Snoutport
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:06 PM
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Revelations, it ends up, is actually the business plan for Right Wing Corporate America |
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Is it the end of the world??!!!! Revelations says there will be Signs of the end of the world....
Water turning red... (check...Exxon's oil spill turned the gulf that awful rust color) Fish will die in vast numbers (check...like i read in that post on here...all those poor poisoned fish from a chemical company spill) Birds will fall out of the air (check...atomic energy is doing just fine taking care of that sign) Earthquakes (check...and let's frack a little more mining industry)
What are the other signs of the Apocolypse? Because I'll bet big business is working on ways to make all of those happen as well.
Wait a minute!! The book of revelations isn't about God ending the world! Silly us, it's the business plan of Republican Corporate America. And we know how that ends, don't we? It is time for all us little guys to stand up to the big ones, I think.
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:09 PM
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1. The four horsemen are sure on the loose. nt |
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:14 PM
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beck? palin? mccain? koch brothers? who?!
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:15 PM
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3. I think end of the world myths are just used as premeditated excuses. |
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They want people running around frightened from red herrings,instead of trying to critically assess why the problems actually exist.
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:17 PM
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4. self-fulfilling prophecies |
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:23 PM
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5. I don't add to that book, but have some thoughts on that topic. |
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Edited on Thu Mar-17-11 08:33 PM by RandomThoughts
I actually think much money was spent a few decades ago to move the teaching of Christianity into end times teachings. That shift in focus from the gospels to end times seems to have been done by money for a reason, most likely to dilute the messages of things like social justice, but also to have some weird 'ends justifies the means' view on 'getting raptured' as some goal for a belief system.
There seems to be a living for some future effect, not living every day as you think and feel is better by a set of teachings in much of the end times stuff.
Why even worry about it, it is not like a person choose weather they are going up or down, left or right anyways, it even says that in those texts.
I think much of that is weird.
Funny story, the guy that teaches his rewriting of end times, forget the guys name, H something, uses a hand motion magic finger snap when doing sermons. I found that funny.
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Thu Mar-17-11 09:06 PM
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8. henny penny does seem to have taken over |
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Jesus is coming! Jesus is coming! Oh, and the sky is falling!
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:25 PM
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6. Nit-picky atheist must point out... |
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It's the book of Revelation - singular. a/k/a The Book of Revelation of St. John the Divine.
And a raving bunch of nonsense, as is most of the Holy Buy-bull, IMO. People who've actually read it - a category apparently not including most Xians and especially most Fundies - would know that the probably-fictional Jesus H. Christ himself says no one knows when the end of the world will happen.
The Bible has always reminded me of Dr. Samuel Johnson's rejection slip to an aspiring author: "Your book is both good and original. Unfortunately, the good parts are not original and the original parts are not good."
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Fri Mar-18-11 12:12 PM
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9. Johnson's quote is most excellent! nt |
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Thu Mar-17-11 08:36 PM
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7. And the four horsemen of the Apocalypse? |
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The movie industry has given us "The Three Amigos" I shudder to think what would happen if they unleashed a fourth Amigo.
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