Beware: A dead snake may bite too.

[Aupmanyav]

WASHINGTON: Snakes can be dangerous even after they are dead as they retain reflexes hours after death. “A snake’s post-mortem movements are fueled by the ions, or electrically charged particles, which remain in the nerve cells of a snake for several hours after it dies,” Steven Beaupre, professor at the University of Arkansas in the US, said. When the nerve of a newly dead snake is stimulated, the channels in the nerve will open up, allowing ions to pass through. This creates an electrical impulse that enables the muscle to carry out a reflexive action, like a bite.
(Hindustan Times report today)

These actions do not depend on the will of a God.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

What does religion have to do with this?

 

[Chakra]

How does it contradict the will of God in any way? This is simply the nature of snakes. It is God who ordained it to be so anyway.

 

[Kielbasa]

How does it contradict the will of God in any way? This is simply the nature of snakes. It is God who ordained it to be so.

The last time I killed a snake, I followed up by chopping its head off with a shovel. What is the equivalent response for dealing with religion?

 

[Quagmire]

The last time I killed a snake, I followed up by chopping its head off with a shovel. What is the equivalent response for dealing with religion?

If chopping off heads is your solution, then I would say you and religion should deal with each other and leave the rest of us out of it.

 

[Thruve]

wtf luls

 

[Revoltingest]

WASHINGTON: Snakes can be dangerous even after they are dead as they retain reflexes hours after death. “A snake’s post-mortem movements are fueled by the ions, or electrically charged particles, which remain in the nerve cells of a snake for several hours after it dies,” Steven Beaupre, professor at the University of Arkansas in the US, said. When the nerve of a newly dead snake is stimulated, the channels in the nerve will open up, allowing ions to pass through. This creates an electrical impulse that enables the muscle to carry out a reflexive action, like a bite.
(Hindustan Times report today)

These actions do not depend on the will of a God.

I learned this by watching a TV show about what not to do around deadly snakes.
Upshot: Don't play with deadly snakes, even when dead. They can still strike & kill.

 

[Kielbasa]

If chopping off heads is your solution, then I would say you and religion should deal with each other and leave the rest of us out of it.

It was the way I dealt with a cottonmouth on a path being traveled by schoolchildren that day. I was asking how this translates to dealing with theological matters and the human experience.

 

[George-ananda]

WASHINGTON: Snakes can be dangerous even after they are dead as they retain reflexes hours after death. “A snake’s post-mortem movements are fueled by the ions, or electrically charged particles, which remain in the nerve cells of a snake for several hours after it dies,” Steven Beaupre, professor at the University of Arkansas in the US, said. When the nerve of a newly dead snake is stimulated, the channels in the nerve will open up, allowing ions to pass through. This creates an electrical impulse that enables the muscle to carry out a reflexive action, like a bite.
(Hindustan Times report today)

These actions do not depend on the will of a God.

I do not understand what you want to debate in this Religious Debates thread. You might have an issue I'm missing.

 

[Revoltingest]

It was the way I dealt with a cottonmouth on a path being traveled by schoolchildren that day. I was asking how this translates to dealing with theological matters and the human experience.

Easy! Are you anxious to find out if there's an afterlife?
Or can you wait? If you can wait, then don't pick up the dead snake.

 

[idav]

These actions do not depend on the will of a God.

If a god wants a snake to bite you still try to avoid it.

 

[Kielbasa]

If a god wants a snake to bite you still try to avoid it.

Sounds like you are advocating defying God's will. Have a nice time in Hell, sinner.

 

[outhouse]

WASHINGTON: Snakes can be dangerous even after they are dead as they retain reflexes hours after death..

And we can drop nukes on the snake and it will never bite again.


We typically cut the head off.

 

[outhouse]

Have a nice time in Hell, sinner.

:biglaugh:


oh please forgive us heathens so that we may have everlasting mythological life

 

[Valjean]

It was the way I dealt with a cottonmouth on a path being traveled by schoolchildren that day. I was asking how this translates to dealing with theological matters and the human experience.

There are cottonmouths in Maryland?!

 

[Kielbasa]

:biglaugh:


oh please forgive us heathens so that we may have everlasting mythological life

It was sarcasm. Maybe you should've looked to the post I was responding to, instead of just mine alone?

 

[outhouse]

It was sarcasm.

Mine wasn't

 

[YmirGF]

There are cottonmouths in Maryland?!

Yeah, that is certainly newsworthy. Better call my uncle in New Jersey and give him the head's up.

 

[NicholasJClark]