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How much bigger than normal does an animal have to be to be truly frightening? Not normal scary, like "Oh, there's a bear! I want to get away from here ASAP without attracting it's attention," but "I don't think that's natural and it might even be a demon or something," about to descend into panic frightening. We were driving around Waubee Lake yesterday (our church had service with lunch afterward at the church camp there) and through a wooded section where you could expect deer to wander into the road and in the time it took to pass through it, I imagined a deer wandering into the road, a larger than normal deer wandering into the road, and then a deer so enormous it couldn't be natural wandering into the road. And then immediately began to wonder how much bigger than normal would an animal have to be to be truly, panic-instilling, frightening, to the point where you believed it might be something supernatural.
This morning they tested the tornado siren (the emergency alert siren) which they do the first Monday of every month. I doubt anyone pays any attention to it. I was reading work email, Irish was on the bed reading on his Kindle, and the cats were under the bed because they hate it. It occurred to me that if someone wanted to cause chaos, they could find out when the majority of towns (cities, whatever) test their emergency alert system, then do whatever it was they had planned around that time. The sirens would go off and no one would pay any attention to them at first. By the time they realized it wasn't the standard, regular test, things would already be going south in a huge way. Hmm, writing that down I can see major holes in that plan. I suppose I could find ways to plug them if I really wanted to but I don't right now. It was just one of those weird passing thoughts!
Also - random rock:
This rock is at the Old Rugged Cross church that I posted about last week. I just thought it was cool enough to take photos from all sides - it's big enough to sit on and it almost looks as if you were meant to. (That's Irish in the background.)
This morning they tested the tornado siren (the emergency alert siren) which they do the first Monday of every month. I doubt anyone pays any attention to it. I was reading work email, Irish was on the bed reading on his Kindle, and the cats were under the bed because they hate it. It occurred to me that if someone wanted to cause chaos, they could find out when the majority of towns (cities, whatever) test their emergency alert system, then do whatever it was they had planned around that time. The sirens would go off and no one would pay any attention to them at first. By the time they realized it wasn't the standard, regular test, things would already be going south in a huge way. Hmm, writing that down I can see major holes in that plan. I suppose I could find ways to plug them if I really wanted to but I don't right now. It was just one of those weird passing thoughts!
Also - random rock:
This rock is at the Old Rugged Cross church that I posted about last week. I just thought it was cool enough to take photos from all sides - it's big enough to sit on and it almost looks as if you were meant to. (That's Irish in the background.)
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