From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #4 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, January 8 2004 Volume 06 : Number 004 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] More MM ["Alan Teather" ] Re: [RS] Re: Quicksand Quick Thinking ["Alan Teather" ] Re: [RS] Re: Quicksand Quick Thinking [ThisWasPompeii@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:47:16 -0000 From: "Alan Teather" Subject: Re: [RS] More MM ..............Of course it could also be a lot of religious twaddle ! ;-) Alan www.candleicious.biz The home of scented candles - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roxylee" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:08 PM Subject: [RS] More MM > I came across another article on MM: > > [Mary Magdalene] Harvard professor joins the buzz about Mary Magdalene > http://www.religionnewsblog.com/5486-.html > Imagine that alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, your New Testament > includes a fifth Gospel where "seven Powers of Wrath" interrogate the human > soul, accusing it of being a "human-killer" and "space-conqueror." [...] > There actually was a Gospel that said these things. Although the words sound > like musings from some 1960s New Age guru, they appeared in an ancient text > known as the "Gospel of Mary." [...] The quotes appear in "The Gospel of > Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle" by Karen L. King of > Harvard Divinity School. The publisher is Polebridge Press, allied with the > left-wing Jesus Seminar in which King participates. [...] Mary Magdalene is > fashionable at the moment thanks to the odd pseudo-historical thriller "The > Da Vinci Code." It promotes the ludicrous rumor -- developed many centuries > after Jesus' lifetime -- that he married Magdalene and had children who > migrated to France. [...] Gnosticism is also hot, due to "Beyond Belief," a > book about the "Gospel of Thomas" by King's Princeton soulmate Elaine > Pagels. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:49:45 -0000 From: "Alan Teather" Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Quicksand Quick Thinking ...Now don't you just learn some interesting things on here. How come you can't drown in quicksand? Is it something to do with the bodies buoyancy? Alan www.candleicious.biz The home of scented candles - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Quicksand Quick Thinking > In a message dated 1/6/2004 10:37:35 AM Central Standard Time, > bgallagher@envirohealth.org writes: > There's almost always a vine just above or on the side of the > quicksand pit. :) > > > Yes, the vine is indeed a tantalizing flicker of hope. Unfortunately it > always seems to give way. > > Now, as adults, we can dispel our fears: One can not drown in quicksand. The > hapless pedestrian will sink to his waist and no farther. The only way to > die in quicksand is if the tide rolls in before someone gets you out, or if no > one finds you and you succumb to dehydration and exposure. > > Donna > http://hometown.aol.com/thiswaspompeii/myhomepage/ > > We share life's joys when sober > Drunk, each goes a separate way > Constant friends, although we wander > We'll meet again in the Milky Way > --Li Po, 701-762 AD ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:03:06 +0000 From: "TRICIA MULLANE" Subject: [RS] Quicksand "One can not drown in quicksand." On a recent trip to Alaska, I was dismayed to find out that a type of quicksand made of shards of ground up glacial debris called "mud flats" are, indeed, real life quicksand from which no one has ever been extracted. Once you sink, you're sunk. One recent extrication attempt (a hunter with a cell phone was able to call for help) resulted in truncation when a helicoptor tried to harness and pull him out. By the way, no vines on the the mud flats! _________________________________________________________________ Tired of slow downloads? Compare online deals from your local high-speed providers now. https://broadband.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:07:34 EST From: ThisWasPompeii@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Quicksand Quick Thinking In a message dated 1/7/2004 4:51:18 AM Central Standard Time, alan.teather1@ntlworld.com writes: ...Now don't you just learn some interesting things on here. How come you can't drown in quicksand? Is it something to do with the bodies buoyancy? I think that was it. I saw a documentary on quicksand, but it's been a while. The more you wiggle, the deeper you sink, but apparently at waist level you reach some kind of stasis. I found this handy bit of quicksand advice on one website: Please use caution when walking on the mud flats all along the shores of Cook Inlet. These areas can be very dangerous as the glacial silt acts like quicksand and the tides come in very rapidly. If you feel yourself sinking into the sand, fall flat to spread out your weight and work yourself toward solid ground. If someone does get stuck, go for help immediately! <<< One recent extrication attempt (a hunter with a cell phone was able to call for help) resulted in truncation when a helicoptor tried to harness and pull him out. >>> Yikes! I wanted to read more about this. I found plenty on the internet about the super-glue mud flats in Alaska, but couldn't find anything on this incident in particular. What I did find was this 1991 incident, reported on this and several other religious (RS content!) websites: http://gci.gospelcom.net/dw/1996/10/14/ The incident remains the same, but the year changes to 1987 here: http://www.compleatseanbean.com/treacherousplaces.html Donna http://hometown.aol.com/thiswaspompeii/myhomepage/ We share life's joys when sober Drunk, each goes a separate way Constant friends, although we wander We'll meet again in the Milky Way - --Li Po, 701-762 AD ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #4 *********************************