Apocalypse Comes And Goes ... Ho Hum

[Ext User(0ZNB0)]

But every generation faces the furnace at least once or twice before it
finally gets fried.



Barely had Christ shaken the dust from his sandals when Saint Clement I
predicted the second coming; the world would end at any moment, he said.



Many were those who expected the world to end in 666, a year that
carried the 'mark of the beast.'



And in the early 19th century, the Millerites believed the world would
end precisely at the close of October 22, 1843. They gave away their
property and gathered on hilltops to await the end. At least one man
with an extraordinary confidence in his pocket watch leapt off a barn
roof at midnight, expecting to be taken up to Heaven in the moment of
rapture. Like an investor, he got what he deserved, not necessarily what
he expected. The night became known as the "Great Disappointment."



Near the end of the first millennium, German Emperor Otto III
interpreted a solar eclipse as an exterminating omen.



At the end of the second, it was a computer glitch that spelt
annihilation. If the computers failed, said the doomsters, the control
systems for trains and trucks wouldn't work. And the banks wouldn't be
able to honor checks or pay out cash. No money. No food. Millions would
starve.
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Warmest Regards

Bonzo

"Consensus is neither a scientific fact nor important in science, but it
is very important in politics." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the
Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor Of
Climatology, University of Winnipeg

[Ext User(Jerk Y. Chainey)]

On 16 Jun 2008, 0ZNB0 wrote:

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> But every generation faces the furnace at least once or twice before it
> finally gets fried.
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> Barely had Christ shaken the dust from his sandals when Saint Clement I
> predicted the second coming; the world would end at any moment, he said.
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> Many were those who expected the world to end in 666, a year that
> carried the 'mark of the beast.'
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> And in the early 19th century, the Millerites believed the world would
> end precisely at the close of October 22, 1843. They gave away their
> property and gathered on hilltops to await the end. At least one man
> with an extraordinary confidence in his pocket watch leapt off a barn
> roof at midnight, expecting to be taken up to Heaven in the moment of
> rapture. Like an investor, he got what he deserved, not necessarily what
> he expected. The night became known as the "Great Disappointment."
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Every one of these guys was completely right.

The world ended, you got left behind and FUCK YOU!

[Ext User(Doug Bashford)]

0ZNB0 said about:
Apocalypse Comes And Goes ... Ho Hum


> Barely had Christ shaken the dust from his sandals when Saint Clement I
> predicted the second coming; the world would end at any moment, he said.
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> Many were those who expected the world to end in 666, a year that
> carried the 'mark of the beast.'
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> Warmest Regards
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> Bonzo

... You want us to believe that if you sit around in your
... underwear, farting and drinking beer listening to talk
... radio and reading in Reader's Digest about the climate
... of the past, that we should take your pontifications
... seriously. On the other hand, you would have us believe
... that people who make it their life's work to understand
... climatalogical variations of the past and present, who are
... actively involved in reconstructing and interpreting climatic
... records going back hundreds of thousands or millions of
... years, and in modelling and collecting and testing new data,
... can't hold a candle to your mighty intellect. Could be.
... Farkward P. Parkenfarker, 10 Jul 1996


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> "Consensus is neither a scientific fact nor important in science, but it
> is very important in politics." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the
> Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor Of
> Climatology, University of Winnipeg
>

PURE Republicanism?? It's now clear.
Six years of PURE Republicanism - BOTH houses
AND the Prez. Pure as it gets.
So?
Are you better off now than seven years ago?
Are you proud with what they have done to
America and her reputation? ...To your reputation?
....all the sleaze, lies and bribery?
How about all the killing?
....Americans torture now? Proud?

If actions speak louder than rhetoric, then
name ONE good thing about Republicanism.
Just one.

Just one *real* thing.

Can't do it?
You have only feelsgood rhetoric?

So? Your Republicanism more like a bad habit then?