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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

When your blood pressure falls to a very low level and your breathing slows and finally stops, that's a sign you are in your "last days."
Gray hair, walk with a cane,back bent so over cant straighten up
Glasses,false teeth,cant handle all the new gimiks,like e-mails.
cell phones,twitter,needs a bath stool,cos cant get in bath,so must
have shower only...waiting to close the eyes for good. last days....
Nathan & Mouthy - Point respectfully taken
So perhaps these doomsday prophecies are geared more to our own human experience? Budda said that "life is suffering". Is the suffering in our lives the fulfillment of the Great Tribulation?
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

So for Witnesses, Camping, or any OTHER evangelical cult to claim the end is close is a bunch of hogwash. Religious cults have been saying that for thousands of years - and they'll probably continue saying it - doesn't mean it will happen.
Mr. Flipper - That's for certain. Especially if people can be exploited for monatary gain based on such fearful teachings. I'm very interested in the psychology behind groups that believe these things. I don't want to bash anyone's beliefs, even if I personally don't put much stock in these proclamations. What do you think, sir? Do you think that people's doomsday prophecies hinge more on that individual person or groups perception of suffering or are these signs really that evident?
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

The WTS. never produced anything valid right from its very beginning
thetrueone - You're touching on one of the fundemental questions I was trying to raise with this thread. So many religions (not just JWs) make claims to being able to interpret Bible prophecy. Some vaguely speak of an Apocalypse, some come right out and set a date, others, like the JWs, are a mixture of both. But what crediblity or right does any of these groups have that makes them stand out from all the others?
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

Larsinger58 - Thank you for your commentary. I honestly never even considered all of what you are claiming, but it is extremely interesting. The persecution of the Jews during WWII didn't encompass the entire Jewish race, but then again, the destruction of Jerusalem didn't include the entire Jewish race alive at that time either. That is a damn interesting analysis you make.
However, if what you say is correct, does that mean that the Jews during the Holocaust and the State of Israel are still God's chosen people? What about what Jesus said when he told them that their "house is abandoned to them." What do you think he was referring to there?
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

So me personally, I'm not entirely convinced that violent entertainment was any less in demand back then as much as the options weren't as diverse as is nowadays.
Miz, I think you and Sab both make good points here. Again, if we look back on the bloody entertainment of ancient Rome, we can see that they started out with gladiators fighting each other. But as the crowds grew and grew, they demanded more and more "action". So the emperors started bringing in exotic animals to fight them. Hell, they even filled the Coliseum with water to recreate some epic sea fight, warships and all. That's badass.
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

If God is DRAWING those with favorable hearts to him, why so few with good hearts in Asia, India, Middle East compared with USA, Europe, Guadaloupe (isn't that where JWs are 1 to 30 in general population? GOOD HEARTS THERE!!) etc.
DesirousofChange - It's also ironic that there are so many rotten-hearted individuals among the JW ranks, just as there are among the non-JW population. Oh wait, I'm not supposed to judge people's hearts...
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

The world is a lot more peaceful today then it was say during WW2 or during the cold war.The problem is that we have steady diet of death and destruction on a daily basis on tv.
d - While I tend to agree with you, there are regions on this earth that are ravaged by bloody fighting right now. Maybe we should look at the warfare in the world as regard to what percentage of the world is there active fighting now instead of religious groups making it sound like there is fighting in every street, every home and every town on the planet.
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

Movies are big business and if the customer wants depravity the customer gets depravity. The reason why senseless violence was not as vivid in past movies is because there were less customers that wanted it.
Not to mention that the Roman Coliseum was a big center of retail and entertainment. Everybody loved those fights. Imagine if Rome had Comcast Cablevision? How much more encompassing would the gladitorial violence had been?
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

what will their sense of peace actually be?
Perhaps it means that they will have an individual "peace of mind"?
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How Would you Interpret the Sign of the Last Days?
by Mr. Falcon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
harold camping.

2012. wtbs doomsday prophecy.

maze's ramblings.
Mr. Falcon

So regardless if someone is Catholic, or Protestant, or whatever, the reality is its not up to us as humans to determine who's recieving salvation and who's not. Other denominations have done more on behalf of their fellow man than the WT could ever lay claim to.
Right on. Right the fack on, brother.