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(continued) Last edited by FFH; 05-07-2006 at 09:46 PM.. |
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May I ask what your purpose is in cutting and pasting these Bible codes? From an LDS perspective, the apostles and prophets have never spoken of code in scripture. |
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It's no longer April 30th in Iran. So, what happened?
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nothing.
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The end is NEAR!
God is coming! Doomsday! Ragnarok! Armageddon! Jesus on tour, Part Deux! Get your T-shirts before it's too late! Ya know...spiritualists, "psychics", frauds, and rabidly pessimistic religious fundamentalists have been predicting "the end of the world" ever since man finally realized he was living upon a world unto himself. I take heart in the fact that every single prediction/prophecy to date has been WRONG. EVERY ONE. One might think that even a 1% success rate might lend some hopeful credibility to any and all prophecies of ultimate doom - but to be wrong EVERY time? A 100% failure rate? You'd never make it to the major leagues with that kind of batting average... Some might define insanity as repeating the exact same act over and over again, with the hopeful expectation of a different result this time.... In the realm of critical thinking, there is a favored logical fallacy employed by such purveyors of prognostication (palm readers, astrologists, "channelers", prophets and priests, etc.) : [The] "Enumeration of Favorable Circumstances" (aka, "remembering the hits and forgetting the misses"). This may also be known to some as "Observational Selection". [Note: This is not to be confused with post hoc prophecies confirming historicalfact (or claim). Biblical New Testament "confirmations" of OT prophecies were writtenafter the events had (allegedly) already occurred. I'll bet I could write some compellingly fulfilled prophecies today, regarding the events of say, 1929 - but that's another topic for another time.] How many "end of the world" foretellings/predictions/prophecies have been utterly wrong to this point? You could accurately observe; "All of them". Yes, but the sheer number of individual claims must be in the thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands. By dumb luck (or statistical probability alone) you'd think that at least one would have been right by now. What are the odds of flipping a coin say, 5000 times, and getting tails "every" time? Would you bet on the guy that predicts "heads" is "due", or would you care to examine the coin instead ("A coin with no 'heads'? Hey, that's dishonest!"). Wishful thinkers that are hoping (praying?) that the world will end soon, and within their lifetimes, are nothing new; and neither are the sad circumstances that leave (to) faith as their sole foundation of vision and hope for the rest of us. How miserable would you have to be to welcome and embrace the destruction of every man, woman, and child on this planet? How incredibly selfish to think that YOU are "chosen" and "blessed" to witness such a fate? After all, if the world doesn't end on your especial watch, then - *gasp* - maybe you ain't that important after all....and that just can't be true! Hits and misses. Remember the hits, and forget the misses (or if she's intolerable...the Mrs.). Sooth-sayers depend upon the gullible and hopeless to forget (or even dismiss) unfulfilled predictions; in order to refocus the helpless' attentions upon the innocuous things that might yet come true (how does one disprove foretellings of the future?). "Tomorrow, you may meet a stranger". Wow! "You have a secret no one else knows". Amazing! "Wealth and health are just around the corner". Really? "The world will end soon. You might want to repent now, before it's too late." Jeez! I guess I'd better! When predictions, prophecies, and prognostications of either specified fates or ultimate ends (by time and date) fail to manifest themselves..."believers" that previously chose to accept such forecast doom...rationalize such failures as "misinterpretations", or inaccurate (but well-intentioned) "misunderstandings"; all subject to further enhancement or reinterpretation to some coming, and revised "true" date. (Ironiically, some religious fundamentalists accuse politically neutral historians of selective "liberal revisionism"). Et tu? The question proponents of "matrix codes" ('secret' algorithms/sequences embedded in religious doctrine/texts) should ask themselves is, if the codes "fit" in certain select passages, shouldn't they apply to any and all? Of the selective "hits" that seem to fit, what of the remaining majority "misses" that are pure gibberish? Why doesn't the "matrix" apply to every bit of selected text? If all the locks in a house are set to one key, shouldn't that one key unlock every door? If not, whom shall bear the blame? The key, the door, the lock, or the key-maker himself? Maybe the humidity? Bad hair? So...Observational selection, or divine revelation? What are the odds of the former being "most probably" correct, versus the latter? I prophecy that the sun will rise one more tomorrow, whether I am here to witness the event or not. Place yer bets. Pappa needs a new Mercedes. "The Doomsday List" "End of the World" Prophecies/Predictions
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"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. " -HL Mencken Last edited by s2a; 05-01-2006 at 01:55 AM.. Reason: Added link/reference |
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Iran vows 'radical reply' to any UN action Iran warned on Sunday (30 April 2006) that it would not take UN actions against it lying down, insisting that it will continue its research-scale enrichment of uranium. Tehran reiterated its determination to continue its nuclear programme after the White House on Saturday rejected Iran's offer to allow snap inspections of its nuclear facilities if the UN nuclear monitor resumes its lead role managing Iran's dispute with the international community. Mohammad Al Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported on Friday to the UN Security Council that Iran defied the council's deadline to suspend uranium enrichment-related activities. Foreign Ministry spokes-man Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran wanted to solve its dispute with the international community through diplomacy but said Tehran would not give in to pressure. "We insist that we are willing to resolve [our nuclear] dossier through dialogue ... but Iran won't hold talks and won't surrender under threats and pressures," Asefi told reporters on Sunday. Cornering Iran April 30, 2006 The escalating international brawl we are seeing is not between the US and Iran, even though the former may be taking the lead in pointing fingers at Tehran’s nuclear activities. It is between the UN and Iran, occasioned by the latter’s refusal to accept a UN mandate to stop uranium enrichment.Contrary to what its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims, this demand is not to deny Iran’s right to nuclear technology. It comes at the head of a two-year long process that has not been able to provide a final answer as to whether or not Iran is clandestinely seeking to make nuclear weapons. Having, hopefully, learnt the lesson of ignoring the UN in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, the US is acting along with its Security Council colleagues to get Tehran to behave on the nuclear issue. What is worrisome are the remarks that Mr Ahmadinejad has made about Israel, and the kind of preparations being visibly made in Iran to launch a global terrorist campaign against a putative US attack. In this, the Iranian President’s deeply held religious beliefs don’t give much comfort. He finances an institute in Tehran on the Twelfth Imam who went missing a millennia or so ago, and whose apocalyptic return would bring a perfect Islamic society in the world before the day of judgment. Similarly, millennial beliefs are shared by a significant numbers of US Christians who believe in the Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ. And where the Iranians are seeking nuclear weapons, the US already has a lot of them.This isn’t a happy situation. Source: Cornering Iran Published: 05/01/2006 12:00 AM (UAE) ![]() Image from Israeli spy satellite, made available by Israeli company, ImageSat International NV, reportedly shows an image of a Syrian dam. This image from the Israeli spy satellite Eros B and made available by the Israeli company ImageSat International NV, yesterday, is one of the first high-quality images reported to show the Tabaqah Dam in northern Syria. The Eros B was launched last week from Russia and will remain in orbit for up to six years with the purpose of tracking Iran's nuclear programme at a time when Tehran is refusing to comply with UN demands to halt uranium enrichmentand Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is calling for Israel's destruction. Source: www.Tehran.com/ Last edited by FFH; 05-02-2006 at 10:53 PM.. |
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Rice: Tehran is 'playing games' Secretary urges action from U.N. on Iran's nuclear program ![]() U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday, April 30, 2006; Posted: 5:44 p.m. EDT (21:44 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran Sunday of "playing games" with the international community over its nuclear program, but she stopped short of saying whether economic sanctions against the Islamic republic are inevitable WHAT'S NEXT? A look at the next steps in international efforts to pressure Iran over its nuclear program: Tuesday (May 2) -- Officials from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany -- who report directly to their foreign ministers -- meet in France to discuss strategy on Iran.. Wednesday (May 3) -- The U.N. Security Council is expected to meet informally to discuss the report. Tuesday (May 9) -- Foreign ministers from the Security Council's five permanent members plus Germany meet at U.N. headquarters in New York. The council will meet on Iran formally after those talks. Source: Rice: Tehran is 'playing games' Last edited by FFH; 05-08-2006 at 12:15 AM.. |
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Iran has insisted that its nuclear ambitions are legal and for peaceful energy needs
But statements by Iran's leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and describing the Holocaust as a "myth," have heightened fears that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons. On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz called Iran's nuclear program the most serious threat faced by Jews "since Hitler." Source: Rice: Tehran is 'playing games' Last edited by FFH; 05-01-2006 at 07:11 AM.. |
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4 Iyyar 5766 (Tuesday 2 May 2006) He swore to you By Reuters 02/05/2006 (2/May/2006) Iranian commander: Israel will be first target if U.S. does 'evil' ![]() TEHRAN - Israel will be Iran's first target in response to any "evil" act by the United States, a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said Tuesday. "We have announced that whenever America does something evil, the first place that we target will be Israel," Revolutionary Guards Rear Admiral Mohammad-Ebrahim Dehqani was quoted as saying by Iran's student news agency ISNA. Last edited by FFH; 05-08-2006 at 09:15 AM.. |
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