Noah
Noah. A story told in pictures. 
Soon enough chunks of ice will break off from glaciers to bury this world.
Millions will die. Weeks later, when the cable clicks back on the time will go from being referred to as tragic, to horrible, to just freaky.
We are made to recover. Human psyches are remarkably pliable that way. I don’t know whether or not I’m rooting for the world to end in my lifetime. Its sort of like having been there for a big event. The ultimate response to your middle age friends who saw the Beatles in concert. "Oh yeah? I watched someone fry an egg on a sidewalk in Brooklyn in January!"
So, let’s look at it differently. We now have limited time. We always did. But now we have limited time on a global scale. There’s a wonderful two in the morning cable movie called "Last Night" with Sandra Oh about the world ending in Toronto. It frequently cites the heroic work of the Utility companies who manage to keep the gas on right til the end.
Noah.
Can I quote you a little scripture?
Noah was the first
tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard; and he drank of the
wine, and became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham,
the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told
his two brothers outside.Then Shem and Japheth took a garment,
laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked
backward and covered
the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away,
and they did not see their father’s nakedness. When Noah awoke
from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,
he said, "Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be
to his brothers." He also said, "Blessed by the LORD
my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave. God enlarge Japheth,
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his
slave." After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty
years. All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years;
and he died.
Incidentally, this passage (genesis 9:19-28) represents the Biblical Justification for Slavery. So just remember, if you or someone you know lost forty five percent of their ancestors in the middle passages or any of the unpleasantness since, it all stems from Ham’s observation of Noah’s Morning Wood, brought on by the first farming attempted on earth.
Have you taken time to learn the difference between Sunni and Shia yet? And why not? Racist?
