Take a look at this gif file I found on an email message I just received.
( :rolleyes: ) 6.02×10[sup]23[/sup]
What’s the molecular weight of a :rolleyes:?
I clicked but couldn’t join! Is that God’s plan?
[sub](yes i know it is just a gif)[/sub]
No, I uploaded the image so I could find it again. Yahoo! Groups have rotating email ads.
Here’s the link. :sigh:
do{
:rolleyes:();
}while(0)
my code was wrong (ha) here it is corrected
do{
:rolleyes:_();
}while(0)
What I find funny is that you will only recieve the answers and info if you sign up.
I think that if the End Times actually were in fact upon us, it would be all over the friggin’ news and there would be horrible winged spiders terrorizing the skies and dinosaurs would once again be roaming the Earth.
And there would be no pie.:eek:
i tried signing up but they wanted money. here is part of the story: yo, story here
Tim LaHaye is an “End Times” scholar?
Yeah, and I’m the Pope! :eek:
Back when I was a kid in Christian school, they daily assured us that all of the “signs” were fulfilled and that Jesus would be back any second now. That was years ago. I imagine that a hundred years ago, much the same things were said.
The Apostles, as I understand, fully expected that Christ would return in their lifetimes. I can’t remember off hand where it’s located, but I do remember a scripture in which Jesus told the Apostles that some of them would “still remain” when he returned. (My teachers insisted that this was a rare scripture which couldn’t be interpereted literally.)
Needless to say, people have been certain the Apocolypse would come by the end of next week for centuries. (I remember reading of a sect so convinced of the date that they sold or gave away all of their earthly possessions, and sat on a hilltop, waiting patiently for the Final Trump. Eventually, they wandered off when nothing happened, probably a little pissed off.) I don’t know if it’s wishful thinking . . . I think a good many Christians I know wish for it if only to be able to say, “See! I told you so!”
:rolleyes: I am so sick of these people. Look, the world could end now, or 10,000 years from now. I don’t know, you don’t know, they don’t know. Yeah, the Jews are in Israel now, and that’s supposed to be a sign, but maybe they’ll get kicked out in 50 years and re-diasporize for another 2000. There is no point in harping on this, because the only sure fact in this whole morass (obviously a known fact only to Christians) is that the world will end someday and Jesus will come back.
OTOH, it would be vaguely amusing if GWB turned out to be the Antichrist.
They had a banner ad with the same tagline on Yahoo baseball the other day.
I have a hard time taking religion seriously, so here goes.
Well, damn, now I want to be an End Times Scholar as well. We could have a pool set up which ways to promote Christianity, and convert heathen will find chances of success with Jesus, will succeed or be sent into The Lake Of Fire.
Or i could just do jokes: How many of you have seen the “Got Jesus?” bumpersticker? How many of these people are really bad drivers. And where would one Find Jesus in the grocery store, would he have His own Aisle, or would He be by the soda pop? Would places like Walmart have a huge Display Of Jesus right at the entrance? Would you pick up some Jesus with the milk and cereal? Would some people stock up on Jesus in case of inclement weather?
For those interested in a good, scholarly examination of these millenialist-type movements, may i recommend:
Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Beleif in Modern American Culture (Campbridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992).
I have a few questions:
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[li]Why are they using a picture of William Hurt as Duke Leto Atreides in Dune?[/li][li]If the End Times are here, why do LaHaye and Jenkins worry about getting paid for their “insights”? Surely money has no meaning if the Rapture is imminent?[/li][li]How do they expect anyone to take them seriously if they lay out ideas like “Is the UN a precursor of the One World government prophesized in the Bible?” Do those two even read the news? The UN has all the authority of a mouse on crutches these days, so it doesn’t seem to be the All-Powerful Tool of Satanic Government they keep going on about.[/li][/ul]
My favorite semi-scholarly treatement of this topic is the Rapture Index. 45 categories of prophetic events, all standardized and tracked every month.
Ummm didn’t Christ return which is why we have Easter… or something.
All I know was that the grocery store was closed, I wanted food and the only place open was the Popeyes on Wurnzbach
I remember reading a book, about a man who started a cult in the early 1900s, about the End Times. He called them Brides of Adam or something, all these women were a part of his harem.
It was based on a true story, told through the perspective of one of the cult members. The girl’s sister married the cult leader, and even after he left her, she still professed love and belief in him. The girl eventually got away from the cult.
His name was Joshua-or at least, that was the name he took. I wish I could find remember the name of it!
Isn’t this where the “Wandering Jew” legend comes from?