Lion 1 : Man 0

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This strikes me as medieval: Man challenging God to prove His existence, as if God, by virtue of His love or charity, could be blackmailed. Like God isn’t busy with stuff, and can keep watching for when they’re trying to float the next witch or pick up hot coals and not get burned, or whatever. If I were God (and I am not, no matter what emmline says), I’d be like: “Sorry, dude, I gave you free will and you’re just going to have to deal with the lioness on your own.” Except I wouldn’t be saying it, I’d be emoting it all over the universe and all the places where I decided not to put any universe but to just leave empty or universeless or whatever I’d call it.

P.S.: What’s with the shoes?

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God is the lion. God is the moron. This was a perfectly normal interchange of form to form. The only disconnect was the moron’s inability to recognize this. Taking his shoes off was his mistaken and futile idea for making closer contact with what was already there.

djm

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If he’d followed The Gourd, instead of The Shoe, he’d have been all right.

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I’m waiting for the rematch, I bet the guy does better the second time around.


Loren

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I’m thinking he’d have been better wearing THESE ones and keeping them on. Oh well. Live and learn.
Well, let’s just make that learn.

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That is the power of reincarnation. :wink:

djm

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God made the man take off his shoes to protect the lioness from eating them and getting a nasty intestinal blockage. Apparently, the lioness’s relationship with her god was stronger than the man’s relationship with his.

That’s the problem with dieties – you never know which one is going to turn out to be trump.

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As a friend used to say, “Stupidity is its own reward.” Same guy also used to say, “Killing you is God’s way of telling you you f**ked up.”

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It seems he was truly “twice shy” then.

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I’m guessing the fellow was a member of one of those colorful Russian religious sects, or at least had them in mind.

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Well. This fellow miscalculated.

Well, there’s all those religions/sects where one must bare one’s feet to enter the temple, and pilgrims to many holy places in many religions have to bare their feet, and there’s the washing of bare feet qua Jesus and, now, the Pope, and wasn’t Moses made to bare his feet to enter the holy land, or something (it’s been a while since last I read the Bible)? Bare feet, god, entering the (wild) kingdom: they just seem to go together.

Or maybe they were too tight, his shoes.

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What nerve to give God an ultimatum! He paid the ultimate price for testing his Creator.

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I think you’re right that there is good biblical precedent for taking your shoes off:

But perhaps the Japanese tradition of taking your shoes off before a meal is more apposite. After all, I wouldn’t want to be served a steak that is wearing shoes.

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I suppose tracking camel dung into the tent was a big issue back in Biblical times …

djm

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But then there’s the French, and their love of horse.

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I once came across a recipe for smoked horse vagina. I can’t remember if it was French, however.

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Eh?

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I remember reading about the same thing happening a year or two ago. I wonder if this kind of thing is a recognised symptom of some mental disorder. It should be :wink:

Slan,
D. :boggle:

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If I want to be lionized, I think I’ll go about it some other way, thanks. :boggle:

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If the man had his corotid artery severed, he likely went relatively quickly. Who says God isn’t merciful?