Coupla links: Is I-35 holy? And an online snowplow game
Posted on December 5th, 2007 – 1:11 PMBy Roadguy
- A holy highway: WCCO reports that a growing number of evangelical Christians consider Interstate 35 to be a holy highway; click here for text and video.
- Try your fingers at plowing: The Boston Globe’s website offers this game, in which players attempt to clear the streets of snowflakes and peppermints. (Mini-review: Roadguy found the arrow keys not terribly intuitive, perhaps because he’s used to playing this version of Pac-Man. Also, he couldn’t get the game to work via Firefox, but Explorer was OK.)
19 Responses to "Coupla links: Is I-35 holy? And an online snowplow game"
Holy highway? I don’t get it. Even reading the article, I’m still far from understanding why I35 qualifies. There has to be some far better info out there on why.
*shakes head*
Here you go Curmudgeon Geographer:
http://tcdailyplanet.net/article/2007/11/30/holy-highway-evangelicals-pray-light-interstate-35.html
The TC Daily Planet post also contains a Youtube video of Pat Robertson’s 700 club episode on the subject (it’s hilarious).
Apparently the movement relates to a passage in the bible from chapter 35, hence I-35. You can’t make this stuff up, apparently. I wonder why KK didn’t write on this subject?
the game works fine for me in FF. but you’re right about the controls.
Thanks Matty, it adds a little bit more. I’m bothered when people see something profound in total coincidence. Even more so when they go and act on coincidence. I guess there really isn’t much more to be explained. Just a bunch of people thinking they are connecting the dots. *sigh*
“A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it.”
Oh wow… what I’m deducing from this sentence is that these people think the 13 that died were sinners… or that we’re all sinners, thus not being able to travel on the bridge anymore. Not cool. The bridge was neglected by our government and taxes, thus it fell. It has nothing to do with their omnipotent god ‘punishing’ us.
I may have just aggrivated other people, but I’m going to post my opinion anyway…
Matty said: “Apparently the movement relates to a passage in the bible from chapter 35, hence I-35. You can’t make this stuff up, apparently.”
Oh no, Matty and I agreed on something. First the I-35 thing and now this. Surely the apocalypse is upon us.
I wonder if these sheeple realize that 35E is the actual route of I-35 through the cities….. 35W, and thus its bridge, are an extra route - just check the mile posts.
Remember, these same people said Tinky Winky was gay.
People just need to find solace in tradgedy. If it means scouring the bible for a verse that would coincidently match this, then so be it.
…but if it means people trying to tell me or other people who don’t believe in everything they say to stay off I-35, then it’s a problem. We don’t need Westboro Baptists holding up signs against Homosexuals on this new “holy highway”.
I applaud WCCO and the other journalists who’ve covered the Holy Highway story for their amazing display of journalistic objectivity. It must have been incredibly difficult to resist laughing in the faces of the people who believe this nonsense.
Well said, Jack.
I scored 3500 on the plowing game, all you heathens are going to hell.
29,000. Ohhhhh yeahhhhh.
No stop signs
Speed limit
Nobody’s gonna slow me down
…
I’m on the highway to hell
…
Down here on the other end of 35, we get protests on our street corners…
If you look at the 700 Club video, you’ll see some true heathens… the gays. Never mind that I-35E in Dallas is LINED with Gentlemen’s Clubs…
So all of the persuasion provided by the “gentlemen’s clubs” in Dallas must not be too effective either in changing one’s sexuality. Go figure. . .
If being true to one’s self equates to heathenism then I say we need us some more heathens in the world.
I made it to day two on the snow plow game on my second try before I decided to switch to more productive diversions. (It worked fine for me too with Fire Fox. Down with IE!)
I think we’re desperate for a new thread Roadguy. . .
That’s awesome! I did a little looking through the concordance for highways and came up with a couple others:
I-11 and I-19 apparently are parallel highways between Egypt and Assyria. I-19 obviously not meaning the one in Arizona.
I-40 is the “highway for our God” made straight in the wilderness. Which must be referring only to the section in the Southwest.
Nobody ever uses I-33 anymore as it’s deserted and “no travelers are on the roads.”
And the P-7 (Proverbs 7) is the “highway to the grave.” Must be a county road somewhere.
Unfortunately I-94, 494, and 694 are all un-biblical so those who travel them are damned. Bummer.
|Becky says:
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|“A highway will be there, a roadway,
|and it will be called the Highway of
| Holiness. The unclean will not travel
|on it.”
|
|Oh wow… what I’m deducing from this
|sentence is that these people think
|the 13 that died were sinners… or that |we’re all sinners, thus not being able
Your deduction is backwards.
If “unclean will not travel on it.”, then anyone who travels on it is not unclean.
>Dodgeboy says:
>Remember, these same people said
>Tinky Winky was gay.
Actually, it was claimed by people in the gay community, CNN (www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9712/24/teletubbies/), The Village Voice and the Washington post (quoted by Falwell) first.
Falwell picked up on it and somehow all the media decided that it was a shocking statment.
Nice blog!
