I suppose hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia can be fun if not taken seriously. But the âbeastâ in question was Nero, and despite the superstition at the time that he would return, heâs quite dead and everyone can rest easy without fear of the number 666 (or 616 if you prefer the Greek rendering of his name).
Posts by Jeffro
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10"Beast" Memories
by NotFormer ini've been crapping on the wt a lot lately, which sometimes seems a bit unfair to me, especially since i was never in, therefore i don't really have a dog in the fight.
to provide a bit of balance, i'll reminisce about the rampant prophecy speculation going on in mainstream christianity (i refuse to use the wt's pejorative term: "christendom", especially since by definition, they're part of that classification đ) in the 70s and 80s.
to be fair, the churches themselves had been around long enough to realise that end times interpretations are like arseholes, everybody has one.
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) âbabylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.â.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) âget out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Jeffro
even making a list of how since from the very beginning, starting from the Church Fathers, Christians have used various ways of interpreting Revelation, including the:
This is the kind of stuff that might sound impressive and is of interest from a historical point of view, particularly in seeing how the church adapted over time, often in response to successive failed expectations. But the mutually exclusive concepts, most of which rely on magical thinking and superstition (especially Futurism and Historicism but also Preterism with its erroneous position of pushing application of Daniel into the first century) or relegate too much to symbolism (forms of Idealism), are not particularly useful in any practical way, nor do they represent the original intent of the various biblical apocalypses.- Preterist View
- Critical View
- Idealist View
- Historist View and
- Futurist View.
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) âbabylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.â.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) âget out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Jeffro
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Youâve offered no critique of my actual content in this thread or elsewhere (other than condescension and a straw man about appeal to authority), so despite the potential, youâre not really of any value to me.
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) âbabylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.â.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) âget out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Jeffro
But I didnât say you hadnât been otherwise involved in the thread, and I donât need condescending comments about bibliographies. Nor do I need you to continue the straw man about me supposedly claiming my views are supported by scholars, which is not a claim I made anywhere in this thread, and my views are instead based on analysis of the primary texts. But since you havenât indicated disagreement with any content Iâve offered, I can only assume assent (thatâs sarcasm, though apparently youâre the expert at judging such things, so you presumably know that anyway). Which is still better than you just incorrectly assuming Iâm angry. Instead you only prattled on about methodology that I already know, pretending youâre some superior arbiter but really just contributing further to an irrelevant tangent. Entirely unhelpful.
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) âbabylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.â.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) âget out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Jeffro
It would be nice if they actually provide an opinion on the content rather than getting hung up on irrelevant tangential nonsense.
If someone says 1+1=2, and later happens to say that other sources also agree, it is just asinine to say the person is âwrongâ.
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) âbabylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.â.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) âget out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Jeffro
đ¤Śââď¸ I donât really care about your assessment of my statement about consistency with (neither dependence on nor appeal to) mainstream scholarship. Whether my actual views are correct is not in any way dependant on how you assess my presentation of ancillary information. This isnât a formal debate, and I broke no ârulesâ, and youâve offered nothing at all regarding my actual views on the subject, so at this point youâre just a troll.
Perhaps that is the way you usually speak,
Itâs not clear how your own use of an informal phrase is supposed to be some reflection on âhow I speakâ. đ¤Ł
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) âbabylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.â.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) âget out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Jeffro
PioneerSchmioneer:
You can just skip what I said and offer a list of those scholars to the other guy and prove your original point.
đ¤Śââď¸. I thought there âwerenât any real expertsâ and âappealing to scholarship is fallaciousâ. đ But since Iâve done my own analysis of the primary sources, it hardly matters.
It seems that your irrelevant tangential rant about methodology is a reflection of some disagreement with one or more aspects of my views, but your reluctance to deal with actual content may belie some outlandish personal view of your own. Happy to be proved wrong.
Your posts generally seem quite cogent, so it may just be entrenchment in a particular style of academia that got you on your irrelevant tangent. In any case, quit the ad hominem nonsense and address content if you care to.
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) âbabylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.â.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) âget out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Jeffro
Your tangential and entirely speculative meta-analysis isnât particularly helpful. Feel free to offer something in relation to the content.
Iâm not remotely interested in your distortion of my comment that my views are consistent with mainstream scholarship, nor high-sounding sophistry amounting to âwe canât really know anything about anythingâ.
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) âbabylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.â.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) âget out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Jeffro
I do not assert that my views are correct because they are consistent with scholarship. I have committed no fallacy.
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) âbabylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.â.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) âget out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Jeffro
Sure. Feel free to point out where you think Iâm wrong.