Is the Middle East Crisis a Prelude to Armageddon?

[michael17Participant]

The Euphrates river is drying up to make way for  the 200 million army of the kings of the East as prophesied in the Revelation? The armies of the world are being gathered? Are the sounds emanating  from revealed structures beneath the Euphrates  the unbounding of the angels to slay a third of the earth through inducing war as in the Revelation?  Ominous signs, but the future is not here yet. The Jews have not reconstructed the  Temple and as such the “Abomination of Desolation” is not standing in it.

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[jakelafortParticipant]

INSANITY

EXHIBIT A.

[StregaModerator]

Laughs, hey Michael – end of the world is nigh again?

[michael17Participant]

The internet is abuzz but the end of the age followed by the second coming and the millennium of peace is not here yet.

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[UnseenParticipant]

Strega wrote:

Laughs, hey Michael – end of the world is nigh again?

I’m sure that back in the 16th Century there were street preachers announcing “The end isn’t near. Don’t worry. It’s coming in the 21st Century!”

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Michael17,

A certain squirrel said it first and best and multiple times.

(And for our amusement, through the miracle of bad animation, Rocky got temporarily “Raptured” at 0:06–I guess God didn’t want him after all–and “The Beast” finally shows up at 1:33. Hokey Smoke, Bullwinkle! 🐿️😁)

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[UnseenParticipant]

@ Michael

Would any of these qualify?:

Islamic Eschatology: In Islam, there are beliefs about the Day of Judgment (Yawm al-Qiyamah) where all individuals will be resurrected and judged by Allah. This is a day of reckoning, and it is associated with various signs and events, including the appearance of the false messiah (Dajjal), the return of Jesus (Isa), and the eventual destruction of the world.

Hindu Eschatology: In Hinduism, there are concepts related to the end of the world and the cycle of creation and destruction. This cycle is called “Yugas.” The end of the world is associated with the Kali Yuga, a period of strife and decay, which is followed by a new cycle.

Buddhist Eschatology: Buddhism doesn’t have a single eschatological view, but some Buddhist traditions have beliefs about the future decline of the Dharma, followed by a new Buddha’s appearance who will restore it.

Norse Mythology: In Norse mythology, there is a prophesied event called Ragnarök, a series of events that lead to the death of major gods and the destruction of the world, followed by its rebirth.

Zoroastrian Eschatology: Zoroastrianism has beliefs about the final battle between good and evil, where the forces of good will ultimately triumph over the forces of evil, resulting in the renewal and purification of the world.

Native American and Indigenous Beliefs: Many indigenous cultures have their own prophecies and beliefs about the end of the world or significant transformative events. These vary widely from culture to culture.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Michael17 and Fellow Unbelievers,

Speaking of Apocalypse, Steven Pinker has said the wisest thing I’ve heard so far about both the nature of intelligence in general and about the Apocalypticism surrounding Artificial Intelligence:

https://youtube.com/shorts/0Ky8MN_O0co?si=r44BxcDMBz4dH7EN

I might add that Governments are masters at pursuing only one goal at the expense of everything else…and each has untold numbers of tentacles that each pursue only one goal at the expense of each other!

Keep that in mind as Senile Joe uses Executive Orders and directs the Jackbooted Thug Alphabet Soup agencies to pour Jello™ Pudding and Boost™ into the hard drives of AI. 🤖👨‍🦼🤪

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Fell9w Unbelievers,

And speaking of Apocalypticism and the Hamas/Israeli War, one of my Front Managers and another Manager was talking about the War and whether it was a sign of the coming of “The Rapture.”

They were doing this in front of my register too. My Front Manager asked the other whether he believed in God and Jesus before he continued, to which the other Manager replied that he did.

Fortunately, business was almost dead, so I went off to zone shelves to keep from getting sucked into the conversation.

Had they tried to bring me in, I was ready to say: “Look, I respect the right of both of you to think and express any thought or belief you want, and I hope you’ll respect my same right to only talk shop at work.” And, of course, I was ready to quote Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason and say: “My own mind is my own church.”

Even though my Front Manager is friendly and easy to work with and I might even share some Secular thoughts with him on Israel, my foundation might shake his and I only have one job at the moment.

Also, there is a Muslima who works there who also is territorial and bitchy enough about cleaning supplies which we supposedly all share as employees. The last thing I want to do with conversation is encourage bringing Jihad and Crusading into the workplace.

What we all as Employees and Management need to be concerned about are the Nihilistic looters who walk out of our doors with around $1.5 Million a year just in our store and who have forced us to end 24-7 hours and forced employees to go years at a time without a Quarterly Bonus.

Alas, such worldly concerns are trifles to those who want “Pie-in-the-Sky-in-the-Sweet-by-and-by.”

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[PopeBeanieModerator]

Unseen wrote:

Would any of these qualify?

Wow, I haven’t used the word eschatology in so long, (years?), I feel neglectful!

[PopeBeanieModerator]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

What we all as Employees and Management need to be concerned about are the Nihilistic looters who walk out of our doors with around $1.5 Million a year just in our store and who have forced us to end 24-7 hours and forced employees to go years at a time without a Quarterly Bonus. Alas, such worldly concerns are trifles to those who want “Pie-in-the-Sky-in-the-Sweet-by-and-by.”

I’m not criticizing, I just hope to understand where this came from. I like that it could be taken as humor, if it is actually intended to be connected to Armageddon. 🙂

[PopeBeanieModerator]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Speaking of Apocalypse, Steven Pinker has said the wisest thing I’ve heard so far about both the nature of intelligence in general and about the Apocalypticism surrounding Artificial Intelligence:

I love that youtube short! I would rarely click on an article with a headline that includes something like “This person DESTROYS this other person“, but this one is great, and I don’t even care who the supposedly destroyed person or concept is.

The funnest part (for me) is that I love Pinker’s facial expression, and had to screencap it:

He did get into what I think the biggest threat is, currently. How bad actors will abuse AI to their own, selfish advantage, and possibly even set AI off into nefarious endeavors. (IMO, finding ways to mitigate those kinds of threats should definitely not be left in the hands of self-interested politicians.)

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[PopeBeanieModerator]

michael17 wrote:

The internet is abuzz but the end of the age followed by the second coming and the millennium of peace is not here yet.

This has been a topic that has been coming up repeatedly over hundreds or thousands of years, while humans keep looking for ways to prove prediction in scripture.

While scriptures were written solely by creatively inspired humans to start with. Even Muhammed (sp?), inventor of an entirely new religion, couldn’t diss popular precursor religions, while adding credence by claiming that his concepts came from directly from the angel Gabriel. Is this truely “wisdom of the ancients”?

Where is there any evidence that any of the above actually came from God? One cannot point to “proofs” in Revelations, without looking for centuries for “obvious” connections. So really, is this that time when something may finally come true? One cannot even cherry pick the outcomes that come true, until they actually come true. Might this not even come true in a hundred or a thousand years from now? Perhaps after 2060?

Almost everyone alive today feels that their time on this earth must be unique, and special. So have past generations, and so will future generations.

[UnseenParticipant]

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:

Would any of these qualify?

Wow, I haven’t used the word eschatology in so long, (years?), I feel neglectful!

It’s hard to fit into a conversation when in general company, even well-educated company. They may even confuse it with “scatology.” Similar problem with “epistemology,” which must sound to some’s ears as the name for the scientific study of urine.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

PopeBeanie,

What I described is the real life–“lived experience” if you will–of the store where I work and many other stores that are fortunate enough to not have closed in the past three years of the U.S. version of “The Troubles.” Really, it’s been happening longer, but it has came to a head now.

500 CVS stores nationwide and a dozen Walmarts in the Chi-Town area aren’t that lucky. “Mostly peaceful” Wokesters and hangers-on and gangs profiteering from the chaos have created “food deserts” and “things deserts” for the rest of us.

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