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Old 14th June 2012, 01:41 AM   #241
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Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
20120614.1825

When in the history of the world has a country ever assembled an army of 200,000,000? Except now. Do you know which one? It is China.

Revelation 9:16 is fulfilled. It states, “And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.”
Fellini's 81/2
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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Old 14th June 2012, 01:42 AM   #242
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There is only one true God and the rest are false gods. So if you will worship a god, be sure He is the true God.
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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The false gods does not give any prophecy. If it fails, his being a false god will be exposed. Is this logical enough?
There are not enough derisory words to describe how not logical and not correct that is.


Also, have you not just exposed your god as false? after all he did make false predictions.


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I believe I understand that the holy spirit who we (plural) talk to is not a malign or evil spirit.
That's sweet, but believing something does not make it true.



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He does not teach us to do evil to the true God or to our fellowmen. You see, I can even use the name Holy Spirit because I firmly believe that He is the Holy Spirit.
Except when he does teach you to do evil. You seem fond of the bible, perhaps you should read more of it.


I can also use the name Holy Spirit even though I do not even believe he exists.


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He even gave May 23 as the birth of Jesus and August 17 as His death. I was able to prove that He is correct in both in the studies that I did from 1999 to 2007. Who can be correct in both?
Who indeed, the most likely answer, of course, is that you are both completely wrong.



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I believe World War III will be started days before the 2012 Olympic Games begins on 07-27. So the London Organizing Committee will have time to decide whether to go ahead or not.
Sorry to disappoint you but I believe LOCOG have more important things to do, like being obsessively small-minded, incompetent, secretive, avaricious, petty and corporate.
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Old 14th June 2012, 01:50 AM   #243
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Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
[font=Verdana]20120614.1715

[font=Verdana]There is only one true God and the rest are false gods. So if you will worship a god, be sure He is the true God.


78 RPM

You're right. There is. They are. I have.


Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
[font=Verdana]The false gods does not give any prophecy. If it fails, his being a false god will be exposed. Is this logical enough?


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.


Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
[font=Verdana]I believe I understand that the holy spirit who we (plural) talk to is not a malign or evil spirit. He does not teach us to do evil to the true God or to our fellowmen. You see, I can even use the name Holy Spirit because I firmly believe that He is the Holy Spirit.


Ten to the dozen

You (singular) believe a lot of things, reedcutter. It won't end well.


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[font=Verdana]Jesus said in Matthew 12:31-32, “Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.” Similar quotes are in Mark 3:28-29 and Luke 12:10.




Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
[font=Verdana]He even gave May 23 as the birth of Jesus and August 17 as His death. I was able to prove that He is correct in both in the studies that I did from 1999 to 2007. Who can be correct in both?


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?


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[font=Verdana]On 2012-05-01, the Holy Spirit unexpectedly came. Only Pilar Pilambato and myself were present. On 2012-05-03, there were at least six person who were present.

[font=Verdana]I believe World War III will be started days before the 2012 Olympic Games begins on 07-27. So the London Organizing Committee will have time to decide whether to go ahead or not.


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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Old 14th June 2012, 01:58 AM   #244
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Oy! I did 76 trombones earlier, Pharaoh!

One for the money, two for the show.
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Old 14th June 2012, 01:59 AM   #245
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Originally Posted by Akhenaten View Post

Have you informed the Chinese yet? I imagine they'll have a fair bit of organising to do as well.
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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Oy! I did 76 trombones earlier, Pharaoh!

One for the money, two for the show.


Pi.

Apologies Ma'am, but it was such a clever one that I sought to pay homage by reprising it.

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Old 14th June 2012, 02:08 AM   #249
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Originally Posted by Foolmewunz View Post
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).
Aren't there 9 million bicycles in Beijing? Or is Katie Melua's grasp of numbers as poor as PeaceCrusader's?
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There is only one true God and the rest are false gods.
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I reject this claim.

Impasse.
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Pi.

Apologies Ma'am, but it was such a clever one that I sought to pay homage by reprising it.

It was the summer of 69.

Good call, O Mighty One.
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Aren't there 9 million bicycles in Beijing? Or is Katie Melua's grasp of numbers as poor as PeaceCrusader's?
I'm gonna be (500 miles)


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 third will stay alive? I do not know. The Holy Spirit just said one-third will be left ... He knows who are will be left
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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The true god is a trichologist?



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Can we not deduce that our life comes from the true God? He is the giver of life. We owe our life to Him.
Riiight, that's why he wants to kill 4 billion people immediately and a billion or so more on some inexplicable long-term plan.



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Then there will be peace for a thousand years. Maybe from year 2200 to year 3200. And the population will again grow. Satan will be bound during this time.
Yep, that's the way to bring peace, mass murder always makes people peaceful, just look at how happy people are during wars, all that population reduction just calms them right down.
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Dammit!!!
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I'm gonna be (500 miles)


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.
Seven Seconds Away.

That is wonderful, thank you for posting the link.

Has Peace Crusader come back to acknowledge his error on the size of China's Army yet?
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Seven Seconds Away.

Has Peace Crusader come back to acknowledge his error on the size of China's Army yet?
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I suspect he's urgently attempting to contact his Source, now that one of his infallible claims is revealed to be wrong.
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Seven Seconds Away.

That is wonderful, thank you for posting the link.

Has Peace Crusader come back to acknowledge his error on the size of China's Army yet?
20120614.2000

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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Peace, can you clarify exactly what the prophecy is? You've sort of implied that the London Olympics will not take place because China will invade the Philippines, but in another post you said:




So what exactly did the spirit say about the Olympics?

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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[font=Verdana]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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And what do you reckon would happen to China's infrastructure if you put all those people in uniform and sent them off to war?
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Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
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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.
ETA: 867-5309 (Jenny)

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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[font=Verdana]20120614.2020

[font=Verdana]According to the Holy Spirit . . .

<snip>

[font=Verdana]The Holy Spirit said . . .


√-1

How does this holy spook actually communicate with you? Do you have some kind of walkie talkie?
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When in the history of the world has a country ever assembled an army of 200,000,000? Except now. Do you know which one? It is China.
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...manpower fit for military service between age 16 and 49...
Mambo No.5


Round here we call that moving the goalposts. The answer to your question "When in the history of the world has a country ever assembled an army of 200,000,000?" is "never". No country has ever assembled such an army.
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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.
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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How does this holy spook actually communicate with you? Do you have some kind of walkie talkie?
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It would probably have to be a moves-in-a-mysterious-way talkie.
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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.
Utter bollocks.

You guess? If that's the best you can do. I'll take my predictions from the urine stream of my eldest male cat.

On a totally related topic, I think I deserve extra credit for putting the word "syzygy" in a poem and getting to rhyme with "orange".

With such mad skillz my predictive powers are far better than yours. They bring all the boys to the yard too, so I don't know what's going on there....

I'd like to see god do that. The syzygy bit, not the boys thing.
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Old 14th June 2012, 05:29 AM   #268
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Where I'll be sitting 1st of August watching the canoe slalom, and frankly it will take more than WWIII to stop the Olympics now...
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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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Old 14th June 2012, 05:36 AM   #269
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And just the idea that China would threaten their entire national economic relationship with the US (we owe them trillions, and we buy trillions of junk from them) over a nothing-profitable Phillipines is patently ridiculous.
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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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Old 14th June 2012, 05:39 AM   #270
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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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Old 14th June 2012, 05:39 AM   #271
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Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
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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.
My name is Todd Davis. This is my Social Security Number: 457-55-5462.

How do you know it will be called "World War III"? What if the media decides to call it something else? Will that invalidate your claim?
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Old 14th June 2012, 05:41 AM   #272
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You are number 6.

Has the OP departed?

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Does OP mean Original Poster? If so, then, Captain Swoop, I have departed to take my rest. And after I woke up, I still did things around the house and work. In the evening, I go to the Internet to answer your questions.
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Did you know, Baloney, that the Holy Spirit revealed that the Philippines is the richest nation on earth?
221 V8

I think your holy spirit has a serious math problem.
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Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
20120614.2140

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.
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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Old 14th June 2012, 05:58 AM   #275
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Yes. So, if WW3 doesn't start before the London Olympics, will you admit that your god is a false one?

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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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Old 14th June 2012, 06:12 AM   #276
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Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
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[font=Verdana]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.


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 planned predicted prophesied made-up-out-of-whole-cloth invasion thingy will necessarily stop the Olympics from going ahead?

The comparison with London in 1944 is spurious.
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Old 14th June 2012, 06:12 AM   #277
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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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You're preaching to an empty room, PeaceCrusader. Most of us here have no belief in God, spirits, Satan or any other imaginary entity.

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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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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 )
10001110101

Considering it's Platform 93/4, I think your spirit guide was referring to the former.
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Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader View Post
Are you, Agatha, not fortunate that I am talking to you and informing you of what is to happen very, very soon?
7-11

What's so fortunate about it, if nobody can do anything about it?

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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.
That doesn't sound so bad. What do you think we have now gained by knowing this in advance?
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