Floods in various areas could have contributed to many Great Flood stories in many cultures...

Baltic Sea. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

8.2 Kiloyear

Just before the 8,200 year cold event, around 8,400 years ago, the Black Sea, which was a fresh water lake at the time, filled from Mediterranean Sea8,2. This event is only the most recent of many catastrophic flooding events due to the melting of the glaciers after the LGM. The Baltic Sea, was a lake until 9,200 years ago, when it was finally connected to the Atlantic Ocean. These flooding events and , perhaps others, due to rising sea level are probably the cause of multiple “Great Flood” stories that populate early writings like the Noah’s Flood story in the Bible and Torah and the older Gilgamesh story.

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Help the Maui Dolphins in NZ

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Save the Maui and Hectors Dolphins in New Zealand...

Save the endangered NZ Maui dolphins

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No need for glasses...

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My old father was 83 and didn't need  glasses. He drank straight out of the bottle!

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Feeling like a woman...

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As an airplane is about to crash, a female passenger jumps up frantically and announces, “If I’m going to die, I want to die feeling like a woman.”

She removes all her clothing and asks, “Is there someone on this plane who is man enough to make me feel like a woman?”

A man stands up, removes his shirt and says, “Here, iron this!”.

Stop snoring aid...

Has to be good for your health readers. Just like a footballers mouthguard.

http://www.instantlystopsnoring.com/

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Her boyfriend will die...

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“My teenage daughter came home in a rage.

‘I’ve just done sex education in school today, Dad! You lied to me! You told me if I have sex before my sixteenth birthday, my boyfriend will die!’

I put down my paper: ‘Oh, he will, sweetheart, he will.’ ”

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Hymns and pops: by Joebangles

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  November Blog Month. 8 of 30. Hymns and Pops.

  by joebangles

  George Whitefield (16 December 1714 – 30 September 1770), was an Anglican itinerant Protestant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening in the Kingdom of Great Britain and, especially, in the British North American colonies. A leading evangelist and preacher of the era, he was one of the founders of Methodism in America. He as been attributed with the quote, " Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?" in The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal, Vol. 49 (June 1773 - January 1774). wikipedia

  I presume that he was referring to the jazz music that he will have heard as he travelled around America as opposed to the church music that would be normal to him, but, there is plenty in between and much found in pop and country music.

  For example, Frankie Laine's "I Believe" "My Friend" and "Answer Me". Johnny Ray's "Walk and Talk with My Lord". All considered pop songs in the 50s. "pop" songs including great hits like, My Sweet Lord - George Harrison, U2 usually ends its concerts with the song "40", a song derived from Psalm 40. They finish a concert from their 2005 tour with two of their religious-themed songs, "Yahweh" and "40" , Leonard Cohen's "If It Be Your Will", Imagine – John Lennon, just a few that have hit, and often topped the "Hit Parade".

  Maybe, just maybe, todays church should consider these songs, some of them may be ideal to add to the old church hymnary's that are in use today, again, just maybe a few new members would be added to the congregation.

  I would offer this as a starter. http://youtu.be/cmZHdt9Wstc

  The Shelter of Your Arms.

  Now I lay me down to sleep
  And if I sleep, perhaps I’ll dream.
  If I dream, I’ll be with you,
  In the shelter of your arms.

  I pray that god will lengthen night,
  And grant me time before the light.
  For the light of day will take me
  From the shelter of your arms.

  And though I know it’s just a dream,
  A dream that soon must end,
  The arms I feel, I know are real,
  And I’m happy, once again.

  If I die, while I am asleep,
  I pray my dreams he’ll let me keep,
  And carry me through eternity
  In the shelter of your arms.

  And though I know it’s just a dream,
  A dream that soon must end,
  The arms I feel, I know are real
  And I’m happy, once again.

  And if I die while I am asleep,
  I pray my dreams he’ll let me keep,
  And carry me through eternity
  In the shelter of your arms.

  Words as sung by Willie Nelson.

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  SILENCE AND REMEMBRANCE

  by gillyk

  Silence

  November pierces with its bleak remembrance
  Of all the bitterness and waste of war.
  Our silence tries but fails to make a semblance
  Of that lost peace they thought worth fighting for.
  Our silence seethes instead with wraiths and whispers,
  And all the restless rumour of new wars,
  The shells are singing as we sing our vespers,
  No moment is unscarred, there is no pause,
  In every instant bloodied innocence
  Falls to the weary earth, and whilst we stand
  Quiescence ends again in acquiescence,
  And Abel’s blood still cries in every land
  One silence only might redeem that blood
  Only the silence of a dying God.

  (Malcolm Guite, from 'Sounding the Seasons' )

  
  (image 'Poppy Day' by Daliscar
  )

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