Where Was Moses When the Lights Went Out?

I'm not sure where they got the idea that Moses wrote the first four books of the Bible. I don't think it says so anywhere in those four books, or anywhere else in the Bible for that matter. It does say that God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and that, when Moses brought them down from the mountain, they were written on two "tables", which Moses smashed to pieces in a fit of rage when he caught the Israelites worshiping the golden calf. I just looked it up to be sure, it says that God wrote the commandments on the tables Himself, not that He dictated them for Moses to write down. Since the master copy was destroyed, I assume that there was a back up copy, perhaps stored in the Cloud, because the commandments obviously were not lost.

The reason I don't believe that Moses wrote any of those books is that Moses himself is always referred to in the third person: Moses did this and Moses did that. Of course anybody can write a story in the third person, but most authors, when writing about themselves, usually do so in the first person: I did this and I did that. Furthermore, all the stories in Genesis take place before Moses was born, so he couldn't have been an eyewitness to any of them. If Moses did indeed write that book, he must have gotten the information from somebody else, maybe God Himself. But then why didn't God write Genesis with His own hand like He did the Ten Commandments?

I don't remember having a wringer washer in my parent's house. We had an automatic washer and dryer, but sometimes my mother hung clothes out in the yard if the weather was decent. The washer must have been possessed by spirits or something because it had the habit of moving away from the wall during the spin cycle. We kept both machines in the kitchen because our basement was prone to flooding.

I told you wrong about those water towers. I saw on TV today that Flint has one too, so they must not be exclusively used in towns that get their water from wells. I don't remember ever seeing one in Chicago, but many of the suburbs had them, and probably still do.

Rural well pumps do not work when the power goes out so, if Moses was alive today, he would not only be in the dark when the lights went out, he would also be without running water, refrigeration, TV, and probably heat, unless he had a wood stove or fireplace that didn't require a circulating fan to operate. Not having the ability to bring forth water from solid rock with the tap of a staff, we keep several plastic jugs out in the garage for such contingencies. We can use our gas cooking stove for emergency heat, but we have to watch it because it's not vented. If we start getting sleepy, we just turn the stove off for awhile. For some reason, our power rarely goes out in really cold weather, so that's never been a big problem for us. We seldom lose power for more than a few hours where we live but, in the Black River area only a few miles away, they have been known to lose it for days at a time. Some of them have portable generators that enable them to run their refrigerators and a few other things, but I don't know of anybody who has a whole house generator except the hospital.

Are they letting my man Rand in the regular debates now? Last I heard they had separate kiddie table debates for the lesser luminaries. I did hear that a dozen or so candidates have dropped out, so maybe there's now room for everybody at the grown ups' table.