RE: Clues for the identity of the Antichrist
October 17, 2013 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2013 at 3:00 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
(October 17, 2013 at 2:17 pm)Stimbo Wrote: It's always interesting to me that whenever someone points to some example of pareidolia, either visual or auditory, they always, without fail, have to preface it with an instruction of what you are meant to see or hear. It's a statutory requirement. Not for them the ambiguity of "what does this sound like to you?" and getting a thousand different responses; no, they must tell you, program you, that if you listen "you'll hear him saying 'thank you Satan' ".
I've noticed the same thing. Every time you see a video of "backwards Satanic messages" in rock music for example, they always place the words of what you're supposed to hear on the screen. So when you're reading it of course you make the connection. But if you listen to any random song backwards, you'll occasionally hear snippets of something that sounds vaguely like regular speech, but not clear enough for two people to agree on what's being said.
And what about backwards speech anyway? It's not like we can discern speech spoken backwards, so what's the point? It's just another boogeyman that Christians can use to scare each other.
(October 17, 2013 at 2:20 pm)professor Wrote: Doubting- it was said of the snake that the serpent was more subtil than any of the other animals... you have tripple 6, 3 times 6 and a zip code with 3 6s. These are subtil clues.
But those numbers are not 666. You're just shoehorning them to fit what was written in an old book. Why is it 6X6X6 and not 6+6+6? Because 18 doesn't fit anywhere in your scheme? You're trying to find any connection to the number 6 you can. I used to live in the 66762 zip code. Does that make me the antichrist? It's got three 6's in it.
Quote:I consider life like a strategic game you find yourself in.
You have no choice but to try to discern the rules, since they are not stated. We rarely get more than clues. It might be part of the game.
So in other words, you make up the rules as you go. Anything goes as long as you make the current president look evil.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.