La Palma, Canary Islands - Volcano Thread

When you look at pictures and videos like this, is it any wonder ancient societies personified these events as the wrath of deities? Something like this happening out of nowhere to a mountain which had, for what would at the time have constituted multiple human lifetimes, been just an ordinary mountain, would be utterly, entirely, terrifyingly inexplicable by any rational mechanism in an era without a knowledge of the Earth's make-up or plate tectonics.

I'm trying to put myself in the head-space of witnessing something like this happening to my homeland entirely without precedent and with absolutely no knowledge of any of the science behind it. I can't even imagine how utterly horrifying that would be.

Three big explosions from around 23:36, third one is amazing and features an exploding lava bomb.

View blocked by (ash?)cloud. Watch from about 23:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFzZyTFQWo8

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Interesting quote. Move to the end of the compendium of letters from which it's taken and you'll read that the earth is going to be burnt up along with the heavens for a new heaven and new earth to take their place.

It really puts the climate change thing back in its box. They tell me the earth's overheating. This is just the build up. Roll on the end. 🙂

My last ever comment to you. In school it was sufficient to say 1 degree every 4 minutes. It is, in fact, every 3 min 59 seconds, but that depth of detail is beyond the scope of the school curriculum.

Now would you ever go and get yourself banned again and give us all a break.

There are a few interesting theories that Yahweh was based on a Babylonian volcano god. Whether it's a bit out there of a theory and inaccurate I'm not 100% sure as I haven't read up on it all that much, but yes it's very interesting reading some old Testament descriptions of god and his actions when you picture them as a volcano instead.

There really are quite a lot of them, but here are a few more I've found. Really does sound like a group of folks worshipping a volcano.

Can totally understand it too after watching the live feed of this one over the last while.

Exodus 24:17 To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.

Leviticus 9:24 Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.

Numbers 14:14 And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are with these people and that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Numbers 16:35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

Deuteronomy 5:4 The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

I think you'll find that existed before time began and is eternal. Also the other so called gods aren't gods. But keep reading the bible. It's his letter to the world.

You'll have no excuse then when you come face to face with the God you currently don't believe in 🙂

But back on thread. Is this going to go bang. Will the other volcanoes in the change be affected.

Will halloweenjack FIL be stuck in lanzarote dodging flying lava rocks.

Will there be a canary islands to visit next year