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So I had a lovely date night with hubby, eating brown butter bourbon bananas with ice cream and watching Aquaman. Life truly does not get any better than that.
I had no idea there was any great debate over Aquaman, but these days there is great debate over everything and somebody is sure to be offended. But never mind all that, the only debate that caught my attention was the one over whether or not he, Jason Momoa, was an attractive actor, as in desirable, or “crush worthy.” I am laughing here, some people apparently just do not find fish attractive, but I thought his scales were quite lovely.
For some gratuitous reality, because this is a biology blog after all, hubby and I decided a date night was desperately needed on account of the fact that he had just endured me watching a few hours of a special about a boy who had a fish living in his lung. I was quite fascinated by this dilemma, how the fish managed to get in there, how to remove it safely, and the medical condition of the poor kid who was near suffocation.
For those as morbid as I am, he somehow swallowed the fish when it was small, it got lost on the way down and wound up in his lung where it then proceeded to grow. Eventually the docs decided the best way to deal with it was to just cough it up. Yep, cough it up. They actually fed the fish some uppers and the child some steroids to get everything all riled up and squirming about.
And so the kid coughed it up and was free of the fish living in his lung. You’re welcome. I’m quite sure everyone needed to hear this story, just in case any potential fears of swallowing a brain eating amoeba have now faded…..
Also there was recently some roaring debate over Jonah and whether or not a man could live in the belly of a fish. Yes, yes I think so, but regardless, we certainly do know that a fish can live in a man! I find that whole discussion a bit amusing, because a man in a whale, that’s nothing! Easy peasy. Wait until you get to the part about a dead Man walking out of a tomb….
Also, twitter has just been a roaring train wreck of Christian woman bashing lately, so I’m just going to slip in a little reminder here. If it weren’t for the women at the tomb who were the first to carry the gospel, to carry the good news of the risen Lord to the others, there would be no church. For a few moments suspended in time, the Lord saw fit to leave it entirely in their hands. Ponder that one a few times.
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That fact that God empowers and forgives sinners (male or female) to carry the Gospel is truly incredible.
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Well great post, but I want to talk about the food. Did you make that picture? If so, wonderful presentation. The way our food looks surely affects its taste.
Hmm….perhaps the same could be said about our Christian lives.
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Amen, Wally. Presentation, presentation, presentation! We eat with our eyes FIRST. Yep, great analogy for the Christian life. You can’t fake it.
I didn’t take that photo, but brown butter bananas are just fried in a bit of butter and brown sugar, just enough to warm them and carmelize them. Yummy!
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It did look good for sure
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Of course there’s also the “leaving it in a woman’s hands” for 9 months that came earlier. 😉
Becky
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A few years ago a large shark was caught and killed off the coast of South America–I think Brazil; I’m not sure. When they cut it open, they found a dead man in the shark’s stomach. The shark had swallowed him whole. So, yes, Jonah could have been swallowed by a shark. The miracle was surviving three days in the shark’s stomach and surviving to be vomited out again. J.
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@ Salvage
Sentiments are fine, but not sure why we need to unnecessarily complicate things.
In Genesis, we have a ‘wink,’ as it were, that God in His goodness and providence created ‘great whales….’ after their kind.
Jesus Crist Himself, who is the Lord of Truth and glory, said Jonah had spent some time in the whales belly- that kind of settles it if scripture is not interpreted. No ambiguity here- no dream to decipher-
It would be nice to hear of believers who thought otherwise to say: god point- case closed.
While sharks may have swallowed people, so have alligators and anacondas-
The viper of the sea aka the shark is not a whale- and it seems Genesis is a great reminder.
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Ha! I very much like the point you have made, Colorstorm. I’m not speaking of Salvageable at all, but rather myself! Sometimes I will delight in discussing “great fish,” whales, or even the length of a “God day” in Genesis, and forget that it’s okay to simply take His word at face value, in it’s literal sense. Scripture has a lot of depth and dimension and reveals itself, “precept by precept, a little here, a little there,” but it can also just be incredibly simple and direct. It’s okay to just accept the “whale” or “great fish” description at face value. I live in the land of killer whales and they actually aren’t really whales either.
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And when I post, I too remember the word ‘examine yourself…………’ I’m not to examine you-
We are sooooooo not to be fruit inspectors as some like to say, but fruit producers and partakers- the guy with the crazy looking branches could be preparing for a great harvest, so we should be careful. 😉
But more. As if God was on high alert, KNOWING that godless science would challenge His very rights in making digestive tracts, as in saying hares do not chew the cud, or that bats……..aw nevermind.
I’m pretty sure though a three year old child will immediately recognize a whale as opposed to a dolphin, etc, so we are reminded of the guilelessness of Nathaniel.
As to your aquaman, I like how you wrapped it up at the end. Case closed.
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I always understood the women fled and said nothing? Where do they tell the others?
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