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Bigtime non sequitor

How fast can such a wave go?
In the open ocean, it can travel as fast as 800 kilometers (500 miles) per hour-like a commercial airplane-so it took two or three hours. This leaves time for a system to warn people, but there wasn't one in place.

What was the most awesome about this quake?
Its biblical nature. Its biblical size. And that it spanned two continents.

Eric Pape/Newsweek/MSNBC May.15.04

And yesterday on one of the newsdrips on cable there was the swine-revenant Gingrich explaining to one of the human suppositories that this was a "covenant" nation, not a "contract" nation. That "We, the people" meant, without saying it in so many words, "We, God's people, have a covenant with God". The implication being that laws were secondary to the will of God. And more importantly, that the will of God elevates certain people, certain ethnicities, above all others. So that the deaths of the civilized tribes of North America were a good thing, being necessary to make ready this "covenanted" land.
I don't really have a problem with the words Gingrich uses, it's the way he and his ilk insinuate themselves into the formula; and the way the meaning of the words gets twisted. In this case a vicious lying power masquerading as the cause of all good in the world while creating much of the bad is God, because the people with the biggest guns and most of the money say so.
Pape though, that's really something. Biblical. Its biblical nature.
I've got some hemorrhoids that are getting pretty kind of biblical, now that I think about it.
After any war there are survivors, who owe their peace to that. Not just to the end of the war but to the war itself, the thinning and selection - the land and its resources being a constant, a reduction in the number of people means more to go around.
The race now is to be in position to survive the inevitable chaos and violence ahead. And those survivors will be the elect, no matter who they are.
God spared us, God loves us.
A man in one of the towns struck by the waves said that God had spared him because a wave threw him into a tree, above the flood. The wave also killed three of his children.
Biblical.
God didn't love his kids.
Biblical nonsense.
There is truth, and then there are lies that are enforced with so much power they become the truth. Locally. For a while. Superstition makes it easier for simple minds to cope with things they don't understand. There's a kind of truth in that.
Ghosts pretending to be angels.
Spirits that take their being from the belief of living men and women, get their existence from the combined weight of desire and need, pretending to be eternal. Because after there are no more believers there won't be anyone there to say - hey, where'd all those spirits go?
Biblical. Like a pile of foreskins at the feet of a king.
Like the sun standing still in the sky.
Like stoning an adulteress.
Like a plague of locusts.
Like Babylon.