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Gamaliel
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Ha ha ...
Well, I don't know about getting 'inside your head' but as a 'recovering revivalist' myself - and from the tone and tenor of your posts, I don't think one has to be psychic to work out the kind of things that occur to people along their trajectory towards - or away from - such things ...
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Eutychus
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Originally posted by Alyosha:
Maybe a chip in the head or the hand happens the same way? You just end up telling yourself that all that last days claptrap is allegory and tell the people inserting the chip that you really do hate that Biblical literalism and you have nothing to hide therefore nothing to fear.
I have to say the chip-in-hand one still gives me pause.
Not least because the whole cashless payment system is a way of the financial/economic sector gaining more control over individuals' lives ('cash: says less about you than American Express ever can'), which seems to me to tie in very much with what Babylon is all about in Revelation; a financial artifice that is detached from actual, important, material things.
That said, I'm not about to convert all my paper worth (such as it is) into gold.
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Robert Armin
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
Hmmm ... not a view I've encountered here in the UK - but then, I suspect certain types of fundamentalist evangelical here might be as prone to this sort of thing as their cousins in the US.
Sadly it is common over here. On Facebook, in the run up to the Election, I saw people asserting that Milliband must be demon possessed because of his "dark eyes". If I tried to make it up I couldn't.
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Alyosha
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
Ha ha ...
Well, I don't know about getting 'inside your head' but as a 'recovering revivalist' myself - and from the tone and tenor of your posts, I don't think one has to be psychic to work out the kind of things that occur to people along their trajectory towards - or away from - such things ...
Revivalism may be an inner grumble I suppose, but isn't all discontent?
Anyway, these are not grumbles, these are valid complaints. Some people would tell King David to stop whinging.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by Robert Armin:
On Facebook, in the run up to the Election, I saw people asserting that Milliband must be demon possessed because of his "dark eyes". If I tried to make it up I couldn't.
I'm surprised they didn't pick on that white streak in his hair, too.
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Gamaliel
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That's assuming he wrote all the Psalms attributed to him - or even that he was an historical figure in the first place.
I rather suspect he did exist - but I wouldn't be surprised if most 'of David' attributions came retrospectively at the time of the second Temple.
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Robert Armin
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
That's assuming he wrote all the Psalms attributed to him - or even that he was an historical figure in the first place.
Milliband? No, we were talking about Ed, not his brother.
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Martin60
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Aye Gamaliel. You used that magic word that transcends my comment elsewhere. Trajectory. We have to go through ALL of this shit, and worse to come I'm sure, before all we shut up and open our hands and arms wide.
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Belle Ringer
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Originally posted by Robert Armin:
I have a friend (British) who is convinced that Obama is the anti-Christ. Her reason: he's "anti-Israel". Her only doubt: "it's too obvious, and the anti-Christ is supposed to be a surprise".
Obama and not W? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
According to some of my neighbors at the time, W was a prophet of God. Said in hushed tones of awe. No idea what they think now but they'd probably vote for him again.
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Alyosha
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
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Originally posted by Robert Armin:
I have a friend (British) who is convinced that Obama is the anti-Christ. Her reason: he's "anti-Israel". Her only doubt: "it's too obvious, and the anti-Christ is supposed to be a surprise".
Obama and not W?
According to some of my neighbors at the time, W was a prophet of God. Said in hushed tones of awe. No idea what they think now but they'd probably vote for him again.
I think some American Christians are considering Jonathan Cahn, who wrote The Harbinger to be a modern day prophet. There has been some speculation that he is one of the two witnesses. Don't ask how I know this stuff.
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Martin60
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Yeah, America is backslidden from this.[warning: graphic content]
[ 02. June 2015, 21:36: Message edited by: Eutychus ]
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Eutychus
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Martin60, it's considered polite to at least give some clear idea of what you're linking to if the content can be described as graphic.
(Discussion of this and related issues is currently in progress here)
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Martin60
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I beg your and all others pardon Eutychus.
That's the second apology I owe you I recall.
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