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2011-02-24 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The Book of Ezekiel is an obscure book of the Bible. And interpretations of it are obscure as well. There are the prophecies concerning Egypt describing a great crocodile caught in a net and drawn out of the river and feasted on by the birds. The prophecy describes a desert from Ethiopia and Punt to Lebanon and Tunis. All obscure. There is a tree in Lebanon used as a metaphor and the repetition of water images and calamity...and eagles and birds feasting on carrion. Who knows what it all means.
And, of course, the Field of Dry Bones, a powerful metaphor, very vivid, of what?

And over all the image of "God" like a dark cloud and it aint good for somebody. One gets the impression that maybe the Party is over and its time to look for the door. When things go bad and Batista is headed for the airport its always hard to get a taxi. Not a good time to invest in Casinos.

Apocalypses without a white napkin and the grocery store is empty. Do you own a gun? And just where WILL you get gas to get to the grocery store....and then home again jiggety jig?
Do you have a nice little Garden in the back yard and a basement full of canned stuff laid by diligently for a decade...at least?

I have heard among you Corinthians that there are factions and you dont all agree with one another. And that when you meet together some are drunk and the others have nothing.
Can this be true? If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels what IS that smell? If for this life only we have hoped....
you can read it in Newsweek.
All obscure, so much is obscure. But we all have to vote Present and surely everything that can be done is surely being done, eh? Hope and Trust and Change la di da.
And you can sleep confortably tonite under a thick blanket of warm fuzzy fog.
Break the Second Seal....

Posted by Dribble2716 2011-02-24 05:33|| 2011-02-24 05:33|| Front Page Top

#2 canned stuff laid by diligently for a decade. That isn't going to be nearly enough. Few people have the resources to lay by the amount of drinking water, food, fuel for home heating, clothing, community security, medications, health care, and all the remaining necessities of life sufficient to last for the rest of their lives, and not just for a decade.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-24 07:45|| 2011-02-24 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Chrysler ran a commercial on TV this morning I've not seen before. The weather reports a winter storm while a few flakes of snow begin to fall. The community goes berserk, a grocery store is attacked by a mob, an old lady with a determined look on her face pushes her grocery cart along the shelves and simply plows canned food off the shelf and into the cart, people are stumbling and falling over each other. A voice-over mentions "The end is near." A few Chrysler owners with heroic expressions, the men with beard stubble, stoically walk through the chaos, go out to their cars, and drive at 50 mph down a road with 3 inches of snow on it while (presumably) non-Chrysler vehicles are in the ditch or parked on the shoulders. The snow falls harder. The only thing missing were bodies lying around, bullets bouncing off the windshields and the non-Chrysler vehicles blowing up and burning brightly as darkness descends on a doomed world. Doomed, that is, unless you buy a Chrysler.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-24 08:24|| 2011-02-24 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Well if anyone has knowledge of the "End Times" it would be Chrysler Corporation. They've certainly come fact-to-face with it often enough.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-02-24 09:21|| 2011-02-24 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Seriously, Dribble2716, Ezekiel? Let me suggest Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible, to give you an idea of what the scholars think about Ezekiel. You'll feel much better after reading that chapter, truly. And no, dear one, Ezekiel really is not considered obscure -- it was in 5th or 6th grade when we learnt about it in Hebrew School, as I recall.

I'm afraid I don't know how to deal with your babble on Corinthians -- we didn't study that at all in Hebrew School, although we did have a lovely comparative religions course. And gas for the car? Surely you've heard of bicycles, dog carts... and the original equipment shank's mare? Humanity got on just fine before petroleum-powered automobiles were a common possession.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-24 10:51|| 2011-02-24 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 The massacres that are occurring in Libya against the populace are appalling by any standards.

Oh, really? When people in power really really want to stay in power, the carnage knows no limit. Someone has forgotten that human experience, formerly known as history.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-24 11:31|| 2011-02-24 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 As P2K mentions, and somebody the other day, this really is the norm by a longshot. I too believe this. It is the controlled transition of power seen in recent civ history which is the outlier.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-02-24 11:48|| 2011-02-24 11:48|| Front Page Top

#8 the massacre that occured in South Vietnam was appaling. The commies know how to kill off their enemies better than anyone.

Posted by bman 2011-02-24 11:55|| 2011-02-24 11:55|| Front Page Top

#9 It is the controlled transition of power seen in recent civ history which is the outlier.
What is new is the speed with which most of the world hears about it.

Posted by Alan Cramer 2011-02-24 13:46|| 2011-02-24 13:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Aye, video footage from anywhere in the world 15 seconds post production, by anyone.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-02-24 15:09|| 2011-02-24 15:09|| Front Page Top

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