Electronic Arts has been playing games with attendees of the nation’s biggest video-game trade show.
The game publisher hired a group of nearly 20 people to stand outside the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on Wednesday and appear to protest the upcoming EA game “Dante’s Inferno.” EA spokeswoman Holly Rockwood says the stunt was arranged by a viral marketing agency hired by EA.
The group claimed to be protesting the third-person action game – loosely based on Dante Aligheri’s poem “Divine Comedy” – because they said the game glorified eternal damnation.
The fake religious protesters passed out pamphlets and held up picket signs with messages such as “Hell is not a Video Game” and “Trade in Your PlayStation for a PrayStation.”
Har!
I knew we could make wierdos who believe in talking snakes and an ark full of animals work for us.
#42, Alphie,
Like I said earlier, take a civics class. Learn how your own government works. The bible doesn’t have any text on “Representative Democracies”.
#46, Alphie,
He resembles so many of the other morans in every church every Sunday.
#45, Alphie,
There is nothing in scripture that allows you dismiss this as myth.
OK, were there plans? I don’t remember reading about any plans or drawings in the bible.
How was the keel laid? Did Noah find a 500 foot tree to use?
What did he caulk it with? What type of planking did Noah use?
How many tons of food did Noah have to bring aboard? And how were the carnivores fed?
Were the insects also brought on board? What about termites and wood ants?
How many people were required to run the bilge pumps?
With that many animals in that tight a space, how was ventilation provided?
How was the waste, especially the urine, disposed of?
Were the carnivores segregated from the herbivores? What about the omnivores?
What type of lighting was used inside the vessel?
Did Noah have power tools and metal fasteners. If he didn’t, how did he keep the boat together?
Did Noah gather just genus or species too? You know, did he bring Kodiaks, Brown, Black, Polar, and Grizzly Bears or just teddy bears?
Did Noah really leave the Unicorn behind as the song said?
Since this story has such a resemblance to other great flood stories in other religions, are they related?
So many questions, so many answers from Alphie.
#46, Alphie,
So in other words, you have no idea of how these problems were resolved. YET, you claim it is entirely possible that the arc could have existed. I don’t know if it did or didn’t. I do know that these, and many more, problems would have to be addressed if any ship were to float.
For example, while it might be possible to make a small water tight vessel, it is impossible to construct a large water tight vessel. Hence the need for bilge pumps to remove the collected water that would leak in.
The keel would need to either be a one piece affair, requiring a 450′ tree or made of composite. A composite would need special techniques and materials not found in Noah’s time to fabricate a keel that long. If you know anyone who knows anything about naval architecture (aka ship building) ask them what happens when the keel breaks.
Without adequate ventilation, the animals would die from the ammonia. While solid waste may be removed relatively easily (although labor intensive), liquid waste is more difficult as it has a tendency to collect in pools and soak into wood.
Also without adequate ventilation, the CO2 levels would rise to toxic levels and O2 drop to insufficient levels.
You can’t dismiss these questions with some flippant remark about if it ain’t in the bible it is immaterial. YOU are the one that claims it is entirely possible to construct the arc. I think this is either just another example of another story or a prehistoric flood that was blown out of proportion or another fairy tale.
And do you really think Jonah lived in a fishes mouth for three days? How did he breathe?
Enjoy you bugs, but you are still evading the questions and problems.
Roman buildings were constructed of stone. The city had a crude sewer system to remove waste. The buildings were not used to crowd thousands of animals into unlit, unventilated rooms, one atop the other.
Roman ships were seldom very long, certainly not several hundreds of feet. Their trips were for days, usually within sight of land, and they used bilge pumps to drain the water seeping in.
The Romans had no need to use a 500′ tree as their ships weren’t that large. Composite keels could be strong enough for their purposes because the Romans did have access to much more metal, including iron, than was available in Noah’s time.
The keel is the most important part of a ship. It is also called the backbone of the ship. It is what keeps the ship in one piece. If the keel is broken, the ship generally breaks up.
There were few carnivores kept as pets in Rome. Those that were kept would have been fed Christians. (I jest there, that aspect was more a invention than an actual fact)
The answers might be found elsewhere, but it is YOU claiming to us this is actually possible. I am only asking you to back up that claim. Tell us how it is possible.
Alphie,
Your refusal to answer is just more evidence that you can’t answer. Here you make another stupid claim about how a model of the arc revolutionized modern shipbuilding. No link, no proof, no explanation or back up. Just another stupid claim you will insist is true. It isn’t.
You claimed the arc was feasible and linked to a christian site that tried to prove it. Only they didn’t back up what they wrote. They used conjecture instead.
My questions still stand. How did they handle all the animal waste? How did they ventilate the interior? How did they handle the bilge pumps? How did they find a tree tall enough for the keel (or are you now suggesting that modern container ships don’t have a keel?)?
Let me add a few more, how did they navigate and propel the vessel? Since they didn’t have power tools and metal tools were very expensive, how did they trim all that wood for the planking?
Hey, these are standard questions. If you don’t have the answer the manly thing to do would be to admit it. The worst answer is to tell me to go find it out myself. I already tried that route and came to the conclusion the arc, as presented in the bible, is another telling of another even older story of another great flood.
Is this one a part of marketing campaign?? I think it is~!