tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598971867910555010.post2066032393670994703..comments2023-06-12T03:15:22.725-07:00Comments on The Bible (Annotated): Genesis 6. There were once giants, God has a tantrum.darqmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14441186525417484953noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598971867910555010.post-7794583234619664352012-12-18T07:57:29.873-08:002012-12-18T07:57:29.873-08:00> the last sixteen-hundred years
Shakedown per...> the last sixteen-hundred years<br /><br />Shakedown period.<br /><br />> his days shall be an hundred and twenty years<br /><br />Last minute tuning:<br />set man_ttl_years=120<br /><br />>> And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.<br /><br />> Did god regret making Adam/man?<br /><br />Regretted not concentrating on the Nod colony instead. No news from Cain et famile these days. What are they up to?<br /><br />> I will destroy ... the fowls of the air<br /><br />Too many bugs in Bird v0.1, project becomes abandonware. (Later, Noah finds the source and secretly revives the project in God's name.)<br /><br />> and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch<br /><br />"Hey, God! I'm out of pitch. Can I use creosote?"<br />"No. Get more pitch."<br /><br />> three hundred cubits ... fifty cubits ... thirty cubits<br /><br />How many gopherwood trees is this? How many beavers will we need? (Earth apparently doesn't have a metallurgist, artificer or smith yet, so we need beavers to chew down the trees and shape the wood. That must have been one splintery boat.)<br /><br />And what did Noah's neighbours think? "Hey, Noah! I can't get my donkey out of the stable! You want to shift that thing?"<br /><br />> bring a flood of waters upon the earth<br /><br />An interplanetary attack from Nod-in-the-Waters? Seems like God is definitely on the side of Nod.<br /><br />> Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.<br /><br />"Yea, let thy manifest also include snakes, scorpions, plague rats, crocodiles, bears, boars, poisonous lizards, leaping spiders and other bothersome beasts innumerable."<br /><br />> Noah followed the instruction without question.<br /><br />Uh huh, sure. I bet it was more like:<br />"Hey, God! I'm fed up with this! I've walked for miles! I've been bitten by lions and sat on by hippos! You're supposed to be omnipotent. Why don't YOU fill the damn boat?"<br />>FLASH, THUNDER<<br />"Ok, ok, fine. Just asking."<br /><br />> There were giants!<br /><br />What the heck are giants, eh? Are they the same as serpents?<br />Fatmanhttp://dreamtrack.co.uk/noreply@blogger.com