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A certain American religious sect has been looking at conditions of the world

during the Flood

According to their calculations, during the Flood the winds, tides and currents

were in an overall southeasterly direction

This would mean that in order for Noah’s Ark to have ended up on Mount Ararat,

it would have to have started out several thousand miles to the west

This would then locate pre-Flood civilization in the area of Upstate New York,

and the Garden of Eden roughly in New York City

Now, in order to get from one place to another, something must move

No one in New York remembers moving, and there are no traces of Biblical

history in the Upstate New York area

So we are led to the only available conclusion in this time warp,

and that is that the Ark has simply not left yet

Let’s compare this situation to a familiar occurrence:

You’re driving alone at night

And it’s dark and it’s raining

And you took a turn back there

And you’re not sure now that it was the right turn

But you took the turn anyway

And you just keep going in this direction

Eventually, it starts to get light and you look out and you realize

You have absolutely no idea where you are

So you get out at the next gas station and you say:

Hello. Excuse me. Can you tell me where I am?

You can read the signs. You’ve been on this road before. Do you want to go home?

Do you want to go home now?

Hello. Excuse me. Can you tell me where I am?

You can read this sign language. In our country, this is the way we say Hello

SAY HELLO

Hello. Excuse me. Can you tell me where I am?

In our country, this is the way we say Hello

It is a diagram of movement between two people

It is a sweep on the dial

In our country, this is also the way we say Goodbye

Hello. Excuse me. Can you tell me where I am?

In our country, we send pictures of people speaking our sign language in Outer

Space

We are speaking our sign language in these pictures

Do you think that They will think his arm is permanently attached in this

position?

Oh, do you think They will read our signs?

In our country, Goodbye looks just like Hello

SAY HELLO

SAY HELLO

SAY HELLO

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