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Simple. They keep having to come up with new dates for the end of the world because it doesn't happen on the date previously selected. They are looking forward to the Rupture...er, Rapture, and seeing everyone else descend into everlasting suffering while they ascend. That's true Christian love (not to mention the characteristics of the god they believe in).
Moderator cut: deleted due to mod actions being called out End of the world??? Who knows, I do know I can get to the edge of this continent, and there is good fishing to be found there as well. Evolution has done quite well by fishes.
Ya I pity and envy them for having nothing else in life to worry about. Why not just live life and enjoy it while ya can, Moderator cut: edited due to insult to other members who post here When and if it does happen, we won't know what hit us, so just enjoy living. Nuff said.
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I recall recently seeing a rather "telling" post on some other thread in the R&P forum (help me, God, it's So Confusing here on C-D...), providing a picture of some folks, arms outstretched, faces tilted upwards, tears in their eyes, in some Tent of The Evangelistic Healer somewhere, and I saw exactly why they need, perhaps I should capitalize..., NEED, an End Times scenario.
They are totally dependant on this whole scenario coming to pass, and within their lifetime, hence the rush to get there! It's the final solution, the ultimate focal point, for their otherwise sinful lives. One of my ex-friends (he became a pesky, insistent born-agin Xtian proselytizer and is thus no longer my friend) was very fearful that TET (The End Times) would happen after he died. "Why worry" I asked? "You're so sure you're going to Heaven, right?". "Well, I'm not THAT sure!" he honestly confessed. I think he was near to tears about the scary prospect of death without an approved and guaranteed afterlife. This is a philosophy I see often in Christians.
I'm also continuously insulted by their silly Big Q "But what if You're Wrong and The End Times come?" Arrogance? Nahhhhh....
BTW, SuSu, though I looked fervently, I still couldn't find your face in that picture. Perhaps my mental image of you is all wrong? Perceptions versus Reality and all that, right?
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BTW, SuSu, though I looked [I
fervently[/i], I still couldn't find your face in that picture. Perhaps my mental image of you is all wrong? Perceptions versus Reality and all that, right?
You've got me confused now...which picture? The one with all the arms-upraised people? Uh...why would I be in that picture? I haven't gone to a religious service since I was 18...
Or am I being blonde again and missing a good joke at my expense?
rifleman: Those ads brought to mind the religious advertisements I used to hear on radio station XERF (1570 AM in Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico) while waiting for Wolfman Jack's show to come on. There was a risible evangelist program that ran ads for thing like "Angel Oil" which would cure cancer, etc. for $2.99 a bottle. I always wondered whether the 'angel oil' was squeezed out of angels, or whether it was what angels used to keep themselves from rusting.
rifleman: Those ads brought to mind the religious advertisements I used to hear on radio station XERF (1570 AM in Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico) while waiting for Wolfman Jack's show to come on. There was a risible evangelist program that ran ads for thing like "Angel Oil" which would cure cancer, etc. for $2.99 a bottle. I always wondered whether the 'angel oil' was squeezed out of angels, or whether it was what angels used to keep themselves from rusting.
Border Blasters - cool!
I just learned about how a lot of the classic TX musicians got to hear the latest (and first) rock-n-roll due to Wolfman Jack and those high-powered radio stations across the border - such an interesting story. The closest I ever got to experiencing that was watching American Graffitti.
Oh yeah...on topic..um..Anybody who thinks they know when/how the world will end is wrong.
Border Blasters - cool!
I just learned about how a lot of the classic TX musicians got to hear the latest (and first) rock-n-roll due to Wolfman Jack and those high-powered radio stations across the border - such an interesting story. The closest I ever got to experiencing that was watching American Graffitti.
Oh yeah...on topic..um..Anybody who thinks they know when/how the world will end is wrong.
Awww come on ... I know! It's when the sun goes nova and burns the earth, mercury, venus, mars to a crisp. About 5 billions years from now.
Being a follower of Astrology, Neptune transits, there's speculation the end could come during Neptune's transit of war-like Aries, somewhere in the 2020's.
At any rate, I feel the clock is ticking on this cruel, sadistic laboratory experiment called the human race, being performed by sadistic aliens for their sadistic entertainment?
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