lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

When the Earth has her revenge, humans will become extinct. The very last human, dying, crawls to a poisoned pool of water. Seeing their reflection and believing it to be another person says " sup! " and dies.

4Him Loc: VA

It won't be the earth's revenge, but our Creator God and He makes it clear what happens when hearts turn away and worship other idols. Our nation, once so blessed as to become a world power, now has taken the credit and pride for all we are, pushing away and removing God as our source of all hope. What is coming at us is what we brought on ourselves by voting in to office someone who has never had anything but the agenda of his puppeteers. Much danger and unprecedented tragedy on the way. It isn't what we know, but who we know that will decide where we go; Jesus Christ... The reason for the season and our only hope. Thanks for letting me share. Merry Christmas to all.

Mom8052 Loc: Lost in the mountains of New Mexico

:thumbup: :thumbup: Amen. Well put. May your Christmas be filled with hope and Love; in Jesus Christ I pray.

4Him Loc: VA

Thank you sister! May you have a blessed Christmas as well.

Homestead

I'm just wondering what transgression the Dinosaurs did that justified their extinction.
They were here for some two hundred sixty million years and even that didn't give them the right to exist forever.

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

I don't recall the title of the book, but I read several years ago that 97% of all species that ever existed are now extinct. (If true, the dinosaurs must not have been alone in their transgressions!) This is one reason why I don't especially care if polar bears or spotted owls go extinct. Something else will replace them in the food chain.

rumitoid

"The basic premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality, which in turn acts as the emotional and intellectual response to our basic survival mechanism. Becker argues that a basic duality in human life exists between the physical world of objects and a symbolic world of human meaning. Thus, since humanity has a dualistic nature consisting of a physical self and a symbolic self, we are able to transcend the dilemma of mortality through heroism, a concept involving our symbolic halves. By embarking on what Becker refers to as an "immortality project" (or causa sui), in which a person creates or becomes part of something which they feel will last forever, the person feels they have "become" heroic and, henceforth, part of something eternal; something that will never die, compared to their physical body that will one day die. This, in turn, gives the person the feeling that their life has meaning; a purpose; significance in the grand scheme of things."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

Read this book back in '91 for a class I was taking, assigned to refute it and show that meaning is not what we give to something but what is there and we discover it. Yet, just as there are few Einsteins that come along, so, too, those who the depth perception to find this true meaning.

marke

Wow, a little deep there aren't we? Are you refering to a belief in God or just society in general?

rhomin57 Loc: Far Northern CA.

Noah's Ark couldn't support the weight of Dinosaurs, and God did not want T-Rex running around eating the newly populated peoples of the Earth. Would if one would have ate Abraham? They drowned in the Flood, were sifted in the currents all around the world for us to find their bones today. God says he blew a wind to get rid of the waters off the Earth, and that was the beginning of the Ice age. The waters went back to the poles to be frozen, formed massive Glacier Frozen lakes, it went back into the underground wells and springs, and a lot evaporated back into the clouds. Today's level of O2 in the air, along with it's modern day pollutants would not support the massive lungs of Dinosaurs. Prehistoric beasts have been found within Glaciers , as well as one prehistoric man that was uncovered when a glacier finally passed over him..

marke

I saw a report recently that claimed that man and dinos co-existed. They found tracks of both dinos and man in the same ancient river bed. I've also read a report that carbon 14 dating is flawed. The premise is that it decays at a set rate. Of course, there is no way to prove that. It coud decay at a progressive rate.

Homestead

You really think that the dinosaur would prey on man and not the other way around?

Name one large carnivore that is not or has not been hunted by man. And in the past, they were hunted using sharp stones, on the end of sticks.

marke

If you would want to chase a dino around with a sharp rock on the end of a stick, hey, nobody can say your a coward..but your genetic line might end suddenly. In the meantime, while you are battleing erstwhile dino, I'll use the ooportunity to find a suitable structure to hide in....such as a cave.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

I think the aliens kept the dino's and hominids separated.

marke

Wow, were really gettin out there now. How in the world did they get them on their space ships anyhow?haha

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

They didn't. They grew them here, for food. That's why there are so few fossils found. The aliens ate them and took the bones back with them to make jewelry for their wives.