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Je ne suis pas une de vos élèves
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Location: Through the Cables and the Underground ...
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OK, who is next?
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To a conspiracy theorist, having double standards just means that they have twice as many standards. carlitos |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Dec 2010
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Time to update the sign. Again.
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Intellectual Gladiator
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In the midst of a vast, beautiful & uncaring universe
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I overslept today. Did I miss the end of the world?
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Denver, Colorado
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Dreams inevitably lead to hideous implosions -- Invader Zim |
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Graduate Poster
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny. - Liszt Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful. - Ian Faith |
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Illuminator
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Penultimate Amazing
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Yesterday upon the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish that he would go away. |
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Mogollon Rim
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: 31°58'S 115°57'E
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Ronald Weinland hasn't posted anything on his website since the "apocalypse".
In his most recent interview http://www.cog-pkg.org/audio/downloa..._Interview.mp3, the following exchange takes place at 37.30: Interviewer: "Just a logical next question, what happens if He doesn't come back on that date?"(Just in case he tries to revive his "prophecy"). |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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If only his bible gave him some form of guidance about false prophets.......
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no, i don't think i need to read naturalistic literature more accurately, to be convinced its true. - Gibhor |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Oh.... wait.
Deuteronomy 20: "But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death.” Oh....dear..... |
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no, i don't think i need to read naturalistic literature more accurately, to be convinced its true. - Gibhor |
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Daydreamer
Join Date: Jul 2008
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"That is just what you feel, that isn't reality." - hamelekim |
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Winking at the Moon
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: UK
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There's this one: http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm
But this is a bit more comprehensive: http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm I noticed that both of Failed Prophet Ron's books are free for kindle on his website, so I downloaded them. Firstly, they are a great cure for insomnia, the writing style is so turgid and laboured. Secondly, his hatred for Catholicism and Europe is clearly evident. The basic theme of the books is that most people worship in the wrong way (but some are more wrong than others). The prophetic parts of the books are retrofitting bits of Revelation to recent events, and extrapolating TEOTWAWKI from that. He's quite looking forward to Global ThermoNuclear War!!!, as this will be a vindication that worshipping on a Sunday is the biggest sin of all. I'll read a bit more if I can't sleep tonight, but I think I have the gist of them now. |
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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... timey wimey... stuff. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2009
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I'm so impressed by your dedication to expanding the boundaries of our knowlege, Agatha.
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To a conspiracy theorist, having double standards just means that they have twice as many standards. carlitos |
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Master Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
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"Let me explain the order of things for you. There's the aristocracy, the upper class, middle class, working class, dumb animals, waiters, creeping things, head lice, people who eat packet soup, and then you." (Chef) |
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Sarcastic Conqueror of Notions
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Shoot, I missed it! What happened? Did we die?
I'm in Hell, now. I can tell. I can feel it. |
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"Great innovations should not be forced [by way of] slender majorities." - Thomas Jefferson The government should nationalize it! Socialized, single-payer video game development and sales now! More, cheaper, better games, right? Right? |
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Intellectual Gladiator
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In the midst of a vast, beautiful & uncaring universe
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Intellectual Gladiator
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In the midst of a vast, beautiful & uncaring universe
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It's a Seventh Day Adventist thing. They basically believe that going to church on Sunday is a one-way ticket to hell.
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Winking at the Moon
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: UK
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Indeed, that is the thrust of his argument. I've now ploughed through both books; he is convinced that Revelation predicts the formation and schisms in the Seventh Day Adventist Movement, and that the first four of the Seven Seals refer to incidents within the church. The later Seals refer to events in the wider world, and only those who repent and join his particular sect of Seventh Day Adventism will be spared.
Interestingly he hasn't edited the end of 2008 - God's Final Witness, which ends with:
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Through some dodgy etymology he contends that Great Britain is the home to one of the 12 tribes of Israel, and that the European Union (which he seems to think doesn't include Britain) is the Antichrist; and that Catholicism is, or will be, imposed on the whole of Europe as a state religion. He sees the armies of the English speaking nations of the world being ranged against the 200 million strong armies of China and the East, and that they will be meeting for a one day battle at Megiddo, where God will halt the battle and Christ will return, and only the members of his church will be saved, and that will happen in There's more, about false prophets, modern day Elijahs, the witnesses who will be dead in the streets of Jerusalem and so on. It's the usual apocalyptic nonsense, with a side order of Seventh Day Adventism. He's not updated his website with excuses yet, but I have little doubt that he'll be back soon, predicting a new date with all the fervour of the preceding dates, and he'll be just as wrong. |
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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... timey wimey... stuff. |
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Muse
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Muse
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: America! (F, yeah!)
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![]() Weesa alla died? |
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When I think about woo, I detect myself. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Interestingly enough, this is the date of Ronald Weinland's latest post on http://www.ronaldweinland.com/.
I haven't studied it in detail yet but it doesn't look like he is saying that his "job as a prophet wasn't true". |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2010
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So how does Ronald Weinland account for the apparent failure of his prophecy in http://www.ronaldweinland.com?
Originally Posted by Ronald Weinland
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Muse
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Location: America! (F, yeah!)
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When I think about woo, I detect myself. |
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Salted Sith Cynic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Rat cheer
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Well, the Mayans are looking pretty smug about now ...
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Helicopters don't so much fly as beat the air into submission. "Jesus wept, but did He laugh?"--F.H. Buckley____"There is one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth ... His mirth." --Chesterton__"If the barbarian in us is excised, so is our humanity."--D'rok__ "I only use my gun whenever kindness fails."-- Robert Earl Keen__"Sturgeon spares none.". -- The Marquis |
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Cavitus Rectum
Join Date: Nov 2006
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That's funny. All of us here knew it wasn't going to happen in a physical manner while the man of god did not.
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Please tell me he is not trying to predict the "physical" return for next year. Is that what he is saying? The only thing predictable here is the fallback position all of these failed prophets rely upon - some variation of the old " it happened in the spirit" excuse.
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The most complete and happy victory is this: to compel one's enemy to give up his purpose, while suffering no harm oneself. Belisarius |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthew 24:27
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So this is hell.
My beer's warm. |
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Mostly harmless
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"You got to use your brain." - McKinley Morganfield "The poor mystic homeopaths feel like petted house-cats thrown at high flood on the breaking ice." - Leon Trotsky |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: May 2005
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Formerly known as dogguy. Caption from and old New Yorker cartoon - Why am I shouting? Because I'm wrong!" |
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Banned
Join Date: Apr 2009
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Cavitus Rectum
Join Date: Nov 2006
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The most complete and happy victory is this: to compel one's enemy to give up his purpose, while suffering no harm oneself. Belisarius |
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