AA road map and tea towel

[Stemar]

However, people are likely to work harder to survive, (and to have trained and made plans in advance), if they are aware that no 2000-yr old, telepathic flying rabbi will be descending from the Ionosphere, clutching .

I consider myself a Christian, but I still regard that sort of expectation as a particular kind of idiocy. However, That 2000-yr old, telepathic flying rabbi may well send a magical talking bilge pump. It's called a lifeboat.

Another little story: Floods are forecast, so the village copper goes to the vicarage and says, Good morning, Father. As you know we're expecting some bad floods. Since the vicarage is one of the lowest houses in the village, you'd better start packing." "Don't worry, the Lord will protect me."

The waters rise and the vicar's car is flooded. A fire engine comes round. "Come on Father, it's time to go" "Don't worry, the Lord will protect me."

The waters rise and the ground floor is flooded. A RIB comes by. "Come on Father, it's time to go" "Don't worry, the Lord will protect me."

The waters rise and the first floor is flooded. The vicar is sitting on the roof. A helicopter comes by. "Come on Father, it's time to go" "Don't worry, the Lord will protect me."

The waters rise and the vicar is drowned. Upstairs, the furious vicar demands an interview with Management, "I was trusting in you for protection from the flood. How could you leave me to drown?" "What do you mean leave you to drown? I sent a copper, the fire brigade, a RIB and a helicopter. You died of stupidity"

That's how my faith works. I don't expect a Busby Berkeley presentation, In my experience, the Lord's ways are often mundane.

And no, I don't have a solution to the problem of why evil or epidemics.

 

[colind3782]

I knew a chap many years ago who took a boat load of "cargo" from North Africa to Spain after dark and navigating with a road map.

Allegedly...

 

[john_morris_uk]

Much as with one bit of my professional I’d love to discuss some of the religious matters freely and frankly, if people want the thread to continue to exist people need to remember that Future have decreed ‘no religion or politics…’. Sorry.

 

[Gary Fox]

I consider myself a Christian, but I still regard that sort of expectation as a particular kind of idiocy. However, That 2000-yr old, telepathic flying rabbi may well send a magical talking bilge pump. It's called a lifeboat.

Another little story: Floods are forecast, so the village copper goes to the vicarage and says, Good morning, Father. As you know we're expecting some bad floods. Since the vicarage is one of the lowest houses in the village, you'd better start packing." "Don't worry, the Lord will protect me."

The waters rise and the vicar's car is flooded. A fire engine comes round. "Come on Father, it's time to go" "Don't worry, the Lord will protect me."

The waters rise and the ground floor is flooded. A RIB comes by. "Come on Father, it's time to go" "Don't worry, the Lord will protect me."

The waters rise and the first floor is flooded. The vicar is sitting on the roof. A helicopter comes by. "Come on Father, it's time to go" "Don't worry, the Lord will protect me."

The waters rise and the vicar is drowned. Upstairs, the furious vicar demands an interview with Management, "I was trusting in you for protection from the flood. How could you leave me to drown?" "What do you mean leave you to drown? I sent a copper, the fire brigade, a RIB and a helicopter. You died of stupidity"

That's how my faith works. I don't expect a Busby Berkeley presentation, In my experience, the Lord's ways are often mundane.

And no, I don't have a solution to the problem of why evil or epidemics.

Thanks for reminding us of that little parable, I've always thought it makes a lot of sense. But 'a voice has spoken from on high', so I will stop mentioning the subject..

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Thanks for reminding us of that little parable, I've always thought it makes a lot of sense. But 'a voice has spoken from on high', so I will stop mentioning the subject..

Doesn't one of the mags run a "Confessional" though ?

 

[chrishscorp]

Doesn't one of the mags run a "Confessional" though ?

Does that mean WE can put the Editor on shore leave and grey him out ?

 

[Wansworth]

Who would have thought,it’s like. ‘Don’t mention the war’………

 

[Blueboatman]

This one does great circles too


( edit : link looks a bit weird , bloated )
https://www.amazon.co.uk/INFLATABLE...ocphy=1006770&hvtargid=pla-358401905728&psc=1

 

[Tomahawk]

Some years ago a delivery crew from Sweden came to Ipswich to take a brand new Oyster back home.
They departed from the Harwich entrance and set a course direct to Kiel. They hit the Cork Sand at full speed, serious damage to keel and hull and only saved from sinking by fast reponse from the Harwich lifeboat with salvage pumps. Lifted out at Shotley where she sat ashore for some time, probably while the insurers were arguing!
It turned out that the only chart on board relating to this side was of the whole of the North Sea on which the Cork appears as a tiny sliver smaller than a finger nail clipping.

Then there was the one where an Oyster delivery crew got the Ramsgate lifeboat out of bed in the middle of the night when it was blowing an eight... They were all downstairs in the warm and had driven straight onti the North Sand Head. The boat was brand new.