Roberta wrote:So I'm watching tv and I see an ad for laundry detergent. I usually don't watch commercials, but I'm intrigued. How can something be whiter than white? How can something be brighter than bright? Will I need to wear dark glasses when I do the laundry?
I buy the product and use it. I find that my whites are white. My colored stuff is bright. I am content. Then the same laundry detergent produces a new ad for a new and improved product!!! What was wrong with the old product? Have I been hoodwinked? Can I sue? (I can really use the money.)
The laundry detergent really doesn't do much of a job on your washables. Rather, it affects your eyesight so that things seem more bright and white than before. Plus, they keep changing the meanings of words like brighter and whiter and the like. So white, as of this moment, does not actually refer to white like milk or polished sushi rice but rather is a light toasty beige, somewhat like Joe Nation's Taliban-poppy-seed-free bagel before it was placed in the toaster (don't tell me the bagel was not toasted, there are some things I just can't bear). Hence if a light toast color = white, then polished sushi rice can, indeed, be whiter than white.
But it's also about eyesight and it troubles me that the makers of Fab and All and the like are screwing with my internal wiring. I, too, would sue, but I can't find my glasses and hence would accidentally sue the makers of Fib and Ell, which would probably be less lucrative.
Roberta wrote:I have a question about the Old Testament. Don't wanna post it in the religion forum. I don't trust a lot of the responses there, and I don't want to get into an argument. I just want an answer to something I've been wondering about for a long time.
Noah's Ark. The animals go onto the ark in twos. I'm not gonna question how they all fit on the ark. I'm not entirely sure how big a cubit is, but I have a feeling that it was a very tight squeeze. I'm also not concerned about the mess. Or all the bugs. Not my problem.
When the animals were on the ark, God fixed things so that the lions, and tigers, and bears (oh my) wouldn't eat the other animals. Good thinking.
But what about when the animals disembarked the ark? Weren't all the predators hungry? Wouldn't they have eaten everything they could catch? Wouldn't they eventually eaten everything catchable? Wouldn't they have eventually starved to death? How come there are still animals?
I asked this question of someone I trusted a very long time ago. I did not get a satisfactory answer. I'm hoping for better from you, Jes.
Thank you for coming here to ask this question. The answer is: fish. There were a lot of fish, seeing as they thrived during the Flood. That's how bears got good at the whole slapping a salmon outta the stream thing. Then Noah planted rice, and polished it, and we ended up with sushi. He also planted a vineyard so we got sake, too, plus by that time there were vegetables growing so there was a lot of chow mein being made. No one really knows the ingredients of chow mein so it's a safe assumption that God provided the chow mein (he provided manna to Moses later because it's very messy to get chow mein to go and Moses didn't like eating with chopsticks). This also explains why many Jewish folks enjoy Asian foods so much. It's in our heritage and divinely inspired.
May the window dresser of desire offer you comfort in your hour of need.
