Sodom and Gomorrah

[nietzschefan]

Anyway, I sway between the far out theory(ancient nuclear war) and the methane explosion.

Lines like this...(post event)

Deuteronomy 32:32-33: "Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison, and their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the venom of snakes, the deadly poison of vipers."

Incidently other cities were destroyed as well:

Admah and Zeboiim (Deuteronomy 29:23), Edom and Teman (Jeremiah:49:7-22), and Moab and Amman (Zephanian 2:9)

 

[nietzschefan]

Ah, you've been reading teh Mahabharata!

These lines are pretty much what got me into it: (becoming an ancient nuclear war theorist/crackpot)

Mahabharata: ...a single projectile Charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame As bright as the thousand suns Rose in all its splendour... a perpendicular explosion with its billowing smoke clouds... ...the cloud of smoke rising after its first explosion formed into expanding round circles like the opening of giant parasols... ..it was an unknown weapon, An iron thunderbolt, A gigantic messenger of death, Which reduced to ashes The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas. ...The corpses were so burned As to be unrecognisable. The hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause, And the birds turned white. After a few hours All foodstuffs were infected... ...to escape from this fire The soldiers threw themselves in streams To wash themselves and their equipment.

 

[S.A.M.]

Bullshit.
Any read through the Old Testament and it's readily apparent that it's just as full of bigoted intolerance and violence as any religion today. Anything otherwise is a misdirected attempt to interpret it as something it's not; a common practice amongst liberal theists. To do so is to distort history. The Bible was written by savage and bloodthirsty Middle Easterners to preserve their brutal and bloodthirsty culture.

The concept of a singular sexuality is a western one, it did not exist in the East at all; there was no concept of man woman couple.

 

[Medicine*Woman]

Methane deposits - see my link.

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M*W: For some reason, I cannot open links on this #@*&?~ computer, but your theory is logical.