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Hi, PC.
The storm seems to have been downgraded to a post tropical storm, claiming 13 dead. Now, about this alliance between muslim revolutionaries and the Chinese communists that is due to ravage the Philippines... |
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"Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species" − E. O. Wilson |
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Weather, as defined by the World Book Dictionary, is "the condition of the air around and above a certain person or place, temperature, humidity, violence or gentleness of winds, presence or absence of precipitation, clearness or cloudiness, and other such atmospheric conditions”. Yes, jsfisher, there may be violent weather but have you noticed that recently, after 1979, there are more and more of this violent weather – be they storms, typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones, flooding, tornadoes, bush fires, drought, etc. It may already be spring and yet it snows somewhere. It may be typically summer but it is rainy. It may have been windy at this time of the year but it remains calm. The newspaper may report that the weather is “unseasonably”, “unusual’, etc. Why? Because it is God’s signs that we are in the “last days”. Ama said that “What is happening to your neighbor will happen in your own house.” As I explained this before, the calamities that are happening in other provinces or countries will happen to your own place as well. |
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What do Narwhals, Magnets and Apollo 13 have in common? Think about it.... |
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So you have read that there is an alliance between the Muslim revolutionaries and the communist NPA or New People’s Army in Mindanao (the second largest island in the Philippines). Ama revealed this in one of our sessions with Him, http://aristean.org/d03-pah11.mp3 . The transcript is at http://aristean.org/transcript070.htm titled “Alyansa sa pagitan ng mga Muslim at NPA” (Alliance between the Muslims and NPA). Just think. Why is there no encounter between the Muslim separatists and the NPAs in Mindanao? In another session, He revealed that there is a group which is willing to finance the war because it wants people to kill one another, maybe, so that they may take over later. I will transcribe that session when I find it. |
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PC, are you telling us the news of a muslim-communist alliance with plans to overrun the Philippines has been revealed in a seance? |
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Schrödinger's cat
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Any actual (as opposed to perceived) increase in extreme weather events is fully explained by global warming, which is fully explained by human activities such as burning fossil fuel. There is no more need to invoke divine intervention to explain such events than there is to invoke the existence of volcano gods to explain volcanic eruptions.
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"The correct scientific response to anything that is not understood is always to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause". David Attenborough. |
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You wouldn't happen to be Judge Floro, would you?
Is he a friend or relation of yours? (Judge Floro posting on another forum. Note the similarities with PeaceCrusader). |
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A rigidly defined area of doubt and uncertainty
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What Would The Doctor Do? Some creative lies. "No. Liars aren't creative." - Justinian2 |
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If it was genuine there would have been a little more effort applied, rather than the flaccid hand-waving and disjointed assertions that we are presented as ostensible evidence of prognostication.
I predict further displays of ineptitude, heresay and ignorance to be allegedly relayed from the alleged prophet. |
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What do Narwhals, Magnets and Apollo 13 have in common? Think about it.... |
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A rigidly defined area of doubt and uncertainty
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I can accept, perhaps, that it's nasty, plastic gibberish, rather than proper, hand-made, leather-bound gibberish that looks good on your shelf, but it's gibberish non-the-less.
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Winking at the Moon
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No, this is utterly wrong. God isn't sending "more and more of this violent weather". If it is true that overall there are more violent weather events (which you have not demonstrated with actual data), then it is due to global warming. A hundred years ago maybe even fifty years ago, a hurricane or other weather event would have only been reported locally. Now with rolling 24/7 news channels, every weather event is world wide news so it feels like there are more hurricanes. But it's just that they are reported more. We have very little idea what the weather was like prior to records being kept in the way they are today, the planet was here for billions of years before humans evolved and will likely be here for billions of years after humans have gone.
Most scientists agree that this global warming is due to the effects of our industrialised world. We've built on flood plains, we've deforested large swathes of land, and we've released tonnes of CO2 etc into the atmosphere. We are reaping what we've sown but none of it is down to a God, it's all natural processes. |
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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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To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. Woo's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by aliens. |
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To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. Woo's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by aliens. |
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Philippines and Muslim rebels sign key peace plan BBC News - 15 October 2012 The Philippines has signed a framework peace plan with the country's largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The deal follows lengthy negotiations aimed at ending a 40-year conflict that has cost an estimated 120,000 lives. ![]() Read More:The framework deal was signed by the chief negotiators of the government and the rebels, and witnessed by President Benigno Aquino and MILF leader Murad Ebrahim at the presidential palace in Manila. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19944101 Perhaps Ama should watch the BBC News. |
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Who is General Failure? And why is he reading my hard drive? |
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Who is General Failure? And why is he reading my hard drive? |
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Who is General Failure? And why is he reading my hard drive? |
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@Shiner #189
Did you know that MILF news is good news? Take only what is good for you and reject what is evil (plural). FYI: Yes, copy your msg about the (nic). Losers gotta do what losers do. By their works shall we know them.
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Because otherwise it wouldn't be a very interesting read, would it? Have you ever actually taken a look at what news headlines are like? Everything is "shock", "disaster", "catastrophy" or something like that. You never see stories like "Another week of unremarkable weather at the US east coast". Why?
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20121102.1420EDST
@ Akhenaten #190 Thankyou, Akhenaten for your comment that MILF news is good news. This has been proven by me (singular) to be true and correct. Do you know, Akhenaten, that your statement "Take only what is good for you and reject what is evil (plural)." is also as I myself (singular) have found to be true according to my my (singular) studies? Did you know it was first revealed to me in 1984 by a doorknob (steel) in the high school canteen that what you say is the truth?, FYI, "Losers gotta do what losers do" I did not consider this to be true until 18 years later (2004) , when I extensively studied the comic books for four (4) years (2004-2008) It is as predicted by the great Uma of the Samurai sword, whom was sent from heaven many years before her birth for the purposes of planting the seeds for the door knob tree. Did you also know that the Great Spirit of Uma (of the Samurai sword) makes speeches from a doorknob in the western Sydney high school that I have attended in person? Could you please google for me, what is the gestation period for "steel doorknob trees?" |
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MILF made me do a proper and real laugh out loud. As did Shiner's post.
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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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amazingly (read not) This thread slowly sank to page 2. Bumping for answers from PC.
I'm not holding my breath. |
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Muse
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AIDS epidemic
Today is World AIDS Day. It has been more than 30 years since it first appeared and yet, no vaccine has been found yet.
On 1979-10-19, 19 prophecies were revealed, one on them states as follows: “A disease known as GOTACURAL will occur in epidemic proportions all over the land, and such disease will be incurable even by the known specialists of the medical profession.” The article containing these prophecies was published on the Philippine Panorama on 1980-03-30. Details about GOTACURAL may be found at http://aristean.org/gotacural.htm . |
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Oh dear.
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So, is AIDS the consolation prize for no global nuclear war, now?
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I AM the Red Worm!
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Seek help.
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See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve. -Joker Working them to death is murder. Making them live like pigs and dying from disease is murder. Shooting them next to a ditch is murder. Digging them up and burning them to hide your murder, is extra credit evil. -beachnut |
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