They "flow with the tide" and suddenly, too late, realize that it is a "rip" tide :sad:
Good extension of the metaphor, BillW. They can also be swept out to sea and flay around for an awfully long period of time before they realize they have the ability to swim to shore.
Frolic with the man-o-wars
Before one realizes they sting.
Got hit once myself, ouch and double ouch!!!!! We were on shore and didn't realize that those 50' tenacles go horizonal until too late
Got caught in a zip tide during that week also - thought I was a goner, then it occurred to me that I was going mostly horizonal to shore and just a little out to sea. Just maneuvered toward land, voila - saved!!!
But if there is consensual agreement, we will enjoy the illusion that we have all benefitted from the riptide.
Only if we survived, JL, only if we survived.
Done some surfin' and some divin', scuba and free. The real danger of riptides is to try to fight 'em. Relax ... they don't last long or run far. Keep your landmarks in sight, and you'll have no trouble at all. In fact, rips can pump up some great waves, if ya just time 'em right. Stingrays and Jellyfish, on the other hand, are devil-sent demons ... avoid 'em all. Bouncin' and tumblin through coral ain't much fun, neither.
I always heard you should swim at right angle to riptide. But what do i (losing shift key) know...i don't ocean swim, sheer reasonable fear. i learned to swim in my late thirties in a ymca pool, can do mile - or could, hmm, no more parentheses from me -
life does bring certain right angle to tide situations to my attention...
But i have occasionally dogpaddled in quiet coves, quiet at times that is, like mismaloya and la jolla. But when i moved to la jolla yo do training at Scripps's Clinic, just before i moved into the cottage across the street from the cove there was a shark attack and death. Cough, re the analogy.
Okay, we're getting too technical on the riptide metaphor, making enough ripples to sink it. However, the shark metaphor from ossobucco reminds me of telephone solicitors...
But, sharks don't give head - they take head. And, their not a member of the clergy either......
homosexuality is violative of natural law and as such a practictioner should not be held up as a moral model, let alone a member of any clergy.
whatis1029 wrote:homosexuality is violative of natural law and as such a practictioner should not be held up as a moral model, let alone a member of any clergy.
Are we supposed to accept that because you say so -- or are you going to offer some arguments in support of that preposterous claim.
What is natural law? Exactly where is is written down? Who decides what is natural and what is not? I thought this thread had died a natural death.
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Everything that happens in nature is natural. And LAWS of nature are not laws in the sense that they are commandments for behavior. Laws in science are simply systematically observed REGULARITIES. They are what nature does and how it is, but NOT what Nature MUST do and be or suffer punishment. If you want to condemn homosexuality you must find another basis for your condemnation, unnaturalness won't cut it at all. Moreoever, if it's expressions were unnatural nobody would practice them.
Totally agree with you JLN. No surprise!
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Yesterday, a friend told me that upon hearing the theory that Jesus may have been married to Mary Magdalen, he was relieved, having always thought that Jesus was gay. Something to do with John the Baptist and a foot fetish. Thank goodness, he was joking. He also told me that he was talking the other day to a priest who said that while he practiced celibacy, he was in fact presently not active.
Interesting take there, that priest's. I guess I too am a non-practicing celibate
That's hilarious, JLN. As many non-celibate Priest as I've met in Southern California, there outta be a law.
