Genesis 8:6-9 (The Living Bible)

[joannaingram84]

After another forty days, Noah opened a porthole and released a raven that flew back and forth until the earth was dry. Meanwhile he sent out a dove to see if it could find dry ground, but the dove found no place to light, and returned to Noah, for the water was still too high. So Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back into the boat.

[falcon9]

After another forty days, Noah opened a porthole and released ...

... the results of a boatload of gaseous animal byproducts from such a prolonged confinement?

"The g-d of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction."
-- Richard Dawkins

[falcon9]

Chirp  

Doubtless any bird released from such confinement would "chirp" as well, if for no other reason than to finally get a breath a fresh air after being cooped-up with fundies for so long in some hypothetical "ark".
 

It remains to be seen whether or not such non-contributory "chirp" posts by "loulizlee", made in three different threads so far, constitute mere trolling:

Re: Second Coming thread -

Chirp 

Re: daily Bible verse thread -

Chirp 

[alaric99x]

After another forty days, Noah opened a porthole and released a raven that flew back and forth until the earth was dry. Meanwhile he sent out a dove to see if it could find dry ground, but the dove found no place to light, and returned to Noah, for the water was still too high. So Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back into the boat.

A porthole indeed, I guess he was on a cruise ship.  The rest of this doesn't really match Genesis 8:6-9 either.

As it happens, the entire Noah flood myth is based upon Utnapishtim, an immortal character in the Epic of Gilgamesh written about 2500 BCE.

[falcon9]

After another forty days, Noah opened a porthole and released a raven that flew back and forth until the earth was dry. Meanwhile he sent out a dove to see if it could find dry ground, but the dove found no place to light, and returned to Noah, for the water was still too high. So Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back into the boat.

A porthole indeed, I guess he was on a cruise ship.  The rest of this doesn't really match Genesis 8:6-9 either.

As it happens, the entire Noah flood myth is based upon Utnapishtim, an immortal character in the Epic of Gilgamesh written about 2500 BCE.

There are several instances of such 'cultural thefts' of the mythologies of others, (all of which 'happened to be' "pagan" ones which pre-dated xtianity by several hundred to several thousand years ... making the determination of who {xtians} stole what from whom a very straight-forward process).

[alaric99x]

That's correct, but don't expect the believers of the bible to ever admit that there could be some truth to that, and, further, I've noted that they even refuse to look at those texts for fear that the ugly truth might destroy their beautiful illusions.

What does mithraism say that's copied in the bible?  Are the angels the remnants of polytheism, is the virgin Mary a later copy of Ishtar?

[falcon9]

That's correct, but don't expect the believers of the bible to ever admit that there could be some truth to that, and, further, I've noted that they even refuse to look at those texts for fear that the ugly truth might destroy their beautiful illusions.

They might want to avert their eyes from some of the "gnostic" texts contained in the Dead Sea scrolls which somehow never made it into current versions of 'the' "bible", (the Council of Nicea would have a lot of explaining to do).

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
-- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758

What does mithraism say that's copied in the bible?  Are the angels the remnants of polytheism, is the virgin Mary a later copy of Ishtar?

Such questions are usually not directly addressed by the adherents of religious beliefs.  Why, they could start to wonder about the "remarkable similarities" between ancient Egyptian mythologies, (which predated xtianity by several thousand years), and many of the 'biblical stories' which plagairized the hapless Aegyptians.
 

[alaric99x]

One day, when I'm a good deal older, demented and senile, without being able to offer anything intelligible to say to the people around me, I too will simply say or type the word, "chirp."

[falcon9]

One day, when I'm a good deal older, demented and senile, without being able to offer anything intelligible to say to the people around me, I too will simply say or type the word, "chirp."

Apparently, that's what some "cuckoo-birds" do.

[alaric99x]

As if to confirm my point......

[falcon9]

As if to confirm my point......

Maybe if she spammed on the hour or, half-hour, she'd be useful as a cuckoo clock?

[alaric99x]

I woudn't trust him or her to chirp at any specific point in time, obviously another mindless idiot who haunts these sites as a obstitution for some void in their regretably empty lives.  chirp and amen.....

[falcon9]

I woudn't trust him or her to chirp at any specific point in time, obviously another mindless idiot who haunts these sites as a obstitution for some void in their regretably empty lives.  chirp and amen.....

Well, at least she'd be right, (as far as the time goes), twice a day, (rather than twice less than that per/day).

Don't you mean "chirp and amon-ra"?