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Re: Cowboy Cosmology
« Reply #860 on: November 20, 2008, 09:20:07 pm »
I mean, come on, what a goofy name! Who names a lake Lake Asphaltites?!?   Sounds like asphalt.  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Well, as it turns out, that was the Greek name for the Dead Sea. Before the war, there had been "slime pits" where bitumen was mined at great profit. It was used for mummification in Egypt and for paving roads in Babylon.

But the Sodomites got very wealthy from it and the rest of the world resented it. Middle East wars over oil anyone?
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Re: Cowboy Cosmology
« Reply #861 on: November 20, 2008, 09:22:01 pm »
       AND.            

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« Reply #862 on: November 20, 2008, 09:22:06 pm »
Quote from: a Gay on November 20, 2008, 09:20:07 pm
I mean, come on, what a goofy name! Who names a lake Lake Asphaltites?!?   Sounds like asphalt.  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Well, as it turns out, that was the Greek name for the Dead Sea. Before the war, there had been "slime pits" where bitumen was mined at a great price It was used for mummification in Egypt and for paving roads in Babylon.

But the Sodomites got very wealthy from it and the rest of the world resented it. Middle East wars over oil anyone?

 ;)

I gotta go..but I will check back later....looking forward to it!

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Re: Cowboy Cosmology
« Reply #863 on: November 20, 2008, 11:04:24 pm »
AND. Upon being attacked with a few minor explosives, or maybe a torch,

Sodom and Gomorrah, being built on top of bitumen pits with their
     highly flammable vapors...        :o :o :o     

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« Reply #864 on: November 20, 2008, 11:09:42 pm »
  :o   ASPLODED !!!   :o :o 
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« Reply #865 on: November 20, 2008, 11:17:40 pm »
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« Reply #866 on: November 20, 2008, 11:21:48 pm »
 :-\ :-\ :-\  But unfortunately, as Josephus noted, Sodom and Gomorrah were located on the edge of the Dead Sea, so when the water rushed in ...

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« Reply #867 on: November 20, 2008, 11:23:24 pm »
  :o   KABOOM !!!  :o :o 



Fire and brimstone rained from the sky. The same bitumen that had brought Sodom its wealth now brought its destruction.
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« Reply #868 on: November 20, 2008, 11:38:36 pm »
According to Genesis, Lot and family had been warned to leave and not look back, but his wife took a quick peek and was burned to a pillar of salt.  :-\ Here is an artist's interpretation of the event (not an actual photograph):

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« Reply #869 on: November 21, 2008, 12:04:14 am »
The Bible goes on to say that Lot, the one and only righteous man from Sodom, the one man that God chose to save while blasting all those Sodomites to smithereens, had sex with his daughters and got them both pregnant.

The end.  :)
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