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TheBlackAdder

(28,195 posts)
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 01:57 PM Aug 2019

When Folks Said Your Medieval Apocalyptic Studies Were a Waste of Time--This Happens!

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Dr Eleanor Janega
‏ @GoingMedieval
4h4 hours ago

A deeply weird time to be a scholar of Antichrist.




Dr Eleanor Janega
‏ @GoingMedieval
4h4 hours ago

My man Jan Milíč z Kroměříže would have a fucking field day with this.





Dr Eleanor Janega
‏ @GoingMedieval

When all those basics at parties used to ask me why studying medieval apocalyptic thinking was important I never thought that I would someday say, "Because the president of the US has just claimed he is seen as the King of Israel, which is an apocalyptic and Antichrist trope."




Is it 25th Amendment Time NOW Congress?

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When Folks Said Your Medieval Apocalyptic Studies Were a Waste of Time--This Happens! (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Aug 2019 OP
Either 25th Amendment time . . . . . or no_hypocrisy Aug 2019 #1
LOL Scurrilous Aug 2019 #2
Today he said he was the chosen one. dawg day Aug 2019 #3

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
3. Today he said he was the chosen one.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 02:43 PM
Aug 2019

Literally. It was for some reason about China, but he "lookedup at the sky" and said maybe he was the chosen one. It was either insanity or a signal to the nutsos.

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