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Post by lazarusty on Dec 24, 2006 22:58:38 GMT -4
A 3 Day WarningThis was actually given out about two days ago but I've only just read it...so..on December 26th a pillar will fall?
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Post by Tanalia on Dec 25, 2006 0:04:34 GMT -4
Something that can be described as a pillar will fall on or after the 23rd. Gee, that's not too vague. Edit: Oops, yes, on or after the 26th (decided to simplify my wording and missed adjusting the number). Still, a prediction that "something" will happen "someday" is so vague that it is completely useless yet can always be claimed as true. I predict someone will die in a car crash today. Somebody else will die od a heart attack tomorrow. Gee, this is easy, instant prophet. Maybe I could get rich selling books teaching people how ro do this...
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Post by lazarusty on Dec 25, 2006 0:22:42 GMT -4
Actually, 3 days from 23rd, not on or just after.
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Post by Data Cable on Dec 25, 2006 2:09:06 GMT -4
Nerts, I flubbed the date... again. But tomorrow, no question about it, those radioactive hamsters from a planet near Mars will come a-knock knock knockin' on Rusty's door.
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Post by echnaton on Dec 25, 2006 14:57:25 GMT -4
A 3 Day WarningThis was actually given out about two days ago but I've only just read it...so..on December 26th a pillar will fall? How poetic. This is a prophesy not a prediction. A prophecy, in my definition, is something whose accuracy can only be determined by interpretation after the fact. The accuracy of a prophecy is only by agreement that it is right. I suppose it means that a support for something significant will fail. This could be a person dying or a battle lost or a bomb blowing up. So it is only accurate if within some community, people get together in the future and agree that a pillar fell. But it is only accurate if you believe that the event was the pillar. For those that don’t then it is just another bogus prophesy. Prophesies like this tend to divide people because those that have deep faith in the prophets rightness will need to separate themselves from those that don’t believe. This leads to sectarian divisions. For example, do the old testament prophecies of a savoir point to Jesus? Christians think so but Jews do not. Thus separate communities, and for many years persecution and killing. This is a human characteristic that science can overcome through the making of predictions rather than prophesies. Predictions must have determined outcomes that can be stated in advance and determined with some degree of specificity after the occurrence. They do not require faith. Nations do not go to war over string theory. Many events that follow this prophesy can be interpreted, in retrospect, to be a falling pillar. So it is essentially meaningless except to those that have faith that the prophesy should be correct. I doubt that you will find much acceptance here for whatever you deem to be the fulfillment of these words.
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Post by lazarusty on Dec 25, 2006 19:17:04 GMT -4
Unless it's something really really big, which may or may not be the case.
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Post by echnaton on Dec 25, 2006 19:50:24 GMT -4
Unless it's something really really big, which may or may not be the case. Well there is something no one can argue with.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Dec 25, 2006 22:34:50 GMT -4
Let's see if I can think like a "prophet"...
A "pillar" could mean a "pillar of society", in other words someone important. And a "pillar falling" could mean someone important is going to die. A "pillar" could also represent strength.
So... James Brown, the "hardest working man in show business", died today.
Oops... he didn't die on December 26, so I guess that disqualifies him.
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Post by lazarusty on Dec 25, 2006 23:09:49 GMT -4
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