I dont think the writers of the bible were any more prophets than I think Orwell was. Did he get lots of things right? yeah sure he did. Could have gone (could still go) another direction though, and self-fulfilling prophesy is a whole other ball of wax.
The self-fullfilling type is the varieity we usually see. Could also call it a passive conspiracy I guess. Monkey see, monkey do, whatever...
The question was mostly rehtorical though. I dont expect there are any verifiable prophecies folks are going to be able to find. Kind of like the science behind ID, it's only there for people who want to see it.
I dream, I just dont think of my dreams as the revealed word of god, which is why I probably dont think your dreams or Bush's or the Pope's are either. Have I ever had dreams that seemed to come true? Sure, But I have seen situations from old TV shows play themselves out in reality too, doesnt make the screenwriters who wrote them into the creators of that reality.
You dont have to be a prophet to see that, given the tech at our beck and call, the rulers of nations (especially this one) would find ID/Tracking chips a usefull tool for population control. Its eazy to understand that people in power wanting to keep their power, give them tools and laws to enforce their use and you dont need a message from the kind old man in the sky, or Orwell.
We bought all that fear they sold us a few years back and we need now we need to buy the accessories that go with it. The "mark of the beast" is one of them, it should go well with our terror alert color code and our soylent green (new for next season).
I was trying to point out that the words have a very different meaning and usage...for a reason.
Using them interchangablly makes the whole christian bible seem even less valid. Are you trying to make it (the faith) seem revisionist? Or is this just how you think christians read and study the bible? Or are you identifying yourself as a christian who thinks this way?
I was under the impression that the "STOVL" JSF variant, actually engaged a geared lifting fan forward to the CG, in conjunction with simply vectoring the exaust port of the turbine aft.
Have a look, as far as I know there is no other place here that sells retail dvds. I am told that the two video rental places only sell old rental dvds, selection is VERY limited.
What do you do when Wal-Mart is the only game in town? You see, in lots of small towns Wal-Mart is the only retail outlet left. I'll just leave it to your imagination as to what happened to the others that used to exist before Wal-Mart came to town.
"And that's assuming that that the person who just lobbed off your arm decides to call it quits after that."
Also assuming that YOU choose to stop at that point as well. It's just a flesh wound...The Black Knight ALWAYS triumphs!!!!
C.
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brought you the war on terror.
"military task force used to attack the electronic infrastructure of their opponents."
This will be great if we ever get another leader here who has the balls to "defend America" against an enemy who can afford an electronic infrastructure. Oh wait they said attack, not defend.
I miss the good old days, when we were the good guys, or at the very least tried to be.
If we built machines that were purpose built to cause climate change and the result was a changed climate?
If that is the case then I see little difference in creating the change from direct side effects like your farting bovines.
We want meat and the gassy beef machines crank out climate change as well as jerky treats.
The end result is the same I guess, but once you become aware of it, it doesnt change to any extent, the directness of the cause. In both cases, humans, as the result is only one step removed from the cause.
I never said Hitler did attack Pearl Harbor, feel free to read my comment again though.
The only error I see is the misleading part about the late days of December. I meant it to make a point that we were pretty late to the war considering when it all actually started. The attack on Pearl Harbor happened early in December, of course.
Did we attack Hitler? I was under the impression that HE declared war on the US AFTER we made our choice of sides in the late days of December 1941, and that wasnt until after we were attacked at Pearl Harbor.
American business and the "free press" were in love with Hitler and his "Italian friend". But we were pretty hot on Saddam when we first met and started going out socially. Then it became clear that we dont choose our friends very well.
American bankers wanted to finance the Italian war debt. Thats how much we hated fascism. We wanted to support it with cold hard cash!
America doesnt hate fascism, they just hate fascism that isnt imposed by the president / political party / corporate monolith of their choosing.
My house is on fire, I dont have time to convince you that yours is too. If you cant fight the fire without proof in triplicate, then I guess you will just have to wait and see what happens.
We used to have the right to speedy trial, by a jury of our peers. Now the patriot act negates that, just ask the folks in holding facilities facing military court.
We used to have a right to face our accuser, now we have annomous tips, they dont leave much for us to face.
We used to have the right to be secure in our person, property and effects, now, not so much, as evidenced by this story.
Somebody else finish the list, Im too fucking depressed after that.
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Maybe thats because the republicans that get into office are so much more fucking scary?
C.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. ;)
C.
I dont think the writers of the bible were any more prophets than I think Orwell was. Did he get lots of things right? yeah sure he did. Could have gone (could still go) another direction though, and self-fulfilling prophesy is a whole other ball of wax.
The self-fullfilling type is the varieity we usually see. Could also call it a passive conspiracy I guess. Monkey see, monkey do, whatever...
The question was mostly rehtorical though. I dont expect there are any verifiable prophecies folks are going to be able to find. Kind of like the science behind ID, it's only there for people who want to see it.
I dream, I just dont think of my dreams as the revealed word of god, which is why I probably dont think your dreams or Bush's or the Pope's are either. Have I ever had dreams that seemed to come true? Sure, But I have seen situations from old TV shows play themselves out in reality too, doesnt make the screenwriters who wrote them into the creators of that reality.
You dont have to be a prophet to see that, given the tech at our beck and call, the rulers of nations (especially this one) would find ID/Tracking chips a usefull tool for population control. Its eazy to understand that people in power wanting to keep their power, give them tools and laws to enforce their use and you dont need a message from the kind old man in the sky, or Orwell.
We bought all that fear they sold us a few years back and we need now we need to buy the accessories that go with it. The "mark of the beast" is one of them, it should go well with our terror alert color code and our soylent green (new for next season).
C.
I was trying to point out that the words have a very different meaning and usage...for a reason.
Using them interchangablly makes the whole christian bible seem even less valid. Are you trying to make it (the faith) seem revisionist? Or is this just how you think christians read and study the bible? Or are you identifying yourself as a christian who thinks this way?
"It's hard to believe that the preposition 'on' instead of 'of' would make that much difference."
If a man was "on" your wife (a lover/rapist/dead skydiver) you might be a bit more upset than if the man was "of" your wife (a son).
"BTW, he was just pointing out another Biblical prophesy that may be coming true soon."
ANOTHER prophesy? There was one that actually did come true? Details please.
maybe next they will go for a 25% tax on churchs, putting the funds toward preventing child molestation in churchs.
The idea that "sex is bad" is lame to begin with.
C.
What?!? No Dawn of the dead in Monroville? Ah screw it.
I was under the impression that the "STOVL" JSF variant, actually engaged a geared lifting fan forward to the CG, in conjunction with simply vectoring the exaust port of the turbine aft.
The engine it self stayed fixed.
Has this changed radically in the last few years?
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Wellington/shopping .html
Have a look, as far as I know there is no other place here that sells retail dvds. I am told that the two video rental places only sell old rental dvds, selection is VERY limited.
No but the reason I have to go to any inconvenience to get uncensored DVD movies is due to the censored movies at Wal-Mart. Censorship IS censorship.
Or are you going to tell me the censored movies are not censored?
What do you do when Wal-Mart is the only game in town? You see, in lots of small towns Wal-Mart is the only retail outlet left. I'll just leave it to your imagination as to what happened to the others that used to exist before Wal-Mart came to town.
I googled in "Tell me about Albert Einstien" and the first hit was a bio that, you guessed it, told me about Albert Einstien
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http://www.geocities.com/kmhigginson/einstien.htm
Go figger...
"And that's assuming that that the person who just lobbed off your arm decides to call it quits after that."
Also assuming that YOU choose to stop at that point as well. It's just a flesh wound...The Black Knight ALWAYS triumphs!!!!
C.
brought you the war on terror.
"military task force used to attack the electronic infrastructure of their opponents."
This will be great if we ever get another leader here who has the balls to "defend America" against an enemy who can afford an electronic infrastructure. Oh wait they said attack, not defend.
I miss the good old days, when we were the good guys, or at the very least tried to be.
C.
"I am going to spend $42 on the movie myself the first day."
Ah, so you are going alone, and dont plan to stay for the second screening? Screw em, I can wait to hate this in my livingroom, for 2 bucks on PPV.
I will probably invite my friends over to hate it with me, too. Just like I did with "Return of the King"
C.
Yep its pretty frightening to know that such things may be going on more often than we know.
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Here is a link to the story of how the lawyers discovered the edited nature of the "evidence".
URL:http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=
What might be considered direct causes?
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If we built machines that were purpose built to cause climate change and the result was a changed climate?
If that is the case then I see little difference in creating the change from direct side effects like your farting bovines.
We want meat and the gassy beef machines crank out climate change as well as jerky treats.
The end result is the same I guess, but once you become aware of it, it doesnt change to any extent, the directness of the cause. In both cases, humans, as the result is only one step removed from the cause.
Nevermind me though, my brain is abby normal
C.
I never said Hitler did attack Pearl Harbor, feel free to read my comment again though.
The only error I see is the misleading part about the late days of December. I meant it to make a point that we were pretty late to the war considering when it all actually started. The attack on Pearl Harbor happened early in December, of course.
Did we attack Hitler? I was under the impression that HE declared war on the US AFTER we made our choice of sides in the late days of December 1941, and that wasnt until after we were attacked at Pearl Harbor.
American business and the "free press" were in love with Hitler and his "Italian friend". But we were pretty hot on Saddam when we first met and started going out socially. Then it became clear that we dont choose our friends very well.
American bankers wanted to finance the Italian war debt. Thats how much we hated fascism. We wanted to support it with cold hard cash!
America doesnt hate fascism, they just hate fascism that isnt imposed by the president / political party / corporate monolith of their choosing.
My house is on fire, I dont have time to convince you that yours is too. If you cant fight the fire without proof in triplicate, then I guess you will just have to wait and see what happens.
We used to have the right to speedy trial, by a jury of our peers. Now the patriot act negates that, just ask the folks in holding facilities facing military court.
We used to have a right to face our accuser, now we have annomous tips, they dont leave much for us to face.
We used to have the right to be secure in our person, property and effects, now, not so much, as evidenced by this story.
Somebody else finish the list, Im too fucking depressed after that.
Thats what I said in the late 70s when they showed the original one on the TV show "That's Incredible".
This isnt really new. Which isnt to say this is a bad video. Pretty good actually, and I have seen a lot of RC videos.
I think this was a jab at touchscreen voting. Meaning you may vote for whoever, but it will count for Bush.
C.