Let’s say you were going to try and chart a first-ever course through the frigid Arctic Ocean. What would you pack for the trip? Equally important, what would you not pack for the trip?
In 1845, Sir John Franklin learned the answers to both questions the hard way….
Millions of people around the world have wrestled with this very issue. With everything that hangs in the balance, it’s easy to see why so many take the question so seriously.
Apparently, even Adolf Hitler had come to a conclusion on the matter.
You’ve heard of “drunk dialing.” You’ve heard of “cow tipping.” But have you ever heard of “drunk tipping”? If not, just know two things:
It can be embarrassing. And expensive.
In 2006, high school student Amanda Clark ran a stop sign while talking on her cell phone and was broadsided by another vehicle. Her SUV took a beating, but Amanda walked away with only a few scrapes and bruises. Lesson learned, right?
Not exactly.
You know those people who routinely get themselves in trouble because of their mouths? It’s like their jaws start flapping without their brains being engaged. While some think it’s impossible to speak without a brain, there’s at least one Scarecrow who’d disagree.
And he’s an authority on the subject.
What would you do if you lived at the bottom of a volcano that experts claimed was about to erupt? Like most sane people, you’d probably vacate the area…and then watch live feeds provided by those crazy cameramen over at CNN.
Evidently, Harry Truman wasn’t very sane.
“When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.”
Topics Illustrated Include:
Atheism
Agnosticism
Beliefs
Consequence
Faith
God’s Existence
Loss
Quotes
Relativism
In December of 1829, James Porter and George Wilson robbed several postal shipments and terrorized various mail carriers in their rampage for loot. Unfortunately for them, they were soon caught, tried, and condemned to hang for their crimes. Porter was hanged on schedule; Wilson was given a presidential pardon.
But he was hanged for his crimes, nonetheless.
Believer or not, just about everyone is familiar with the account of Daniel’s night spent with the lions. In the well-known story, a pagan king threw one of God’s prophets into a den filled with the terrifying animals. Of course, Daniel walked out the next morning completely unscathed.
The same cannot be said about a man in Taipei who willing confronted a group of lions.
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