What is the fountian of youth?

he Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks of its waters. Florida is said to be its location, and stories of the fountain are some of the most persistent stories associated with the state.

The city of St. Augustine, Florida is home to the Fountain of Youth National Archaeological Park, created as a tribute to the city's illustrious history at the spot where Ponce de León is traditionally said to have landed. Though the fountain situated there is not "the" Fountain, this does not stop tourists from drinking its water. The park exhibits native and colonial artifacts to celebrate St. Augustine's Timucuan and Spanish heritage.

In the book Weird Florida, part of Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman' Weird U.S. series, author Charlie Carlson says he conversed with members of a supposed St. Augustine-based secret society claiming to be the protectors of the Fountain of Youth, which has granted them extraordinary longevity. They claimed Old John Gomez, a protagonist in the Gasparilla legend from Florida folklore, had been one of their members. [3] In August of 2006, popular American magician David Copperfield claimed he had discovered a true "Fountain of Youth" amid a cluster of four small islands (in Exuma chain of the Bahamas) which he recently purchased for roughly $50 million. "I've discovered a true phenomenon," he told Reuters in a telephone interview. "You can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again. ... Bugs or insects that are near death, come in contact with the water, they'll fly away. It's an amazing thing, very, very exciting." Copperfield, who turns 50 in September, says that he hired scientists to conduct an examination of the "legendary" water, but as of now, the fountain remains off limits to outside visitors.[4]

The Fountain of Youth lives on as a metaphor for anything that potentially increases longevity. It is a frequently used plot device in age regression stories. Nathaniel Hawthorne used the Fountain in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" to demonstrate that positive thinking is a far better remedy than deluded journeys to Florida for legendary cures; Orson Welles directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend; [5] and Tim Powers featured it in On Stranger Tides, a novel of 17th century voodoo adventure. In 1974 Marvel Comics featured the Fountain in Man-Thing and later The Savage She-Hulk, and in 2005 the Fountain turned up in the DC Comics series Day of Vengeance. The fountain and its waters form the main plot device in Microsoft and Ensemble Studio's Age of Empires III campaign "Blood, Ice and Steel".

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People do not like getting old. Some want to live forever on earth. Of course living forever on earth will soon be possible during Christ's Kingdom and a restored earth to paradisal condition. The legend has it that there is a Spring (a body of water) that can make people younger just by drinking water from such a spring. Old folks can drink such water from said Spring (fountain) and violla!.......they become young again. This legendary Spring and its supposed restorative power is a legend that has been carried forward from many centuries ago by Spannish and European explorers. As a matter of fact, the popular believe is that this Spring is found in Florida. Now you know one of the reasons that so may rich old folks with money, love to retire in Florida. Fountain of youth is a myth. To live on earth forever in the near future, draw close to god and He will draw close to you. ...James4:8

The Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks of its waters. Florida is said to be its location, and stories of the fountain are some of the most persistent stories associated with the state.

A long standing story is that Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was searching for the Fountain of Youth when he travelled to present-day Florida in 1513, but the story did not start with him, nor was it unique to the New World.

Perhaps you are getting mixed up between the "fountain of youth" and the "water of life"?

Jesus said:

St. John 4:14 -- But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

St. John 7:37-39:

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost

was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

A mythiscal , mystical fountain that gave epople eternal youth. Ponce de Leon died hunting for it in the Florida everglades.

Either a physical spring that has the abilty to give eternal life to the finder of it as long as he/she does not get greedy about it

Or the HOLY GRAIL that Jesus drank out of at the last supper.

the foundation of youth to me is the fact that they should live free and not have to worry about anything.and to enjoy life as they are.to have friends and whatnot,and to be mind free.and just play play play.

Blessed be,

Ostara Witch

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kabhi sarabi ko pesab karte nahi dekha

it is a fountain that brings life forever for thoes who drink from it.

no real but most think of it where a foutain gives lets you be young for eterinity.

his body, his health, his carrier,his games, his family.

he is at his best at 25,