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Originally Posted by BlackSheep
Wow, I'm just asking a question.....Its been on the news where I live that TV are having problems with sink holes and people under 55 getting in trouble, your supposed to be the friendliest place around..... not very nice....
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I wasn't joking. More homes have been destroyed in The Villages, and more lives lost, by lightning strikes than by sinkholes.
When it comes to when your life will end, God is in charge.
"The Appointment in Samarra"
(as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933])
There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me.
She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.
Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw Death standing in the crowd and he came to Death and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?
That was not a threatening gesture, Death said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.