Category Archives: myth

Richard’s Ark

December 11, 2012 – 12:52 pm

Noah was warning by God that all life on Earth was threatened by a Great Flood. Few people believed him, but according to the Bible Noah built a great ark to hold the faithful and two of each kind of animal. The rain of forty days and forty nights cleanse the world of sin and […]

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ATLANTIS by Donovan

December 11, 2012 – 12:35 pm

Atlantis has existed as a mythical lost continent long before the opening of the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Plato wrote of an ancient sea kingdom dating back to 9500 BC doomed to sink under the ocean. Eurocentric historians have attempted to place the legendary island within the Mediterranean, however I favor the theory that […]

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12 Days And Counting

December 9, 2012 – 6:59 pm

Biblical creationists judge the age of the Earth to be roughly 6000 years in agreement with adherents of Islam. During the elections Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) claimed that he had no idea about the age of the Earth, but last week he switched his position of ignorance to the scientific claim that our planet is […]

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Lunar Twin Eclipse

December 1, 2012 – 4:35 pm

There was a lunar eclipse of Gemini on 11-28-12. I was born under that celestial star. The full moon should have some effect on me. I drank with my good friend and landlord of the Fort Greene Observatory at Mo’s and Mullane’s on Lafayette Street. We had more than one beer each, so I experience […]

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Tough As Porter Rockwell

October 20, 2012 – 12:33 pm

My father claimed that Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons, was a distant relative on his father’s side of the family. My aunt backed up his assertion, saying that our line of the family remained in Maine, while the prophet’s clan drifted from the mountains in Vermont to the religiously burned-over lands of Western […]

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