So not the slightest doubt that the rupture is coming?

No doubt the signs are there to see .. still?

Your interpretation of the bible as a doomsday predictor, that couldn't just be whack?

You are immune from any feedback your experience in the world offers you.

I am disappointed in you prof. You are humble-proof. You require no all knowing God, you've got that one covered all by yourself. I just hope for your sake that humility is not an entrance requirement for the place you'd like to go.

(September 26, 2014 at 10:17 am)Jenny A Wrote: You've been watching the indicators for 40 years?

Some cults have been "watching" much longer than that. The list of false and mistaken predictions of the end of the world (or some similarly momentous god-driven event) runs more than a thousand years (two?). Our ability to record these statements for posterity and make them easily available to a great number of people today does not seem to have slowed the pace. It's almost as if they are hoping to precipitate the end of the world by setting a date.

That list comforted me. I miss 2012

(September 25, 2014 at 1:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (I've got a raging clue right now DBP)

Ah, so it's two inches.

I do want to thank the prof for a most entertaining thread - no snark implied or intended.

I hope prof, you stick around. May I humbly suggest you research the history of failed end times-ish prophecy?

The record is not very good. One might say, horrible.

http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm

This site has a list of hundreds of previous such pronouncements throughout history, and ought to serve as a cautionary tale for any would-be prophets.

(September 26, 2014 at 10:42 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Ah, so it's two inches.

LOL, so generous. My wife will want to know where that extra inch is hiding, she sure as hell knows where it -isn't- hiding.

I got invited to a lunch and learn, last Friday, the boys said,"Happy anniversary" and brought out a cake.
I have been telling them for years about O.
They're like my kids- lots of fun.



My number at work is 501, same as the gematria of BHO.
He gave his (candidate for pres.) infomercial on my birth day.
Nice to have connections isn't it.

(September 26, 2014 at 12:07 pm)professor Wrote: I got invited to a lunch and learn, last Friday, the boys said,"Happy anniversary" and brought out a cake.
I have been telling them for years about O.
They're like my kids- lots of fun.



My number at work is 501, same as the gematria of BHO.
He gave his (candidate for pres.) infomercial on my birth day.
Nice to have connections isn't it.

Wait a minute! Those numbers match! Wouldn't it be just like the Antichrist to divert attention from himself to implicate another? It's not Obama, is it, you crafty serpent? IT'S YOU!!! Get behind me, Satan!

This at least would explain your apparent head wound.

Jenny, I have been watching that long, but only lately has the doggy pile gotten sizeable.

JHC, of course I know about all those failed prophecies.
Who do you think made most of them?
40 years gives one a lot of opportunities.

Of course I'm crazy. Have I ever debated that with you?

Whateverist, true humility is being totally honest with oneself about oneself.
Pride is usually a cover up for insecurity and is the greatest self delusion one can attain to.
We have a perfect example in you-know-who.

It was prophesied about Jesus, "See, your king is coming, in humility, riding on the back of the foal of a donkey".
It was stated about Satan, his beauty and jeweled covering made him prideful- the king of pride.
The most self deluded being in the universe.
Now, look again at who this being will fully possess.
Like object do attract.
Note that O did a mimic of Jesus' Triumphant Entry to Jerusalem on the exact anniversary day of when Jesus rode into that city- O even had to borrow a beast (his limo- the Beast) just as Jesus did long ago, to the cheers of children- who long ago waved palm branches, while those welcoming O waved flags.
Things like that are Signs or Clues.

(September 26, 2014 at 12:36 pm)professor Wrote: JHC, of course I know about all those failed prophecies.
Who do you think made most of them?
40 years gives one a lot of opportunities.

Of course I'm crazy. Have I ever debated that with you?

If I was a betting man, I'd guess the JWs made many of the failed prophecies of the last 150 years.

This is my favorite prophecy from that site:

Quote:ca. 4,500,000,000 AD The sun will swell into a red giant star, swallowing Mercury, Venus, Earth, and perhaps Mars. This will be the true end of the world!

The world IS coming to end. Just not any time soon.