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21 Dec 2012, 9:52 pm

Nope, we're still here.

Unless I just wasn't good enough. :cry:

I thought the magnetic poles already shifted after human civilization developed and it wasn't the end of civilization?

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21 Dec 2012, 10:06 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:

Wait a tick. Some of our Christians haven't checked in today. Could they have been wafted away, and the joke's on us?

No. No. The Rapture is the year after next.

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23 Dec 2012, 5:57 pm

ruveyn wrote:

ArrantPariah wrote:

Wait a tick. Some of our Christians haven't checked in today. Could they have been wafted away, and the joke's on us?

No. No. The Rapture is the year after next.

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The rapture fantasy is every year. :roll:

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23 Dec 2012, 7:55 pm

slave wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

ArrantPariah wrote:

Wait a tick. Some of our Christians haven't checked in today. Could they have been wafted away, and the joke's on us?

No. No. The Rapture is the year after next.

ruveyn

The rapture fantasy is every year. :roll:

The Bible says that the end will come at a time when nobody expects it.

Sometimes I wonder if what's taking so long is we keep expecting it.

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24 Dec 2012, 2:14 pm

Tensu wrote:

slave wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

ArrantPariah wrote:

Wait a tick. Some of our Christians haven't checked in today. Could they have been wafted away, and the joke's on us?

No. No. The Rapture is the year after next.

ruveyn

The rapture fantasy is every year. :roll:

The Bible says that the end will come at a time when nobody expects it.

Sometimes I wonder if what's taking so long is we keep expecting it.

So human expectations delay the return of an omnipotent godman? :roll:

If that's the case she will never return. :lol:

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24 Dec 2012, 3:09 pm

Don't forget the magnetic pole shift.

ArrantPariah wrote:

Wait a tick. Some of our Christians haven't checked in today. Could they have been wafted away, and the joke's on us?

LOL, I wondered the same thing.

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My apocalypse has been going rather fine, how about yours? Did any of you guys/gals have an Amazing Apocalypse, Wonderful World's End or Delightful Doomsday?

This phenomenon happens so frequently, Hallmark needs to get in on the action and start printing Doomsday cards.

The chicken died. It was a chicken doomsday - actually some time earlier than 12-21. (Roast chicken for our Solstice celebration.)

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24 Dec 2012, 4:40 pm

The Acapulcolypse..........

The Apocolyptical.....

The A-Paul-colypse.....

Any of these could occur at any time....beware.....

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24 Dec 2012, 7:13 pm

Tensu wrote:

The Bible says that the end will come at a time when nobody expects it.

Sometimes I wonder if what's taking so long is we keep expecting it.

There is a logic puzzle, conundrum called the Surprise Test/Quiz.

Look it up and you will see that the end cannot come in any previously bounded time interval.

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24 Dec 2012, 7:19 pm

Paul thought the end was going to in the be in first century. That is what used to build his congregation. Some of his letters conveniently got lost down the back of the sofa, as far as the church was concerned.

Paulist Christianity is the one that the Roman's didn't annihilate, which eventually became modern Christianity.

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25 Dec 2012, 3:29 am

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Paul's goal was to destroy the message of Jesus. Apparently he has succeeded.

Pater told Paul plainly and truly --- faith without works is dead.

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25 Dec 2012, 7:16 am

Supposedly you have your global new age ascension due to happen soon (3rd to 4th or 5th dimension of the planet - depending who you ask, and aliens w/ ascended masters helping out). Reflexively you also have new Christians being made by this as they're finding shocking similarities to the 'great deception' of the tribulation.

So, will new age and alien contact usher in the 'omega religion' to bring the world together under 666? Only time will tell and I have my doubts.

The other notion about revelations/tribulation is that things are happening 'where they shouldn't be' - ie. the Catholic church. If that's ever a criteria for prophecy I don't think we'll ever have a shortage of Catholic belief at least that the world is coming to a close.

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25 Dec 2012, 8:36 am

Sorry, the apocalypse has been postponed.

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25 Dec 2012, 9:42 am

ruveyn wrote:

Paul's goal was to destroy the message of Jesus. Apparently he has succeeded.

Pater told Paul plainly and truly --- faith without works is dead.

ruveyn

Yes but there wouldn't be much message to speak of without paulists, Jewish Christianity was wiped out. There is a small amount of gnostic traditions.

Besides Paul wasn't the same as Paul/Saul the apostle. Nobody buys that.

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25 Dec 2012, 11:41 am

Many of our coastal settlements have been built on [many times] previously tsunami destroyed stretches of coastline.
Many will lose their lives during the next tsunami events
Such occurs when you choose to build on sand

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25 Dec 2012, 11:44 am

techstepgenr8tion wrote:

I thought we already had The Moronic Convergence....

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25 Dec 2012, 2:23 pm

The Transhumanists are awaiting the Singularity.

the Jews are awaiting the Millennium, though they consider it to be a few hundred years off (but some of the Sabbath millennial rules start applying now).

The Muslims are awaiting the Mahdi.

The Christians are awaiting the Tribulation and the Second Coming.

The Theosophists are awaiting the next root race to soon arise.

The Peak-oilers are awaiting the collapse of society, something they share with the survivalists.

Add other end-time-soon beliefs on the end.

I think it's a safe bet to say that things will be very different by the end of the century.

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