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Our BetterMost Community => The Polling Place => Topic started by: injest on April 09, 2007, 09:52:39 pm
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ok....since last week I have heard on the TV AND radio that 'we are in the end times'
Have had four (4!!) people tell me "I told my mom that Jesus was comin!!"
have had several people make allusions without coming straight out with it...so I was just wondering if this is just a LOCAL thang or what??
these people don't believe in global warming but they think some being is gonna come and pass judgement on them...today!
8) ::) ::)
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I couldn't figure out what to select. I haven't heard anything of this nature.
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I thought I'd be the first one ta post, but NOOOOO, Lee beet me to it.
But I'm the first one ta vote though - and you KNOW what my answer was, booney girl!
10 back
63 back
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I couldn't figure out what to select. I haven't heard anything of this nature.
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then 0 would be your choice!!
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I think I heard a couple of whackos talk about it on CNN this week.
It seems like every time a bird farts someone thinks the world will end. I don't pay any attention to that crap anymore. I mean, even if God did come, what could we do about it? ???
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I think I heard a couple of whackos talk about it on CNN this week.
It seems like every time a bird farts someone thinks the world will end. I don't pay any attention to that crap anymore. I mean, even if God did come, what could we do about it? ???
Agreed David, seems there's always some fire and brimstone nut job preaching about it and using everything from global warming to chocolate flavored crunch berries as the reason du jour. I've got a feeling the signs. portends and heralds will be a good deal more immediate and downright shocking in their attention getting quality, when and if the Almighty ever decides to make an appearance. ;)
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Agreed David, seems there's always some fire and brimstone nut job preaching about it and using everything from global warming to chocolate flavored crunch berries as the reason du jour. I've got a feeling the signs. portends and heralds will be a good deal more immediate and downright shocking in their attention getting quality, when and if the Almighty ever decides to make an appearance. ;)
this is another thing....I would think that there would be NO question if in fact the Heavens opened up and the trumpet sounded....(in fact I bet they'd break into the soaps for that one!)
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Well, I was raised Roman Catholic, and we were taught to ignore everything unless it comes up and bites us on the ass (or the Church said so). So we always ignored these "the sky is falling and the world is coming to an end" type scenarios. "Unless it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's not a duck".
You get the idea. ;)
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I dont watch television, and certainly not to the christian channels when I do...so I dont hear that stuff.... Sometimes I think those are one of two things, the nuts with all their shells shocked. Or the televangelists trying to get you so scared, that you will send money, and they can then scare more folks into sending more money.................JMO. sorry if I offend, just my personal opinion. janice
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Um, I don't live in the sticks, and I've not heard anyone mention the end times this week. But then again, I rarely talk to anyone about religion that isn't a more archaeological type discussion.
Why? Has anything happened recently that hasn't happened before in the last 10,000 years or so?
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Um, I don't live in the sticks, and I've not heard anyone mention the end times this week. But then again, I rarely talk to anyone about religion that isn't a more archaeological type discussion.
Why? Has anything happened recently that hasn't happened before in the last 10,000 years or so?
oops, I wasn't clear...that was supposed to be "No, noone has told me that! Where do YOU live? the sticks?"
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I don't discuss religion either but people in stores; at the gas pumps; coworkers; friends....just out of the blue.. have been telling me that! No matter what we are discussing...the price of gas, the weather, anything...they say "It's the end times, I tell ya"
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lol.. noone has told me that this week ... or ever - directly!
But for the first time in ages i was home mid week and got a knock on the door... we have an election on thursday for the scottish parliament so i thought it was a candidate but no it was someone asking if I have read the bible lately.. and they weren't Johova Witnesses which is a new one for me.. if someone comes round out door regarding religion its always them... I'm always polite but firm that I'm not interested!
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lol.. noone has told me that this week ... or ever - directly!
But for the first time in ages i was home mid week and got a knock on the door... we have an election on thursday for the scottish parliament so i thought it was a candidate but no it was someone asking if I have read the bible lately.. and they weren't Johova Witnesses which is a new one for me.. if someone comes round out door regarding religion its always them... I'm always polite but firm that I'm not interested!
here they ask "If you die today are you going to hell?"
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here they ask "If you die today are you going to hell?"
I suspect we have been in the "end times" since the first amoeba crawled out of the gene sludge.
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Makes me think of the Simpsons episode where the Apocalypse happens at the end of the show. The ground opens up to reveal a set of stairs going down. Homer sniffs the air: "Ooo? do I smell barb-b-que?"
he runs down the stairs. Followed by his shreiks and screams.
Homer :"Nooooo! there's no Cole Slaw?"
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(that is awful!)
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What's so odd about these people who are obsessed with the "End Times" is that they seem to physically live in the 21st century but blissfully hold onto a view of the physical cosmos that's right on the cutting edge of the 1st century C.E.
Example: the notion that when Jesus left the earthly plane he rose up and disappeared in the clouds; that when "The Faithful" are raptured they are going to meet Jesus "in the air" and that Jesus will re-appear out of a cloud when he comes back to reward the righteous (eveyone who believes exactly as the speaker does) and zap the wrongteous upside the head (everybody else).
Not hard to believe in Roman Empire days. The popular idea of the cosmos was that it was something like a three-story house, with Heaven/the gods in a luxury penthouse, Hell/the realm of the dead in the basement and earthly life on the main floor. That view is clearly reflected in the book of Genesis, when the stars and moon are referred to as "lights in the sky." People in biblical times knew that Heaven wasn't right above the clouds - enough people had been on high mountaintops to know that - but they did believe it wasn't very far above that. But as Carl Sagan observed not long ago, if Jesus had actually risen up above the clouds he wouldn't reach any kind of heaven; he would go into orbit.
Every time a natural disaster or high-profile crime happens, the nutsos start prattling about the End Times. I'm rather surprised that there wasn't at least one "religious leader" quoted after the Virginia shootings claiming that it all happened because the US doesn't have sectarian prayer in public schools.
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The next time it happens I plan on saying: "Jesus? He was here about an hour ago, you missed him!"
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That will scare a lot of people to death,,,hehe
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What's so odd about these people who are obsessed with the "End Times" is that they seem to physically live in the 21st century but blissfully hold onto a view of the physical cosmos that's right on the cutting edge of the 1st century C.E.
Example: the notion that when Jesus left the earthly plane he rose up and disappeared in the clouds; that when "The Faithful" are raptured they are going to meet Jesus "in the air" and that Jesus will re-appear out of a cloud when he comes back to reward the righteous (eveyone who believes exactly as the speaker does) and zap the wrongteous upside the head (everybody else).
Not hard to believe in Roman Empire days. The popular idea of the cosmos was that it was something like a three-story house, with Heaven/the gods in a luxury penthouse, Hell/the realm of the dead in the basement and earthly life on the main floor. That view is clearly reflected in the book of Genesis, when the stars and moon are referred to as "lights in the sky." People in biblical times knew that Heaven wasn't right above the clouds - enough people had been on high mountaintops to know that - but they did believe it wasn't very far above that. But as Carl Sagan observed not long ago, if Jesus had actually risen up above the clouds he wouldn't reach any kind of heaven; he would go into orbit.
Every time a natural disaster or high-profile crime happens, the nutsos start prattling about the End Times. I'm rather surprised that there wasn't at least one "religious leader" quoted after the Virginia shootings claiming that it all happened because the US doesn't have sectarian prayer in public schools.
well not a MAJOR well known one...but there were plenty of preachers and news people down here saying it...
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Every time a natural disaster or high-profile crime happens, the nutsos start prattling about the End Times. I'm rather surprised that there wasn't at least one "religious leader" quoted after the Virginia shootings claiming that it all happened because the US doesn't have sectarian prayer in public schools.
There was and she was so offensive, I'm not surprised people hadn't heard. She pretty much said that due to the lack of godliness these days, most of the people killed in the VT tragedy were going to hell. >:(
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I guess Australia must be in the Sticks, 'cause I haven't heard anything about this. Not on television or in the print media, and certainly not within my social or work circle. :-\
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I guess Australia must be in the Sticks, 'cause I haven't heard anything about this. Not on television or in the print media, and certainly not within my social or work circle. :-\
No Kerry. Australia isn't in the sticks. You all are just living in reality! :)
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No Kerry. Australia isn't in the sticks. You all are just living in reality! :)
Phew, that's a relief. I'm careful about keeping up with current affairs by reading 2 newspapers every day, as well as watching the evening news on television each night. I also subscribe to Time magazine (South Pacific edition). This matter is simply not even mentioned in my part of the world. Probably a good thing. ;) :)
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I think I musta wrote the quiz wrong...didn't mean that people that have NOT heard this are living in the sticks...I meant people that DO believe that ARE living in the backwards areas!
cause it seems pretty ignorant to me to go around saying the world is ending and then make fun of global warming!
so they are more willing to believe that a mythical being will come from the clouds in a burst of thunder than believe that the pollution we are spewing into the world can cause problems... ::) ::)