Yes but Chrissy bear in mind, at this point you are desperate, you're dying of thirst....you need to trust..or die!!
I understand that Holly, and if in a real life situation I might, but either way you will get some water. You also can't take all that water in the pump with you, so you can sit there and drink and starve to death or take the jug and move on.
I am being punished for not trusting, I just realized I ran out of toilet paper, while not as life saving as water, I do need it. Got to make a trip to the store now.
Back to the original post ..... and not trying to ruin the story point. But Desert 101 tells you to learn your surroundings and learn a few facts about survival. Having lived in Phoenix, Arizona for several years and trekked around the desert on many occasions .. things are learned along the way.. 1) If you are wandering in the desert, and lost, look for barrel cactus and prickly pear. Both of those cacti have a moist, spongy pulp that gives you both nutrients and water. People have survived being lost in the desert by knowing this. Now about that pump, I don't have an answer.
as this is the religious thread I'm not going to make the joke that first came into my head...all I'm saying now is ''get thee behind me satan''...
I figured the bones (skeletons) would be all around me from the people who were tricked by the devil and drank the water without priming the pump!
But if you took that sip your bones would be lying around for the next person too because you had to use every drop of the water in the jug to prime the pump!
I see that the council has Yes, Desert 101 does indeed call for the measure you have explained, unless of course you are lost in the Ajo National Forest which is nothing but desert with lots and lots of cactuses just waiting to be tapped. All one has to do is to knock over a Suaro and before you can turn around there will be a Forest Ranger writing you a HUGE ticket. But alas, along with the ticket there will no doubt be a ride to town and probably the court house or jail. The upside of that is you will not have to worry about finding water. The idea behind the desert/water and pump scenario is simply a life lesson set in a parable and like the story of the woman at the well and the parable of the prodigal son, a person could probably get 50 life lessons out of them and not one would be the same. The most basic idea of the topic is that we do indeed have a lot of choices in life. There is not one person on the face of the earth who hasn't been in some type of figurative desert at one or many times of their lives. At one time or another we have come to a point when all human reasoning makes little sense to us but still we plod on trying to rationalize while still not coming up with any perfect answers on our own. We who say we have a great faith are probably the most guilty of relying on our own mentality because we have a type of faith that sometimes makes us believe that the well will always be primed forgetting that there are instructions from the Master Himself that must be followed in order for that to happen. When we follow the Lord's instructions for living our lives then and only then will we find that the well is again full and the pump is primed. Now, one key might be found in Proverbs 3:5-6. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding .......but in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He will direct thy path."
There could have been a couple of "footpads" in hiding, ready to jump you while your attention was directed to the pump. There WERE robbers in Biblical times, you know! Frank
I would check Wikipedia before doing anything concerning pumps, and then watch a youtube video on alternative ways to prime a pump
Lol, Terry, I should have done that too because I don't even know what priming a pump means. I've never used a water pump.