9/23/17

Disaster is about to happen.   An unknown planet will splash into ocean, flooding the US.   So say all of the fortune tellers.

Well, there goes the weekend. 

Aw, I live on the first floor too 

It's probably for the best at this point.

Joke's on them. I know that planet; last time we hung out he borrowed $50. He'll see me here and decide it's too awkward to go playing in the ocean when I'm staring him down - he knows exactly what I'm thinking, too - "look at this deadbeat." He'll change course and go play in the sulfur pools on Venus. Like the average low-life.

Best $50 I ever spent was getting rid of that scum bucket. In retrospect I'd have given him a hundred no problem.

So, here is my beef. A Christian believes the Christian Bible. The Christian Bible says this in Matthew 24:

36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

So how can anyone believe that, and yet claim to believe that they will know when it happens? Basically a Christian means they believe in the deity in Jesus Christ, and yet here they are, trying to prove him wrong.

Sometimes I really wish these people would follow Hale Bopp back to the mothership so we can have a dogma free science conversation in the media... Oh wait wrong group same principle.

We had a pretty decent schedule for Haleys comet a couple of centuries ago.  Somehow, I really doubt there are very many unknown planets within a weeks travel of us.

I was still trying to get over the whole Y2K thing when the Mayan end of the world really killed me.

In reply to tuna55 :

It's been my experience that most Christians don't read the Bible or understand it. They just "believe" and stop thinking/reasoning. 

tuna55 said:

So, here is my beef. A Christian believes the Christian Bible. The Christian Bible says this in Matthew 24:

 

36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

 

So how can anyone believe that, and yet claim to believe that they will know when it happens? Basically a Christian means they believe in the deity in Jesus Christ, and yet here they are, trying to prove him wrong.

Not picking on you, but if you can believe all the far out stuff and contradictions in the book, it seems pretty easy that you could believe all manner of various interpretations of said book.

The only thing I can predict is that having a conversation about religion on a forum will lead to a patio. 

Great.  RUIN MY BIRTHDAY WHY DON'T YOU!

Tom_Spangler said:

The only thing I can predict is that having a conversation about religion on a forum will lead to a patio. 

Or a locked thread. 

Surf's up in Ohio!

Well this week has been kind of boring.  It sure will spice thing up a bit.  

Seems legit:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JoNp8dkyYWU

so first the hurricanes are going to cause flooding and wind, and now we get a rogue planet to add to the misery? I'm done. If you need me, I will be on my boat

In reply to Driven5 :

SO.... according to that video a lot of people are going to get naked, a dodge truck runs a stop sign and a news chopper crashes. MEh... I've seen worse things happen in a day. 

So the world is coming to an end on 9/23/2017?  I am autocrossing that day and am in the last run group, I hope I can get all four runs in.

In reply to Toebra :

They didn't give a time zone, so you may be safe... then again it may be over before you get up. 

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. 

The0retical said:

Sometimes I really wish these people would follow Hale Bopp back to the mothership...

Parliament did Skinny Bopp? I thought that was a boy band!

O skinny bopbopbopp...

So where are these people and how can I, Reverend Rico, help them unload their unneeded worldly possessions to be ready for the apocalypse? 

QuasiMofo said:

The0retical said:

Sometimes I really wish these people would follow Hale Bopp back to the mothership...

Parliament did Skinny Bopp? I thought that was a boy band!

 

O skinny bopbopbopp...

Unskinny Bop by Poison is what went through my head 20 years ago when the Hale Bopp idiots were in the news all the time.

EastCoastMojo said:

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. 

That's great...it starts with an earthquake....