[Wierd] - End of World Prophecy Ad in Today's Houston Chronicle

Why would an 'Ancient One' need to use a calculation?

 

Cool. So do you mind if I print this out. Or do you think they are going to be sticklers for original copies.

 

People have the right to believe whatever they want to believe, interpret the Bible or G-d or Jesus or anything else any which way they want to.

The Chron has the right to sell advertising to anyone they want to.

I reserve the right to not to pay attention to either of them, and quite possibly be amused by them and laugh at them.

That being said, I believe I have seen ads such as this in the Chron previously, perhaps on New Years Day.

Notice the text in the lower left portion of the ad...

"Return and Repent O' People of Israel and Judah. Why should you die?"

My response to that tidbit of stupidity falls somewhere between "Have another drink of moonshine, Festus" and "Go f*ck yourself, Gomer".

 

2017 is the end? Damn... I better get my groove on.

(written by Fatty, an actual Episcopalian)

 

Apparently there are quite a few people who are all geeked up for the End of Days.

 

The Ancient One, huh.

I wonder why DoD is taking out ads in the Chronicle.

 

OMFG !!

Gonna bilk some poor idiots out of their hard earned cash.

DD

 

Holy crap, the "Ancient One" has a hotmail address!!

 

The Ancient One? Dikembe?

 

George Mikan

 

This sort of thing is one of the great lessons of the history of the church. People for who knows how long have been prophecying the end of the world based on some sort of calculations from the bible and always (obviously) turn out to be wrong.

One noteable example is the Seventh Day Adventsts. A guy named Joseph Miller calculated from the bible that the world was going to end on October 22, 1844. He spent 15+ years trying to convince his followers (then known as Millerites) that this was true. The whole group climbed up on some hill somewhere to wait for the end early in the morning of that day. When the day finally ended they were a bit disapointed.

They group evolved into the Seventh Day Adventists, who still believe that there's all sorts of exact messages of specific prophecy hidden in the bible, but they are remarkably uniform in never assigning a specific date to any sort of prophetic judgement.

Anyway, the lesson that I get from this is that anybody who thinks they know the complexities of the will of God is probably deluding themselves. Your best bet is to do the best you can from what you know, but don't be too sure you know the final word.

I also think that it's an incredible sign of egocentricity to feel that you have the fortune or disfortune to be born in the "final generation" considering all the generations of people who have lived and died in the past 2005 years. It's like the people who are convinced that they were someone important in their "past life." How come nobody ever remembers being the guy who cleaned someone important's bedpan?

Furthermore, judging from the particulars and details of this message, I have to wonder if the person who wrote it has some sort of borderline schizophrenic condition in that they seem to believe that they are the prophet of God but seems to be sane enough to function well enough to put together an ad in the paper.

I also have to wonder how the "ancient one" has not managed to save enough money to buy an exchange server so that they could get an email address at their own website instead of hotmail. 2000 years of compound interest would add up, even if the principal wasn't that much.

 

so like, do i have to buy a large soda to use the coupon, or is it cool as is? cuz you know that's how they always get you.

 

That's kind of like receiving an email from "Jesus" (IIRC his email address was Jesus@hotmail.com)...

Am I the only one who that has happened to?

 

Why in the world would Jerusalem be modern day Iraq. This guy is as nutty as a squirrel buffet.

 

I just had my first good laugh in 2005!