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Could you explain the bolded part in the same number system that the rest of us use, please. China's armed forces at present, including 800,000 in the reserves, is just over 3 (three) million, not 200 (two hundred) million. Does your prophet typically pull facts out of his butt? |
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Do you happen to have a series of definitive tests we might apply to all the candidates for true god? There are an awful lot of them and it would be a shame to sacrifice unbelievers to the wrong one, Cthulhu would be very annoyed.
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78 RPM You're right. There is. They are. I have. 8 miles high and falling fast. Perfectly logical, however, the one true god has actually prophesied that the Olympic Games will proceed as planned and that WWIII won't be starting any time soon. Will you be abasing yourself before the Aten when this prophecy is fulfilled? Answer carefully. Ten to the dozen You (singular) believe a lot of things, reedcutter. It won't end well. ![]() 99 bottles of beer on the wall That's just silly. Everyone knows that Jesus has the same birthday as Santa Claus, and he dies on random days during March and April at the whim of the Easter Bunny. You're not very good at this theology stuff, are you? 76 trombones Have you informed the Chinese yet? I imagine they'll have a fair bit of organising to do as well. |
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Oy! I did 76 trombones earlier, Pharaoh!
One for the money, two for the show. |
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25 or 6 to 4 (take that you young whippersnappers)
Actually with that extra 197,000,000 army that no one (other than Teh Prophet) knows about, I don't think they have much to worry about; just put a few hundred thousand of them on those ubiquitous black bicycles and pedal under the South China Sea (and that's distinctly possible according to the Prophesies of the Major Prophets - see Jonah). |
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The 200 million strong army for China would mean that one out of every seven Chinese would be in it. That's not one out of seven adult males middle-aged or younger, but one out of seven of everybody in China. |
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This page is becoming a repeat, 25 or 6 to 4 was done earlier too (though not by me)
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Although her numbers aren't as bas as PC's, Simon Singh did point out some errors in Katie Melua's lyrics: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/...ereducation.uk I believe she was a good enough sport to re-record a version of her song with Simon's corrections. More scientifically accurate, but scansion was somewhat lacking. |
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Which is it? He said one third or he said he knows exactly who? He seems a very indecisive true god.
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WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN? - Death "Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies." - Mandawuy Yunupingu, lead singer of Yothu Yindi |
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In a war, Agatha, do you expect that the regular force be there only? Would able-bodied men and women not enlist? What I have read in the Guinness Book of World Record for this previous decade, China is number one in military power. From Wikipedia on China’s People’s Liberation Army, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Liberation_Army ) in the 2010 estimate, its manpower fit for military service between age 16 and 49 are: male, 318,265,016; female, 300,323,611. That is already about 600,000,000 people. |
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20120614.2020 According to the Holy Spirit on 2012-05-03 (there wee at least six of us present), the 2012 Olympic Games will not be pushed through. It will be cancelled. I guess it will be because of World War III just like in the 1944 Olympic Games when it was scheduled in London also but was cancelled because of World War II. The Games will not be cancelled because of terrorism. The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany was pushed through despite the killing of eleven Israeli athletes. The Holy Spirit said on 2012-05-01 (there was Pilar Pilambato and myself only) said Wednesday. I know that World War III will start from the Philippines in a revelation is made in mid-1980s. Then He revealed that it will be in the middle of the year. I deduce that it will be between 06-21 and 07-21 inclusive. And then He said Wednesday. That narrowed down my choice to just four: 06-27, 07-04, 07-11, and 07-18. I chose 07-04. Why to you think I chose 07-04? I do not know which Wednesday He was referring to: whether it was Wednesday in the Philppines, China, and Australia, or Wednesday in the US. I do not also know what time. So we have to watch out any of the above dates and any of the mentioned countries. |
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I think you're getting a little interference on your line to Teh Prophet. (I believe the source for that number is likely to be the CIA Source Book, but not certain.) They count every person in the country who's not bed-ridden. If you check out the countries of the world, by that standard the next largest "army" is India. Why? Well, coincidentally that's because India has the second largest population in the world and thus the second largest number of people between 16 and 49. In short, it's just based on the total population of the country. Now, if your prophet had signed up for "Advanced Googling for Prophets", he/she would've found the actual number of persons IN the armed forces of the country is, as I said, just over three million, including active reserves. NOT 200,000,000! Your prophet seems to be misleading you. Are you getting worried, yet? |
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8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning.
That is simply a count of every able bodied person in a country between 16 and 49 - it is not the size, or even the potential size, of the country's army. Even in the unlikely event of China going to war, the business of running a country (all the shops, industry, teaching, looking after children, transport etc) still has to function. So when you claimed that China had an army of 200 million people, you were wrong. Not just a little bit wrong, but two orders of magnitude wrong. Trying to wriggle out of this by claiming that an additional 197 million people would join the army in the event of war is just ridiculous - quite apart from anything else it would bankrupt a country to have a fighting force a hundred times higher than the current numbers. China's military spending, which by the way is second to the US, would have to rise from 2% of its GDP, to something akin to 200% of its GDP. Reading is good, but you need to understand what you are reading and be able to put it in context. What you have done with the numbers you've pulled from Wiki is to take them out of context, and extrapolated an erroneous conclusion from them. |
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I can answer this question, it's all about a spirit which enters and exits a medium's brain by way of the fontanelle. Once a person is disposed to believe in magic, there is nothing that is too ridiculous for them to believe. |
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Based on a true story!
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The Wooly Sprite talks to me when I pour milk on my breakfast cereal. To everyone else, it sounds like random static, but I understand what he's saying to me. By the way, anyone seen my 12 gauge or my .45? |
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The 1944 Olympic Games scheduled to be held in London was cancelled because of World War ii. This time, the 2012 Olympic Games scheduled to be held in London also from 07-27 to 08-12 will be NOT be pushed through and will be cancelled because of World War III. |
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Did you know, Baloney, that the Holy Spirit revealed that the Philippines is the richest nation on earth? Not what you think as a “nothing-profitable” country. That may be the reason why countries will be fighting over it. Did you know also that the Chinese will destroy Metro Manila? Quite sad but this is what the Holy Spirit revealed to us. That is why He said that even though our boat is capsized, hold on to it, meaning even though the Philippines is conquered and occupied by the Chinese, we have to keep our faith in the true God. Maybe it is in God’s plan to let the Chinese conquer lands like the Philippines so that they get out of China. In China, they are indoctrinated that there is no God. Maybe when they come in contact with Chinese Christians in the Philippines and elsewhere who will tell them that there is God, when they go back to China, they may say that there really is a god. |
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Can I ask what "pushed through" means, please, peace crusader? You keep referring to the games as being pushed through, which seems odd, even if English isn't your first language. Surely the word is "staged" or "organised" or "held" - given that the UK has been planning and preparing for these games since at least 2005 when they won the bid - and before that in working on the bid itself. The phrase "pushed through" suggests something last minute and rushed, and I'm not sure why? (and I'm not even sure why that's the bit that's bothering me )
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130,000,000
That's the number of estimated Christians in China. That's about 35,000,000 more than the entire population of the Philippines! Instead of inventing number systems why don't you try to get some numbers right? You have a strange view of the world and China. With the foothold that your chosen deity has made in China, why would he come to some obscure group of bible-thumpers and communicate in Tagalog. Why wouldn't he be in Wuhai, speaking Mandarin? |
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20120614.2200 If World War III does not start before the 2012 Olympic Games in London, then I will say that He is a false god. How about you, timhau? Will you believe Him if the 2012 Olympic Games does not start as planned? He said on 2012-05-01 that it will be a Wednesday. It narrowed down my choices to 06-27, 07-04, 07-11, and 07-18 from between 06-21 and 07-21 inclusive. I chose 07-04. But I don’t know Wednesday in which place. Is it in China, in the Philippines, in the US? Just be prepared on any of these Wednesdays, especially on 07-04 in the US. And tape it. Why in the US? |
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15 men on a dead man's chest. Even if the eebil Chinese invaded the Philipines tomorrow and even if the rest of the world was inclined join in it would take far longer than a month for the thing to escalate to the level of being worthy of the title 'World War'. Why do you think your The comparison with London in 1944 is spurious. |
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So, WWIII will start on a Wednesday. You sure about that? Seems more like a "Monday" kind of thing to me. Everyone is always grumpy on Monday. By Wednesday, everyone is workin' for the weekend, so no one is liable to do nasty things like start wars, repossess wayward spirits, knock on doors and hand out tracts. |
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20120614.2225 Are you, Agatha, not fortunate that I am talking to you and informing you of what is to happen very, very soon? Jesus said in Matthew 7:6, “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” Very soon, I will depart to inform believers. Who knows? You may be among the two-thirds who will perish. The Holy Spirit said that some will not even know what hit them. I believe they will die suddenly and vaporize. |
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