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Friday, September 05, 2008

End of the world postponed

Oil price falls (again).

Dow closes higher.

Unemployment numbers revised to be less severe than formerly thought.

Iraq war continues to go well.

Another Hurricane fizzles.

Yadda Yadda Yadda

What did we ever do before we knew too much?

I guess we will now have to wait till next week to discover that the world is coming to an end - Again.  Does anyone besides me see a pattern her.  End of world predicted.  News (any news) framed as bad.  I have been around religious folks enough to know that keeping peoples attention and forecasting doom gets you at the podium and sells books and gets you a following.

Observing that things are going about as they should and things aren’t as bad as everyone says gets you disdain and a smirk from the doom and gloomers.  Certainly sells nothing.

Peddlers of Doom, go away. You haven’t been right yet.  I don’t believe in you any more.

Comments

It may or may not interest you to know that before the world faces Judgment, the Bible says that people will be eating and drinking and in other terms it describes a time of general prosperity, not gloom and doom. Then suddenly . . .

For Christians, we are not to look for such doom or stop living, not to look forward to physical death to get to Heaven; but to always look for Jesus to return in the same manner He left, which is described in the Gospels and Acts. We are to confess LIFE not Death, VICTORY not defeat!


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on September 5, 2008 at 01:07 pm

Thank God.

Some nuts are claiming Obama as the anti-Christ and I don’t even have my rapture shoes picked out yet.


Excuse me, you were saying?


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realitybasedbob on September 5, 2008 at 02:14 pm

Some nuts are claiming Obama as the anti-Christ…

If Christ was a man, then the AntiChrist must be...Hillary!
Think about it.


Save America; boycott the MSM.

robert108 on September 5, 2008 at 02:26 pm

Biblically speaking, the Antichrist is a Jew.  Read the book of Daniel.  All eschatology aside, it’s no wonder that the media has turned into a bunch of Chicken Littles.  There are so many of them, and they’re broadcasting 24/7 by cable and satellite...they have to cook up something to give their lives “meaning.”

Clint F on September 5, 2008 at 03:11 pm

108, you made me laugh out loud.

BOB,
Get some cowboy boots, they might stay on for the whole trip north.

Neiman,
I have become less and less premillenial and more and more a preterist.  I’m not becoming convinced that we are here to take over and get the whole mess ready for Jesus.  I hope there’s a rapture but if there’s not I just want the territory next to mine for the Kingdom, and then the territory next to that and then.....

Ruling and reigning.

I know this scares the heck out of the left (not Bob) when I talk this way but I’m kind of Ron Reagan, City on a Hill, Manifest Destiny, Dominion theology. 

Somebody’s gotta lotto, might as well be us.


[b]Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this could be their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce. 
And they go down fighting.

Gene on September 5, 2008 at 03:13 pm
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Gene, I couldn’t resist:

I’m sure you’ll tell us if the end of the world is really coming.

HG on September 5, 2008 at 04:59 pm

If Christ was a man, then the AntiChrist must be...Hillary!
Think about it.

Since Hillary has already lost and Sarah “Sambo beat the Bitch” Palin is now worshipped by all of the known world. (as told by the nutter horde)

The case that Palin is the anti-Christ is easily made.

Think about it.

There is a reason the stars are upside down on the new gop logo.


Excuse me, you were saying?


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realitybasedbob on September 5, 2008 at 05:16 pm

...Sarah “Sambo beat the Bitch” Palin…

False premise, false conclusion.  Keep up the lying gossip, rbb; I think you have finally found your level.  I don’t think you have the brainpower to keep up the Goebbels’ imitation.
Obviously, “thinking about it” is way above your pay grade.


Save America; boycott the MSM.

robert108 on September 5, 2008 at 05:28 pm

Those who lack such an argument, or who lack the skill to construct one if they had the information, generally resort to various tactics designed to obscure the fact that they have nothing.

These include, but are not limited to:

Personal attack of the opponent, on various levels;

Unsupported claims of intellectual superiority, thus entitling them to a “win” with no facts or logic;

Changing the subject;

etc, etc....

Most of this is quite common on the blogosphere.

By robert108 on July 1, 2008 at 03:36 pm

Heck of a job Robbie.


Excuse me, you were saying?


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realitybasedbob on September 5, 2008 at 05:41 pm
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False premise, false conclusion

Well, if you know so much about logic and facts why don’t you make a quick $200 and accept my challenge?

Of course, I’ve already made you my bitch over that.

Jack on September 5, 2008 at 05:54 pm

"realitybased"bob - Since Hillary has already lost and Sarah “Sambo beat the Bitch” Palin

Awesome! I can play that game as well. Check it out:

realitybased “I hate niggers” bob

Some waitress told me that you said that so it must be true.

Catch the point?

likwidshoe on September 5, 2008 at 06:01 pm

Heck of a job Robbie.

Right! I smack you and the rest of the leftie liars on a daily basis.


Save America; boycott the MSM.

robert108 on September 5, 2008 at 06:12 pm

I’m not becoming convinced that we are here to take over and get the whole mess ready for Jesus.

Neither am I, but I don’t get why you said that based on anything I said!

I hope there’s a rapture but if there’s not I just want the territory next to mine for the Kingdom, and then the territory next to that and then.....

Other than the rapture, I have no idea what you are talking about here.

I know this scares the heck out of the left (not Bob) when I talk this way but I’m kind of Ron Reagan, City on a Hill, Manifest Destiny, Dominion theology.

All strains of Dominion Theology are small minorities, and are rejected by most mainstream Christians as being quite radical. It is a denial of the fact Jesus has judged the world, will destroy it and create a new Heaven and a New Earth and a host of other Apostolic doctrines.

This paragraph above seems far from anything I understand about the Christrian faith, it seems to be quite humanistic and a denial of Christ.


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on September 5, 2008 at 06:19 pm

Gene?


Excuse me, you were saying?


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realitybasedbob on September 5, 2008 at 06:24 pm

Gene?

What does that mean? Are you crying for Gene to fight with me or what?


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on September 5, 2008 at 06:54 pm

Always playing the victim, huh Neiman?

Where is your manhood?


Excuse me, you were saying?


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realitybasedbob on September 5, 2008 at 07:02 pm

Always playing the victim, huh Neiman?

Where is your manhood?

Ah, more ranting by the SAB nutcase. Get back on your Thorazine butthead!


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on September 5, 2008 at 07:18 pm

"Biblically speaking, the Antichrist is a Jew.”

Say word Clint F

Come on Neiman you know the only ones who are going to Heaven came from Heaven according to Jesus.

The world isn’t coming to an end anytime soon, all you old folks here will be long dead before that happens. Just drink your whiskey and forget about the the things that doest not concern you. Right?

I mean what the hell, flush it all out of your mind. What’s the use in caring anyway? Just rent your self a two bit whore and smile that your still breathing.

It looks as if things haven’s changed here a bit. I predict that things will never change, just another cast of characters posting the same old bullshit replacing one another over and over indefinitely.

WETBACK on September 5, 2008 at 10:09 pm

Wetback: Take all of your knowledge about Christ and the Church and you could not fill a microscopic size thimble even 1 - 1 millionth of a micron deep. Now your anti-Semitism and anti-Christ hatred would fill the oceans of the world.


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on September 6, 2008 at 05:43 pm

Neiman - It is a denial of the fact Jesus has judged the world...

It’s called “faith” for a reason.

These faiths are your “facts”, but they are not “the facts”.

Please stop perverting the meaning of “fact”.

likwidshoe on September 7, 2008 at 10:31 am

Please stop perverting the meaning of “fact”.

“Fact” is derived from the Latin factum, which means “deed”, as in “an action performed in the world”.  Jesus is known for his deeds, so you’re off the mark here, likwid.


Save America; boycott the MSM.

robert108 on September 7, 2008 at 10:36 am

“Fact” is derived from the Latin factum, which means “deed”, as in “an action performed in the world”.

I guess I should have quoted the whole thing.

It is a denial of the fact Jesus has judged the world,…

Sure, call that one a fact.

...will destroy it and create a new Heaven and a New Earth and a host of other Apostolic doctrines.

This part is most definitely faith.

likwidshoe on September 7, 2008 at 10:41 am

This part is most definitely faith.

Your opinion on the matter is noted.


Save America; boycott the MSM.

robert108 on September 7, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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