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3 Secrets of fatima
#51
RE: 3 Secrets of fatima
(July 1, 2017 at 12:17 am)Astonished Wrote:
(June 30, 2017 at 7:07 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: Basically a young, imaginative, reasonably intelligent, fame hungry and very manipulative young girl was bored one day and she convinced her two cousins that she could see the virgin Mary. Eventually the whole thing spiralled out of control and about eight months later about fifty thousand people found themselves in a field listening to this young girl. About five thousand of the most stupid did what she said and stared at the sun until they suffered permanent retina damage, causing them to think it danced in the sky and that they themselves saw visions of Mary (the minimally intelligent people knew staring at the sun was a bad idea and hence didn't see a thing out of the ordinary). The church jumped on this "vision" as the rcc does.

About forty years later the young girl, by now a middle aged nun, dictated three "prophesies" to a literate nun, as she was again feeling unappreciated. The first two predicted events that she already knew happened a) that her two cousins would die of the flu pandemic along with loads more people, and b) that Germany and Russia would go to war (because of Russian "errors"; incidentally her prophesy at the time could possibly have meant that she thought Hitler was the good guy) and the third was an incoherent mess, something similar to John of Patmos' bad shroom trip at the end of the bible (which the church decided "predicted" the Turkish guy shooting Wotyjla).

I was going to ask in what year this was but it probably doesn't matter. It sounds to me like the same circumstance that led people to blow up the entire Roswell mythos.

It happened in 1917 between (I believe) April and August.

(July 1, 2017 at 5:42 am)snerie Wrote:
(June 30, 2017 at 6:58 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: because she was illiterate. But she was clever enough to follow the same formula all successful "prophets" do, viz make their predictions vague and generalised enough that random idiots (oh, like I don't know... snerie) can pin any actual event they're worried about (or even, as in your case, fantasy events only tangentially related to reality) to the "prophesy" and claim it to be true.

G calling me an idiot now, How thoughtful of you. at a last note it also says that the would would enter a period of peace and it is generally and we are currently living in probably the most peaceful time in our existence. If you look at at a statistic you will notice that war has greatly decreased since the fall of the soviet union other than that it does't really have much value.

I call you an idiot because you're an ignoramus whose brain is addled with worms and filled solely with their excrement. If you don't like me saying so you don't need to listen to me.

We are not in the most peaceful time in recorded history because of the lying words of a little girl, nor of the fevered imaginings of an iron age semi-nomadic tribe of goat fuckers, we are in the most peaceful time in recorded history because we are leaving behind the one thing most likely to create violence and discord, religion. Whether you like it or not, people like you are being put in the dustbin of history.
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#52
RE: 3 Secrets of fatima
(June 29, 2017 at 7:47 pm)Astonished Wrote: I can only assume the reason I've never heard this is because it's too big of a load of shit to even make fun of (or I'd have at least heard something about it on tube by now). Anyone want to go into any details on this? I tried looking through here and didn't find anything I found clear or consistent on what this is all about.

If you need to stimulate a local economy nothing works better than an apparition.


Quote:The statue had, according to locals, begun to move as they prayed and before they knew what was going on the statue of Our Lady had lifted up her garbs to display her private parts which were quoting passages from the Bible.


Quote:IT harks back to a time when the Catholic Church was the rock ‘n roll of Ireland, the Ballinspittle moving statue was like no other phenomenon the country had seen up to that point. In 1985 thousands flocked to the small Cork village to catch a glimpse of the moving statue that had it all.

Quote:The interest was intense; fights had broken out in queues to the statue and priests were drafted in for crowd control...


Quote:A whole economy built up around the statue and the small town: replica statues were sold, T-shirts sold out on the first day. Prostitutes jumped on the bus to Ballinspitlle and made a fortune.


Quote:Tickets for the Vatican run events cost upwards of €1,000 and the Ballinspittle statue mania reached fever pitch.


Quote:It was only when Our Lady made the cover of Time magazine in 1999 with that famous wink pose that the locals of Ballinspittle realised they had been duped by the Vatican but it was too late, the statue had become the single biggest revenue generator for the church, eclipsing both church collections and priests forcing elderly parishioners to sign over all their possessions in their wills.

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#53
RE: 3 Secrets of fatima
(July 1, 2017 at 11:33 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:
(July 1, 2017 at 12:17 am)Astonished Wrote: I was going to ask in what year this was but it probably doesn't matter. It sounds to me like the same circumstance that led people to blow up the entire Roswell mythos.

It happened in 1917 between (I believe) April and August.

(July 1, 2017 at 5:42 am)snerie Wrote: G calling me an idiot now, How thoughtful of you. at a last note it also says that the would would enter a period of peace and it is generally and we are currently living in probably the most peaceful time in our existence. If you look at at a statistic you will notice that war has greatly decreased since the fall of the soviet union other than that it does't really have much value.

I call you an idiot because you're an ignoramus whose brain is addled with worms and filled solely with their excrement. If you don't like me saying so you don't need to listen to me.

We are not in the most peaceful time in recorded history because of the lying words of a little girl, nor of the fevered imaginings of an iron age semi-nomadic tribe of goat fuckers, we are in the most peaceful time in recorded history because we are leaving behind the one thing most likely to create violence and discord, religion. Whether you like it or not, people like you are being put in the dustbin of history.

Whatever floats your boat.
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RE: 3 Secrets of fatima
(July 4, 2017 at 11:14 am)snerie Wrote:
(July 1, 2017 at 11:33 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: It happened in 1917 between (I believe) April and August.


I call you an idiot because you're an ignoramus whose brain is addled with worms and filled solely with their excrement. If you don't like me saying so you don't need to listen to me.

We are not in the most peaceful time in recorded history because of the lying words of a little girl, nor of the fevered imaginings of an iron age semi-nomadic tribe of goat fuckers, we are in the most peaceful time in recorded history because we are leaving behind the one thing most likely to create violence and discord, religion. Whether you like it or not, people like you are being put in the dustbin of history.

Whatever floats your boat.

Sounds like the smartest thing about you was changing your username to not include 'thinker'. Although it probably wasn't for that reason. Still, pretty apt, considering.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?

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