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Siberia
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Brazil
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 Posted - 06/06/2006 : 15:55:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
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Originally posted by filthy
Aren't we supposed to get some sort of revelation or delirium tremen, or something from the good pastor today? Half of the day's gone, and not a squeak to be heard.
Well, he has 'till midnight, I suppose, but I feel my faith in him slipping away.....
Not like we expected anything different,  , but the Pastor giveth a total cop-out answer. According to the site, quote:
Back in 1982, The Lord revealed to me [i.e. Pastor Harry] who Antichrist (The Beast) [sic] is. For the next 24 years, I watched his following grow into a global cult and I realized this person truly is The Antichrist, The Son of Satan, the "awaited one" and many are being deceived.
He goes on to say that he won't be a politician, but some world religious leader. Moreover, in less than a month he's going to-- get this-- united the world's religions. In less than a month.
Who is this person? George W. Bush? Pat Robertson? Kirk Cameron? David Beckham? No! Silly Rabbit, it's Maitreya.
Who? Maitreya! Of course! The Antichrist-- a mysterious unnamed and otherwise unknown being who will make him- or herself known at some unknown point in the future, is really Maitreya-- a mysterious unnamed and otherwise unknown being who will make him- or herself known at some unknown point in the future. Great. Thanks so much for clearing that up, Pastor Harry!
No, not that Maitreya; this Maitreya! |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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pleco
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USA
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Posted - 06/06/2006 : 16:01:28 [Permalink]
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Creme lost credibility after 1982
Apprently not with Pastor Harry...
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...the year in which Maitreya's Emergence was set to occur, but was interrupted by the Falkland Island Invasion. Since he began teaching in the mid seventies, Creme has said that Maitreya's emergence was "imminent." However, the date for Emergence has been postponed repeatedly and none of Maitreya's appearances have been reported outside of testimony from Share International members (including the 1988 Nairobi incident).
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 03:54:04 [Permalink]
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| Well stupid me. I never thought to see if the named antichrist actually might be a real or imagined person outside of Pastor Harry's mind anyway. I just assumed it was a made up name not attached to anything or any one. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 10:09:54 [Permalink]
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I thought the anti-Christ's name was Damien?
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 11:37:52 [Permalink]
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Some years back, when I was driving truck, there was a billboard in Philly, on I-95, that claimed it would soon reveal the Antichrist. It never did, at least not while I was hauling steel out of there.
How wonderful are the imaginations of the mad. Such a pity they are trapped in an endless tunnel.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 12:23:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Some years back, when I was driving truck, there was a billboard in Philly, on I-95, that claimed it would soon reveal the Antichrist. It never did, at least not while I was hauling steel out of there.
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They were waiting until you weren't passing by any longer, because they didn't want to tip you off that they were wise to you.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 13:46:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
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Originally posted by filthy
Some years back, when I was driving truck, there was a billboard in Philly, on I-95, that claimed it would soon reveal the Antichrist. It never did, at least not while I was hauling steel out of there.
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They were waiting until you weren't passing by any longer, because they didn't want to tip you off that they were wise to you.
Heh, I wish!
I never looked at it closely -- it was in passing and always in big traffic -- but I think it was pimping some book or other.
Lafaytte Ron had it right: if you want to make a lot of money, go with religion, the weirder the better. You'll pack 'em in the asiles.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2006 : 09:08:53 [Permalink]
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| That is one cool bug, filthy. A bat-leaf? |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/08/2006 : 09:13:19 [Permalink]
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| I always wanted to be Dr. Evil, but I didnt want to get labeled 'the Antichrist' so now I just do basket weaving. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2006 : 09:41:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
That is one cool bug, filthy. A bat-leaf?
I believe it's a turtle.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Dave W.
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USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2006 : 10:04:49 [Permalink]
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Dave is correct. It is a face-on shot of a matamata. And it has something of a history with me.
I first saw one very like it in the early '50s. It was in B&W, and it cracked me up. That big, evil smile so incongruous on such an animal.... I never forgot it.
Then while looking up something else, I came across this photo, and I kept it. It still, after all of these years and of all the captive matamatas I've seen and handled, gives me a chuckle. 
It's a pretty amazing turtle, by the way....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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