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Different Lot; there were more than one of them

Although the other Lot also had his worldy possesions destroyed, his sons killed, his wife left him and he was stricken with leprosy, I beleive, he ended up with twice as much stuff, sons that weren't drunk most of the time and no disease. (I can't remember if his wife came back or he got a new one)

It's the part of the Bible that gave us the phrase 'The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord.' - Said while sitting in the dirt, diseased.

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"The last shall become first, and the first shall become last"

Not sure of the exact phrasing, but that's the general idea.

Also, Lot's "comforters" weren't exactly nice guys when he was diseased, with boils covering his body, etc. Not nice guys at all, if I remember correctly. Was it his wife who said "curse god and die" ?? Or one of his "friends"? In either case, not something I'd say to a spouse, or a friend!!

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Just to clearify, I believe you guys may be confusing this Lot with Job. Job is the one who lost his children, his livestock, was cursed with leoprasy and his wife said to curse God and die.
(Another note: the reason that she said that is because she and Job both thought God was causing the calamities. Little did they know that it was actually Satan taking everything away from him. This account was the ultimate example of integrity.)
He did end up gaining double what he had before. Oh, and Narf, it was the same wife who came back to him.
Now Lot on the other hand lived in the city of Sodom just before it was destroyed.
While leaving his wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.

AgentZero: You are right when speaking of Lot losing all he had and impregnating his daughters. But they were the ones to initiate it.
Lot later moved from Zoar and began dwelling in a cave in a mountainous region. The prospective sons-in-law of Lot evidently died in Sodom, so Lot’s two daughters were without mates. They caused their father unwittingly to have sexual relations with them while he was under the influence of wine. This they did to preserve offspring from their father. As a result, each daughter had a son, from whom the Moabites and the Ammonites descended.

Anyways, this thread should get back on topic...

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Right, thanks.

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Ach, knew I had something wrong. Thanks for the correction.

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Or larger, his upper leg! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

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I thought an Ammonite was a swirly fossilised giant snail thing.

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Names get re-used.

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Ack! It's happening again! TV's been screwy the last few days & we can only get one station, so I just sat through part one of a piece of drivel called Supernova. Self explanatory, it's about people suddenly realizing the sun's about to go supernova. Of course, no one bothered to mention to the writers that our sun isn't big enough to go boom and they didin't even bother coming up with a half-baked excuse for why it suddenly can, which leads me to believe they didn't bother checking. Shoddy bit of fact-checking, that.
Plus there's an American news reporter with an English accent, and I've never heard an American reporter with a regional accent, much less a foreign one. Shoddy bit of casting, that.
And finally, there's a bit where our hero is brought to a massive underground city, designed to support enough people to create the genetic diversity required for the species to survive. Implausible, I thinks, but at least someone in the movie isn't totally daft. But our hero's reaction to it. "This is madness!" And a failed attempt to escape. Now the hero is a) supposedly very intelligent and b) believes the sun is about to explode, so one would think he'd be rather pleased that someone's come up with a way for some of humanity to survive, if they have any chance at all, but no! He thinks it's a terrible idea. Apparently the total annihilation of all human life is ok, as long as you get to spend it with friends & family. Shoddy bit of writing that.

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How exactly would burying yourself in an underground city protect you from a supernova? Might as well try to protect yourself from an atom bomb by opening an umbrella...