Posted on 04/28/2015 8:03:33 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot
Amature poster here, hadent seen this posted. ( sorry if I missed it)
Nick wallenda will walk the 400' wheel We'd the 29th AM, to be live on today show. No pole, no net and will have to duck under structure along the way. Good Christian guy, prays the entire way.
Prayers
>> Nick wallenda will walk the 400’ wheel We’d the 29th AM, to be live on today show. <<
In English?
I got a bad feeeeling about this one.. Saw him interviewed , not sure he’s 100% slam dunk.
lol. must be some kind of stunt. My fiancé will pay to see me walk 400 feet period :)
Not sure how to post links, sorry.
High wire act, the famous Flying Wallenda family.
The Orlando wheel is a giant Ferris wheel. It will be rotating and he will walk a 6” beam at the top for a full rotation.
Same guy walked the Grand Canyon a few years back, and between to sky scrapers recently. Very insane.
> Same guy walked the Grand Canyon a few years back, and between to sky scrapers recently. Very insane.
The guy has balls...for now. Until he falls on the tightwire a little too hard...: )
Thanks Sir ;- )
Thanks for the link. Sounds pretty frightening to me, like a lot could go wrong.
Thanks for telling us. I hadn’t heard this until I saw your post.
“Good Christian guy, prays the entire way.”
I’m sorry, but anyone who makes a living doing foolhardy things just for the entertainment of a bored callous public, is NOT setting a good example.
This is something like a “Christian” gladiator, but with suicide instead of murder the distinct possibility.
I don’t doubt he’s a Christian, but taking risks like this with the precious life God has given him....isn’t right.
I see your point, Evil Knievel probably inspired more broken bones than can be imagined when my generation were kids with Schwinn bicycles.
But whats awesome is that if the godless networks want to carry him live, they have to broadcast / listen to his live feed where he verbally praises Jesus for the entire trip.
Is crazy as it sound, I find it refreshing and I just know it ticks off liberals.
Good Christian guy? I don’t see any difference between him and a snake handler. I wish him well and all that, of course, but I see them both in the same light.
Right on the money.
Karl Wallenda, his great-grandfather plummeted to his death in a tightrope-walking performance. Something tells me Nik
is gonna end up dead attempting one of his stunts.
RIP
This is not an uncalculated risk.
This is not a risk he hasn’t taken without doing training to accomplish the task.
Lots of Christians take serious risks all the time. Firefighters going into burning buildings, not even sure there may be someone in there alive to save. Rescue, police.
Just standing on the side of the freeway talking to a motorist, can get a cop killed.
People work around dangerous machines that could kill them. In earlier times they didn’t have emergency shutoffs, or any kind of guards around gears and belts that could grab clothing or hair and pull you into a machine and kill you, and they were Christians. Taking risks.
He’s not doing it without training.
If he was just a normal person who just woke up and said he was going to do this, no training and no preparation, no tests on other easier less dangerous things, but said he’d do it just because he’s a Christian, then yes, I’d agree with your assessment.
It’s not the level of risk I find appalling—as in every one of your examples, men are taking risks for the sake of the safety or very lives of other people. Those are all acts of love and sacrifice for the sake of others. Wallenda is doing so for measly entertainment.
Whether he gives all praise to Jesus, and has lots of training, is beside the point—what he’s doing is foolish. Risking your very life just to give yourself or others thrills is not right.
As Dave W said above, he has the status of a snake handler. Yes pray for his safety, and his wisdom to quit taking wholly unnecessary—utterly foolish—risks.
Lots of Christians play football. Other dangerous sports.
Just for “measly entertainment”.
Race cars around an oval track that goes nowhere.
Measly entertainment.
You wouldn’t happen to watch them for enjoyment, or think that they’re nuts for taking such risks, when you watch them?
IF he was an unknown, perhaps.
The name of “Wallenda” is not historically a low-level “snake handler” name when it comes to high-wire type acts.
It’s more on par with the way Houdini’s name is in the world of magic performers.
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