End of Days?

[12345]

This has the distinct feel of Y2K about it. Peace in Isreal is near impossible given its history and geography. Considering it is the basic pre-requisite of all this, I think we got a lot of time on our hands.

[Medios]

Jimmy Carter wanted to be the antichrist. Too bad hes just a hick farmer with not enough sense to wipe his ass.

Mike

[13]

Technically it's all myth.

[quote:2oegj7bw]–noun
1. a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, esp. one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
2. stories or matter of this kind: realm of myth.
3. any invented story, idea, or concept: His account of the event is pure myth.
4. an imaginary or fictitious thing or person.
5. an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution.[/quote:2oegj7bw]

[Shoop]

dictionary.com is one of my favorite websites. Check this out.

prop·a·gan·da (prop-uh-gan-duh) noun

1. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
2. the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.
3. the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.
4. Roman Catholic Church. a. a committee of cardinals, established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, having supervision over foreign missions and the training of priests for these missions.
b. a school (College of Propaganda) established by Pope Urban VIII for the education of priests for foreign missions.

5. Archaic. an organization or movement for the spreading of propaganda.

Also, considering the number of people on this planet... we're bound to have mass death/destruction either caused by war or plague. It's inevitable. If you really want to do something that helps people just treat everyone like they're worth something even if you believe they aren't.

[Shazuko]

what the ufck is this shit?!?

First of all, I SPANKED god when he was 4 years old....you need to take this somewhere else...someone's gotta draw a line in the sand with this crap somewhere...

<Shazuko Roku Ryuu>
<Shazuko Six Dragons>
<~Chaos~>

[Popa]

I'm mearly posting words of compassion for my fellow man. The bible has fortold many many prophecies, of which more than 500 have been fulfilled. The jewish state of Israel ceased to be a nation in a.d 70 when the Roman army lead under Titus scattered the jews over the ends of the earth. it would be more than 2000 yrs before they would Proclaim Israel an independant state again. Ezekiel fortold this.

Then say unto them, "thus says the Lord God: ' Surely I will take the
children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land.
-Ezekiel 37:21

On May 14 1948 at 4:32 pm the state of Israel , after two thousand years, was reborn. Today they have a flag, a constitution, they have a prime minister.and a Knesset. They have a police force, a powerful military, and the worlds best inteligence agencies.

some might see the verses of the bible as mythical, or propaganda, but you surely cannot deny the fact this did happen. One of many things that are being played out in the current world events, that tie in with the scriptures of the Bible.

My purpose was to bring light to those who are in the dark, and to hopefully touch the hearts of many. although only few will see.
I'm not trying to push my religeous views on any of you. Only to report things that were fortold more than 2000 yrs ago in the bible, are coming to fruition. See it as you may. these events ARE playing out. You can call it whatever you feel, However turn on the news channel and see for yourself. Draw your own conclusions.
I love all of you in Christ. even though i will not be loved in return.
God Bless.

[Aeolus]

I'm puzzled by the harsh responses to Popa. He is not trying to be malicious to anyone and therefore deserves no mis-treatment. He's trying to help. It's like this, we are all in a log cabin in the mountains going skiing. Popa finds out an enormous avalance is going to happen which will destroy the cabin and kill everyone in it. He can either tell everyone about it, or keep it to himself. He is choosing to tell. Whether or not you believe him is irrelevant. He isn't saying get out of the cabin or I will kill you or if you don't believe this avalanche is coming, you are an idiot and I will laugh as you are being consumed in freezing snow and impaled by shattered logs. He's just saying, dude, I think there is an avalanche coming and it will destroy this cabin. Really, if he believed that and didn't tell anyone, he would be a selfish jerk. Aside from that, there a lot of non-MUD related posts in the crier. No one is being forced to read them and certainly no one is being forced to agree with them. I think Popa is just wanting to be compassionate.

[Hades]

I think he's after all our shoop-shaped cookies


Good Analogy Aeolus, but I think you should have taken it ne step further by adding..
Some people would see the avalanche coming and deny it any more than a large snowball.

[tincts]

By definition, a discussion of this sort WILL draw a lot of emotional response, even if the emotion is "this is crap". Popa would surely have been prepared for this Part of the end-time persecution prophecy stuff tends to foresee a lot of crap coming down on any surviving christians.

[Mosaix]

Popa seems to want to be higher than life.

He can take his view on the good book and shove it up his rear sideways.

Keep your religion in church, I dont go to your church and preach sloth.

[12345]

I'm not saying anything good or bad about Popa. Time marches on. I've heard many doomsayers, and none of them have been right yet. Popa's goes so far as to identify benchmarks of when this will all happen. Peace in Israel has been bumpy, to say the least. Just last year it was upset when the Humas failed to acknowledge that Israel existed at all.

So, the avalanche may be coming, but given the timelines, we'll have plenty of opportunity to see if events match any kind of prophesy or take a completely different course.

[13]

Steve I think you should have just invited them all to be good people and try to do the right thing always.

[firebrand]

before i get started, let it be understood that i am not specifically attacking steve. when i say "you/your" it is just the words that i am thinking at the moment, so please don't anyone take this personally.

i don't have a problem with most of the basic concepts in the bible. i embrace the fact that everyone is free to choose their religious beliefs. what i have a SERIOUS problem with is those christians who think that because i am a celtic shaman priestess, i am "lost" or "need saving" or "don't know what is going on". did you bother to ASK me first? do you even know anything at all about me or how i was raised (in a southern baptist home, whose bedtime stories were bible stories)? i can sit and teach a sunday school class if you ask me (although i would tell you ask someone who won't teach the kids how to ground and center).

i feel there is more out there for me to learn than what christianity alone teaches me. almost every single "christian" holiday we have is a christianized version of ancient pagan celebrations because back when the catholic church was establishing its chokehold on the world, the churches could not get enough butts in the pews due to everyone back then wanting to stick with what they knew. i am not going to keep going on - there is not enough patience among our posters/readers.

read this: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/4792/convert.htm (no i did not write it, but i find it quite thought-provoking) and then get back with me. oh and PLEASE don't try to preach to me or convert me or save me and don't pray for my soul. it's already lost to yahweh, who is, in my opinion, an impetulant child at times.

i have seen christianity through baptists, catholics, methodists, jews, non-denominational, charismatic, and a few other churches that i have visited in my lifetime. i still have many other faiths to explore, but for now, i still choose my god and my goddess.

i am HAPPY with my lifestyle as it is. my spells work exactly like your prayers: i have a specific goal in mind, i go to my altar, light a candle, and make my request of my deity. you go to your altar (church), you kneel and pray to make your request of god. the difference between a spell and a prayer is simply how and who does it. they are both structured the same way. again, enough of the teaching. if you want to know more, ask me offlist.

i at least don't go stand outside of your church and tell you that your religion is wrong because i don't agree with it. i will GLADLY go inside and visit your church so that i can make an informed choice of whether or not i want to continue attending. why won't YOU come to MINE and show me the same respect and courtesy?

how many christians accept the fact that king james had the bible edited (which is why it is called the king james VERSION) during his reign? it has a lot of gaps, contradictory information, and anything that gave women power was deleted out and the original scrolls/texts containing those passages destroyed. go talk to any high school (and above) history teacher and ask them about it. it is basically structured as free-verse poetry, which is why it is organized into book/chapter/verse. where was jesus from age 12 to age 33? why isn't that in the bible ANYWHERE?

i don't believe in paying hard-earned money for my god to bless me. does your mother and your father charge you money for them to love you? no. i don't believe in taking tracts and bibles and going out into the amazon jungle and telling the inhabitants there that they are sinners and going to hell because they don't call their great spirit god/jesus. they don't give a shit.

tell me why, if there was only one adam and one eve, when cain killed abel, he had to be "marked" so that "all would know of his crime". basically, every other person on the planet would have been his siblings (and their progeny....incest....boggles my mind how god allowed it then but not tells you its a sin) and all would know him and what he did anyway!

explain to me why almost every single religion has a creation story, a first couple story, a massive natural disaster story, a miracle/magic worker story and some other similar basic structures.

why were only 5 of moses' 9 books (the first five of the old testament) included in the bible? and since moses was born AFTER adam and eve were created, then how could he POSSIBLY know what happened in the garden of eden?

where IS the garden of eden?

have i created enough questions and food for thought for you?

*stepping off my soapbox and await the flames*

rebs

"I absolutely believe in God. And I hate the fukker." -- riddick -->pitch black

[Popa]

I dont hold any ill will towards anyone who might be critical of me. My main reason for sharing what i beleive to be the end of days , is to mearly say that. Not to run around and shout the sky is falling . the sky is falling. BUt mearly to give facts of world events. show correlation between those factual events and what events in the bible lead to the End of Days. I have alot of friends who play here. My purpose of posting this is to share what i beleive could happen IN OUR LIFE TIME. Not saying its gonna happen tomorrow. or the next day. or even next year, or even at all. But quite possibly in our lifetime. That's my peace. Flame on if you will.
God bless

[Weasel]

Hmm. IMHO most recognized religions are just different expressions of the same thing - they all acknowledge a higher power of some form (or multiple forms) but have different ways of honoring those dieties/gods/whatever. If each religion would just recognize that their form of worship is just one option of many, each as valid as the next to the practitioner, there would be few problems. How one chooses to do it should not be the issue, the fact that you do it, or even just how you live your life and how you treat others (*poke* at pthieves hehe) is what matters imho. In the meantime, there are a number of religions that are little more than groups of closed-minded people fighting over who has the best imaginary friend.

FB, what's a celtic shaman priestess? Is that Wiccan?