Does anyone believe this illustration is from 1975?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

Maybe these guys CAN see in the future?

[TK421]

1. Coincidence...that is all

[Deja Q]

2. And yet Microsoft's own iconic font had its own prediction...

Type in Q33NY, select it, and change the font to the naughty one...


(though the bit about "33" meaning a flight number is a load of bunk...)

[PurityOfEssence]

3. How many monkeys does it take to thump on typewriters to write "Hamlet"?

If enough people believe in idiocies, one or two of the predictions will come true.

Take all predictions and divide by all realized events, and you'll immediately see why it takes numbed adolescents to keep these fantasies going.

Booga booga booga

[Guy Fawkes]

12. welllll...

1.9823124e253 monkeys wrote the first 28 lines of Henry VIII in about 1.235723e573 years.

or something like that. Lots of monkeys, lots of time.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Yeah, yeah, these guys can, too

[bbernardini]

6. I miss The Lone Gunmen!

If they can bring back Family Guy, why not The Lone Gunmen?

[ghostsofgiants]

7. It was a great show

But they died during the last season of The X-Files, so it wouldn't make much sense to bring them back now.

[skullj]

8. SPOILER ALERT!

Dude! I'm still on the Season 4 DVD's of the X-files, they kill the lone gunmen? How screwed up is that, I bet it was Cancer Man.

While watching Frohike through his rifle scope...

"I could kill you whenever I want to, but not today."

-Cancer Man "Musings of a cigarette smoking man"

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Well...

I forget who it was, but it was during the last season, that's all I'll say, since you're still watching.

Welcome to DU, by the way!

[Robb]

5. Phallic imagery is the hallmark of doomsday cults

;)

[rug]

10. The Jehovah Witnesses predicted 1975 would be Armageddon.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. well, it was only an observation

that's all.

[Democrats_win]

15. That's true. Here's the reasoning and the current stance:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/witness8.htm

"according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation."

"According to reliable Bible chronology, Adam and Eve were created in 4026 BCE"

(Democrats_win comments: They thought that each 1000 years would correspond to one of the six days of creation: 6000 years till the end. Remember there is no year zero so we have 4026 + 1975 = 6001 -1 (for that missing zero year) = 6000)

"Are we to assume from this study that the battle of Armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of Christ will begin by then? Possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man’s existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of Christ....Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on earth."

(Democrats_win comments again: the 7th day of creation was the day of rest so the 1000 years following the 6000 years would be a thousand-year reign of Christ. Most Christian religions recognize that Revelations predicts some sort of 1000 year reign of Christ.)


Recalculating the date: They changed their mind about the computing of the prophecy. They had originally believed that Eve was created in 4026 BCE -- the same year as Adam. They revised their thinking by concluding that Eve was created at a later time. Adam must have been alone for some years before God formed his partner/helper out of his rib. The WTS (Watch Tower Society= Jehovah's Witnesses) decided that "no one knew exactly how long after Adam’s creation Eve came on the scene. Franz said that it was months—even years. Hence he was able to "stretch" the 1975 date to some indeterminate time in the future. In any case, Franz said that Witnesses would just have to wait, knowing the end is right around the corner."

[JVS]

13. I believe it, but that's because I posted it in that other thread.

[JVS]

14. The Iconic qualities that made it the subject of JW art...

are the same Iconic qualities that made it the target of the 9/11 attackers.

Nevertheless, the JW's do have a knack at being able to depict man's folly in a forceful manner

[Orsino]

16. It's not possible that they could have known back then...

...that Osama bin Laden would personally pilot an Apollo command/service module into the World Trade Center towers, but miss so narrowly, at the exact same time that * was fleeing the region aboard Air Force One.

It's uncanny, I tell you.