Kinda reminds me of this:
Posted on 11/07/2009 1:40:44 PM PST by JoeProBono
Looks kind of gay.
Seems like duct tape would have worked....
"During the coming famines and disease epidemics, and during the Great Tribulation, with its fiendish tortures, people will die so rapidly that mass burials will take place. Here you see thousands of bodies being buried in a ravine."
They forced little kids to read this garbage. I know, I was one of them.
My mother and older sister were very devout Jehovahs Witnesses and when I was young their whole foundation of beliefs and prophesy rested on the Armageddon to happen in 1975 and 144,000 would be saved if they had the blessed “mark” on their forehead.
Oh yeah, I remember those images that were preached to me as a kid.
It totally messed up my life.
As long as we are in the Church Age, we will not know who the AntiChrist is as described at the removing of the Restrainer, although there will be many antichrists.
Now we’re even closer !!!!
LOL... Good point. ha ha ha ...
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BWAHAHAHA!
Mankind in Amnesia
Lecture before the Graduate Student Forum in Princeton, December 6, 1967
EXCERPT:
If you don’t have a Bible just stop at a motel and you find one there. And there you will read if you open it twice—the chances are better than fifty-fifty—a description of some phenomena that are certainly not peaceful. The foundations of the earth were discovered, coal was falling from the sky, earth was trembling, hills were moving into the sea, sea and land were changing places, mountains vomited lava and were molten like wax. And this kind of pictures are found in the prophets through the Psalms and also in the books of Genesis, Exodus and Numbers, without end.
Even fundamentalists read them as metaphors. Follow the description the Dominican monks wrote down as told by the aborigines of this continent—I quote it in Worlds in Collision—and imagine stones falling from the sky with crashing noises and bitumen pouring down, and men trying to go on the roofs, while the buildings collapse, or to climb the trees which throw them away; imagine the Pacific Ocean rising like a towering wall and approaching the continent, the entire land burning with a thousand volcanoes; new mountains going up and the water carrying everything away. This is not a vision: it is described in historical texts and folk traditions and in epics of many races of the world. We don’t like to think about those things as real events.
Already about the time of the first century B. C. started the forgetfulness. In the Sibylline books or in the New Testament many sentences tell of the expectations of Doomsday—a scene taken from the experiences of the past. The phenomenon of the creeping-in oblivion you can observe in the debate between the anti-clerical Lucretius who understood the heritage of ages and the clerical Cicero who claimed that the planets are gods. Nothing can happen to them and whoever claims that at any time they can be at fault should be brought to court and for a capital punishment. The Pythagorean secret teaching, the Stoic philosophy, all the mysteries and various rites, all go back to those experiences, in order to re-live them.
http://www.varchive.org/lec/671206pri.htm
MEMORIES!
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