Nik Wallenda is halfway across the Grand Canyon, Jesus is his only companion

[orpupilofnature57]

[annabanana]

1. Tell Jesus

"NO JUMPING!!!!"

ps: This thread is useless without pictures.

[KharmaTrain]

2. I Looked Away From The Screen...

...kept hearing him say "Oh Jesus, Thank-you Jesus"...I thought I had a porn movie on.

[Luminous Animal]

3. So, if he falls, it will be Jesus's fault?

I'm not quite understanding this.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Not likely. Who's gonna testify, "I saw Jesus push him?"

[Poll_Blind]

21. !

PB

[orpupilofnature57]

33. Just pointing out the irony of what we saw, MSM, Equipment, Cameras

Cables, Scared shitless family members, the backdrop of the Grand Canyon, shot from a swirling helicopter . And he looked like a Trancendental Meditation student locked in bliss, just sayin' .

[truebrit71]

4. Good thing "jesus" doesn't have anything serious to do this evening...

...

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. He's done

And that actually bothered me.

[Electric Monk]

7. Next, we make it a competition for who can walk it in the shortest elapsed time

What could possibly go wrong?

[busterbrown]

9. Did you notice that idiot Joel Osteen hanging around?

What a dumb thing, for the kids to possibly see their father fall to his death.
Jesus Christ!

[El Supremo]

8. So how much money did he make?

For daring God?

They aren't saying.

[we can do it]

10. Daring imaginary beings while walking over not quite the grand canyon. wow

[former9thward]

12. Sick post.

[Vinnie From Indy]

13. I hope it isn't Baby Jeebus

Infants are notoriously off balance!

[DrewFlorida]

14. So in effect you are saying, he is alone and dillusional!

[orpupilofnature57]

32. Neither, in a zone without spectators, pontiffs, or experts....

that was out here, with all the shadows and reflections .

[chillfactor]

15. Nik finished the walk successfully....

quite a feat with the wind he was fighting...regretfully there are idiots on this thread who have no respect for the bravery of this man..so easy to make fun as you sit in your comfortable chair and wish that an 80mph wind came up and blew him off the cable...good god...what soulless, heartless people of you are....

[marions ghost]

16. He made it

[frylock]

17. is this one of those deals about the sets of footprints?

[frazzled]

18. We had to turn the sound off ... and then we switched to Mad Men

before he even finished.

I mean really, what's more exciting? Someone spouting Jesus stuff every 10 seconds while perched above the Grand Canyon on a wire, or the frickin' season finale of Mad Men? The answer is obvious: Mad Men was thrilling tonight.

And why the hell (excuse me, Jesus) was this guy wearing flared jeans and a loose T-shirt up there? Wouldn't you want to wear some aerodynamic lycra stuff instead of a billowing T-shirt that might carry you aloft, not to mention distract you?

I must say, I probably would have been saying "Help me, Jesus" if I were up there (even though I'm Jewish). Or more likely, I'd be saying "Holy shit!"

[The Straight Story]

19. As far as what he wore

He made it, so he obviously made the right choice

[chillfactor]

20. Wallenda is a very religous man

if you have a problem with that...too bad...

[frazzled]

23. I have no problems with his personal beliefs

But I thought we were going to be watching a technical feat, not a religious show. They didn't have to broadcast every private utterance of the man. That's why we had to turn the sound off.

You may not realize it, but more than half the world does not believe in the divinity of Jesus, either because they are of another religion (Islam, Judaism, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, or because they have no religion).

And it can make people uncomfortable. I certainly felt uncomfortable listening to it. And then I felt more uncomfortable when I started laughing at it. I thought it was disrespectful, so I turned the sound off. Got a problem with that?

[chillfactor]

26. no problem with your turning the sound off....

but your rant is way out of line....I admire the man for his accomplishment..apparently you have no sense of the bravery of others but rant about YOURself and YOUR feelings....yes..I have a problem with that!

[frazzled]

27. Obviously, YOUR feelings are the only ones that count

Be careful when you point a finger at someone: four of them are pointing back at you.

[texanwitch]

24. I wondered about his clothes to.

I thought his clothes would be a little tighter.

I don't know if I would wear blue jeans.

He made it.

[marions ghost]

22. Interesting that he said help me Jesus

like a mantra. It's his meditation. How he fights through fear. You need a focusing device.

I'm sure he is religious but I have no problem with him calling in the gods to help him with this.

I have more of a problem with people using Jesus to justify their crimes.

[orpupilofnature57]

29. +1000 !!!!

[AngryOldDem]

31. That's exactly what it was -- a mantra.

But of course it set some people off because it didn't fit their definition of acceptability.

I had no problem with this, and I am not religious by any stretch. Whatever helped him keep his focus.

[burnodo]

25. Give the man his due

Not everybody could or would do that. Having walked through a small bit of the canyon myself, that would have been something to see. That's just the coolest place. Of course, when I was there, they had some kind of storefront that housed a Creationism something or other. They just want to believe it was all gahwuduh and the hard evidence that the process took so many thousands upon thousands of years is just so much propaganda.

[Rincewind]

28. Why did he take his gardener?

[AngryOldDem]

30. Not knocking him for that. At all.

Whatever he thought would help get him across -- it wasn't for me to mock, as **my** ass sat in my easy chair thousands of miles away in my family room.

I saw it as just another mantra that people use to get through stressful and strenuous situations.