I mean, the whole thing is just patently absurd. Do you honestly think the response to a nuclear war will be characterized largely by people fleeing to caves? Where are all these fucking caves supposed to be? There are more than 300 million people in the US alone; I’m sure some preppers would manage to hunker down in their bolt-holes, but the vast majority wouldn’t have the remotest chance of doing anything of the sort.
Jonah preached destruction to Nineveh, they repented, and YHWH relented. Jonah was quite put out that the prophecy he had been given did not come true. It can happen, but doesn't look like it's going to in the present case.
But why would you warn people two and a half millennia beforehand? That's just stupid.
Every generation has a tendency to believe it's the most important generation that ever lived.
I've seen commentary about how fundamentally self-centred it is when people believe they're living in the End Times (especially when people have been believing such things for literally centuries).
There's also something really silly about deciding that 'fire' must mean nuclear war. As if there aren't any number of kinds of weapons or just destruction generally that involve heat. Not to mention that the planet itself is heating up.
For see how YHWH comes in fire,
His chariots like the tempest,
to assuage His anger with burning,
His threats with the brilliant fire.
For by fire will YHWH execute judgement,
and by His sword against all mankind;
the victims of YHWH will be many.
Sounds to me like a severe thunder and lightning storm, heavy on the lightning. And Isaiah might have interpreted whatever he saw (in his mind or outside himself) as the direct act of God, 'cause God causes stuff. And God must be very angry to do those things, and God is just--therefore, God must be doing those things as a just judgment and punishment.
I doubt that God will destroy us. We might, however, do it to ourselves and to the planet.
My brother told me that, if I could get up off of the floor without using my hands or arms, then I had another ten years. I passed the test, so don't get your hopes up.
The hobbies you get up to on your own time are your own business. The question is why you feel the need to constantly tell everyone here about your hobby.
No one has to listen if they find the subject boring.
This is a bit like saying that no-one has to open the door when they hear a knock and suspect it might be the Jehovah's Witnesses, a political candidate or a vacuum cleaner salesman.
Hmm... something to discuss... do undead rats smell as bad as dead ones? I ask because we walked into the kitchen this morning to a smell somewhere between a gas leak and sage and onion stuffing, which turned out to be a plump rodent that had succumbed to the contents of the bait boxes by the boiler and was emitting what I can only guess was methanethiol.
Hmm... something to discuss... do undead rats smell as bad as dead ones? I ask because we walked into the kitchen this morning to a smell somewhere between a gas leak and sage and onion stuffing, which turned out to be a plump rodent that had succumbed to the contents of the bait boxes by the boiler and was emitting what I can only guess was methanethiol.
I electrocute the sonsabitches. They don't have time to ferment. Hey undead. Can I tempt you with cheese and peanut butter on aloominum?
There's a Catholic school for boys in a suburb between here and the city, dedicated dedicated to Pius X. A mate went there in the late 50's/early 60's and describes the treatment of the boys as being particularly sadistic. His comment was that the dedication should have been to Pius X the Flagellator. I'd be very surprised indeed were there to have been no change in treatment since.
5 of my cousins attended there between 1960 and 1979. The older ones would have concurred with that description. However there are almost no Christian Brothers left and in the last 20 years the school has been lay lead and things have changed, thank God
Yus, Guv'ner. Won't appen no more, Guv'ner...
ION, the Pope is planning to visit Iraq to act as a peacemaker between Sunni and Shiite Muslims (see separate thread and linky in Purgatory).
What do you @undead_rat make of this? Are there any *visions* which speak of such an event? And to what might it lead (part from GNW, that is)?
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So you think the glory of the Lord's majesty is the same thing as global thermonuclear war, do you?
We are all definitely being wound up...
I've been saying this for some time...
Every generation has a tendency to believe it's the most important generation that ever lived.
I've seen commentary about how fundamentally self-centred it is when people believe they're living in the End Times (especially when people have been believing such things for literally centuries).
There's also something really silly about deciding that 'fire' must mean nuclear war. As if there aren't any number of kinds of weapons or just destruction generally that involve heat. Not to mention that the planet itself is heating up.
Yes
Get it?
You already said that 3 days ago.
For see how YHWH comes in fire,
His chariots like the tempest,
to assuage His anger with burning,
His threats with the brilliant fire.
For by fire will YHWH execute judgement,
and by His sword against all mankind;
the victims of YHWH will be many.
I doubt that God will destroy us. We might, however, do it to ourselves and to the planet.
Your flippancy becomes you even less than your blasphemy.
No. Perhaps it's time for you to go, and get a life.
The hobbies you get up to on your own time are your own business. The question is why you feel the need to constantly tell everyone here about your hobby.
This is a bit like saying that no-one has to open the door when they hear a knock and suspect it might be the Jehovah's Witnesses, a political candidate or a vacuum cleaner salesman.
(Actually, the undead smell a lot worse!)
I electrocute the sonsabitches. They don't have time to ferment. Hey undead. Can I tempt you with cheese and peanut butter on aloominum?
Meanwhile, has anyone seen any good Visions lately?
No?
O well. Back to my sossidge sanwidge, then...
Sanwidge? SANWIDGE? Bleedin' SANWIDGE?!
SaMwidge.
OK, I'll leave out the small portion of curried potato, but they love it!
*BF hangs head in shame*
Quite right. Umble Apollo Gees.
Yus, Guv'ner. Won't appen no more, Guv'ner...
ION, the Pope is planning to visit Iraq to act as a peacemaker between Sunni and Shiite Muslims (see separate thread and linky in Purgatory).
What do you @undead_rat make of this? Are there any *visions* which speak of such an event? And to what might it lead (part from GNW, that is)?