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LeeCodeman:
Can you help me with links to further explore JAMES HOLMAN and where you got this particular story from? Thanks

Hi lee...am glad you enjoyed this thread. Many of the characters are people i have read about long in the past and i am just trying to remember them and then i search google, wikipedia etc for more info on them. For info on James Holman and other crazy guyz, you can check out greatbritishnutters..com.

cheers.

How much is the pond the guy is standing by and whats the size and also the pond surrounded by those corrugated roofing sheet.

MizJanet:

its pure wickedness if he makes it wrong to kill the babies if truly they are going to heaven . Your bible said its his will that all men be saved , so why wont he embrace this option to get many people saved as possible ?


BUT If he condemn killing them in other to preserve their life , that means he knows death will terminate their existence .

That law that bans killing babies ONLY MAKES SENSE if the babies will cease to exist if killed .

If babies cease to exist , it clearly applies to everyone .

His earliest will is 'be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it'...killing babies would defeat that.

The Curious Case of the Spark Ranger: The Lightening Man

Roy Sullivan was born 1912 in Greene County in central Virginia, today home to just a shade over eighteen thousand people. He was the fourth of eleven children and lived in the Blue Ridge mountains with his family.

In 1940, at the age of 28, Sullivan joined the national park’s fire patrol. He became one of three rangers to monitor the forty mile area between Waynesboro and Swift Run Gap in the southern area of the park, less than eight miles from where he grew up.

In April 1942, Sullivan was in a fire tower lording over his land when a thunderstorm struck. This was a serious problem owing to the fact that the tower had no form of lightning rod installed. According to Sullivan himself, he saw lightning strike seven or eight times and the valley engulf in flames. He fled the tower, fearing what would become the inevitable. He didn’t make it far when he got hit.

Besides some burns, the bolt created a half inch stripe down his right leg and caused the nail on his big toe to fall off. Considering that about eighty four people die every year from lightning strikes, many would consider Roy Sullivan lucky.

For reference, about 10%-30% of people struck by lightning die from it and, according to National Geographic, the odds of a US citizen being struck by lightning during their lifetime is one in three thousand. Surprisingly high odds for something that is often used as an example of something that is exceptionally rare- “more likely to be struck by lightning than…” It should also be noted that as a park ranger in Virginia , which typically has 35-45 days per year with thunderstorms, the odds of being struck were a bit worse (or better, depending on how you want to look at it) for Mr. Sullivan than the average Joe.

As for getting struck by lightning twice, in general, there’s around a one in a nine million chance of this happening. Roy Sullivan was one of those, and more.

The second time Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning didn’t happen until twenty seven years after the first one, in July 1969. A summer storm hit while he was driving his truck on Skyline Drive. After several bolts around his truck, a flash came through his open window, striking him, charring his wristwatch and burning his eyebrows.

While many incorrectly think it is the rubber tires that make it safe to sit in a car in a lightning storm, this isn’t the case at all. Hundreds (or thousands) of feet of air is a greater insulator than a couple inches of rubber, and lightning has no trouble with that air barrier.

For your reference, air generally has a breakdown voltage of about 20-75 kV/inch. Rubber rings in at about 450-700 kV/inch. As lightning will take the easiest path to ground, you might think from those breakdown voltages it would still take the path through the 5-7 ft of air rather than through an inch or two of rubber after traveling through the very conductive metal frame of your car. However, many modern tires are designed to act as conductors, rather than insulators, so static charge doesn’t build up too much in your car.

So why are cars and trucks usually safe to sit in in a thunder storm? This is because of the metal body of a vehicle and something known as the “skin effect” (more on that here). Essentially, the metal cage around you provides an easy path to ground, and as long as you’re not touching anything metal in the car, you will usually be completely fine.

“Usually,” I said, because there are exceptions nicely illustrated by Mr. Sullivan. The problem Roy Sullivan had was that he had his window down. Glass is an excellent electrical insulator (breakdown voltage at 2000-3000 kv/inch- much greater than even rubber). Had the window been up, he’d have likely been fine with all the bolt’s energy discharged around him, instead of some arcing inside the truck striking him.

After his vehicle and he were struck, Sullivan lost consciousness and his truck rolled into a ditch. But he survived. Again, Roy was lucky.

The third time Roy was struck by lightning, he was home, tending to his garden, when a clear sky turned ominous and lightning struck a power transformer nearby. Besides the transformer being hit, Sullivan got a glancing blow to his shoulder. He was knocked down, but the damage was pretty minimal compared to the first two times.

By now, Roy was getting nicknames like “The Human Lightning Rod” and “The Spark Ranger.”

The fourth time he was struck, well, it entered the realm of the absurdity. He was manning a station at the Loft Mountain camping area in 1972. As Roy himself described,

There was a gentle rain, but no thunder until just one big clap, the loudest thing I ever heard. The fire was bouncing around the inside of the station, and when my ears stopped ringing, I heard something sizzling. It was my hair on fire.

After putting out the fire, once again, Roy headed off to the hospital for treatment. At this point, Roy’s story began attracting national attention. He was interviewed by David Frost; he was on the game show “To Tell the Truth”; and was featured in the 1972 Guinness Book of World Records, where, after they verified the strikes, he was given the distinction of the “only living man to be struck by lightning four times.”

The fifth one supposedly happened again while traveling in his truck in a storm. After he felt the storm had passed, he exited his truck only to be hit, singeing him pretty good and knocking him to the ground. The sixth time, he claimed he was convinced the storm was following him and out to get him. He was hit, resulting in serious burns on his chest and stomach area. At this point, we can only hope the local hospital was giving him a bit of a discount on burn treatments, whether the latter instances were really from lightning strikes or not.

He retired from the parks service late in 1976 and moved with his fourth wife to a town called “Dooms.” Just to be safe, he went ahead and installed several lightning rods to his home, including sinking the thick copper wire seven feet deep in the ground. Unfortunately, he wasn’t home when the next lightning strike supposedly happened. He was fishing. When it hit, he once again sustained burns and nearly lost consciousness before picking himself up and heading to the car to go seek medical treatment. The local media caught wind of it and in the subsequent interview, Sullivan stated, “Some people are allergic to flowers, but I’m allergic to lightning.”

Even if someone doesn’t die from being struck by lightning, health issues can arise, and do in about 80% of the survivors. Severe skin burns, singed hair, and paralyzation are just some of the injuries one can suffer. Memory loss, frontal lobe damage, permanent brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, personality changes, and depression are other consequences from being struck by lightning that may not be as apparent right away. And, indeed, there were reports from those who knew him that Sullivan’s mental health was slipping a bit over time culminating in the events of the night of September 28, 1983. At some point in the middle of the night, with his wife sleeping next to him, Roy died from a gunshot wound to the head. Police determined it was self-inflicted

Seven strikes
The first documented lightning strike of Sullivan occurred in April 1942. He was hiding from a thunderstorm in a fire lookout tower. The tower was newly built and had no lightning rod at the time; it was hit seven or eight times. Inside the tower, "fire was jumping all over the place". Sullivan ran out and just a few feet away received what he considered to be his worst lightning strike. It burned a half-inch strip all along his right leg, hit his toe, and left a hole in his shoe.[7]
He was hit again in July 1969. Unusually, he was hit while in his truck, driving on a mountain road—the metal body of a vehicle normally protects people in cases such as this by acting as a Faraday cage. The lightning first hit nearby trees and was deflected into the open window of the truck. The strike knocked Sullivan unconscious and burned off his eyebrows, eyelashes, and most of his hair. The uncontrolled truck kept moving until it stopped near a cliff edge.[6][7]
In 1970, Sullivan was struck while in his front yard. The lightning hit a nearby power transformer and from there jumped to his left shoulder, searing it.[6][7]
In 1972, Sullivan was working inside a ranger station in Shenandoah National Park when another strike occurred. It set his hair on fire; he tried to smother the flames with his jacket. He then rushed to the restroom, but couldn't fit under the water tap and so used a wet towel instead.[7] Although he never was a fearful man, after the fourth strike he began to believe that some force was trying to destroy him and he acquired a fear of death. For months, whenever he was caught in a storm while driving his truck, he would pull over and lie down on the front seat until the storm passed. He also began to carry a can of water with him and believed that he would somehow attract lightning even if he stood in a crowd of people.[2][8]
On August 7, 1973, while he was out on patrol in the park, Sullivan saw a storm cloud forming and drove away quickly. But the cloud, he said later, seemed to be following him. When he finally thought he had outrun it, he decided it was safe to leave his truck. Soon after, he was struck by a lightning bolt. Sullivan stated that he actually saw the bolt that hit him. The lightning set his hair on fire, moved down his left arm and left leg and knocked off his shoe. It then crossed over to his right leg just below the knee. Still conscious, Sullivan crawled to his truck and poured the can of water, which he always kept there, over his head.[2][8]
The next strike, on June 5, 1976, injured his ankle. It was reported that he saw a cloud, thought that it was following him, tried to run away, but was struck anyway.[6]
On Saturday morning, June 25, 1977, Sullivan was struck while fishing in a freshwater pool. The lightning hit the top of his head, singed his hair, traveled down, and burnt his chest and stomach. Sullivan turned to his car when something unexpected occurred — a bear approached the pond and tried to steal trout from his fishing line. Sullivan had the strength and courage to strike the bear with a tree branch. He claimed that this was the twenty-second time he hit a bear with a stick in his lifetime.[2]
All seven strikes were documented by the superintendent of Shenandoah National Park, R. Taylor Hoskins, and were verified by doctors. Sullivan himself recalled that the first time he was struck by lightning was not in 1942 but much earlier. When he was a child, he was helping his father to cut wheat in a field, when a thunderbolt struck the blade of his scythe without injuring him. But because he could not prove the fact later, he never claimed it.

dolphinheart:
Are you saying it will be self defeating for the babies?
What will happen to the baby if the mother kills him/she at child birth deliberately?

What the bible affirms is that such a mother will be held accountable for her actions.

The Bible specifically does not mention what happens to such babies. So anything said would be speculations and educated/informed guesses which could be totally wrong.
For Example When King Jeroboam's infant baby was sick, the wife sought God's prophet for a cure, she was told the baby would die but he would be the only one that would be properly buried because something good was found in the baby, whereas all other children of Jeroboam would die shameful deaths with no proper burial.

When Rachel was pregnant with Isaac and Esau, the scriptures said he saw the two of them struggling in the womb and saw that one would be greater than the other.
So that shows God can see something good or bad in a baby and can make judgement based on it.

Whether God does that for all babies or dead babies, i don't know.

There was also a prophesy about Rachel weeping for the babies and children that were killed by Herod and the prophesy stated that all the children would be resurrected.

That is as much as i know from the scriptures about the matter.

MizJanet:
those who said babies go to heaven, but fail to kill those babies at birth . They would have shown the greatest love to those babies by killing them instantly .

It would have been self-defeating because the same people believe if they kill it is a sin. So the same God they believe in makes it wrong to kill the babies, so that cancels the option

Well we can also add the following to the list of mentally sick people:

All the soldiers that signs up to go to war without knowing the real cause or going when they know their country/cause is wrong.
All politicians who embezzles money when they know how it affects people.
All the scientists who believe in the unseen such as the big bang and electrons.
All the people who smoke despite repeated warnings that it can lead to death should be certified mentally ill and unable to make decisions
All the people who cheat on their spouses knowing they can cause so much grief and distress to themselves and their family.
All the scientists that believe there must be life outside earth and spends billions of dollars (while billions are suffering) looking for it just because there are billions of galaxy need to have their heads examine.

OdenigboAroli:
Obi of Onicha pays homage to who??
You smoke garri

There was an old man in my mom's village in ishan called Aroli...dont know if its a name or nickname but the guy can sing. While sleeping on a mud bed in my grandma's quarters. You can hear Aroli singing into the night.....your name just brought memories.

niggi4life:
Sumtin wey God personally curse na im people begin dey chop anyhow, na wa o

God cursed the ground and you still eat its produce.

preciousMI1:
snake pepper soup

Your head is very there. My grandpa used to bring them home in the village and it was wonderful. My mother-in-law is also an initiate. the day my wife saw the cooked meat with the skin intact she almost fainted.....we used to order snake meat to cook while in angola hall OAU.

Wonderful times.

My wife no let me near them again, am sure she would not kiss me for months if i eat them now.

brixton:
Etsako boys

You done spoil this thread. I was about saying thank God, no yoruba boys performing, ibo boy doing wonders comments, which always annoy, now you don gone do it. Very annoying.

daresimon:
Pasuma actually blends better than ayuba does.
The guy actually started doing hiphop way back in 1998 with the remedies....rememba?

Shakomo days

Yes o..i dont know how pasuma does it, anytime he features for hip-hop artists he blends so well i always prefer his part. remember his collabo with daddy showkey and i think father u-turn...so nice and several others....ayuba does not come close to his blends

Gelengelen:
[size=18pt] please dont bury her. it will be an insult to the ground.
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[size=35pt] BURN HER ADULTEROUS BODY AND THROW HER ASH IN THE WIND. HANG THE OTHER MAN TOO AND FEED HIM TO PIGS[/size]

Pigs dont eat such poo

davien:
The biafran war isn't any spectacular claim, wars happen all the time....and all wars have each sides' take in the war(subjective view) with each promoting a certain view of it...the difference is the evidence....one has left scars physically and mentally and in our history books and the other is a collection of Jews who already accepted preconceived notions of certain tribes each compiled into a holy book and decided which verse to be considered scripture(leaving gaps in related stories)...so the bible's account is not even a consideration in telling you any historical event accurately because it is compelled to offer a narrative of belief...

I only tried to fault the logic used in your earlier statement that people having various interpretations of a story/event or thought does not necessarily mean there is no truth to be found therein. The Bible never claim to be a scientific or history book so it should not be expected to give details of history it tells. It is meant to form a system of beliefs and preach the superiority of its beliefs. But to say the Bible's account is not even a consideration in telling a historical event accurately is totally wrong when many historians, archaeologists etc has testified to its historical accuracy in so many instances.

Confirmer:
And they didn't kill (in fact behead) John the Baptist despite the fact that he was a prophet? The Jew knew John was a prophet and they didn't spare him so what makes Jesus any different.

The Jews didn't kill John, it was Herod an edomite that killed John. John was highly regarded as a prophet even the political and hypocritical pharisees were afraid to deny his prophet-hood.

davien:
It's apparent that the creation story of Christianity isn't true in the slightest sense...how?...this thread has 100+ "interpretations" of the same story...all ending with different conclusions.....does the truth need "interpretations" or someones "take" on it?

The biafran war is just about 50 years old and many of the major and minor players are still alive. But if you bring them together you would have over a 100 versions, by the time you add nairaland people to it, the interpretation becomes 1000+. So what is the truth of the biafran war, does the fact that there are 100s of version mean it never happened or there is no truth in the war.

MosakuAW:
This is the problem in this country. Federal road- State road.....

We the masses are the one suffering. How do you tell that to a market woman that the road is a Federal road. As long as the road is in Nigeria fu**k Federal or State. Make govt just do something. #Shikena.

The FG has not paid the money for the fedral roads that the states constructed. So many states are not ready to do it again.

drealaz24:
I think people in all d African country should start protesting carrying placards like;

ICC SHould leave Omar alone

Arrest bush before Omar

Arrest Netanyahu before Omar

Arrest Putin before Omar


let's open our eyes o

They want to create enmity BTW African Nations

Egbami naa

ICC, we are talking abt a country here faa

You want to arrest a sitting president of a country.

How can u order an African country to arrest another leader of another African country.

This guys have an agenda and they can do anything to achieve it.

We are sovereign nations

you cant take us back to the precolonial era

African Leaders, pls say no to modern slavery.


Africa leaders, pls be serious and save this continent so DAT posterity will remember u for good. Africa leaders, pls stop being selfish and greedy. we have d resources, pls don't sell our continent for peanut.

peace out

Leave netanyahu out of it. He is not a war criminal neither has he commited genocide.

ronald4lif:
I hope it's true he's flown back to Sudan safely. Omar Bashir committed war crimes against the Sudanese people and that we're aware of. But Obama, Francois Hollande and David Cameron also committed war crimes in Libya and Egypt. Benjamin Netanyahu keeps bombarding and massacring children and women in Palestine and they are all yet to face trial on war crimes. Africans are not puppets of the West and we must reject their political influence in Africa.

And hamas has kept throwing rockets into Israel and they have asked that they be brought to ICC, Saudi Arabia is also currently bombing yemen to smithereens killing women and children and their King still goes anywhere without being harassed.

As to where the devil got its power, it is the power inherent in him as a spirit. Each person, body or thing has inherent power by virtue of their existence. A man has his powers bestowed on him by virtue of his existence, so weda he is good or bad does not take his powers away.

Satan still has his powers as a former cherub. Powers that we term supernatural to ours.

theAtheist101:
Have you used one before? What is your definition of juju? Does it include herbs? Most juju are only practiced with mouth and promoted by fear. My conclusion, limit the nollywood movies you watch! Most of their play writers have very low IQ!

I agree totally with you about the nollywood writers, bunch of crap they keep churning out. To tap into the supernatural forces is not a commonplace knowledge but man for thousands of years and spent so much fortunes on a lie. All cultures at a time believe in juju or voodoo, we can't all be so gullible if there are no clear cases of such supernatural occurences

evegran:
Smh!
Churches n Mosques should be removed from residential areas!!!

That is never ever going to happen. Xtians should engage their pastors and churches to reason with them about the noise they are causing in the neighborhood. Muslims can say in their tenets/beliefs, there is always a call to prayer by the muezzin but it doesn't say he should use a loud speaker. He can call people to prayers using just his voice, he would have followed his beliefs and also put others into consideration.

DrGroove:
Why am I not surprised at this news?
Because ALL married men have girlfriends(whether regular or flings)
No matter how dramatic the proposal
No matter how expensive the wedding ceremony
No matter how romantic the honeymoon
No matter how he says I love you
No matter how you broadcast,advertise and showcase him
No matter how it seems he is the best man in the world
No matter how he carries big bible n speaks in tongues
He has a side chic(s) he is seriously,happily screwing without regrets
Give your heart to a man and watch yourself die young
Love a man in sincerity and watch yourself go crazy
Deceive yourself enough to trust a man and see yourself watching horror film
Make the mistake of thinking "He is different" and get the shock of your life
You can be the only wife of a man
you can be his only cook and home maker
You are VERY VERY lucky if u are the only mother of all his children
But you will/can NEVER be the only veejay his dicckk screws!
News of hubby impregnating side chic should not come as a surprise.Except you don't want to accept the reality and bask in the euphoria of scam called love.
Toke should gather herself together and face it!
What her darly husband has done is not a big deal.That is the true characteristic of a normal man.

Eeyah sorry about the hurt feelings. Most men are gutter rats but there are so many who don't cheat. Such abnormal men abound, am also very 'abnormal'.

I was mightily pissed at savior Godwin in the first half, twisting and turning and getting nowhere, possibly has not gotten into his groove. Sokarihas great shots but needs more accuracy in shooting and passing. Musa's crosses still needs a lot of working on, but his freekicks area beauty.

Success has no mate in this tournament amongst the strikers, he is really the beast. These kids are too kiddy to stop him. He just needs the passes. I think the guys that have played real pro football should be brot in. I want to see moses simon on the left. I don't think success and simon has any jitters. They are way past this level. Iheanacho should come back. Akinjide should be retained.

ghettodreamz:
Our first yellow card of the game

Z. BELLO

Nope, korea had the first yellow card of the game.

Safarigirl oooooo, Awoniyi has started o. Clear one on one

Are they just jittery or what.

safarigirl:
lol....you go dey vent, me I go just lock up

Na true o, na so u miss completely after the first game. No worry any time he miss na your name I go dey shout for here. Try watch the match this time, because this is the match the worst player can shine. So I expect a haul of goals

safarigirl:
I did not say anything o....Awoniyi is bae sha

If your guy fu.kup tomorrow, na u I go vent my frustration on. So pls help me beg am make e release the beast in him and forget gentleman for now.

tbaba1234:
He did not have a serious injury... He is fit enough... Simon played Gent's game.

Isaac success is fit

Maybe that is the game he got injured. The Korean defended as if hey have chicken legs. We should beat them with a large margin

Why is Isaac success not in the line up. Except he has an injury i still prefer him as a point man to Taiwo. Taiwo seems to need a lot of chances before he scores like arsenal strikers.