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There's something semi-interesting I want to say about the Ark, but it would veer this thread far too close to witnessing/flameboard territory, I fear.
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Well, I think I got my answers anyhoo. Just one more thing... Where could I buy some acacia? That's all I'm missing.
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Fabrux: It's the religious part I don't like. The stories are still good for their mytho-historical aspects. Reading about Judaic mythology is not different than reading about Greek mythology, Norse mythology, Mesopotamian mythology, &c.
Besides, it wasn't that I knew where to find the description. I knew where to find an online version of the bible, and I just searched the book of Exodus for "ark", until I found it. :-)
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Though I remember some church-type people I knew who said that there was nothing in it at all (apart from the metaphysical). I wonder what Jewish tradition places inside it.
I myself like to have telekinesis as well, which seems to be the first choice with most people.
Other than telekinesis a set of wings would be nice, as someone else already mentioned. Or teleporting powers, that would be cool.
One thing I'd also like is that any mutant power I might have, it has to be easely controllable.
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Yes, if it's hard it's not worth it, eh? You have your remote and your bag of chips...Hey!! What if you could whack off hands-free? Then you're in Eden, baby!!! Superheroes of 2000!!!
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"At that time Yahweh said to me, `Hew two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.' So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tables in my hand. And he wrote on the tables, as at the first writing, the ten commandments which Yahweh had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me. Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as Yahweh commanded me." -Deuteronomy 10:1-5
"There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where Yahweh made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt." -I Kings 8:9
"There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, where Yahweh made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt." -II Chronicles 5:10
I think it's safe to say there was supposed to be something in there... :-)
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Veering dangerously close to the topic here, but am I the only one that's seen a new book (not a graphic novel) that actually tries to go some way to explain the origins of the X-Men's powers?
They venture into quantum mechanics, cold fusion, other dimensions and superstring theory, IIRC. Attempts are made to explain nearly all the X-Men's powers e.g. Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Professor X, Havoc, jean Grey (but no debate on Phoenix, as that wasn't a mutant power), Iceman, Beast, etc.
I saw it in Chicago.
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