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Overreach?

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Most of you have no clue about these distances I will discuss today.  (That’s why I have a map below.) But, when I was little- around 6- I rode my bike from my house in Forest City to Lee’s Hobby Shop in East Meadow. So, I could buy chemicals for my basement lab. (No, we are NOT going to talk about what happened to my chem lab- or me- or my parent’s house, either. At least not today.) A distance of about 3 ½ miles. Only about ½ mile on really major highways.

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Helicopter. Ego. Growth.

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I’m sure by now you know that I’m a reasonably religious fellow.  (No, I did not say I was reasonable; I said that my religion is a basic foundation of my life 🙂 ).  And, given that, I believe that the Supreme Being (SB) created this world in 6 days.  Now, let’s not worry about the literal sense, since the Tora defines a day as evening and morning.  Given the fact that there were no luminaries at first and the world may or may not have been spinning, that first day could have been a millennium or a 1000 millennia using our chronometers.

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