Still more serious bad craziness at Free Republic: Did Jesus Reveal to us the name of the Anti-Christ?
Linked to this whacked out video.
And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters seriously believe is the anti-Christ.
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:07:03am |
All I know is if AntiChrist tours, I'm definitely hitting TicketMaster.
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:07:19am |
And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters think is the anti-Christ.
Paul Moore? Knew him in the 3rd grade, kid was a dick.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:07:20am |
And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters think is the anti-Christ.
Palin?
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CIA Reject Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:07:24am |
Oh fer Pete's sake! Can these people get any more ridiculous?
/I'm sorry I asked that...
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:07:58am |
And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters seriously believe is the anti-Christ.
The guy that runs Cirque De Soleil?
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Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:08:04am |
Is it Charles? My mother-in-law tells me I am.
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:08:05am |
Craziness at Free Republic? What next? Gambling at Rick's?
/casablanca
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:08:11am |
re: #4 Cattt
All I know is if AntiChrist tours, I'm definitely hitting
TicketBeastMaster.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:09:11am |
re: #14 Dianna
What?!
Oh, man. This is ludicrous.
Who, I don't want to run the video, there are other people on this wireless and my bandwidth is a little slow on streaming stuff right now.
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Dianna Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:09:20am |
I did notice that "crackpots" was one of the tags. I'm a little relieved.
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:09:30am |
I have to wonder how much of this is covering a little underlying racism for some Freepers who just can't handle a black man being president. Much easier for them to think he's the anti-Christ. They need to get a grip.
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Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:09:36am |
Everyone knows Baby Steinbrenner is the anti-Christ.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:10:18am |
(BEFORE I watch the video, plunking down $5 that it's Obama)
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Dianna Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:10:32am |
re: #16 Walter L. Newton
Who, I don't want to run the video, there are other people on this wireless and my bandwidth is a little slow on streaming stuff right now.
I was reading the comments - I've got a Gillian Welch album playing while I'm typing summaries to keep me sane (I'm recovering from a particularly bad one). I'm afraid to watch the video.
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MikeAlv77 Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:10:47am |
re: #18 Sharmuta
I have to wonder how much of this is covering a little underlying racism for some Freepers who just can't handle a black man being president. Much easier for them to think he's the anti-Christ. They need to get a grip.
I thought 0bama had no race since he was the light worker who brought the earth healing and caused us all to unclench
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VioletTiger Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:10:51am |
These people scare me.
They need a life. Seriously.
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_RememberTonyC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:11:31am |
I've seen the Anti-Christ and his little helper ... in fact ... here's a photo of them:
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BlueCanuck Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:12:25am |
Hmmm, past crackpot Anti-Christs:
Anwar Sadat (actually had a warship with 666)
The Vatican (They have a computer rumoured to be called "The Beast")
The World Wide Web (nuff said)
Computers (that whole 386+ thing)
Various world leaders as well from all spectrums.
Did I miss anything?
/Brethern churches are really wacked out over this stuff.
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:12:58am |
re: #22 MikeAlv77
I thought 0bama had no race since he was the light worker who brought the earth healing and caused us all to unclench
I'm sure the Freepers are hot and bothered by it. What Obama's issues are doesn't change my opinion some of these people calling the President "the anti-Christ" might be racists.
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:13:02am |
re: #18 Sharmuta
I have to wonder how much of this is covering a little underlying racism for some Freepers who just can't handle a black man being president. Much easier for them to think he's the anti-Christ. They need to get a grip.
That's exactly what's going on. Similarly, nirtherism is also an expression of the batshit insane who really can't handle a black man in the White House. These are all attempts to identify Obama as somehow 'not one of us'.
Someone could probably do a chart about this and show a linear projection, with "I think Obama might be a muslim" at one end, running through nirtherism, and "I think Obama is the antiChrist" at the other end of the spectrum.
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quickslow87 Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:13:15am |
Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health-care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy -- and half the mainstream media did -- you'll believe the second.
Lucifer anyone?
/sarc
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MikeAlv77 Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:13:17am |
re: #25 BlueCanuck
Hmmm, past crackpot Anti-Christs:
Anwar Sadat (actually had a warship with 666)
The Vatican (They have a computer rumoured to be called "The Beast")
The World Wide Web (nuff said)
Computers (that whole 386+ thing)
Various world leaders as well from all spectrums.Did I miss anything?
/Brethern churches are really wacked out over this stuff.
My BOSS!!!
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:13:59am |
Folks, folks, folks... I'm already here!
/no, not really.
//or is it?
///no, it isn't.
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A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:14:02am |
The comments over there are stupid. Quoting the Bible to back up the premise of Obama being the AC.
Obama can't even figure out Health Care Reform.. Surely the spawn of Satan can do better than that.
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BlueCanuck Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:14:04am |
re: #30 MikeAlv77
My BOSS!!!
Well yes, but I think they may just be demonic minions from the Abyss. :)
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:14:06am |
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Stevie the K Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:14:13am |
Man, this is just ridiculous...
On the other hand, check his scalp for the "666" just to be sure.
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Idle Drifter Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:14:22am |
The "anti-christ" has nothing on Cthulhu.
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Vicious Michigan Union Thug Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:14:32am |
"Lightning from the Heigths[sic!]" = חשמל מין הרמות= "Hashmal min ha-ramot"
"Vov" in Hebrew means AND not FROM which is "min"
Ha-tipshut chazak meod me-sham (Teh Stupid is very strong in there)
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:14:41am |
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Shug Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:14:53am |
re: #35 Stevie The K
Man, this is just ridiculous...
On the other hand, check his scalp for the "666" just to be sure.
wait,
Biden's hair plugs spell out 6 6 6 !
/
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:14:57am |
re: #25 BlueCanuck
Hmmm, past crackpot Anti-Christs:
Anwar Sadat (actually had a warship with 666)
The Vatican (They have a computer rumoured to be called "The Beast")
The World Wide Web (nuff said)
Computers (that whole 386+ thing)
Various world leaders as well from all spectrums.Did I miss anything?
Yes, 667, the neighbor of the beast.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:15:13am |
"heigths"
Heh, can't even keep the proof-texting straight!
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:15:31am |
Is he playing poker or something?
C'mon, Ante, Christ! $1 up!
/need more coffee
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:15:32am |
re: #25 BlueCanuck
Hmmm, past crackpot Anti-Christs:
Anwar Sadat (actually had a warship with 666)
The Vatican (They have a computer rumoured to be called "The Beast")
The World Wide Web (nuff said)
Computers (that whole 386+ thing)
Various world leaders as well from all spectrums.Did I miss anything?
/Brethern churches are really wacked out over this stuff.
Sam Neil
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:15:34am |
re: #25 BlueCanuck
Did I miss anything?
Ronald Wilson Reagan
/6 letters - 6 letters - 6 letters... OMG!
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martinsmithy Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:15:43am |
Let's take a giant leap and take this video at face value.
Jesus spoke originally in Aramaic. The house of cards built in this video is based upon the Hebrew translation of the original Aramaic.
So Jesus didn't say "And I saw Satan as Barak Obama", because he wasn't speaking Hebrew.
There's another little problem - Luke was written about 90 BC, 60 years after the death of Christ, and I don't think verbatim transcripts were the norm at that time.
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:16:01am |
re: #28 iceweasel
That's exactly what's going on. Similarly, nirtherism is also an expression of the batshit insane who really can't handle a black man in the White House. These are all attempts to identify Obama as somehow 'not one of us'.
Someone could probably do a chart about this and show a linear projection, with "I think Obama might be a muslim" at one end, running through nirtherism, and "I think Obama is the antiChrist" at the other end of the spectrum.
it's all about race...all the time...every issue...got the message
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:16:06am |
re: #15 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Ram's Head - PERFECT VENUE FOR ANTICHRIST.
I was at this concert - it was AWESOME
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:16:08am |
re: #37 SteveC
Anti-Christ is coming! Everybody look busy!
I thought it was "Jesus is coming, everybody look busy", so that would mean if the anti-Christ was coming, everybody should look lazy.
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Russkilitlover Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:16:10am |
Silly question, here. What's a "Freeper"?
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:16:31am |
re: #50 martinsmithy
Let's take a giant leap and take this video at face value.
Jesus spoke originally in Aramaic. The house of cards built in this video is based upon the Hebrew translation of the original Aramaic.
So Jesus didn't say "And I saw Satan as Barak Obama", because he wasn't speaking Hebrew.
There's another little problem - Luke was written about 90 BC, 60 years after the death of Christ, and I don't think verbatim transcripts were the norm at that time.
Next you're going to tell me the earth isn't 6000 years old.
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CIA Reject Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:17:00am |
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:17:23am |
re: #55 Sharmuta
Next you're going to tell me the earth isn't 6000 years old.
It isn't. It's 6009 years old.
/take my humor with a grain of salt, or a big ol' aspirin.
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BlueCanuck Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:17:28am |
re: #42 Walter L. Newton
Actually no, that's the man across the street. His neighbours will be 664 and 668. ;)
/just a little picky, it's all about the details.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:17:33am |
re: #21 Dianna
I was reading the comments - I've got a Gillian Welch album playing while I'm typing summaries to keep me sane (I'm recovering from a particularly bad one). I'm afraid to watch the video.
:D ... it's hilarious (from a certain perspective)
Proof-texting straight from th' ol' sawdust trail.
/keep th' collection plate goin', brother, there ain't enough in it yet
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:17:44am |
re: #54 Russkilitlover
Silly question, here. What's a "Freeper"?
One of those farts that whistles just a little?
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pink freud Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:17:52am |
re: #51 albusteve
it's all about race...all the time...every issue...got the message
No, it isn't ...though there are those who are hellbent on perpetrating that meme. Doesn't make it so.
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capitalist piglet Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:17:57am |
re: #32 HoosierHoops
The comments over there are stupid. Quoting the Bible to back up the premise of Obama being the AC.
Obama can't even figure out Health Care Reform.. Surely the spawn of Satan can do better than that.
One of the guys on HotAir said Obama couldn't be the Anti-Christ, because the Anti-Christ wouldn't be caught wearing those Mom jeans. : )
Personally, I don't think the Anti-Christ would need a teleprompter.
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martinsmithy Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:17:59am |
And, if "lightning from Heaven," translates as "Barak Obama," then I'm sure there are a few other passages somewhere in the Bible where God announces Himself as lighning from heaven. Which means Barack Obama is God.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:18:12am |
re: #44 Shug
coffee spew
I have a bumper sticker on my accordion case that says that. "667 the neighbor of the beast."
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A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:18:31am |
re: #55 Sharmuta
Next you're going to tell me the earth isn't 6000 years old.
Safeway has DinoBurgers on Sale for 1.50/lb. Pretty fresh also..only 4000 years old.
/Marinate is your friend
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acwgusa Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:18:47am |
Could it be...Satan?
Seriously, some people on this planet are messed up enough already.
We don't need the help.
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:18:52am |
If John Smith somehow could be twisted to translate into the AntiChrist, we'd really be in a pickle.
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:18:53am |
re: #67 Walter L. Newton
I have a bumper sticker on my accordion case that says that. "667 the neighbor of the beast."
999, the number of the upside-down beast.
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:18:58am |
re: #39 Cannadian Club Akbar
I dated her.
Right in the middle of the church service there was a flash of light and the devil appeared! Everyone ran out screaming... except for this one old man in the back row. He didn't even flich.
The devil scratched his head. "Mister, do you know who I am?"
"Yep," the old fella said. "You the devil, I believe."
"And I don't scare you, old man?"
"Nope."
The devil was badly confused now, and finally asked "Why not?"
The old man replied "I been married to your sister for forty three years."
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:19:00am |
re: #66 martinsmithy
And, if "lightning from Heaven," translates as "Barak Obama," then I'm sure there are a few other passages somewhere in the Bible where God announces Himself as lighning from heaven. Which means Barack Obama is God.
Just ask the Kos Kids. They probably think so.
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:19:18am |
re: #54 Russkilitlover
Silly question, here. What's a "Freeper"?
Poster at Free Republic.
Also responsible for the verb "freeping", meaning "to hammer an Internet poll to skew the results"
freep
To slew or cheat an online poll by repeatedly voting (clearing cookies, using proxies) or to make a blog appear to be commented by numerous posters by the same means. (From the practices of the Free Republic or "freepers")
"The results of the CNN question of the day were running 70:30 in favor until an hour ago when it got freeped. "
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:19:25am |
re: #69 acwgusa
Could it be...Satan?
Seriously, some people on this planet are messed up enough already.We don't need the help.
No, Stan.
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:19:32am |
WAIT. President O CAN'T be the AntiChrist.
The Anti-Christ would NOT wear mom jeans. I mean. /
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kpom Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:19:48am |
And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters seriously believe is the anti-Christ.
Uh, Glenn Beck?
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:00am |
re: #71 MrSilverDragon
999, the number of the upside-down beast.
Motel 666 - just look for the burning goat's head down by the highway.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:04am |
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:06am |
re: #63 pink freud
No, it isn't ...though there are those who are hellbent on perpetrating that meme. Doesn't make it so.
we were called racist the other day for being curious about BOs transcripts, school records etc...same as nirthers and conspiracy theorists
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:12am |
re: #50 martinsmithy
Let's take a giant leap and take this video at face value.
Jesus spoke originally in Aramaic. The house of cards built in this video is based upon the Hebrew translation of the original Aramaic.
So Jesus didn't say "And I saw Satan as Barak Obama", because he wasn't speaking Hebrew.
There's another little problem - Luke was written about 90 BC, 60 years after the death of Christ, and I don't think verbatim transcripts were the norm at that time.
Now you just had to go and use that logic shit that you so good at!
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A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:13am |
re: #58 Spartacus50
Why is the anti-Christ a bad thing?
It's a good thing if you are looking for a position in his administration.
Just sent in your resume...( don't forget the chicken blood)
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Shug Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:26am |
The anti-christ would gladly release his birth certificate
/
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:39am |
re: #67 Walter L. Newton
I have a bumper sticker on my accordion case that says that. "667 the neighbor of the beast."
ha!...heathen!
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acwgusa Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:43am |
re: #75 Cannadian Club Akbar
No, Stan.
What about Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman?
/Yes, I do get the Stan joke.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:51am |
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Vicious Michigan Union Thug Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:20:56am |
And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters seriously believe is the anti-Christ.
Charles Johnson!
Yes, I have gone over to the Dark Side.
/recovered FReeper
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:21:08am |
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:21:10am |
re: #83 Shug
The anti-christ would gladly release his birth certificate
/
Mother: Jackal
Father: Lucifer
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VioletTiger Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:21:11am |
re: #74 iceweasel
Poster at Free Republic.
Also responsible for the verb "freeping", meaning "to hammer an Internet poll to skew the results"
To slew or cheat an online poll by repeatedly voting (clearing cookies, using proxies) or to make a blog appear to be commented by numerous posters by the same means. (From the practices of the Free Republic or "freepers")
"The results of the CNN question of the day were running 70:30 in favor until an hour ago when it got freeped. "
The Obots did quite a bit of that during the election as well.
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pink freud Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:21:14am |
re: #80 albusteve
we were called racist the other day for being curious about BOs transcripts, school records etc...same as nirthers and conspiracy theorists
Yes, I know. Many other times too. Saying it doesn't make it so, contrary to the beliefs of those constantly saying it.
That's all I'm saying. :-)
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:21:22am |
Dear Antichrist,
Please wait until after my vacation to appear.
I need some down time.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:21:38am |
re: #87 Alouette
Charles Johnson!
Yes, I have gone over to the Dark Side.
/recovered FReeper
Has anyone posted the answer, who?
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:21:41am |
re: #51 albusteve
it's all about race...all the time...every issue...got the message
Of course not, but there is no doubt that racism is part of what motivates those who endorse insane theories about Obama which all have the underlying theme "he isn't really one of us".
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apachegunner Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:21:48am |
re: #71 MrSilverDragon
999, the number of the upside-down beast.
yes, his feet smell and his nose runs
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Erik The Red Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:21:55am |
re: #79 Honorary Yooper
That's funny, 'cause so did I.
I also dated her. Damn that bitch sure did get around.
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acwgusa Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:22:12am |
Wouldn't the Anti-Christ be Jesus with his polarity reversed?
/Star Trek joke People! Not attempting to be blasphemous!
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:22:33am |
Wait! How can other 'older' translations be accepted? Isn't the 'word' infallible?!? Are we to believe that there are questionable translations!?
/LDS Article of Faith 8 apologist off...
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SixDegrees Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:23:01am |
re: #76 Cattt
WAIT. President O CAN'T be the AntiChrist.
The Anti-Christ would NOT wear mom jeans. I mean. /
Good point. I would expect the Prince of Darkness to be a pretty snappy dresser, myself.
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:23:04am |
re: #98 acwgusa
Wouldn't the Anti-Christ be Jesus with his polarity reversed?
/Star Trek joke People! Not attempting to be blasphemous!
Be blasphemous. It's a free country!
Now I want to be blasphemous. Shoot.
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:23:04am |
re: #37 SteveC
Anti-Christ is coming! Everybody look busy!
I think I need a re-write...
Anti-Christ is coming! Everybody look anti-busy!
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:23:13am |
re: #90 VioletTiger
The Obots did quite a bit of that during the election as well.
Sure, but the Freepers have been doing it for years on a variety of topics, including polls about evolution. That's why it's called 'freeping'.
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:23:25am |
re: #28 iceweasel
That's exactly what's going on. Similarly, nirtherism is also an expression of the batshit insane who really can't handle a black man in the White House. These are all attempts to identify Obama as somehow 'not one of us'.
Someone could probably do a chart about this and show a linear projection, with "I think Obama might be a muslim" at one end, running through nirtherism, and "I think Obama is the antiChrist" at the other end of the spectrum.
I agree. For me, he's just another democrat like Clinton or Carter. I see no need to demonize him or speculate that he's anything than a democrat. I have issues with his policies- not him. I'm sure he's a likable enough person. But this need on the part of others to turn him into some sort of sinister villain just shows a warped mind.
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:23:37am |
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Martinsmithy Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:23:46am |
re: #56 itellu3times
I stand corrected - 90 AD, or, as the kids are learning it today, 90 CE (Christian Epoch).
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:23:48am |
re: #102 SteveC
I think I need a re-write...
Anti-Christ is coming! Everybody look anti-busy!
Already ahead of you, here at work and posting on LGF. I'm doing my part!
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The Curmudgeon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:23:53am |
M'god! The good thing about FR is that it gathers all those people at one site, and they don't know enough to visit anywhere else.
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Ojoe Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:24:13am |
It's Sasquatch I tell you & he's been here a long time & he lives up in Canada in Sasquatchiwan.
End times are near.
/
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Jack Burton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:24:36am |
re: #28 iceweasel
That's exactly what's going on. Similarly, nirtherism is also an expression of the batshit insane who really can't handle a black man in the White House. These are all attempts to identify Obama as somehow 'not one of us'.
Someone could probably do a chart about this and show a linear projection, with "I think Obama might be a muslim" at one end, running through nirtherism, and "I think Obama is the antiChrist" at the other end of the spectrum.
I think a large portion, if not a majority of nirtherism is not racism but fear among some that the whole rest of the country has drank the collectivist kool aid and they are "out of options". To them, disqualifying the 'crypto commie president' is the only way they can hope to fight it because they think the electorate has been mesmerized and they can't "save the country from ourselves" without a technicality. This doesn't make it or them right. It makes them paranoid kooks of varying extent, but it doesn't automatically make them racists.
The rest of them, especially the "sekrit muslim" crowd are probably people who can't handle a black man in the white house.
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:24:38am |
re: #77 kpom
And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters seriously believe is the anti-Christ.
Uh, Glenn Beck?
beck probably believes this video.
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:24:39am |
re: #89 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Mother: Jackal
Father: Lucifer
The real scandal is that his birth certificate shows his middle name isn't Hussein...it's Damien!
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JohnnyReb Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:24:40am |
re: #80 albusteve
we were called racist the other day for being curious about BOs transcripts, school records etc...same as nirthers and conspiracy theorists
I left the thread when that started. I have started seeing that creep up here on LGF in the last few days. It worries me.
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acwgusa Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:24:41am |
re: #109 buzzsawmonkey
What bothers me is soggy old Wonder Bread.
I believe it is the anti-crust.
And wouldn't thrust reversers be anti-thrust?
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pink freud Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:24:44am |
re: #108 The Curmudgeon
M'god! The good thing about FR is that it gathers all those people at one site, and they don't know enough to visit anywhere else.
I used to think the same about Kos and Huffpo.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:24:51am |
re: #21 Dianna
I was reading the comments - I've got a Gillian Welch album playing while I'm typing summaries to keep me sane (I'm recovering from a particularly bad one). I'm afraid to watch the video.
I have a Gillian Welch cd in my player at home right now, but I'm at work.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:24:58am |
re: #110 Ojoe
It's Sasquatch I tell you & he's been here a long time & he lives up in Canada in Sasquatchiwan.
End times are near.
/
Mwaaahaaahaaa.
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:25:07am |
re: #110 Ojoe
It's Sasquatch I tell you & he's been here a long time & he lives up in Canada in Sasquatchiwan.
End times are near.
/
but he'll survive...he knows the routine
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Charpete67 Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:25:09am |
would the Anti-Christ bowl a 37 and throw a baseball like a girl?
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Ojoe Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:25:14am |
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:25:24am |
re: #107 MrSilverDragon
Already ahead of you, here at work and posting on LGF. I'm doing my part!
Just carrying on the tradition! :)
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Cato the Elder Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:25:27am |
I'll talk to yo anti-Christ in the back yard.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:25:45am |
re: #114 JohnnyReb
I left the thread when that started. I have started seeing that creep up here on LGF in the last few days. It worries me.
That is why we have BBQ's.
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:25:55am |
re: #113 iceweasel
The real scandal is that his birth certificate shows his middle name isn't Hussein...it's Damien!
That rules out Barry as the AC then. Damien knew his military history.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:25:56am |
re: #106 Martinsmithy
I stand corrected - 90 AD, or, as the kids are learning it today, 90 CE (Christian Epoch).
CE is a scholarly term which means "Common Era," not Christian era. Where did you get that from? I'm curious.
BCE is also used by non-sectarians, standing for "Before Common Era."
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jacksontn Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:26:05am |
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:26:27am |
According to Bobcat Goldthwaite (in the early 80s) Scott Baio is the anti-Christ.
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JohnnyReb Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:26:46am |
re: #94 iceweasel
Of course not, but there is no doubt that racism is part of what motivates those who endorse insane theories about Obama which all have the underlying theme "he isn't really one of us".
Are you calling Obama a racist? Cause the above statement is almost word for word what he said on the campaign when he pulled that I don't look like the other fellas on dollar bills thingy. I mean he did start that crap.
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Russkilitlover Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:26:48am |
re: #109 buzzsawmonkey
What bothers me is soggy old Wonder Bread.
I believe it is the anti-crust.
But there's nothing better than fresh Wonder Bread, crusts removed, spread with butter and then crumbled up into a ball...at least I thought so, as a kid.
| 133 |
Flyovercountry Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:26:49am |
All I can say, is that these geniuses never went to Hebrew School. By the way, I am not certain, not being a Christian myself, but wasn't the New Testament origionally written in Greek. I do know that Aramaic and Hebrew are two different languages.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:27:11am |
re: #116 pink freud
I used to think the same about Kos and Huffpo.
What makes them any different than Freepers? They're all nucking futs.
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:27:19am |
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:27:39am |
re: #124 Cato the Elder
I'll talk to yo anti-Christ in the back yard.
Can't I just eat my waffle and drink my beer?
| 139 |
Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:27:44am |
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:27:46am |
re: #121 MikeySDCA
A gentleman is a man who owns an accordion but does not play it.
The only song I have ever come across that has an acceptable accordion riff, in my humble opinion (it might not even be an accordion though...?):
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:27:47am |
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:27:47am |
re: #100 SixDegrees
Good point. I would expect the Prince of Darkness to be a pretty snappy dresser, myself.
I see black and TIGHT - an with bedazzlers at the very least.
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Jack Burton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:27:49am |
re: #59 MrSilverDragon
It isn't. It's 6009 years old.
/take my humor with a grain of salt, or a big ol' aspirin.
Actually if they go by Bishop Ussher, its 6012 years old.
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VioletTiger Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:27:58am |
re: #94 iceweasel
Of course not, but there is no doubt that racism is part of what motivates those who endorse insane theories about Obama which all have the underlying theme "he isn't really one of us".
Disagree.
There are lots of reasons for crazy and race is not the only one.
Seriously, you are going to rapidly run out of race cards. The deck is only so big and after a while it will not resonate.
Racism is a serious wrong and we throw it around so much that I fear we are dulling the edge.
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apachegunner Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:28:18am |
re: #113 iceweasel
The real scandal is that his birth certificate shows his middle name isn't Hussein...it's Damien!
HEY! No one has seen his birth certificate silly!
| 147 |
Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:28:47am |
re: #45 danny
ROTFLMAO at that video
Totally. I can't stop laughing!
That is the worst bit of Scripture-twisting I've seen in a looong time.
Anyway, isn't the Antichrist supposed to be from Europe?
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:28:56am |
re: #127 Walter L. Newton
CE is a scholarly term which means "Common Era," not Christian era. Where did you get that from? I'm curious.
BCE is also used by non-sectarians, standing for "Before Common Era."
Why BCE and not UC, uncommon era?
/
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:29:09am |
re: #109 buzzsawmonkey
What bothers me is soggy old Wonder Bread.
I believe it is the anti-crust.
So in which direction will the ensuing pun-thread evolve?
Spend its time loafing about, or Gomorrah into serious theology?
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opnion Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:29:41am |
re: #51 albusteve
it's all about race...all the time...every issue...got the message
You make a good point. This video is some serious crazy crap, but it is a real leap to jump to racism.
A lot ofObama supporters like to use race as the rejoinder for any BHO crticism. No matter his race the guy is just a train wreck.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:29:51am |
re: #127 Walter L. Newton
CE is a scholarly term which means "Common Era," not Christian era. Where did you get that from? I'm curious.
BCE is also used by non-sectarians, standing for "Before Common Era."
CE has been used for both "Christian Era" and "Common Era". I think I still prefer AD and BC as long as we're using the current calendar.*
/*Personally, I'd rather just add 10,000 to the current calendar and remove all the annoying BC dates that make it harder to date archeological objects and finds.
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:29:52am |
re: #143 ArchangelMichael
Actually if they go by Bishop Ussher, its 6012 years old.
Well poop. Joke fail on me. (Well, it's not the first time that's happened... not by a looong shot)
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Ojoe Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:30:13am |
re: #139 Walter L. Newton
A.D. stands for "In the year of Our Lord" (in Latin) & the phrase goes "In the year of Our Lord (number)"
So the correct place to put the A.D. is in front of the year number.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:30:20am |
re: #147 Cygnus
Totally. I can't stop laughing!
That is the worst bit of Scripture-twisting I've seen in a looong time.
Anyway, isn't the Antichrist supposed to be from Europe?
Yea, as in Rome, as in Nero, as in "John" was writing a veiled contemporary account of current politics to a contemporary audience.
Nothing more, nothing less.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:30:25am |
re: #149 pre-Boomer Marine brat
So in which direction will the ensuing pun-thread evolve?
Spend its time loafing about, or Gomorrah into serious theology?
This video is a goliath fail.
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:30:25am |
re: #145 buzzsawmonkey
One need not look as far as "racism." All one need do is look at Obama's ideologies of "redistribute the wealth" and "inject positive rights into the Constitution."
That's not what's motivating the batshit insane, like nirthers or people who think Obama is the antichrist. Their demands can't be placated because they're operating in a sphere outside of rationality and reality.
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StillAMarine Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:30:30am |
B..b..but the MSM has Barak Obama as second only to G-d!! How can the Esteemed BHO be relegated to the underworld so easily?
/Obviously sarc
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:30:35am |
re: #59 MrSilverDragon
It isn't. It's 6009 years old.
/take my humor with a grain of salt, or a big ol' aspirin.
You beat me to it! I was going to say 6001 years, give or take a few days.
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Shug Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:08am |
Things have been all downhill since we entered the BCSE
Bowl
Championship
Series
Era
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:11am |
re: #67 Walter L. Newton
I have a bumper sticker on my accordion case that says that. "667 the neighbor of the beast."
Upding for the sticker, but the accordion deserves a downding. :)
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RunningBare Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:11am |
re: #65 capitalist piglet
One of the guys on HotAir said Obama couldn't be the Anti-Christ, because the Anti-Christ wouldn't be caught wearing those Mom jeans. : )
I don't know... Mom Jeans are pretty freakin' evil, if you ask me.
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doppelganglander Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:13am |
In his last years, Leo Tolstoy turned into a bit of a religious mystic. Shortly before his death, he predicted that the Antichrist was already walking the earth. Since Tolstoy died in 1910, I think next year we should watch Willard Scott very closely for clues.
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:19am |
re: #146 apachegunner
HEY! No one has seen his birth certificate silly!
Can't. As soon as you type one up, it catches fire.
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:24am |
re: #150 opnion
You make a good point. This video is some serious crazy crap, but it is a real leap to jump to racism.
A lot ofObama supporters like to use race as the rejoinder for any BHO crticism. No matter his race the guy is just a train wreck.
it creates intimidation and Sharpton/Jackson/BO/Wright are masters of the game...their followers are catching up...it's poison
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Jewels (AKA Julian) Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:28am |
The Anti-Christ? Well since I don't put much credence to Christian Escatology, I find the idea preposterous.
Now him being the Anti-Bob of Subgenius Theology...that seems more likely
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:32am |
re: #153 Ojoe
A.D. stands for "In the year of Our Lord" (in Latin) & the phrase goes "In the year of Our Lord (number)"
So the correct place to put the A.D. is in front of the year number.
Now you know all that is just going to cause confusication!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:45am |
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pink freud Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:47am |
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:53am |
re: #144 VioletTiger
There are lots of reasons for crazy and race is not the only one.
That's why I said racism was part of what motivates the crazies. Not the only thing.
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Shug Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:55am |
OT for all you duffers out there
John Daly shot 88 today at the Buick Open.
51 on the front side (his back nine)
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Jack Burton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:31:56am |
re: #151 Honorary Yooper
/*Personally, I'd rather just add 10,000 to the current calendar and remove all the annoying BC dates that make it harder to date archeological objects and finds.
I agree with you on this. It's called the Holocene Calendar.
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:32:01am |
re: #67 Walter L. Newton
I have a bumper sticker on my accordion case that says that. "667 the neighbor of the beast."
I saw a t-shirt that said "333 - only half evil'
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:32:05am |
re: #139 Walter L. Newton
What?
Yes, as in AD 2009, not 2009 AD since AD is "anno domini", Latin for "In the year of our Lord".
Sounds odd to say "2009 in the year of our Lord" as opposed to "In the year of our Lord 2009".
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:32:38am |
re: #151 Honorary Yooper
CE has been used for both "Christian Era" and "Common Era". I think I still prefer AD and BC as long as we're using the current calendar.*
/*Personally, I'd rather just add 10,000 to the current calendar and remove all the annoying BC dates that make it harder to date archeological objects and finds.
Well, archeologist just use a number (such as 10,000 years) and geologists use MYA (million years ago, as in 3mya).
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LGoPs Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:32:51am |
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:32:54am |
re: #171 Shug
OT for all you duffers out there
John Daly shot 88 today at the Buick Open.
51 on the front side (his back nine)
You would think someone would have tackled him as he reloaded.
/
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:32:59am |
re: #144 VioletTiger
Disagree.
There are lots of reasons for crazy and race is not the only one.
Seriously, you are going to rapidly run out of race cards. The deck is only so big and after a while it will not resonate.
Racism is a serious wrong and we throw it around so much that I fear we are dulling the edge.
Some of the most insane stuff has originated with highly questionable sources- like that report about Obama giving China imminent domain rights to China. That came from a nazi. Those picking it up and spreading it are either in agreement or dupes, but I don't think we should discount racism for a motivation for some people in all of this craziness.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:12am |
re: #162 doppelganglander
In his last years, Leo Tolstoy turned into a bit of a religious mystic. Shortly before his death, he predicted that the Antichrist was already walking the earth. Since Tolstoy died in 1910, I think next year we should watch Willard Scott very closely for clues.
The Anti-Christ is bound to a wheel chair and about to hit 103?
/
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:15am |
re: #155 Oh no...Sand People!
This video is a goliath fail.
But we'd never know that if we didn't take the time to Melchizedek it out, you know.
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apachegunner Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:15am |
re: #171 Shug
OT for all you duffers out there
John Daly shot 88 today at the Buick Open.
51 on the front side (his back nine)
now there is someone I'd love to have a beer with :>)
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:20am |
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Cato the Elder Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:21am |
OT: I wonder how many cash-for-clunkers buyers convinced themselves they could afford the payments 'cause of the "free money" and will end up having their shiny new high-mpg rides repo'd.
| 184 |
BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:41am |
re: #168 buzzsawmonkey
It's so nice to know that you can speak with authority for people you have never met in person.
I foresee a lucrative career for you as a psychiatric expert for hire in tort and criminal defense cases.
Really? I guess you think you can speak with authority for someone you have never met in person. :)
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BlueCanuck Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:43am |
re: #154 Walter L. Newton
Yea, as in Rome, as in Nero, as in "John" was writing a veiled contemporary account of current politics to a contemporary audience.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Also Rome was known as "The City of Seven Hills". Which John the Prophet called Babylon. Once you start looking at Revelations in a historical light it makes even more sense then as a prophecy.
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pink freud Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:47am |
re: #168 buzzsawmonkey
It's so nice to know that you can speak with authority for people you have never met in person.
I foresee a lucrative career for you as a psychiatric expert for hire in tort and criminal defense cases.
The modus operandi since day one, it seems.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:49am |
Had to stop watching. I could feel brain cells dying, and I wanted to take pity on them.
Did I mention that I found the waterpark of Satan once?
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:57am |
re: #156 iceweasel
That's not what's motivating the batshit insane, like nirthers or people who think Obama is the antichrist. Their demands can't be placated because they're operating in a sphere outside of rationality and reality.
I feel the exact same way about lunatic Obots...but I don't consider them particularly racist...you act like you can tell what's in anybody's heart on any subject
| 189 |
opnion Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:33:58am |
re: #94 iceweasel
Of course not, but there is no doubt that racism is part of what motivates those who endorse insane theories about Obama which all have the underlying theme "he isn't really one of us".
Then what was the motivation for all the over thre top stuff about Bush, war criminal etc? Surely not race.
The video is nutty & a lot of the following comments as well, but where is the racism that you claim that there is no doubt of?
| 190 |
spudly Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:34:01am |
Let me guess, the "secret behind the long form" is a serial number 666?
Yeesh, what loons.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:34:29am |
re: #174 Honorary Yooper
Yes, as in AD 2009, not 2009 AD since AD is "anno domini", Latin for "In the year of our Lord".
Sounds odd to say "2009 in the year of our Lord" as opposed to "In the year of our Lord 2009".
I see. I don't use religious terms such as that to describe scientific ages, so I didn't know it should go before. Most of the references I have seen have it after.
| 193 |
Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:34:32am |
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:34:48am |
re: #89 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Mother:
JackalAmy Winehouse
Father: Lucifer
| 195 |
Danny Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:34:48am |
Well, just got done reading the Freeper thread. I got the impression that most of the commenters think the video's a humorous FAIL just like us lizards.
| 196 |
NJDhockeyfan Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:35:06am |
House approves $2 billion for clunkers program
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - House lawmakers on Friday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would add $2 billion to the government's "cash-for-clunkers" program, after demand threatened to swamp the program. The plan, formally called the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), provides credits of as much as $4,500 for a new car when turning in an older, less fuel-efficient, vehicle. It passed 316 to 119. It's unclear whether the Senate will approve it before leaving Washington for the month of August. "The program proved so popular that the initial $950 million set aside for it is running low. The funds were expected to last until November. The Obama administration is working with members of Congress to increase the program's funding. "We're trying to expand the one program the public has latched onto," said David Obey, D-Wisc., the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:35:08am |
re: #184 iceweasel
Really? I guess you think you can speak with authority for someone you have never met in person. :)
you have exposed yourself here with your words
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:35:21am |
re: #159 Shug
Things have been all downhill since we entered the BCSE
Bowl
Championship
Series
Era
Hammer meet Nail.
Touche.
| 199 |
BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:35:42am |
re: #178 Sharmuta
Those picking it up and spreading it are either in agreement or dupes, but I don't think we should discount racism for a motivation for some people in all of this craziness.
Exactly. Of course racism plays some part in some of this. Those who want to deny it, -- or pretend that pointing it out means you're reducing all criticisms of Obama to 'racism'-- are wrong.
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doppelganglander Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:35:44am |
re: #179 Oh no...Sand People!
The Anti-Christ is bound to a wheel chair and about to hit 103?
/
I was thinking he'd be turning 100 next year and Willard would give him a big Smuckers shout-out. You could also be right.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:35:47am |
re: #180 SteveC
But we'd never know that if we didn't take the time to Melchizedek it out, you know.
Isn't that video aaronic, don't ya think?
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debutaunt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:35:49am |
re: #94 iceweasel
Of course not, but there is no doubt that racism is part of what motivates those who endorse insane theories about Obama which all have the underlying theme "he isn't really one of us".
I'm unhappy about any form of racism, but I have a problem with Obama for a completely different reason.
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Russkilitlover Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:36:09am |
Regardless of which side is practicing overt/covert racism (and I believe that both Obama supporters and opponents are engaged in both to an extent), this is no post-racial presidency.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:36:15am |
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pink freud Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:36:15am |
re: #178 Sharmuta
Some of the most insane stuff has originated with highly questionable sources- like that report about Obama giving China imminent domain rights to China. That came from a nazi. Those picking it up and spreading it are either in agreement or dupes, but I don't think we should discount racism for a motivation for some people in all of this craziness.
Who cares why they do it? Crazy is crazy.
0bama has singlehandedly revived racial tensions in this country, we here do not need to fan those flames.
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LGoPs Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:36:18am |
re: #113 iceweasel
The real scandal is that his birth certificate shows his middle name isn't Hussein...it's Damien!
Hell, with our MFM, if they found a 666 tattoed on him, it would be reported as a 999...
/
| 208 |
John Neverbend Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:36:47am |
re: #77 kpom
And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters seriously believe is the anti-Christ.
Uh, Glenn Beck?
I remember sometime in 1980-81 being told by a member of a British occult movement that the anti-Christ was Edward Kennedy. So much for that hypothesis.
I think that the authors of the video should more profitably devote their time to compiling crosswords.
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A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:36:53am |
In the Year of our Hoopster 6669. a Beast with 7 heads rose out of the sea. upon it's head were crowns of Gold and Diamonds.
unfortunatly for the beast he arose off shore from Somali...
He was boarded by pirates and is currently being held for Ransom.
Satan is pissed off.
| 210 |
Dianna Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:37:00am |
re: #95 buzzsawmonkey
I thought that Aramaic was the administrative language of one of the later Persian Empires?
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:37:00am |
re: #185 BlueCanuck
Also Rome was known as "The City of Seven Hills". Which John the Prophet called Babylon. Once you start looking at Revelations in a historical light it makes even more sense then as a prophecy.
Correct. The only reason it was reexamined as "prophecy" was because there were many loose ends in the Greek scriptures that could not be explained unless someone placed the text sometime into the unknowable future.
And of course, over the centuries, they just keep moving the "date" to the point that any critical thinking person should be able to see the nonsense in it all.
| 212 |
Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:37:11am |
re: #200 doppelganglander
I was thinking he'd be turning 100 next year and Willard would give him a big Smuckers shout-out. You could also be right.
Yeah, my '103' kind of ruined it...sorry.
| 214 |
CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:37:20am |
| 215 |
pink freud Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:37:23am |
re: #195 Danny
Well, just got done reading the Freeper thread. I got the impression that most of the commenters think the video's a humorous FAIL just like us lizards.
You're brave.
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:37:44am |
re: #204 Russkilitlover
Regardless of which side is practicing overt/covert racism (and I believe that both Obama supporters and opponents are engaged in both to an extent), this is no post-racial presidency.
I think I'm suffering from post-racial depression.
| 217 |
Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:37:59am |
re: #202 debutaunt
I'm unhappy about any form of racism, but I have a problem with Obama for a completely different reason.
Likewise. I judge by that whole 'content of the character' idea.
It's the policies, Baby.
| 218 |
SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:38:08am |
re: #201 Oh no...Sand People!
Isn't that video aaronic, don't ya think?
It made me want to Moses out into traffic.
| 219 |
avanti Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:38:12am |
Friday, July 31, 2009 at 1:31 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has voted to rush an additional $2 billion into the popular but financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car purchase program.
The bill was approved on a vote of 316-109. House members acted within hours of learning from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood that the program was running out of money.
Called the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS, the program is designed to help the economy and the environment by spurring new car sales. Car owners can receive federal subsidies of up to $4,500 for trading in their old cars for new ones that achieve significantly higher gas mileage.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the new money for the program would come from funds approved earlier in the year as part of an economic stimulus bill.
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:38:17am |
The anti-Christ would NOT need a teleprompter.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:38:40am |
re: #210 Dianna
I thought that Aramaic was the administrative language of one of the later Persian Empires?
No, it was a language contemporary with the Jesus' time.
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:39:03am |
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Cato the Elder Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:39:28am |
re: #184 iceweasel
Really? I guess you think you can speak with authority for someone you have never met in person. :)
If Lacan could diagnose people in five minutes over the phone, why shouldn't you do it on the intarwebs?
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:39:48am |
re: #220 calcajun
The anti-Christ would NOT need a teleprompter.
Unless..unless..bear with me now..the teleprompter is really the antichrist. Someone needs to check its blog.
//
| 227 |
Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:39:49am |
re: #220 calcajun
The anti-Christ would NOT need a teleprompter.
Wait just a minute, the AC wouldn't need a teleprompter, but what if the AC needed a mouthpeice? THE TELEPROMPTER IS THE ANTI-CHRIST!
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opnion Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:39:54am |
re: #164 albusteve
it creates intimidation and Sharpton/Jackson/BO/Wright are masters of the game...their followers are catching up...it's poison
Yeah , it is all about intimidation & silenceing criticism.
Howard Dean even said during the Cmpaign , that to bring up Reverend Wright was nothing but racism.
People should be able to freely crtique Obama & if the pejurative of racist is used it should be answered to let the accuser know that they just pimp race Or better yet they whore it.
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:39:55am |
re: #219 avanti
Friday, July 31, 2009 at 1:31 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has voted to rush an additional $2 billion into the popular but financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car purchase program.
The bill was approved on a vote of 316-109. House members acted within hours of learning from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood that the program was running out of money.
Called the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS, the program is designed to help the economy and the environment by spurring new car sales. Car owners can receive federal subsidies of up to $4,500 for trading in their old cars for new ones that achieve significantly higher gas mileage.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the new money for the program would come from funds approved earlier in the year as part of an economic stimulus bill.
You know what? This does not make me feel better. Not at all. I guess I'm just going to have to resign myself to the fact that I'm never going to retire with the way this administration is pissing away money.
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:06am |
re: #210 Dianna
I thought that Aramaic was the administrative language of one of the later Persian Empires?
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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doppelganglander Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:17am |
re: #212 Oh no...Sand People!
Yeah, my '103' kind of ruined it...sorry.
That's okay. If the Antichrist was literally walking in 1910, he'd have to have been born at least a year earlier. Maybe I should check out Willard right now.
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VioletTiger Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:20am |
re: #178 Sharmuta
Some of the most insane stuff has originated with highly questionable sources- like that report about Obama giving China imminent domain rights to China. That came from a nazi. Those picking it up and spreading it are either in agreement or dupes, but I don't think we should discount racism for a motivation for some people in all of this craziness.
I would never say racism is out of the question entirely. But it probably is not the only reason for kooks, just one of them.
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BlueCanuck Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:22am |
re: #227 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
*spew*
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:25am |
re: #218 SteveC
It made me want to Moses out into traffic.
You'll watch out for traffic Noah doubt, right?
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:35am |
re: #206 pink freud
Who cares why they do it? Crazy is crazy.
0bama has singlehandedly revived racial tensions in this country, we here do not need to fan those flames.
I care because I think racism is wrong. Where it does exist- we should work against it.
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capitalist piglet Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:42am |
re: #169 pink freud
re: #145 buzzsawmonkey
But isn't racism so much easier to point a finger at? The other takes a modicum of thought. Reverting to blaming racism is the easy way out.
It's easy to hate a racist. Someone who is completely irrational because they feel helpless, powerless, and afraid (see leftists for the past eight years), not so much. So racists, they will be.
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:43am |
re: #226 EmmmieG
Unless..unless..bear with me now..the teleprompter is really the antichrist. Someone needs to check its blog.
//
I see your super Illuminati fighting powers are as strong as mine.
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SixDegrees Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:46am |
re: #127 Walter L. Newton
CE is a scholarly term which means "Common Era," not Christian era. Where did you get that from? I'm curious.
BCE is also used by non-sectarians, standing for "Before Common Era."
This is one of my pet peeves. People are free, of course, to label epochs any way they see fit, but this particular one is nothing more than a relabeling aimed at removing a religious reference from what is fundamentally a religious artifact of history. If you're that unhappy with it, at least replace it with some different period; what, after all, is the significance of 1 CE? Why mark the beginning of your religion-free period with that particular point in time?
While you're at it, couldn't you at least do the sensible thing and add a Year 0 to the whole scheme? Preceding the year 1 AD with the year 1 BC is a major annoyance when it comes to calendrical calculations; it introduces a discontinuity in the midst of an otherwise continuous flow of time. Why not start the whole, Christ-free system on January 1, 4713 BC and count forward from there, the way astronomers do?
If there's no logical, practical reason to adopt a different epoch, let's leave well enough alone. We're talking about history, after all, and the common names of the epochs currently in use are part of that history, as annoying as that is to some people.
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Russkilitlover Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:54am |
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:54am |
re: #130 Ojoe
Where is Sasquatch's birth certificate?
Steve Austin found it during that one episode of 'Six Million Dollar Man'. /
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jvic Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:40:59am |
re: #113 iceweasel
The real scandal is that his birth certificate shows his middle name isn't Hussein...it's Damien!
You beat me to it. If he was cast down from the sky, it's obvious he isn't an American citizen.
If one brain-addled fantasy agrees with another brain-addled fantasy, obviously they're both correct. Scientific confirmation!
I might consider an offer from the Discovery Institute. Tenure or fuhgedaboudit.
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karmic_inquisitor Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:41:05am |
I see your Anti-Chirist and raise you one 12th Imam.
/Zealot Poker
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:41:16am |
re: #239 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I see your super Illuminati fighting powers are as strong as mine.
I keep my secret decoder ring at the ready.
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:41:27am |
re: #229 opnion
Yeah , it is all about intimidation & silenceing criticism.
Howard Dean even said during the Cmpaign , that to bring up Reverend Wright was nothing but racism.
People should be able to freely crtique Obama & if the pejurative of racist is used it should be answered to let the accuser know that they just pimp race Or better yet they whore it.
the baiters become the racists themselves
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:41:36am |
re: #235 Oh no...Sand People!
You'll watch out for traffic Noah doubt, right?
That's right, Ham it up.
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:41:49am |
re: #219 avanti
Friday, July 31, 2009 at 1:31 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has voted to rush an additional $2 billion into the popular but financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car purchase program.
It is, after all, the most perfect piece of legislation ever passed by the Congress.
I mean, most of what is passed is some variety of cash for trash, but this one out and says it!
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:41:55am |
re: #202 debutaunt
I'm unhappy about any form of racism, but I have a problem with Obama for a completely different reason.
Of course you do. So do I. There's no shortage of legitimate criticisms to make of Obama.
Not all criticisms of Obama are automatically racist; racism does motivate some of the people who have insane criticisms of Obama.
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:42:01am |
re: #122 Ojoe
Actually, thin Ida is coming.
Work, for thin Ida's coming,
(she's the boss)
I hear her sister's an 'Ore.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:42:22am |
re: #175 Walter L. Newton
Well, archeologist just use a number (such as 10,000 years) and geologists use MYA (million years ago, as in 3mya).
Not entirely accurate. Common dates usually are expressed for the short term as "BP" or "before present" (3500 years BP). Longer term dates can be expressed as "MYA" or "millions of years ago" and "BYA" or "billions of years ago". Both are used by geologists, astronomers, and paleontologists, while the first is most common amongst archeologists and anthropologists (although, they also use MYA quite commonly).
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:42:35am |
If I were one of the sane Freepers, I'd be shaking my head. They've gone completely 'round-the-bend insane over there.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:42:36am |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:42:40am |
re: #218 SteveC
It made me want to Moses out into traffic.
I watched David, and immediately swore not to Saul my fingers typing a comment about it.
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:42:41am |
re: #243 Cygnus
Steve Austin found it during that one episode of 'Six Million Dollar Man'. /
...and he is now hawking "Bionic Ear" hearing aids. Shame when they need $ like that.
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:42:50am |
re: #225 Cato the Elder
If Lacan could diagnose people in five minutes over the phone, why shouldn't you do it on the intarwebs?
Five minutes? Sadly, I'm not that laconic.
*rimshot*
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:42:53am |
re: #241 SixDegrees
This is one of my pet peeves. People are free, of course, to label epochs any way they see fit, but this particular one is nothing more than a relabeling aimed at removing a religious reference from what is fundamentally a religious artifact of history. If you're that unhappy with it, at least replace it with some different period; what, after all, is the significance of 1 CE? Why mark the beginning of your religion-free period with that particular point in time?
While you're at it, couldn't you at least do the sensible thing and add a Year 0 to the whole scheme? Preceding the year 1 AD with the year 1 BC is a major annoyance when it comes to calendrical calculations; it introduces a discontinuity in the midst of an otherwise continuous flow of time. Why not start the whole, Christ-free system on January 1, 4713 BC and count forward from there, the way astronomers do?
If there's no logical, practical reason to adopt a different epoch, let's leave well enough alone. We're talking about history, after all, and the common names of the epochs currently in use are part of that history, as annoying as that is to some people.
But we have always been at war with Eurasia...?
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Jack Burton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:42:57am |
re: #211 Walter L. Newton
Correct. The only reason it was reexamined as "prophecy" was because there were many loose ends in the Greek scriptures that could not be explained unless someone placed the text sometime into the unknowable future.
And of course, over the centuries, they just keep moving the "date" to the point that any critical thinking person should be able to see the nonsense in it all.
I tried to explain this to someone I know who is in that "We are in the Endtimes Right Now!" crowd. His reaction turned from acting as though I raped his mother to a kind of "you'll be sorry" dismissal.
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:43:07am |
re: #241 SixDegrees
I have a coin here, and the date stamped on it says 55 BC, so which Roman emperor am I looking at?
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:43:11am |
Will the Lord Of Hades please stand up so we can beat you with our Styx ?
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:43:15am |
The person who uploaded this crazy video has also uploaded a number of videos about Sathya Sai Baba. Never heard of him before.
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Dianna Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:43:34am |
re: #222 Walter L. Newton
No, it was a language contemporary with the Jesus' time.
That, I know. I'm remembering something I read when I was studying Roman-Persian relations, probably inaccurately.
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Russkilitlover Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:43:41am |
re: #236 Sharmuta
I care because I think racism is wrong. Where it does exist- we should work against it.
I also think that turning an argument or opposition into a subtle accusation of racism is dead wrong. However, this administration, its supporters, and of course the media have been very adept at this. I think a lot of Republicans are scared shitless out of a direct confrontation on Obama's policies because of this.
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VioletTiger Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:43:41am |
re: #227 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Wait just a minute, the AC wouldn't need a teleprompter, but what if the AC needed a mouthpeice? THE TELEPROMPTER IS THE ANTI-CHRIST!
And then the machines take over the world!
Terminator!/
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John Neverbend Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:43:57am |
re: #95 buzzsawmonkey
...it typically has a "v" sound, as in the phrases "Urim v'Tummim" (referring to the stones on the High Priest's breastplate) or "tohu v'bohu" (the phrase usually translated as "without form and void," at the beginning of Genesis).
It takes an "u" sound at the beginning of a word if the immediately following consonant is one of a certain set. For example, "negotiations" or even "business" is "massa u'matan". I don't know the precise rule. Also, it may be a Modern Hebrew variant. Nevertheless, the video is about as convincing as showing that Satan and {insert name of hated person} have the same value in gematria.
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BlueCanuck Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:44:06am |
re: #261 itellu3times
I have a coin here, and the date stamped on it says 55 BC, so which Roman emperor am I looking at?
Doesn't matter, the coin is a forgery.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:44:20am |
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:44:39am |
re: #245 karmic_inquisitor
I see your Anti-Chirist and raise you one 12th Imam.
/Zealot Poker
Sunday Sunday Sunday, at the Springfield county fairgrounds, its the Beast from the East, the Mahdi Mangler versus the Son of Darkness in a battle for your very souls! Also see nitro burning funny cars and Truck-o-saurus.
You'll pay for the whole seat BUT YOU'LL ONLY USE THE EDGE!
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:45:07am |
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:45:08am |
re: #255 Walter L. Newton
What clip?
Some clip over on another blog where a "scholar" took a verse from Luke where Jesus described how Satan would appear and the adjectives used by Luke, when spoken in Aramaic, sound like... wanna guess who's name? It was pretty lame, but some idiots will wet themselves over it.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:45:13am |
re: #262 SasquatchOnSteroids
Will the Lord Of Hades please stand up so we can beat you with our Styx ?
OK, well that came out all wrong...
Self-delete Self-delete.
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:45:15am |
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:45:33am |
re: #261 itellu3times
I have a coin here, and the date stamped on it says 55 BC, so which Roman emperor am I looking at?
LIES! That coin is a FRAUD!
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debutaunt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:45:37am |
re: #156 iceweasel
That's not what's motivating the batshit insane, like nirthers or people who think Obama is the antichrist. Their demands can't be placated because they're operating in a sphere outside of rationality and reality.
I recall a similar group of raving loons when Bush was in office.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:45:39am |
re: #262 SasquatchOnSteroids
Will the Lord Of Hades please stand up so we can beat you with our Styx ?
Thank you very much for Charon that with us.
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Vicious Michigan Union Thug Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:45:53am |
re: #42 Walter L. Newton
Yes, 667, the neighbor of the beast.
668 and 664 are the Neighbors of the Beast
667 lives Across the Street from the Beast
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Cato the Elder Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:45:58am |
My old Connie would qualify as a "clunker" because of the crappy mileage, but it's paid for and has under 50k miles. The carbon-Nazis can bite me.
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SixDegrees Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:46:06am |
re: #153 Ojoe
A.D. stands for "In the year of Our Lord" (in Latin) & the phrase goes "In the year of Our Lord (number)"
So the correct place to put the A.D. is in front of the year number.
True in a pedantic sense, but in actual practice either placement is acceptable and correct as determined by widespread usage. The same is true of constructs such as "the thirteenth century AD" which is literal nonsense but whose meaning is crystal clear and unambiguous.
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Idle Drifter Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:46:12am |
re: #245 karmic_inquisitor
I see your Anti-Chirist and raise you one 12th Imam.
/Zealot Poker
What is this a poker game or Magic the Gathering?
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karmic_inquisitor Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:46:19am |
Oh - and let's not forget.
A Carbon atom has 6 neutrons, 6 protons, and 6 electrons.
666!
And Carbon is part of Carbon dating, which evil evolutionists have been using for years to tell people that there is no God!
And Carbon is part of Carbon Dioxide!
What more proof do you need that the Apocolypse is upon us!
/
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Van Helsing Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:46:23am |
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capitalist piglet Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:46:27am |
re: #278 debutaunt
I recall a similar group of raving loons when Bush was in office.
They're still loony if Bush is the topic.
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:46:30am |
re: #278 debutaunt
I recall a similar group of raving loons when Bush was in office.
and a hell of lot more zealous
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:46:37am |
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VioletTiger Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:46:41am |
re: #280 Alouette
668 and 664 are the Neighbors of the Beast
667 lives Across the Street from the Beast
Block parties must be a blast...
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Bloodnok Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:46:57am |
re: #104 Sharmuta
I agree. For me, he's just another democrat like Clinton or Carter. I see no need to demonize him or speculate that he's anything than a democrat. I have issues with his policies- not him. I'm sure he's a likable enough person. But this need on the part of others to turn him into some sort of sinister villain just shows a warped mind.
Thank you! That says it perfectly.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:47:01am |
re: #241 SixDegrees
This is one of my pet peeves. People are free, of course, to label epochs any way they see fit, but this particular one is nothing more than a relabeling aimed at removing a religious reference from what is fundamentally a religious artifact of history. If you're that unhappy with it, at least replace it with some different period; what, after all, is the significance of 1 CE? Why mark the beginning of your religion-free period with that particular point in time?
While you're at it, couldn't you at least do the sensible thing and add a Year 0 to the whole scheme? Preceding the year 1 AD with the year 1 BC is a major annoyance when it comes to calendrical calculations; it introduces a discontinuity in the midst of an otherwise continuous flow of time. Why not start the whole, Christ-free system on January 1, 4713 BC and count forward from there, the way astronomers do?
If there's no logical, practical reason to adopt a different epoch, let's leave well enough alone. We're talking about history, after all, and the common names of the epochs currently in use are part of that history, as annoying as that is to some people.
You as me to do this and that? I have nothing to do with how this stuff was set up. I'm just repeating some facts.
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:47:13am |
re: #270 Oh no...Sand People!
I'll stop and levite over to you.
Dan straight. And if it isn't straight, use of couple of Shems to make it level.
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:47:33am |
re: #284 karmic_inquisitor
What more proof do you need that the Apocolypse is upon us!
/
I think I got some on me, too.
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Jack Burton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:47:34am |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:47:41am |
re: #275 SasquatchOnSteroids
OK, well that came out all wrong...
Self-delete Self-delete.
Too late, I already took off on it.
:D
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:47:46am |
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MandyManners Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:47:53am |
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debutaunt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:05am |
re: #174 Honorary Yooper
Yes, as in AD 2009, not 2009 AD since AD is "anno domini", Latin for "In the year of our Lord".
Sounds odd to say "2009 in the year of our Lord" as opposed to "In the year of our Lord 2009".
Call me lazy. I just say '09.
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iceman1960 Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:19am |
Obama the antichrist???
Come on folks get real. Satan's evil but he's not stupid.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:21am |
re: #280 Alouette
668 and 664 are the Neighbors of the Beast
667 lives Across the Street from the Beast
666-1/2 is the neighbor who lives behind the Beast.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:31am |
re: #295 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Too late, I already took off on it.
:D
Maybe a poster who shall not be named won't see it. That is one big softball.
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Throbert McGee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:37am |
re: #3 apachegunner
i believe he is here already
Note to self: Dispatch flock of hungry ravens and "Carmina Burana" barbershop quartet to apachegunner's home address; also pick up dry cleaning.
(Jerry Goldsmith's "Ave Satani"* theme from The Omen)
* I think this should really be "Satana," by grammatical analogy with "Ave Maria," but that's just the Latin geek in me. But if this is an error, it's Goldsmith's, and not the fault of the YouTube poster -- the singers clearly articulate Ave Satani.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:38am |
re: #292 calcajun
Dan straight. And if it isn't straight, use of couple of Shems to make it level.
Well, I, I, I, Isaiah that's a good pun thar...
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:43am |
re: #284 karmic_inquisitor
What more proof do you need that the Apocolypse is upon us!
/
But it will come out with Oxi-Clean!
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reine.de.tout Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:51am |
re: #206 pink freud
Who cares why they do it? Crazy is crazy.
0bama has singlehandedly revived racial tensions in this country, we here do not need to fan those flames.
I agree - crazy is crazy.
And for those whose reasons are racist - there is nothing anybody will be able to do to talk them out of their racism. Have you ever tried to talk to a racist about their racism? Impossible.
the thing to do, imo, is not focus on what the reasons for the crazy are, but to do whatever needs to be done to counter the crazy.
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:52am |
The uploader has this Pope Benedict bashing video in his favorites.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:48:59am |
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WinterCat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:49:01am |
Ugh. These people will help to keep American under Democratic control for the next 1,000 years.
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:49:07am |
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:49:29am |
re: #299 debutaunt
Call me lazy. I just say '09.
Yassir, back theyn in twenty-oughtnine, them guys was crazy.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:49:46am |
re: #261 itellu3times
I have a coin here, and the date stamped on it says 55 BC, so which Roman emperor am I looking at?
There were no emperors. The only names on Republic era coins were the celator (mint master). And there were no dates. Coins are dated by the years of the mint master and in later Imperial era coins, dated by the co-council years as stated on a lot of the coins.
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:49:52am |
re: #261 itellu3times
I have a coin here, and the date stamped on it says 55 BC, so which Roman emperor am I looking at?
You think the conspiracy theorists are bad now? You should have seen the nutjobs bitching about that countdown.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:50:01am |
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reine.de.tout Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:50:03am |
re: #308 Sharmuta
The uploader has this Pope Benedict bashing video in his favorites.
He thinks the Pope is the anti-Christ?
I'm not gonna watch it.
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:50:08am |
re: #305 Oh no...Sand People!
Thanks, now I have to get back to my day Joab.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:50:22am |
re: #303 SasquatchOnSteroids
Maybe a poster who shall not be named won't see it. That is one big softball.
WHO ... won't ... see ... WHAT ?
/*duck and run*
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:50:27am |
Let's stop numbering years. I say we name them.
1984--The Year of the Parachute Pants
1990--The Year of the Spiral Perm
1999--The Year of the Needless Freak Out
2009--The Year of the Beer Summit
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:50:27am |
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John Neverbend Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:50:31am |
re: #240 buzzsawmonkey
Point being that Aramaic is a later version of Hebrew, not an earlier one.
It was the language spoken by the Babylonians. The Hebrew speaking Israelites learned Aramaic during the captivity. I think that the languages were contemporaneous, and they certainly belong to the same family.
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:50:47am |
re: #262 SasquatchOnSteroids
Will the Lord Of Hades please stand up so we can beat you with our Styx ?
How about a disco stick? /resisting linking Lady Gaga vid
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:50:48am |
re: #18 Sharmuta
I have to wonder how much of this is covering a little underlying racism for some Freepers who just can't handle a black man being president. Much easier for them to think he's the anti-Christ. They need to get a grip.
It's an extension (quite an extension) from thinking that a black person in a position of authority only got there because of affirmative action. In this case, he only got there because of satanic affirmative action. (Or whatever, I don't really understand what the anti-Christ is supposed to be.) It relieves you of having to acknowledge the person's achievement.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:51:24am |
re: #308 Sharmuta
The uploader has this Pope Benedict bashing video in his favorites.
Many of these evangelical end-times types have a feverent hatred of all things Catholic, and especially the Pope.
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:51:28am |
re: #272 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Sunday Sunday Sunday, at the Springfield county fairgrounds, its the Beast from the East, the Mahdi Mangler versus the Son of Darkness in a battle for your very souls! Also see nitro burning funny cars and Truck-o-saurus.
You'll pay for the whole seat BUT YOU'LL ONLY USE THE EDGE!
Hot Damn! I am so THERE!
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mfarmer1 Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:51:38am |
It's getting harder and harder to ridicule Bill Maher for saying we're a stupid nation with this kind of crap being so prevalent. Nirthers, Troofers, Moonfers, Creationers, KOSers, Puffers, Freepers, and the rest are not just a few cranks as Ann Coulter put it. It's much worse than that I'm afraid.
The Internet is great, but it has a dark side, and it ain't porno.
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karmic_inquisitor Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:51:42am |
re: #293 itellu3times
I think I got some on me, too.
As part of this special TV offer, Dr. Francis Wilkes will make available to you his amazing "Carbonex" carbon purge elixer.
Purge your body of the anti-christ's favorite element. Just 14.99 a bottle with on bottle consumed per day will save your soul.
/
[Link: chemistry.about.com...]
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Cato the Elder Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:51:44am |
By the way, I came across a new term yesterday: "carbon-tainted".
That would be anything that, in the opinion of the eco-fascist in question, requires "too much" carbon to produce, transport, store, or maintain.
Being a carbon-based life form, I instantly reached for my revolver.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:52:03am |
re: #324 Russkilitlover
Nice to see Rudy again. We haven't seen much of him for a while.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:52:10am |
re: #321 EmmmieG
Let's stop numbering years. I say we name them.
1984--The Year of the Parachute Pants
1990--The Year of the Spiral Perm
1999--The Year of the Needless Freak Out
2009--The Year of the Beer Summit
Parachute pants !
wooshwooshwooshwooshwooshwooshwoosh
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:52:12am |
re: #22 MikeAlv77
I thought 0bama had no race since he was the light worker who brought the earth healing and caused us all to unclench
The Freepers are not unclenching. The Freepers are clenching as hard as they can, just to show Obama. They're gonna give themselves hernias, they keep this up.
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jvic Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:52:23am |
re: #94 iceweasel
re: #51 albusteveit's all about race...all the time...every issue...got the message
Of course not, but there is no doubt that racism is part of what motivates those who endorse insane theories about Obama which all have the underlying theme "he isn't really one of us".
Ice, I updinged you but IMO your "there is no doubt" could stand being dialed back a bit.
***
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Hypothesis: As people's dislike of Obama builds, they search for an outlet that captures/channels that dislike. There's a ready-made and obvious one.
Bush and Palin are hicks. Obama is black. Hillary is a wymyn.
And the beat goes on...
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SixDegrees Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:52:38am |
re: #291 Walter L. Newton
You as me to do this and that? I have nothing to do with how this stuff was set up. I'm just repeating some facts.
Yes, I'm aware of that, Walter. I shifted the object of my rant to a hypothetical ding-dong.
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John Neverbend Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:52:39am |
re: #327 buzzsawmonkey
A little re-Caligulation would seem to be in order.
It's a trick. There was no Roman Emperor in 55 BCE.
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:52:41am |
re: #321 EmmmieG
Let's stop numbering years. I say we name them.
1984--The Year of the Parachute Pants
Can't touch this.
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:52:42am |
re: #322 Walter L. Newton
Nero was not emperor in 55bce.
This reminded me of the people who walk around renaissance faires and point at the people wearing costumes that aren't exactly right and yelling, "Not period! That's all wrong!"
I was amused.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:52:49am |
re: #316 Oh no...Sand People!
Are we talking heaven or hell here?
If they are attached to you, hell.
If you paid $10 cover, 2 drink minimum, and $30 for the private dance, well...
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:53:02am |
re: #283 Idle Drifter
What is this a poker game or Magic the Gathering?
'Last night I played poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people would up dead.'
-a somewhat misquoted Steven Wright bit
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:53:06am |
re: #316 Oh no...Sand People!
Are we talking heaven or hell here?
Heaven, if one's looking at them. Hell on the back of the one who has them.
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:53:07am |
re: #317 reine.de.tout
He thinks the Pope is the anti-Christ?
I'm not gonna watch it.
Don't watch it. I linked it to show the kind of mind we're dealing with. "Vatican II was dominated by heretics." So we have a weirdo mainstreaming his/her ugly to the Freepers and Lord only knows who else. Lovely.
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albusteve Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:53:09am |
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:53:17am |
re: #327 buzzsawmonkey
No-- Claudius was in circa 41 and he was before Caligula. Nero followed Claudius-- then Galba, Otho and Vespasian.
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:53:50am |
re: #334 SasquatchOnSteroids
Parachute pants !
wooshwooshwooshwooshwooshwooshwoosh
Stop!
Hammer Time...
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Sharmuta Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:53:56am |
re: #328 Honorary Yooper
Many of these evangelical end-times types have a feverent hatred of all things Catholic, and especially the Pope.
The uploader has end time videos favorited too. Color me shocked.
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Athos Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:54:12am |
Hmmm...From Hot Air...
Party-line breakdowns: Dems 93/4/3 (the last figure is “don’t know”), Indies 83/8/9, and GOP … 42/28/30. Fully 58 percent of Republicans aren’t willing to accept a state-issued Certification of Live Birth as proof that The One was born in Honolulu?
Then there is this about the regional breakdown -
Only 47 percent of Southern respondents believe Obama was born in the USA. By contrast, 93 percent of Northeasterns said yes, he was born here, 90 percent of Midwesterners did and 87 percent of Westerners.
Are we seeing something similar here?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:54:17am |
re: #327 buzzsawmonkey
A little re-Caligulation would seem to be in order.
Careful, or you'll give someone a Caesar.
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iceman1960 Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:54:17am |
Anyone seen the image in the marble slab on the Dome of the Rock?
Look at those ears. That's all the proof I need.
Image: 15076850.jpg
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:54:23am |
re: #289 VioletTiger
Block parties must be a blast...
Very interesting meat you have there for the BBQ. What is it?
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opnion Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:55:07am |
re: #278 debutaunt
I recall a similar group of raving loons when Bush was in office.
And that same group demand slobbering respect for Obama.
Everything is not about race.
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:55:09am |
re: #330 mfarmer1
It's getting harder and harder to ridicule Bill Maher for saying we're a stupid nation with this kind of crap being so prevalent. Nirthers, Troofers, Moonfers, Creationers, KOSers, Puffers, Freepers, and the rest are not just a few cranks as Ann Coulter put it. It's much worse than that I'm afraid.
The Internet is great, but it has a dark side, and it ain't porno.
The porno is mostly the slick and slippery side of the internet.
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Idle Drifter Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:55:13am |
re: #311 Mad Al-Jaffee
666 DD - number of the bust
They're so massive the gravitational force is sucking in the massive black holes of the universe! The fabric of reality is failing a part!
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:55:25am |
re: #314 Walter L. Newton
Aw, I just love the idea of coins stamped with BC in the date, good for a chuckle any time of day, maybe I'd better start my own collectibles mint.
Can also print a three dollar bill with a portrait of BJ.
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Cato the Elder Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:55:39am |
re: #151 Honorary Yooper
CE has been used for both "Christian Era" and "Common Era". I think I still prefer AD and BC as long as we're using the current calendar.*
/*Personally, I'd rather just add 10,000 to the current calendar and remove all the annoying BC dates that make it harder to date archeological objects and finds.
I've said that for years! This year would be 12,009 POI.
Post-ice-age.
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Shug Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:55:44am |
re: #351 Athos
Hmmm...From Hot Air...
Are we seeing something similar here?
in fairness to the 53 % southerners who say he wasn't born here, most of them Don't know that Hawaii is part of the USA
/
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:56:06am |
re: #302 Honorary Yooper
666-1/2 is the neighbor who lives behind the Beast.
666-B is the guy who's renting the upstairs room of the Beast's place.
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:56:17am |
re: #358 buzzsawmonkey
Maybe I should just take time out to finish my Orange Julius.
Tomorrow is Augustus 1, BTW.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:56:28am |
re: #50 martinsmithy
Let's take a giant leap and take this video at face value.
Jesus spoke originally in Aramaic. The house of cards built in this video is based upon the Hebrew translation of the original Aramaic.
So Jesus didn't say "And I saw Satan as Barak Obama", because he wasn't speaking Hebrew.
There's another little problem - Luke was written about 90 BC, 60 years after the death of Christ, and I don't think verbatim transcripts were the norm at that time.
It gets worse--the Luke gospel IIRC was written in Greek. So this is an attempt to reverse-engineer a Hebrew translation of a statement most likely given in Aramaic, but reocrded in Greek, decades after the fact.
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Throbert McGee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:56:36am |
re: #127 Walter L. Newton
CE is a scholarly term which means "Common Era," not Christian era. Where did you get that from? I'm curious.
BCE is also used by non-sectarians, standing for "Before Common Era."
As a non-Christian, I normally use the traditional BC/AD to avoid sounding PC!
HOWEVER, I do make one exception -- when talking about the time frame of the Christian NT, and perhaps the period of Jewish history for about a century before that (or in other words, about a century before and after the non-existent "Year Zero"), I think it makes more sense to use BCE/CE, paradoxical though it may seem.
(Because of that famous little miscalculation by Dionysius Exiguus...)
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Kragar Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:57:08am |
re: #356 CyanSnowHawk
The porno is mostly the slick and slippery side of the internet.
It is if you're doing things right at least.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:57:24am |
re: #318 calcajun
Thanks, now I have to get back to my day Joab.
Oh, before you go, don't forget your Cain.
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BARACK THE VOTE Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:57:51am |
re: #336 jvic
Ice, I updinged you but IMO your "there is no doubt" could stand being dialed back a bit.
Well, there is no doubt that there are racists in this country, and were before Obama was on the horizon. (stormfront being one egregious example)
And racists are naturally going to be galvanised by Obama's presidency. Recruitment for all white supremicist groups is way up.
I don't think it's overtheline to point out that racism plays a part in some of the batshit insane theories about Obama, for some endorsing them.
I'm not saying that all of Obama's critics are racist, or that all criticisms of Obama are racist. For criticisms in particular that have the underlying theme "obama is not one of us", race is playing a role.
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MrSilverDragon Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:58:07am |
re: #363 SasquatchOnSteroids
Tomorrow is Augustus 1, BTW.
I dunno if I Otho respond to that... Oh wait, I did.
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MandyManners Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:58:34am |
re: #352 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Careful, or you'll give someone a Caesar.
Lettuce stop with the puns!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:58:47am |
re: #358 buzzsawmonkey
Maybe I should just take time out to finish my Orange Julius.
That'd taste good right about now.
Have you Brutus some too?
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:58:57am |
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:59:15am |
re: #360 Cato the Elder
I've said that for years! This year would be 12,009 POI.
Post-ice-age.
I like to think of today as the Eleventh day of 40SA (Space Age).
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:59:29am |
re: #358 buzzsawmonkey
Maybe I should just take time out to finish my Orange Julius.
Friends, you make me want to be roaming from my country, men.
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SteveC Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:59:45am |
re: #361 Shug
in fairness to the 53 % southerners who say he wasn't born here, most of them Don't know that Hawaii is part of the USA
/
Worked in a small museum for 10 years. As A joke, the boss told some guests that today was Hawaiian Statehood Day and we would only accept Hawaiian money.
They almost left...
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SasquatchOnSteroids Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:59:46am |
re: #370 MrSilverDragon
I dunno if I Otho respond to that... Oh wait, I did.
Fitting puns, what with the Antichrist Roman around and all.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:00:12am |
re: #356 CyanSnowHawk
The porno is mostly the slick and slippery side of the internet.
You know things are bad when you can trust a porno site to give more accurate information than most anything else on the web.
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Cato the Elder Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:00:19am |
Being an old Roman, I still find AUC dating most congenial.
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Throbert McGee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:01:09am |
re: #359 itellu3times
Can also print a three dollar bill with a portrait of BJ.
Well, it goes without saying that a three-dollar bill should depict a BJ, but who would be the two guys? Abe Lincoln and Josh Speed?
/ducking
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John Neverbend Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:02:02am |
re: #360 Cato the Elder
I've said that for years! This year would be 12,009 POI.
Post-ice-age.
Better to set an "absolute zero" of time, say 15-20 billion years ago, and date from there. Of course, one would have to give it a name, rather like degrees Kelvin. In this case, perhaps we should call it the Klinghoffer time scale to honour the very person who is least likely to appreciate it.
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itellu3times Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:02:44am |
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mikalm Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:03:05am |
Maybe my Scripture learnin' is inadequate, but I don't recall Jesus Christ ever mentioning a singular Antichrist. "False Christs" and "false prophets," yes, but it seems that the whole Beast #666 concept got going with St. John the Evangelist's visions in Patmos, decades after the events of the Gospels. In Luke, Christ was referring to Satan the Fallen Angel, whom he'd been tempted by in the desert, and who is a different entity from the human Antichrist spoken of in Revelation.
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Cygnus Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:04:35am |
re: #357 Idle Drifter
They're so massive the gravitational force is sucking in the massive black holes of the universe! The fabric of reality is failing a part!
Put them in orbit and they would affect the tides.
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Throbert McGee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:07:37am |
re: #364 SanFranciscoZionist
It gets worse--the Luke gospel IIRC was written in Greek.
All four Gospels were, but Luke is generally acknowledged as having the most polished and literate Greek. (And Acts is clearly by the same author as Luke, regardless of whether this author was truly the "Luke" mentioned in Paul's writings.)
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:07:40am |
re: #143 ArchangelMichael
Actually if they go by Bishop Ussher, its 6012 years old.
From Steven Colbert--"The Earth is 6000 years old! Always has been! Always will be!"
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SixDegrees Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:08:28am |
re: #366 Cato the Elder
What happened in 4713?
Nothing. But astronomers need a continuous, positive run of dates that spans all of recorded history, so they use Julian day numbers to label days unambiguously. These are based on periodicities in the Julian calendar system, and a multiple of these was chosen such that all periods had their first year occurring together and far enough in the past to span a large enough chunk of history.
See here for the gory details.
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~Fianna Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:08:36am |
re: #145 buzzsawmonkey
One need not look as far as "racism." All one need do is look at Obama's ideologies of "redistribute the wealth" and "inject positive rights into the Constitution."
For sane people, yes.
Both birtherism and trutherism have bigotry at their core. Doesn't mean that everyone that embraces birther nonsense is a racist, although I don't think that it's possible to say that about trutherism - the idea that somehow da JOOOS knew in advance can't be separated from anti-Semitism. However, the idea that Obama somehow isn't an American probably has a lot to do with the fact that he doesn't look like these in-duh-viduals' idea of what an American looks like.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:09:44am |
re: #145 buzzsawmonkey
One need not look as far as "racism." All one need do is look at Obama's ideologies of "redistribute the wealth" and "inject positive rights into the Constitution."
Buzz, do you really think that an educated perspective on either of those things is motivating people who think that Barak Obama is part of a nearly fifty-year-old conspiracy to get a Muslim who was born in Kenya in as president? Just sayin'.
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Idle Drifter Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:10:21am |
re: #342 Cygnus
'Last night I played poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people would up dead.'
-a somewhat misquoted Steven Wright bit
I learned the hard way not to read the Necronomicon and other strange books out loud. Or cough while doing it.
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experiencedtraveller Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:11:53am |
Idiots...
Everyone knows Microsoft VISTA is the antichrist.
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~Fianna Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:12:12am |
re: #349 Sharmuta
The uploader has end time videos favorited too. Color me shocked.
I find myself wishing that the "End Times" would happen.
Either there'd be a really big surprise as to who got taken up by the mighty hand of God and us basically decent people could enjoy Heaven while the sanctimonious whacknuts ran around looking really confused... or they'd get taken off someplace and leave the rest of us in peace.
Either way, we win.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:14:56am |
re: #232 doppelganglander
That's okay. If the Antichrist was literally walking in 1910, he'd have to have been born at least a year earlier. Maybe I should check out Willard right now.
No, wait. 103 degrees Fahrenheit is 40 degrees Celsius, and forty is the number of days Jesus fasted in the wilderness while struggling with Satan, RIGHT? So 103 is the LOGICAL age for the Beast or whatever he is to reveal himself.
DAMN I'm good.
/
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~Fianna Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:16:00am |
re: #394 buzzsawmonkey
You can't manage to complete your paragraph without a "probably" that assumes far too much.
Nope. Sorry. Ascribing this silliness to "racism" rather than to the simple American desire for a quick-fix way of changing what you don't like is grossly overreaching.
I have to say probably, since I can't see in to people's heads and know exactly what they're thinking.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:17:19am |
re: #238 capitalist piglet
It's easy to hate a racist. Someone who is completely irrational because they feel helpless, powerless, and afraid (see leftists for the past eight years), not so much. So racists, they will be.
So people are suddenly able to feel helpless, powerless and afraid, without reaching for traditional means of explaining such feelings (which has included racism for a very long time)? I don't see it. These folks are not foaming at the mouth racists, but I think it's a stretch to say that there's no racism influencing the stuff they reach for.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:17:51am |
re: #398 SanFranciscoZionist
So people are suddenly able to feel helpless, powerless and afraid, without reaching for traditional means of explaining such feelings (which has included racism for a very long time)? I don't see it. These folks are not foaming at the mouth racists, but I think it's a stretch to say that there's no racism influencing the stuff they reach for.
Mostly not foaming at the mouth racists. Some, I'm sure, are, but they were like that before Barack Obama came along.
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:19:32am |
re: #394 buzzsawmonkey
You can't manage to complete your paragraph without a "probably" that assumes far too much.
Nope. Sorry. Ascribing this silliness to "racism" rather than to the simple American desire for a quick-fix way of changing what you don't like is grossly overreaching.
I agree. Roughly half the people I see every day are black and half are white or other. It would be agony to be a racist in Baltimore. While people do tend to group by race somewhat, the work world, the shopping world, and special interests bring the mix together everywhere you go. We mostly get along (keep in mind that I'm easy - I get along with street gangs, rabbis, whatever life throws at me). When people do get into it, it's about whatever it's about. I can't remember the last time it was anything to do with race.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:21:17am |
re: #274 calcajun
Some clip over on another blog where a "scholar" took a verse from Luke where Jesus described how Satan would appear and the adjectives used by Luke, when spoken in Aramaic, sound like... wanna guess who's name? It was pretty lame, but some idiots will wet themselves over it.
God help me, I expect my mother in law to forward that to me at any moment. I love her, and she gave birth to my husband, so I will smile kindly as I delete it.
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Throbert McGee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:22:28am |
re: #352 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Careful, or you'll give someone a Caesar.
Shakespeare: Hey, Frank, I've got this terrific new play in mind -- period-piece comedy about the stormy love of a Roman soldier and a shrewish Sabine -- but the title needs work: Quick, Julius, Grab the Bitch Before She Gets Away!
Bacon: Well, what's wrong with Julius, Seize Her!?
Shakespeare: Dude, that's totally honorificabilitudinitatibus -- thanks!
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:22:56am |
re: #278 debutaunt
I recall a similar group of raving loons when Bush was in office.
To be perfectly fair, I don't recall ever being told that Bush was the anti-Christ. All the delusions about him were more thriller-genre than fantasy-novel.
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:23:54am |
re: #368 Oh no...Sand People!
Don't need it. Able to walk now.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:27:41am |
re: #395 buzzsawmonkey
A nearly fifty year old conspiracy to put BO in the Presidency? Who the heck has said that?
Perhaps I am misunderstanding you.
Well, if the birth anouncements were placed to trick people, what else am I to think?
/
Seriously, have you SEEN some of this stuff? It's beyond wacky.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:30:04am |
re: #403 SanFranciscoZionist
To be perfectly fair, I don't recall ever being told that Bush was the anti-Christ. All the delusions about him were more thriller-genre than fantasy-novel.
Didn't Obama's buddy Hugo call him that?
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:35:53am |
Anyone remember Flip Wilson's long (funny) joke about "I come to berry Caesar, not to praise him?" Loved that.
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Throbert McGee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:37:20am |
re: #250 iceweasel
Not all criticisms of Obama are automatically racist; racism does motivate some of the people who have insane criticisms of Obama.
But, I would emphasize, only some of the anti-Obama crazies are motivated by racism -- I mean, had Hillary been the Presidential nominee and Biden her VP, many Freepers would now be combing the New Testament for "proof" that HRC is the Anti-Christ. Still just as insane, but not racist.
A lot of it is simply the the pendulum of politically-motivated Drama-Queeniness swinging the other way after eight years of anti-Bush and anti-GOP hyperbole from far-left "progressives."
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:49:39am |
re: #381 Cattt
What Dark Lords and Minions would actually wear instead of mom jeans.
You mean "Gay" Dark Lords and minions.
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Throbert McGee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:54:37am |
re: #408 Throbert McGee
I mean, had Hillary been the Presidential nominee and Biden her VP, many Freepers would now be combing the New Testament for "proof" that HRC is the Anti-Christ.
And just to be clear, had the Dems run and won with two white guys, the Freepers would still be looking for tell-tale "Antichrist" clues. That's just SOP for a certain segment of the far right -- the same clowns who whine about how "it's getting unsafe to be a Bible-Believing Christian in today's America!"
And, as with similar histrionics from get-Whitey race hustlers and "won't someone please think of the gay children?!" homophobia hustlers and the "I'm oppressed because the 50-dollar bills in my wallet say In God We Trust" atheism hustlers, the antics of the "Christophobia" hustlers are designed with one goal in mind: to scare people into writing a check.
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calcajun Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:00:55pm |
re: #410 Throbert McGee
And just to be clear, had the Dems run and won with two white guys, the Freepers would still be looking for tell-tale "Antichrist" clues. That's just SOP for a certain segment of the far right -- the same clowns who whine about how "it's getting unsafe to be a Bible-Believing Christian in today's America!"
And, as with similar histrionics from get-Whitey race hustlers and "won't someone please think of the gay children?!" homophobia hustlers and the "I'm oppressed because the 50-dollar bills in my wallet say In God We Trust" atheism hustlers, the antics of the "Christophobia" hustlers are designed with one goal in mind: to scare people into writing a check.
If we're all victims, then who are the perpetrators?
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Maui Girl Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:02:48pm |
Look folks. We're not going to know who the anti-christ is until it's too late. Kinda like letting the government run the country aka banking, auto industry, Amtrak, healthcare, retirement plans, federal reserves, etc. The private sector has always done a better job. History proves it but as usual most people including our government officials choose insanity by ignoring FACTUAL historical accounts and doom our country by repeating mistakes rather than learning from them.
The anti-christ will be the least obvious of all things in life until you've given your soul to the wrong party.
/cue scary music
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Throbert McGee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:05:13pm |
re: #409 calcajun
You mean "Gay" Dark Lords and minions.
Ack. I can just picture Freddy Mercury gazing up from Hell* at Adam Lambert and going "Butch the fuck up, Mary!" (Freddy was flamboyant, but I don't think he ever did the pouty-lip thing like that.)
* South Park Hell, where Mercury clearly belongs -- not the traditional Christian idea of the infernal regions.
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Throbert McGee Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:06:29pm |
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jvic Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:08:14pm |
re: #369 iceweasel
Well okay, but if the Obama presidency becomes unmistakably catastrophic, overt racism will get as bad as leftist racism toward Thomas and Rice. We're nowhere near that point and I hope things stay that way.
IMO Obama would have short-circuited much (not all) of white supremacist recruiting by doing stuff like wearing fatigues at photo ops at military installations and calling for a strong military. The left's reaction is another story.
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:12:00pm |
re: #413 Throbert McGee
Ack. I can just picture Freddy Mercury gazing up from Hell* at Adam Lambert and going "Butch the fuck up, Mary!" (Freddy was flamboyant, but I don't think he ever did the pouty-lip thing like that.)
[Video]
(Mercury livin' on his own, post-Queen)* South Park Hell, where Mercury clearly belongs -- not the traditional Christian idea of the infernal regions.
I love Freddy too, but in a different way. Not everyone is the same!
I know some gays are annoyed that Adam is so fem, but he points out he's not a spokesgay - he's an entertainer, and he is who he is. At least he's one of those really big girls, though. He's 6 foot 2 and 185-90 pounds. And beautiful - I love those pouty lips and beautiful eyes. :D
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:16:31pm |
re: #409 calcajun
You mean "Gay" Dark Lords and minions.
Not really. There are straight and bi minions too.
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:19:49pm |
re: #391 Idle Drifter
I learned the hard way not to read the Necronomicon and other strange books out loud. Or cough while doing it.
[Video]
I did a great cross-stitch sampler of the Necronomicon symbol (the one on the front) with one of the Sumerian curses and a dragon on the side. Keeps evil spirits out. Looks good. No one else has one - probably not a lot of overlap between Necronomicon readers and cross-stitchers.
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Seattle Rep Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:21:45pm |
"And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters seriously believe is the anti-Christ."
Let's pull the lever on the anti-christ slot machine...
6...6...Lemon
Sorry, no match.
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Macker Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:26:32pm |
re: #24 _RememberTonyC
I've seen the Anti-Christ and his little helper ... in fact ... here's a photo of them:
[Link: www.terrorism-info.org.il...]
See, I thought that was the remade of Brokeback Mosque...
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RedhouseBluestate Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:41:23pm |
I thought Scott Baio was the anti-Christ?
Seriously though, the anti-Christ was a code word for a Roman emperor. Isaac Asimov narrowed it down to 2 or 3, I don't recall which ones at the moment.
If I remember correctly, after the Romans finally put down the last Jewish rebellion, one of them threatened to build a temple to Jupiter over the site of Herod's Temple, and personally offer up a pagan sacrifice. Revelations eludes that act would be enough to bring on the Second Coming.
Here's a couple of great books for helping to understand the context and the times when the Bible was written.
[Link: www.amazon.com...]
[Link: www.amazon.com...]
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SFGoth Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:49:38pm |
re: #4 Cattt
All I know is if AntiChrist tours, I'm definitely hitting TicketMaster.
Fuck ticketbastard. I saved $9 calling direct to the box office for the Agoura Hills Blue Oyster Cult show rather than go through TB. That's two beers. That's real concert money.
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SFGoth Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:54:50pm |
re: #416 Cattt
I love Freddy too, but in a different way. Not everyone is the same!
I know some gays are annoyed that Adam is so fem, but he points out he's not a spokesgay - he's an entertainer, and he is who he is. At least he's one of those really big girls, though. He's 6 foot 2 and 185-90 pounds. And beautiful - I love those pouty lips and beautiful eyes. :D
LOL, yesterday I was talking with my boss's 23 y.o. office assistant about metal and mentioned that Rob Halford of Judas Priest came out in '96, but I pretty much knew it back in the early 80's (it's called having a clue). She couldn't believe it -- he's metal, he's not you know... I laughed and asked her if she'd ever walked past a leather bar. Them dudes are in no way, shape, and esp. form, femme. She couldn't grok the whole concept. But which one is the, you know, the...? It was so funny.
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tokyobk Fri, Jul 31, 2009 12:55:34pm |
I turned this horses%*t off after the claim that Aramaic is the most ancient form of Hebrew.
No it is not you jackasses.
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 1:12:10pm |
re: #423 SFGoth
LOL, yesterday I was talking with my boss's 23 y.o. office assistant about metal and mentioned that Rob Halford of Judas Priest came out in '96, but I pretty much knew it back in the early 80's (it's called having a clue). She couldn't believe it -- he's metal, he's not you know... I laughed and asked her if she'd ever walked past a leather bar. Them dudes are in no way, shape, and esp. form, femme. She couldn't grok the whole concept. But which one is the, you know, the...? It was so funny.
Lol. I can absolutely picture that.
People are just so clueless. Sometimes it shocks me that I'm surrounded by people who are on a different planet. (To be fair, I shock them a lot too.) When Rob came out, someone read the news aloud at work. I blurted out - "I didn't know he was in!" - and one of the guys in my group quietly said "Neither did I!"
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Catttt Fri, Jul 31, 2009 1:13:21pm |
re: #422 SFGoth
Fuck ticketbastard. I saved $9 calling direct to the box office for the Agoura Hills Blue Oyster Cult show rather than go through TB. That's two beers. That's real concert money.
Maybe I'll get a minion discount. :D
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rubix Fri, Jul 31, 2009 1:37:58pm |
I speak both Hebrew and Aramaic. Aramaic is used in the Talmud as the language of "dialog". Hebrew was a holy language that was only used in religious service and in writing the Torah (at that time). Saying that Aramaic is a form of Hebrew is like saying that Spanish is a form of English. They both use the same character sets and some of the words sound similar -- but they are not the same language.
Further, we know for certain that we have lost some of the pronunciations so the word "barak" which means lightning in modern Hebrew might have been pronounced differently, but probably was used by another word in Aramaic.
Also, the word for "heaven" that is most commonly used in Hebrew is "shamayim", not "Ba-Mah".
Lastly, the video makes an incredible leap using a method we use in Talmud study called "remez" or hinting.
Granted, I do not know the "new testament" and certainly do not believe in its validity, but in my view, it is a desecration of G-d's name to use the Torah (or new testament) to make any link between the leader of our country and the end days.
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butterick Fri, Jul 31, 2009 1:47:15pm |
Great use of the "lgfhatesamerica" tag in that thread.
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Charles Johnson Fri, Jul 31, 2009 2:21:21pm |
re: #428 butterick
Great use of the "lgfhatesamerica" tag in that thread.
They add that tag to cover up their embarrassment at having the crazies exposed.
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ErnieG Fri, Jul 31, 2009 2:24:31pm |
re: #42 Walter L. Newton
Yes, 667, the neighbor of the beast.
More Beast numbers:
660 is the Approximate number of the Beast
DCLXVI is the Roman numeral of the Beast
666.0000 is the Number of the High Precision Beast
0.666 is the Number of the Millibeast
/666 is the Beast Common Denominator
1010011010 is the Binary of the Beast
Beast1-666 is the Area code of the Beast
00666 is the Postcode of the Beast
[no phone numbers allowed](dummy 900 number with lots of 6s) Live Beasts! One-on-one pacts! Call Now! Only $6.66/minute. Over 18 only please.
$665.95 is the Retail price of the Beast
$699.25 is the Price of the Beast plus sales tax
$769.95 is the Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul
$656.66 is the Target price of the Beast
Route 666 is the Way of the Beast
666F is the Oven temperature for roast Beast
i66686 is the CPU of the Beast
666i is the BMW of the Beast
668 is the Next-door neighbor of the Beast
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tokyobk Fri, Jul 31, 2009 2:45:06pm |
BY the way, not that is worth trying to talk to the crazies but for everyone else: Barak obama's name is Arabic from the same root as "Bless" as in Barooch, like the name as well as the opening to most hebrew prayers "Barooch ata adonai" not Bet Resh Koof meaning lightning.
So FAIL
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equable Fri, Jul 31, 2009 2:45:58pm |
Matthew 24:36, Christ speaking of His return:
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
The antichrist hallmarks the end days. And if Jesus has no clue when he is coming back, why would he give such a clue? I mean after all, isn't the emergence of antichrist supposed to hallmark the last seven years before his triumphant return?
Besides, the antichrist is supposed to perform miracles that would, as Jesus said, "... deceive the very elect".
Sorry for that folks, but I actually read the book they're pounding over there.
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Equable Fri, Jul 31, 2009 2:49:04pm |
And your daily dose of Bruce "air raid siren" Dickinson.
Rock out!
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arizona9 Fri, Jul 31, 2009 3:45:30pm |
Obama couldn't possibly be the antichrist. I give the AC more credit than to take the form of that unqualified teleprompter reliant mom jeans wearing dbag.
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jc59 Fri, Jul 31, 2009 4:17:51pm |
The video is pure speculation but it is plausible that Jesus, in one of his recorded sayings, uttered something that phonetically sounded like "Satan Barack Obama".
Jesus is clearly alluding to the Isaiah "Lucifer" passage. So it is not unreasonable to assume that He would have used similar language and that he would spoken in Hebrew instead of Aramaic.
By the way, guessing the identity of the Anti-Christ is an American obsession and has nothing to do with race.
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grandma Fri, Jul 31, 2009 4:33:22pm |
All seriousness aside, I think that in spite of all the religious scriptures, dogmas, doctrines, rituals, holy places, holy days and weeks and months, silly costumes, ceremonies, holy stones and bones, that an Almighty Creator did in fact put this whole Earth together. How it was done and how long it took are secrets that the Almighty keeps. I don’t have a need to know.
That being said, I do think the Almighty created everything just the way it is supposed to be. The Almighty is omnipotent, omnipresent, and infinite. Maybe the Almighty does his work through angels, demons, jinns, priests, sons, and anti-sons, but that’s not for me to know. And it doesn’t really matter to me, anyhow. As a born-again skeptic, I’d prefer to think that the Almighty can do it all alone, and has done very well so far.
Mankind was created as the only species of life that has a brain that can actually think beyond instinct, and a spirit that transcends instinct. Some humans manage it quite nicely, some screw up badly, and some get all tangled up in mumbo-jumbo about the whole thing. Cats will hunt and kill rats, dogs will chase cats, snakes will hunt vermin, and it goes on. There’s no bad or evil in that; it is all good because that’s how they were created. Humans on the other hand, have choices about good and evil and right and wrong. That’s the qualities we were created with.
I’m starting to think that the Almighty created the whole thing quite wonderfully, but mankind created politics, governments, and religion and re-created the Almighty in mankind’s image. Argue with me if you will.
I’ll end this tirade with a silly story. Twenty years ago my (now deceased) parents relocated to another state. Pop went with the papers to the DMV to register the car. Everything went well and he came back with two new license plates. They read, 666 SLY. While he went to find a screwdriver, Mom saw them on the kitchen table and threw a fit! She did not want to ride in a car with those plates. Pop really didn’t care, in fact he found the whole thing amusing, but Mom got her way, and took money from the household budget for Pop to go get vanity license plates.
Thanks for listening to Grandma on this lovely, hot, humid Carolina evening, and have a nice day
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Render Fri, Jul 31, 2009 4:36:12pm |
They called me the anti-Christ when I was just eight years old.
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Ringo the Gringo Fri, Jul 31, 2009 5:14:52pm |
Way too much crazy in this world.
I remember back in the 80's when people were saying that Ronald Reagan was the anti-Christ because there are six letters in each of his three names: Ronald Wilson Reagan = 666
Over the past eight years I saw numerous placards at anti-war demonstrations calling George Bush the anti-Christ.
I guess now it's Obama's turn.
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butterick Fri, Jul 31, 2009 5:16:10pm |
re: #429 Charles
They add that tag to cover up their embarrassment at having the crazies exposed.
From the mixed message of those tags I'd say that they're not quite sure how to spin it, and that's a good thing, that they're aware that it has to be spun or managed at all. It means that there's still some sanity knocking around in there.
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Ringo the Gringo Fri, Jul 31, 2009 5:21:17pm |
C'mon folks, everyone knows that Prince William is really the anti-Christ
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Eclectic Infidel Fri, Jul 31, 2009 6:16:42pm |
re: #9 Sharmuta
These people are seriously whack.
Yes. And it's great that they all congregate there instead of here.
When I was growing up, the running joke was that Scott Baio was the anti-christ. I think it was from a comedy skit from Bobcat Goldthwait. I may have butchered the last name there. Too lazy to search it.
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savarulz Fri, Jul 31, 2009 6:48:33pm |
Seems interesting. He really had to do some digging to find these similarities. The anti-Christ is going to come back as a deceiver, not as the devil that we see portrayed in Hollywood movies.
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savarulz Fri, Jul 31, 2009 6:55:59pm |
re: #423 SFGoth
That's funny because real metal heads like us knew that back in the 80's.
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dak Fri, Jul 31, 2009 7:46:55pm |
So it means that Barak Obama translates something like "Flash Gordon"?
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dak Fri, Jul 31, 2009 7:49:00pm |
Anyway the job's already taken. We've been informed that the anti-Crist is Bush. Or Cheney.
Wha's scary is that the anti-christ lost his job to Obama.
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Ramona Fri, Jul 31, 2009 8:15:42pm |
re: #79 Honorary Yooper
Sorry, you're mistaken. I married him. /My bad
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buckytheinfidel Fri, Jul 31, 2009 8:41:10pm |
What a bunch of unreconstructed dingbattery.
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dapperdave Fri, Jul 31, 2009 9:09:19pm |
I think they're really grasping for straws on this one, on the other hand here's a link for the Hebrew word for lightning
[Link: www.blueletterbible.org...]
and here's another one for heights,
[Link: www.blueletterbible.org...]
I still think that they're grasping out of some type of desperation.
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dapperdave Fri, Jul 31, 2009 9:12:10pm |
Click on the Lexiconc tab, it's really quite funny.
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el polacko Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:05:46pm |
egad ! religious folks are NUTS. we haven't really come very far from the caves, have we ?
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Egregious Philbin Fri, Jul 31, 2009 10:10:43pm |
Want to have fun? Here is how to post at FR.
Make a name, and use a free email, they don't check.
Go and post, your first 5 posts will be monitored, so make them dull and completely without controversy.
Then, go to town, have fun, point out how nuts they are, how the zealots have seized the site, tell them you love satan, euthanasia, and you love Darwin.
You will get about 30 posts in, and will have a ball! Next day, do it again. Its a highly entertaining task, and breathes some life into that nutsite.
BTW, their fundraising has been anemic, 40% in 31 days, at this rate there will be 80 out of 90 days per period of fundraising, of course the $$ needed is a fraction of what they raise, as the owner sucks up the rest.
Enjoy!
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Abu Al-Poopypants Fri, Jul 31, 2009 11:32:18pm |
Baraq "O" Bam-Maw
Baraq "U" Bam-Maw
A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird.
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RedHouseBlueState Sat, Aug 1, 2009 11:12:42am |
How'd this thread go from the anti-Christ to the Beast?
The word anti-Christ does not mean the opposite of Christ, as in anti-hero, it means before Christ as in antipasto, the dish served before the pasta.
Without a doubt, the beast is Tiamat, or how ever its spelled. It's based upon ancient Persian mythology. While the Jews were in the second exile, in Babylonia, they were heavily influenced by the culture. Upon returning to Jerusalem they proceeded to commit their oral history to paper, the Torah. It's only natural that some of those same influences would show up in the Torah, the Jewish Bible (the rest of the Old Testament), and linger on in the New Testament.
The "beast" refers to the Roman Emperor. In those days, written documents were extremely rare among the common people. Being caught with one that specifically calls for the destruction of Rome was a quick trip to crucifixion. Hence Revelations is all written in code, in order to protect those in possession of copies. While we aren't privy to what the code words specifically mean, they were no doubt well known to the early Christians of the era. 666 was the numerical equivalent of some ancient insult meant to represent the emperor. For example, 2,000 years from now, no one might know "the messiah" means President Obama, but today we do know.
My favorite part of Revelations is 22:18, this quote:
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
That's not an order from God to take this document literally, its an ancient form of copyright protection. Before printing presses all documents were copied by hand. Official documents would say something like "By order of the King no words in this document shall be changed."
Since Christianity was technically illegal, they couldn't use the threat of civil action in courts, so instead the threatened eternal damnation for any scribe who wanted to change the text.
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gadlaw Sat, Aug 1, 2009 9:39:32pm |
Very funny, except for being very scary - those that might believe this makes it scary cause there's no loon like a religious loon armed with the courage of their loony convictions. At least they are providing full work loads for the Secret Service and the FBI as if they didn't already have enough crazy loons to keep an eye on.
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Roger Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:31:14am |
President Obama is more likely the guy who runs things so far into the ground that the Anti-Christ and the Anti-Christ's rhetoric will be extremely attractive to the masses.
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Roger Sun, Aug 2, 2009 8:21:54am |
re: #442 Ringo the Gringo
C'mon folks, everyone knows that Prince William is really the anti-Christ
lol! Prince William, Lenardo da Vinci in the flesh!
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