SHAZAM!

Lightning exits woman's bottom
October 09, 2006 12:00am
Article from: "The Australian"

A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.

Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at in her home in the Croatian city of Zadar when lightning struck the building.

She said: "I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building. I don't remember much after that, but I was later told that the lightning had travelled down the water pipe and struck me on the mouth, passing through my body. It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don't remember much at all."

Doctors at the city hospital where she was treated for burns to the mouth and rear said: "The accident is bizarre but not impossible. "She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of her backside," a medic told local newspaper.

"It appears to have earthed through the damp shower curtain that she was touching as she bent over to put her mouth under the tap. If she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed by the blast."

The local paper said the young woman had been released from hospital after being kept in overnight and was expected to make a full recovery.

(THIS IS A REAL STORY!!! Good thing she wasn't passing gas or she might've gone into orbit!)

Does it change anything?

Well I finally saw "The Da Vinci Code" movie. I read the book when it came out, but never had a chance to see the movie. They did a good job with it. It's a storyline that really makes you think.

Realizing the story is a work of FICTION, it still is thought provoking. For me, as a protestant, does it matter if Jesus was just a man? Does it matter if he was married? Does it shake my faith in everything I've been taught to believe?

Hmm... um... er... ah... hrrm... after giving it an incredibly deep, objective, methodical 30 seconds of thought... no. Doesn't affect me one bit.

It doesn't change the things he taught (he never taught us to be unmarried and celibate, or not to dance or drink alcohol).

It doesn't change the amazing things he did (I can't walk on water, raise the dead, or turn water into wine... and neither can the Pope).

It doesn't change the message of salvation and love he spread (I still have trouble turning the other cheek when useless morons strap bombs around their belts or fly airliners into buildings killing innocent people)

It doesn't change the power of prayer (I've seen too many amazing things to not believe it)

It doesn't make him any less divine, and it doesn't reduce the importance of the sacrifice he made on our behalf.

It doesn't affect me because we, including the the men at the Council of Nicea are only human. We're falible. If those fellows got it wrong which books should have been included in the bible, do we shoot the messenger (Church)? No. We absorb the truth, adjust our understanding of history, and keep marching forward, because in the end the church is only a guide, the church is the house of God, not God Himself; and the church is run by humans, and humans make mistakes.

What it would possibly do is shake the foundations of the richest, most powerful religious organization in the world. The real question is, would the church - the supposed keeper of spiritual enlightenment - be willing to accept a change to themselves if it was proven without a doubt?

Would you?