Apparently Uncle Ken doesn't want to talk about the "chicks up front" thing anymore, which means I win by default. Right? Just kidding, I don't expect that any further information I might find about the subject will change his mind, but I will continue to search in my spare time for my own satisfaction. Also, I promised my sister that I would let her know what I found out.
I thought at first that Uncle Ken was pulling my leg with that Red Heifer story, but a quick trip to Wiki confirmed that there was indeed something to it. I must have read about it in the Bible, but I have no memory of that. There was a lot of stuff in the Bible that I kind of scanned over because it either seemed redundant or didn't make a lot of sense to me. I was mostly interested in the books that had a cohesive story line in them. Genesis and Exodus were cool, but I just waded through Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy to get to Joshua, which picks up the story where Exodus leaves off.
We have talked before about the popular fascination that apocalyptic scenarios hold for many people. As for me, I am not looking forward to the end of my own personal world, much less the end of everybody else's. This world may not be perfect, but it's all we've got to work with for now, and there is no guarantee that the next world, if there is a next world, will be any better. Like Jesus said, "Better the evil you know than the evil you do not know."
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