I'm not saying prophecies are valid or not, but from what I've read it seems like they are made just about the future, not before this or that. Am I wrong?
Quote from: satyesu on April 14, 2015, 11:37:49 AM
I'm not saying prophecies are valid or not, but from what I've read it seems like they are made just about the future, not before this or that. Am I wrong?
What??????
What? If they are not before this or that they have to be about the future. However, if it is predicted that something will happen in the future and it hasn't happened for 2,000+ years, it is reasonable to say it won't happened, no matter how many people think it will. Solitary
Yeah, I would at least expect a date from any prophet worth his salt. Modern day prophets are better about it than Biblical prophets. They often specify and exact date for the end of the world, but when the date passes without incident, it reduces the punch of the prophecy. The ancients didn't deal with exact dates. Many of them didn't even know what the day of the week was at any given time. Anyway, not being specific makes it more spooky and ominous. A good Biblical prophecy needs to be spooky and ominous. It adds to the mystery.
Prophecies tend to have well-oiled wheels....
All prophesies have one thing in common. None have proved accurate.
Quote from: Mike Cl on April 14, 2015, 02:06:37 PM
All prophesies have one thing in common. None have proved accurate.
I prophesies that you will post in this forum again
Quote from: antediluvian on April 14, 2015, 02:35:13 PM
I prophesies that you will post in this forum again
Yeah, I'll post again. But what you made was a prediction. The weather man makes those all the time. You can even give a percentage chance of success--just as the weather is often forecast. Prophecy is different. A prophet is one who has a pipeline to god and is giving the message. Apparently god is too lazy to broadcast this message--he only have the time and energy to give it to one. And a prophecy is never, ever wrong--Why?, cause it's from god, dummy. But as I already said--none have come to pass. But for some reason, failure in their prophets or prophecies, or the tenets of their belief, simply makes the faithful stronger in their faith. Faith seems to be a very special, and strong, form of blindness.
God said a dark man will rise in the West and participate in a war based on hate and greed. Afterwards, the large city of the north will tremble. People will become malcontented and rebellion will be spoken. Then a giant ant will fly from the sun and devour the Earth.
Quote from: kilodelta on April 14, 2015, 03:03:15 PM
God said a dark man will rise in the West and participate in a war based on hate and greed. Afterwards, the large city of the north will tremble. People will become malcontented and rebellion will be spoken. Then a giant ant will fly from the sun and devour the Earth.
Oh yeah. I forgot about that one. Okay--one prophecy was right. But that's it.
Quote from: kilodelta on April 14, 2015, 03:03:15 PM
God said a dark man will rise in the West and participate in a war based on hate and greed. Afterwards, the large city of the north will tremble. People will become malcontented and rebellion will be spoken. Then a giant ant will fly from the sun and devour the Earth.
A war based on hate and greed seems a bit improbable but a giant sun ant devouring the Earth is absolutely how it's all gonna go down.
Godzilla will save us!
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Quote from: stromboli on April 14, 2015, 08:08:19 PM
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Looks like he missed several syllables
The time limits were up yesterday.
Quote from: GSOgymrat on April 14, 2015, 06:50:25 PM
A war based on hate and greed seems a bit improbable but a giant sun ant devouring the Earth is absolutely how it's all gonna go down.
The ant is a metaphor for nuclear war. Or an asteroid impact.
Quote from: Hydra009 on April 14, 2015, 10:14:03 PM
The ant is a metaphor for nuclear war. Or an asteroid impact.
Really? How was that determined? I've not heard that before.
Quote from: Hydra009 on April 14, 2015, 10:14:03 PM
The ant is a metaphor for nuclear war. Or an asteroid impact.
I think the ant is an unprecedented coronal mass ejection that burns the planet to a cinder.
(https://thehumanbeingod.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/earth_destroyed.jpg)
Quote from: Mike Cl on April 14, 2015, 10:18:35 PM
Really? How was that determined? I've not heard that before.
In ancient cajun, the word for ant is actually a cognate of asteroid. And nuke. So-called skeptics really ought to know the entirety of the proud history the cajun language before they ignorantly claim that we believe that a literal ant will devour the Earth. They're just like fundamentalists...
Moody foo poo chant va la mad! :eek: :biggrin2:
How long til the next rapture anyway? The last one was fucking hilarious. :mrgreen:
Quote from: GSOgymrat on April 14, 2015, 10:45:52 PM
I think the ant is an unprecedented coronal mass ejection that burns the planet to a cinder.
(https://thehumanbeingod.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/earth_destroyed.jpg)
Yeah, or it could be a sunward-coming asteroid coming right at us, that the solar glare is hiding from us.
Silly people.. It's all on gods time.. You know.. Bible time.. That's how bible people lived like 700 years kind of like Pat Robertson..
One of SNL's most memorable skits, from the good ole days of SNL. Al Franken and Dan Aykroyd square off as Pat Robertson and Bob Dole during the 1988 presidential primaries.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfa7ek_al-franken-as-pat-robertson_shortfilms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiS4WP48fmY
it's funny I found this by accident. I liked it though.
I was entertained that the last really widespread End of the World prediction, Harold Camping's second try, came during a convention I never miss. My fellow conventioneers greeted it with all the dignity and solemnity it deserved... it being a convention of musicians who are science fiction/fantasy/space/science/cat/silliness enthusiasts (http://www.ovff.org), you can imagine just how dignified and solemn it was. :D