A desert is such a fragile environment, that even after a couple thousand years, there would still be evidence of thousands of people barging around the desert……Where are the camps?…..Where is the garbage and waste they would have left behind?….Thousands of people make a mess……
I’m sure there some lighter moments throughout that trek. All jabberwocky aside, it was an escape from tyranny & oppression. The exodus was an expression of “freedom of religious belief.”
That was my favorite cartoon: “After 39 1/2 years, Mrs Moses stopped and asked directions.”In any case, 38 of those years were supposed to have been spent at one location, Kadesh-Barnea. Sinai bring a desert, any traces would have been covered in the last 3300 years. And I doubt if the Egyptians would have bragged about a major defeat by slaves.
HerrwehThere would be no mention because they weren’t conquered. They were invited in as part of a land settlement program and a dynasty change or two later were hit with a work tax they didn’t like.
I just finished an insurance-company challenge in which I recorded one million steps on a fibtit. Took me 80 days, which means I could do about 4.5 million steps in a year at this pace (approximately 6.5 miles a day average). Even if I kicked the pace up to 5 million steps a year, that’s 200 years to reach a billion. Far in excess of the 40 years Moses was said to have led the Hebrews around the desert, and really more than he’s likely to have walked in the 120 years that rabbinical tradition says he lived.
markjoseph125Unicorns are not mentioned in the Bible, just in the English translation of 1612 and revisions thereof. Unicorn is a Latin word. The Greek equivalent (the original language of the New Testament) is Monoceros, which happens to be both the binominal name for rhinos and the constellation representing a unicorn. Things are confusing enough by nature, without your sarcastic additions.
gazperson almost 8 years ago
I’m revising my goal downwards.
Superfrog almost 8 years ago
Does the fitbit count down if you walk backwards?
Pointspread almost 8 years ago
Guys don’t have to ask directions because we know how to read maps.
dadoctah almost 8 years ago
My Fitbit tells me I just made the Kessel Run in under twelve parsecs.
Varnes almost 8 years ago
A desert is such a fragile environment, that even after a couple thousand years, there would still be evidence of thousands of people barging around the desert……Where are the camps?…..Where is the garbage and waste they would have left behind?….Thousands of people make a mess……
dl11898 almost 8 years ago
I’m sure there some lighter moments throughout that trek. All jabberwocky aside, it was an escape from tyranny & oppression. The exodus was an expression of “freedom of religious belief.”
whiteheron almost 8 years ago
Moses know where Moses go!
Varnes almost 8 years ago
Moses not know where Moses go! Excuse me, do you know where the waterfall is? Waterfall?
dabugger almost 8 years ago
Who ever wrote that chapter of myth had a poor sense time.Of course, imaginations vary.
mourdac Premium Member almost 8 years ago
But…it’s the Bible, it has to be true.
nosirrom almost 8 years ago
I have a “FitBite”. It tells me that I don’t have far to go to reach my goal of one billion calories.
Linguist almost 8 years ago
I’m married to my FitBite. She tells me where to go, and how many steps it’ll take to get there !
blackdawne almost 8 years ago
Aaron: Moses, how much further till we find the Promised Land?Moses: Find the Promised Land? I’m still looking for the remote I dropped.
kaffekup almost 8 years ago
That was my favorite cartoon: “After 39 1/2 years, Mrs Moses stopped and asked directions.”In any case, 38 of those years were supposed to have been spent at one location, Kadesh-Barnea. Sinai bring a desert, any traces would have been covered in the last 3300 years. And I doubt if the Egyptians would have bragged about a major defeat by slaves.
jahoody almost 8 years ago
TOO much information!!!!!!!!
Godfreydaniel almost 8 years ago
You notice Moses didn’t carry any of the baggage, just his staff—probably he turned it into a snake to entertain the restless children at times……
hippogriff almost 8 years ago
HerrwehThere would be no mention because they weren’t conquered. They were invited in as part of a land settlement program and a dynasty change or two later were hit with a work tax they didn’t like.
puddleglum1066 almost 8 years ago
I just finished an insurance-company challenge in which I recorded one million steps on a fibtit. Took me 80 days, which means I could do about 4.5 million steps in a year at this pace (approximately 6.5 miles a day average). Even if I kicked the pace up to 5 million steps a year, that’s 200 years to reach a billion. Far in excess of the 40 years Moses was said to have led the Hebrews around the desert, and really more than he’s likely to have walked in the 120 years that rabbinical tradition says he lived.
hippogriff almost 8 years ago
markjoseph125Unicorns are not mentioned in the Bible, just in the English translation of 1612 and revisions thereof. Unicorn is a Latin word. The Greek equivalent (the original language of the New Testament) is Monoceros, which happens to be both the binominal name for rhinos and the constellation representing a unicorn. Things are confusing enough by nature, without your sarcastic additions.
jmarkoff2 almost 8 years ago
Fascinating forensic debunking of Exodus: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/essays/let-the-stones-speak-part-2/