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#1 2010-02-22 18:50:32
- honzik20
- Member
- Registered: 2007-10-29
- Posts: 4
The Raft of God
Just came across this gem at newscentral.com, sort by comments Oldest First, go to page 7, look for gct30’s post.
I’m very excited by this. Should I get out more?
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#2 2010-02-23 00:07:07
- JuanTwoThree
- Eggcornista
- From: Spain
- Registered: 2009-08-15
- Posts: 455
Re: The Raft of God
It googles fairly satisfactorily:
“I am AA, and the AA religious community fear the raft of God”“They might face the raft of god if they do”
“The raft of God is something else”
But what do they think it means?
Fifty! Yeah!
Last edited by JuanTwoThree (2010-02-23 00:07:54)
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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#3 2010-02-23 09:07:55
- DavidTuggy
- Eggcornista
- From: Mexico
- Registered: 2007-10-11
- Posts: 2768
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Re: The Raft of God
Took me a while to figure out what the fifty connection was … ¡Congratulations, Juan!
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I also am puzzled by how the imagery of a raft fits into the picture. Are we frantically (or feebly) treading water and God’s raft is bearing down on us, threatening to push us under for good?
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Reminds me of a wonderful one-phoneme(/letter) slip where somebody said we don’t have to worry, because no matter where we are or what we are doing, God always has us in his sights.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-02-23 12:09:49)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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#4 2010-02-23 10:40:26
- David Bird
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- From: The Hammer, Ontario
- Registered: 2009-07-28
- Posts: 1710
Re: The Raft of God
Congratulations, Juan. I may forgive you now for the vas deferens.
The raft of God! A wonderful image that’s not totally coherent. Sounds terrible and mighty, however.
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