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It's not a matter of living life without mystery or wonder. It's a matter of living life without the approval of people who ignorantly assume that by rejecting the irrational, I experience no mystery or wonder. And frankly, I do just fine without that. |
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This thread is golden. As if were take from the fleece of the end-of-the-world sheep. Coming soon to an extinction event near you. |
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You do realize that Pearl harbor like attacks are virtually impossible now right? It worked because it was easy to 'lose' fleets on the ocean and thus using some creative sailing to get a full fleet within strike range before anyone could react. But there is this newfangled thing called 'military sattelites'. The moment any nation anywhere moves but a single ship all other nations that care know about it. So sailing a full fleet up the pacific and atlantic to attack the US without warning falls under the virtually impossible task header. |
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120 Grad (the follow up album to Fehler im System)
Does anyone else still own a copy of 120 Grad ? Back to the OP. The expectation seems to be that a force of 200,000,000 Chinese will somehow invade The Philippines before the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. Even ignoring the logistical difficulties of putting together such a force, how about the practicalities of hosting such a force in The Philippines ? This would have the effect of more than tripling the population which must put an immense strain on local resources. At the basest level, how can they cope with that much poop ? |
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If we don't ignore the logistics, the task of mobilising an army of 200,000,000 would need to be well underway already. Just manufacturing and building what's required to equip, move, feed and shelter that many troops would have been a colossal project, even for China. It would probably be years in the making, and it's very hard to imagine these works could be achieved in secret. |
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3,000,000 soldiers.
That's how many China actually has (2,250,000 if you only count active service personnel) . An invasion force of 200,000,000? They'll need to conscript and train one hell of a lot of people first. |
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Pfft, easy!
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMjP5wltARo 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espSexAkOQU /J |
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Yes, it does seem quite tricky to do this at the same time as maintaining industrial output in all other areas so that export customers have no idea that it's happening, particularly when 197,000,000 people have been removed from the available workforce. Maybe the work has been offshored to Europe ? ![]() You'd imagine so and you'd think that people visiting China would have some idea that this was happening. Even if each Chinese conscript only had a few weeks' training it'd be a big ask. I'm presuming that the additional 197,000,000 will be army because we'd have probably noticed if a few million more ships and/or aeroplanes had been built. But even if all of it was true and they were ready to go, I still think it's a big task to get them in place by the required date. |
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Wait: Are we absolutely sure all those terracotta warriors are really terracotta? |
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Red 5 Alive (Nigel Mansell)
I've seen the terracotta warriors when they came to London, and they looked like terracotta, they felt like terracotta, but maybe.... ! |
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Uh, huh. So these 'terracotta' warriors were sent to London (several years ahead of the Olympics) and many other cities around the world. But are we absolutely certain that the army which appeared in each city was the same one? Did anyone actually see them leave? What if they sent a different army to every location, and they never really left? What if there are lots and lots of 'terracotta' warriors? What if there are [Dr.Evil] Two... Hundred... Meeeellion [/Dr.Evil]? |
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Then we haul out our supply of nukes and nuke 'em to kingdom come. Heck, forget the nukes; terracotta smashes easily enough. Just send a few bunker busters and we're all set! |
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20120615.2330 Will you, Baloney, be in the one-third who will survive or in the two-thirds who will die? If you belong to the latter, how can you “check back in about 30 days”? Remember what Jesus said in John chapter 15. Example is John 15:1-2, to wit: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” The Holy Spirit mentioned this in http://aristean.org/pahayag026.htm titled “Pinuputol ang walang silbi” in Filipino (“The useless are cut off”). |
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20120615.2340 The Holy Spirit communicates with the people using His platform, a woman by the name of Maria Liwayway Alvaran a.k.a. Ka Apaz who lives at Fernando Vergel de Dios Street, Concepcion, Baliwag, Bulacan, Philippines. I have explained this in http://aristean.org/wp086.htm titled “How the Holy Spirit talks to people”. Please select from http://aristean.org/audioidx.htm and http://aristean.org/mp3-files.htm the audio files you would like to listen to. I have transcribed what the Holy Spirit said in http://aristean.org/pahayag050.htm in Filipino titled “Pagpaparinig ng tinig” (Why He lets people to hear His voice). |
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Panic! It's all beginning to make sense, we're doomed! |
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I counted them yesterday before they hatched. I'm wreckless I am going to Weymouth to watch the posh people doing the yachty thing in the olympics (If I can see them from the Pub window) will this be cancelled as well? |
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7 and 7 is..... (Does anyone else own Special Forces ?)
With 2/3 of the world's population gone at least the M25 should be better. |
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20120616.0005 I am glad, xtifr, that you know something about the Holy Bible when you cited Matthew 16:28 (“Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”). It is also in Mark 9:1 and Luke 9:27. Some people may have read a lot of books but have never touched the Holy Bible. The Holy Spirit mentioned this Matthew 16:28 to us. Those who lived during the time of Jesus are already dead. Their bodies may already have been pulverized by now. But have they seen Jesus coming in His kingdom? Has Jesus returned physically already? He has not yet. We think of death as physical death, the “death” of the physical body. Does the physical body have life that it dies? No, it does not because the physical body is just soil, lifeless. It only moves, talks, hears, thinks, etc. when there is a spirit. The spirit differentiates a “dead” person in a coffin and a living person. Why are you, xtifr, alive? Because your spirit is still in your physical body. Once your spirit leaves your physical body, then we say that your physical body is “dead”. Did you know that the Holy Spirit told us that Mary Magdalene, Hestas (the thief who was crucified with Him and who even railed Him – Luke 23:39), the Samaritan woman (John 4:7) are still with us. Hestas was a man but lives in a woman’s body now. He said that all of us (listeners present) had our spirit lived in male and female bodies. |
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I think he's trying to rationalise away Jesus' very clear prophecy that some of his followers would still be alive when he returned by claiming that people who have died are still alive in spirit. Though the prophecy then makes no sense whatsover, as it is trivially true for everybody who ever lived, not just some of his disciples.
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Ten Little ********, republished as And Then There Were None
It appears that the Holy Spirit spends a lot of time talking nonsense. Spirits are now inhabiting new bodies? |
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Did you know that the Holy Spirit said that the earth will quake (earthquake or “lilindol”) for eight hours? Anita Perez and I in our session (about at least six of us present) with the Holy Spirit on 2012-05-03 said that earthquakes only last for not more than two or three minutes. Then I said, maybe what the Holy Spirit meant is that for every drop of an atomic bomb, the earth will quake or shake. The Holy Spirit said yes. So there will be a nuclear exchange for eight hours, most likely on cities, like Los Angeles and New York and London, and military installations, like in San Diego, California. That is why the 2012 Olympic Games will be cancelled because of nuclear war. And it will be a world war. How will two-thirds of mankind die? You have only been talking about the Chinese occupation of the Philippines. But no. It is a world war. First, there will be the nuclear exchange (spewed or issued out of their mouths). Then occupation. Where are the communists? Would they not become collaborators of the Chinese? Revelation 9:18 will be fulfilled, which states, “By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.” Did you know that there is also a Chinese prophecy about this? It is in the 56th prophecy of Tui Bei Tu (the past 55 prophecies have already been fulfilled) found at http://www.alexchiu.com/philosophy/superichingtuaybaytu.htm. There is no place in the world where we can hide without being affected by the war. Even if we are in an island in the Pacific Ocean or in the Sahara Desert, we will be affected. The radioactive particles will be in the air that the survivors breathe, in the water that they will drink, and in the food that they will eat. So they may have been spared by the direct nuclear blasts but may die slowly because of this radioactive contamination. In the coming nuclear war, many people may not even know what hit them. Many will lament and be sorry because they will die without even knowing God. It will be too late for them to repent. |
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If I die in the near future, it most certainly won't be a result of some baloney fake prophesy of an imaginary world war. But thanks for the indirect death threats. The concepts you've raised lack any basis in reality, and I seriously doubt your claims to drop this nonsense if things don't go the way you predict -- I think you'll move the goalposts and say "it was test of faith!" or some other bullcrap. Useless? Me? Ask your Mouth of the Holy Spirit when the last time it had a job may have been. Also, be sure to tell the Holy Spirit that I personally said it could shove a hot poker up it's under-leg trumpet. |
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Pixelated Reality | Alareth Does Art! Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak |
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This prophesy is getting more and more calamitous every day. It's really heartening when a prophesy of doom is so specific about its outcome and its use-by date. I just wonder what the explanation will be when none of this happens before the Olympics begin. |
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Tell us why your spirit's prediction is any more believable than the ones in this list: List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events |
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