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The Hazards of Belief

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  • #3122
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Wow - the reason my son couldn't find the laundry hamper despite me drawing maps/putting little footprints leading to it/placing it outside his door so he fell over it was because I didn't pray....:eek:


    This is true. Have a bag of guilt.


  • #3123
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Nodin wrote: »
    This is true. Have a bag of guilt.

    :(



    I'll just pop that down to the VdeP as I have given guilt up for Lent. :pac:


  • #3124
    the_eman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭the_eman


    Acts of the Apostles chapter 2
    19 I will show portents in the sky above and signs on the earth below.
    20 The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the day of the Lord comes, that great and terrible Day.

    Look what God sent on the first friday of Lent this year


    Awesome isn't it. A lot of us end timers have been waiting for such a sign.

    Check these out



    These are warnings for what is coming. Time to think about Jesus.

    God bless and peace.

    What the world refers to as climate change , global warming HAARP etc.. Prophecy calles these events birth pangs, the beginning of sorrows.


  • #3125
    kiffer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Satan, You Can’t Have My Children because you don't have a womb... where's the fetus going go gestate


  • #3126
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    How absolutely fascinating.


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  • #3127
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Ummmm know your audience?

    I'm still not convinced. Until, like Santa, God gives me stuff into my hands I'm not buying it.


  • #3128
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,036 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Just a shame these 'prophecies' show up every freaking year isn't it.


  • #3129
    Bloodwing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 881 ✭✭✭Bloodwing


    Well that's done it. Can anyone advise me on how to repent for my 27 years of sin? I don't want to piss off the big guy now that I have seen irrefutable evidence of his existence. Maybe I should slaughter all of my neighbours first born? Or perhaps I'll build a big boat so I can save all the animals? I'm sure I can get a good deal on the timber seen as the building trade isn't doing too well at the minute. Oh how I wish I had a son to sacrifice to the lord.


  • #3130
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    kiffer wrote: »
    Satan, You Can’t Have My Children because you don't have a womb... where's the fetus going go gestate

    India.



    :pac:


  • #3131
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Good old outsourcing, solves every problem.


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  • #3132
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    It's back...


  • #3133
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    FYI - the_eman's post moved to Hazards of Belief.


  • #3134
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Ah it should be in funny stuff.


  • #3135
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 39,866 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    robindch wrote: »
    FYI - the_eman's post moved to Hazards of Belief.

    Can't be, it's still here, wait a minute...



    ....AAAAAARGH! BILOCATION!!!!

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #3136
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,892 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Eman doesn't know what he is talking about. Nothing to worry about. Just thank your lucky stars that the Russian Meteor event didn't happen on the first Tuesday of Lent. That would have been the true sign of the end times. ;)


  • #3137
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Elderly man chucks a cross into a pond. Surprisingly for the Daily Mail, they've included a picture of the guy smiling and looking quite friendly!

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289179/You-say-cross-Atheist-82-hurls-crucifix-duck-pond-church-plants-village-green.html
    Daily Mail wrote:
    A retired lawyer was so offended when his local church placed a wooden cross in the village green for Lent that he threw it into a duck pond in anger. The five feet cross was placed on the small green in the upmarket village of Brearton, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, for the duration of the Christian festival.

    But retired lawyer Alan Pickard, 82, took exception to the 'arrogance' of St. John the Baptist Church, tearing the cross down and dumping it in the water. Mr Pickard even admitted that he had considered dressing the cross as fictional character Worzel Gummidge. After retrieving the cross from the pond, an angry parishioner and her husband sent a round-robin email to the residents of the village to hold a referendum on the cross's future.

    To their shock the culprit owned up in a reply, saying that he thought the 'proper place for this artefact is within the church precincts'. His message read: 'I might have dressed the bit of wood up as Worzel Gummidge, but chose instead to pitch it into the pond and if it is replaced will continue to pitch it into the pond.' The village has a population of around 140 residents and 44 responded to the e-mail.

    While six people said they did object to the cross's position on the green, 21 residents said they did not. When a second email was distributed revealing the results of the survey, Mr Pickard sent another curt reply, reading: 'If the cross appears on the green again it will end up in the pond again.'


  • #3138
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Darn new atheists!


  • #3139
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    The main advantage I see to growing old is that people will be too embarrassed to tut at me when I refuse to give a single f*ck about propriety or any of that nonsense.


  • #3140
    SebBerkovich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭SebBerkovich


    'If the cross appears on the green again it will end up in the pond again.'

    Perfect example of Causation.... SCIENCE!


  • #3141
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,626 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    robindch wrote: »
    Elderly man chucks a cross into a pond. Surprisingly for the Daily Mail, they've included a picture of the guy smiling and looking quite friendly!

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289179/You-say-cross-Atheist-82-hurls-crucifix-duck-pond-church-plants-village-green.html
    Daily Mail wrote:
    A retired lawyer ...
    I like the cut of that guy's jib.


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  • #3142
    the_eman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭the_eman


    2 Peter

    "Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires."


  • #3143
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    And how has that been going for the last 2,000 years?


  • #3144
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,626 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    the_eman wrote: »
    2 Peter
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=5480

    Peter hasn't logged on since 09-01-2010. Can someone else help?


  • #3145
    Banbh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Banbh


    "Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires."

    A prize for anyone who can put this into English.


  • #3146
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    "If people call you crazy then it's proof that you're right!"

    It's the magical get out clause that reinforces a stupid belief when it's shown to be stupid. It's essentially the theological version of "Does the medicine hurt? Good, that means it's working!"


  • #3147
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    the_eman wrote: »
    2 Peter

    "Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires."

    Is this a ticket only event or does one just turn up?


  • #3148
    the_eman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭the_eman


    Calibos wrote: »
    Eman doesn't know what he is talking about. Nothing to worry about. Just thank your lucky stars that the Russian Meteor event didn't happen on the first Tuesday of Lent. That would have been the true sign of the end times. ;)

    Fridays are kinda important for Christians. I wonder why. hmm.


  • #3149
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    the_eman wrote: »
    Fridays are kinda important for Christians. I wonder why. hmm.

    Because Christianity is essentially a Jewish sect and the Jewish Sabbath starts at sunset on a Friday?


    Did I win something nice?


  • #3150
    the_eman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭the_eman


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Because Christianity is essentially a Jewish sect and the Jewish Sabbath starts at sunset on a Friday?


    Did I win something nice?

    that made me giggle.


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  • #3151
    oldrnwisr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭oldrnwisr


    Banbh wrote: »
    A prize for anyone who can put this into English.

    OK, I'll give it a shot.

    The basic jist of this snippet in the context of 2 Peter 3 is basically, you can laugh at us now but you just wait till Jesus comes back and then you'll be sorry.

    The passage then goes on to say that God could be back at any moment so you'd better live good lives or else.

    In the wider context of the New Testament, 2 Peter was written somewhere between 100-150 CE although not by Peter (it is pseudepigraphal). By this time we're about 70 years after the events of the crucifixion but more importantly we're about 20 years after the composition of the gospel of Matthew. This is important since Jesus makes a prediction in Matthew's gospel:

    "Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened."
    Matthew 24:34

    The preceding passage depicts the signs which will accompany the second coming (or first coming depending on certain interpretations).

    So Jesus makes the claim (or at least the author of Matthew's gospel does) that the second coming will be within one generation of the events of the crucifixion. So by the time we get to 2 Peter, that generation is pretty much dead which was no doubt accompanied by the same ridicule levelled at failed rapture and apocalypse prognosticators today.

    So, do I win?


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