gripping though. |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 31, 2021 3:18:36 GMT
I'll have to get that one. And I'll raise you this one. In Deadly Earnest: The History of the First Missouri Brigade, Csa by Phil Gottschalk (Author) I’m 3/4s through and I feel I was a bit insensitive in my recommendation Mo’Boy. It’s from a totally Union perspective. Gripping though. That's alright Blu. I have read several similar. I once found (and now can't) a document that detailed the exhumation of Union dead at Shiloh when they were being reburied in the new National Cemetery in 1866. Very detailed. Every item found with every body and observations. There were at least two female bodies found in the unit-specific trench graves. I had three distant relatives that fought at Shiloh (1 Union, 2 Confederate). All three died there. The two Confederates are likely buried somewhere in the mass burial trenches on the battle field. The Union relative is buried in the National Cemetery. I couldn't initially find him when I visited and perused the burials list. Finally found him. They misspelled his last name ... both on the register and on his stone. Brings to mind General Sherman's quote: "I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers". I got the Park staff to make a note on the register indicating his real surname. They probably won't change the stone. |
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We in Missouri are not going to partake.