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2005-04-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

Pope Predictors claim end is nigh; sell your Treasuries.

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Posted by Mahmoud, the Weasel 2005-04-29 7:57:30 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Now wait here a second. I heard this story before, only it was John Paul that was second to last.

Nice how these things keep updating themselves.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2005-04-29 10:19:06 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2005-04-29 10:19:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I was thinking the same thing. They keep advancing the Pope forward. First it was JPI, then JPII, and now the new kid. Well, you can always count on Nostradamus:

In a year holding a three, or seven,
or five, or nine, or maybe not,
Two things, might be people, or armies,
or buildings,
Or anything really, blades of grass,
or stoats, or crapulous charlatans
spouting mimsy,
Might do something nebulous.
Insert made-up-bit here.

--Generic Nostradamus Quatrain from
"The Guardian" (U.K.)

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-29 11:21:33 AM|| 2005-04-29 11:21:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 ...charlatans spouting mimsy

Baby, I am all about the mimsy.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-04-29 11:34:10 AM|| 2005-04-29 11:34:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I always have a laugh when one of them's drowned in a butt of mimsy...

Posted by Fred 2005-04-29 12:54:56 PM|| 2005-04-29 12:54:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 A little bit of the bible, with which one can confound these foools. The words of Chirst himself, which these folks seem to ignore:

Matthew 24:42 "Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming."

Matthew 24:44 "For the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

Matthew 24:36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."

Matthew 25:13 "Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour."

Given Matthew 24:36, these folks seem to put themselves above everyone but God himself in saying that they "know" when the return is happening.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-04-29 1:09:50 PM|| 2005-04-29 1:09:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Old Spook,

Amen.

I've said the same to some of these people. Deafening silence was the reply, so I've stopped trying.

Posted by peggy 2005-04-29 2:30:06 PM|| 2005-04-29 2:30:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Didn't they have two Popes for awhile? When you're counting down to doomsday to you count both, or just one assuming the second was a pretender/heretic.

If you were God and you set up a system dependent upon Faith and not facts, why would you give hints as to when Judgement day was? I mean now when Benedict dies we all seek forgiveness and we're in time for the end of the world. All is gold. God's a softy if he gave out hints.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-04-29 2:42:23 PM|| [http://rjschwarz.com] 2005-04-29 2:42:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The way I remember it Judgement day was suppossed to occur during the Reign of Pope John Paul the 2nd but John Conner and his Mom pushed things back a bit schedule wise.

I'm not sure when the last movie took place but since we're not all dead I have to assume it was sometime in the near future.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-04-29 2:43:55 PM|| [http://rjschwarz.com] 2005-04-29 2:43:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 charlatans spouting mimsy

I thought only borogoves were mimsy.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-04-29 5:54:20 PM|| 2005-04-29 5:54:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 #5 Old Spook,

I've seen some end-timer Christians tap dance around those verses by claiming they're not specifying the day and hour, just the year and month.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-04-29 5:59:04 PM|| 2005-04-29 5:59:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Xbalanke - it depends on how thin you want to slice the baloney.

Evenutally they get to debating what the meaning of "is" is; at which time they are lost.

Better to take the scriptures at both their literal value and anagogical sense:

As believers, we do not know when he is coming, but we need to behave as if it is at any minute.

Trying to predict the return of Christ is to take time, effort and attention away from works God would rather have us do; Christians would be better off reading the Bible or the works of the Saints, or better yet, volunteering or praying.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-04-29 6:50:14 PM|| 2005-04-29 6:50:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I have the end-of-the-world scheduled in my PDA for.....lets see...... July 23, 2028 at 3:14 AM (PDT).

(Margin of error: 2 - 3,000 years or so.)

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-04-29 7:00:50 PM|| 2005-04-29 7:00:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 This study was published in the Lancet, right?

Posted by Seafarious 2005-04-29 7:03:28 PM|| 2005-04-29 7:03:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Old Spook: Amen to that!

Posted by xbalanke 2005-04-29 8:06:23 PM|| 2005-04-29 8:06:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Just as there is no contradiction between God and science, only mankind's inability [ or refusal?] to comprehend, as the saying goes, so also there is nothing wrong with NOSTRY, only man's failure to comprehend his codes. As Nostry himself alluded, only God or the Servants of God can truly understand and interprete his meanings. Since the true threat to America vv 9-11 is Socialism, OWG and Commie World Order, the real threat to Catholicism, JudeoChristianity, and world religion in general is REGULATION-BASED, GLOBAL SECULARISM-SECULARIST ABSOLUTISM - post 9-11 America already has BILL MAHER and other Lefty commentators belabeling God and Religion as "FAKES", besides also media-blitzing crimes amongst white America to justify REGULATION, SUPER-REGULATION, and ever more HYPER-REGULATION, FOR EMPIRE AND BIG, BIG, BIG-G-G-ER WELFARE GOVERNMENTISM. You know the Failed Left - America must MUst MUST M-U-S-T-T-T create Global Empire, ergo America can't be allowed to govern its own newfound Empire, silly boy!?

Posted by JOsephMendiola 2005-04-29 10:21:26 PM|| [http://n/a] 2005-04-29 10:21:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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