That message from god thing might well have been a temporal lobe seizure. I've had one, once. I was withdrawing from a benzodiazepine (lorazepam, aka ativan), because I did not wish to take it anymore, and it was hellish to do. The seizure wasn't the worst part but the brutal, brutal brutal anxiety. It isn't even anxiety, its reptilian-level primitive fight-or-flight utter terror. One of the worst things I have ever felt. And I've had boiling hot caustic soda solution in the eyes, as well as a combination of powder burns, flashpowder explosion and the propellant charge of something that thankfully I was well under the age of legal responsibility and the possibility of even being prosecuted did not exist, basically something halfway between a slug-firing shotgun, and an RPG. Only pistol-sized. Basically the premise of operation was to use a blank cartridge containing coarse, propellant type black powder or nitrocellulose to launch a rocket motor connected to a hollow tube with a fuse, connected to a primary HE charge, booster, then usually TNT due to the ease of synthesis and easy access to chemicals to make it, as well as its insensitivity (you need a significant shockwave delivered by a booster charge of more sensitive high explosive to make it detonate. Toss a stick of cast TNT on a fire and will simply burn well, so it allowed me to quite safely melt-cast TNT into suitable shapes for my grenade launching sawnoff shotgun-ultra-wide-bored long-barreled breech-loading pistol. Never once used it in anger, but it WAS great fun using it to knock conkers down from trees. Usually kids throw sticks, then thread the large hard nuts on strings to hold competitions whereby the owner of the hardest nut with the most other people's shattered conkers, broken by the force applied by means of, whilst the other kid holds his string at the far end from that which the conker seed is threaded onto, a stout thwack, taking turns until one or the other gives way and breaks. The usual means of gathering other than collecting them after they fall when ripe for growing, is to lob sticks hard up into the trees to try and smack them down. I took a more fun by a long way and more field-expedient means of obtaining them. Rocket propelled grenade. Bang, whump, shriek, BOOM, down they rain. Job done, big grin on face displayed by kiddo with the homebuilt handcannon. Don't do pyro these days, other than thermites to separate elements from oxides etc, for chem purposes, and those burn awful hot but do not explode as such, just chew their way through whatever the hell you put them on, leaving liquid metal and slag behind. Standard mix is aluminium dust and iron oxide. Lit with a pea-sized bit of some ultra-hot slowburning pyro comp, because you can blowtorch thermites for the most part for quite some time before getting them hot enough to burn. But once lit, you do not put them out, you WAIT them out. They supply their own oxygen, working by the principle of the more reactive metal pulling oxygen or other oxidizing agent gas out of the metal compound with the weaker bond to oxygen, or possibly the likes of chlorine. And they burn hot enough, standard bog ordinary vanillar FeO2/Fe2O3 and aluminium metal thermite can and will cut straight through steel. The result of lighting is then aluminium oxide, after its reduced the other metal oxide, iron is common as muck and is the prototypical partner for the prototypical aluminium reducing agent, and the other metal oxide or possibly halides etc. are left as molten metal, the reductant as oxide slag. If put into a cone-shaped mould with a hole at the bottom to hold the charge, and say, a bit of wax or whatever as a plug (doesn't much matter what because thermites will go through inches of steel without complaint and carry on going, if there is enough of the thermite), its used sometimes to weld sections of railway track, as well as in military applications in various forms. But I think it most useful either for high-temperature welding, or for casting solid metal parts, by having a mould under the trough containing the charge, the slag gets left behind for the most part whilst the pieces you want are cast into firebrick or moulded solidified casting sand, in the desired shape, and the molten metal pours in, fills the design, you get your part, let it cool off, break away the mould and file away/sand away any excess bits and any metal oxide slag. You can do it with most metals provided you have something more reactive than the metal of which the oxide is being used, I've even done, before I moved to this home, a thermite with lead oxide taken from the inside of a car battery, washed clean, powdered, dried etc. and mixed very quickly with lithium metal. That burnt really really slowly, for a thermite, did it on the garden path flagstones, and lol I bet the burn marks are still there to this day because it had a go at the concrete underneath it too, as well as leaving the blob of molten lead behind.
And another cool thing about it is since it generates its own oxygen and it burns so fucking hot, it can both continue burning under water, and it burns hot enough to split water into 2H+O which then violently recombine. Spraying a CO2 fire extinguisher onto it wouldn't put it out either unless it was a really small charge that you could physically blow the grains of powder to the four winds, or else take so much energy by cooling so fast that it could no longer continue, in theory anyway. What is very probably GOING to happen is the heat splitting apart CO2 to the component elements, starting a fire in and of itself. Would love to see it on a video or something tried, although I would not waste the fire extinguisher for the lab. Would be kinda cool to see a fire EXTINGUISHER turned into a flamethrower:D Just...just because, really. Because its meant for putting fires out, not being turned into a ficken flammenwerfer.
