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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 15, 2017 at 3:05 pm
The Bible doesn't give an indication that this eclipse will contain a sign from God, it could be possible, we'll have to wait and see, we'll know soon enough. I believe that Billy's daughter was referring to the church of America not the nation as a whole. She understands that God works with His people and expects us to deliver His message to others. She said as much in the article when she stated, "we should repent and share the gospel with our neighbors."
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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 15, 2017 at 3:09 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 10:13 am)Chad32 Wrote: Someone who wanted t see the eclipse was telling me these things happen all over the world like 52 times a year. I'm not sure I really believe it, but it's not the huge mystical event that people make it out to be. It's just the moon moving between the sun and the earth. It's not a big deal.
Well, I won't knock people for wanting to see it. You guys have fun. But really it's not a sign from the gods.
They don't. There were 71 total and 157 partial solar eclipses in the 20th century, average of 2.28 per year.
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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 15, 2017 at 3:14 pm
I was listening to NPR and heard them saying that Columbus used the Europeans' eclipse prediction method to trick the natives in the new world into continuing to feed and serve him until reinforcements from Europe arrived, threatening that he would make the sun vanish, and then went where no one could see him when the eclipse hit. The natives then did everything he asked. So on the occasion when an old-timey shaman or mystic managed to get something right, that's all they needed to trick entire civilizations into buying their shit.
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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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 15, 2017 at 3:16 pm
IIRC, Columbus used a lunar eclipse.
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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 15, 2017 at 3:19 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 3:14 pm)Astonished Wrote: I was listening to NPR and heard them saying that Columbus used the Europeans' eclipse prediction method to trick the natives in the new world into continuing to feed and serve him until reinforcements from Europe arrived, threatening that he would make the sun vanish, and then went where no one could see him when the eclipse hit. The natives then did everything he asked. So on the occasion when an old-timey shaman or mystic managed to get something right, that's all they needed to trick entire civilizations into buying their shit.
Which island was that? Columbus never set foot on North or South America, IIRC.
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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 15, 2017 at 3:28 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 3:19 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (August 15, 2017 at 3:14 pm)Astonished Wrote: I was listening to NPR and heard them saying that Columbus used the Europeans' eclipse prediction method to trick the natives in the new world into continuing to feed and serve him until reinforcements from Europe arrived, threatening that he would make the sun vanish, and then went where no one could see him when the eclipse hit. The natives then did everything he asked. So on the occasion when an old-timey shaman or mystic managed to get something right, that's all they needed to trick entire civilizations into buying their shit.
Which island was that? Columbus never set foot on North or South America, IIRC.
Dunno, I was grocery shopping at the time and the radio signal kind of went in and out as I was walking through the aisles but I caught the LOLs-worthy part of it.
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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 15, 2017 at 11:56 pm
Does anyone know how to explain when and where the next lunar and solar eclipses will be?
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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 16, 2017 at 1:15 am
(August 15, 2017 at 11:56 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Does anyone know how to explain when and where the next lunar and solar eclipses will be?
The next eclipse in the US will be in 2024 going from southwest to northeast in the eastern half of the country.
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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 16, 2017 at 1:34 am
Quote:They claim that god will use the eclipse to give a message to America.
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RE: The ECLIPSE! It's going to be a sign from GAWD!
August 16, 2017 at 2:23 am
(August 15, 2017 at 3:05 pm)Godscreated Wrote: The Bible doesn't give an indication that this eclipse will contain a sign from God, it could be possible, we'll have to wait and see, we'll know soon enough. I believe that Billy's daughter was referring to the church of America not the nation as a whole. She understands that God works with His people and expects us to deliver His message to others. She said as much in the article when she stated, "we should repent and share the gospel with our neighbors."
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How is that any different than any other day that ends with the letter 'y' for evangelicals?
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