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Do u think its the end times?
Posted by HollytheHousewife • 11/04/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: revelation
I'm not talking from a mayan calendar point of view,but from a christianity stand point.
I feel this tension everyone sees what's happening,but no one wants to talk about it.
Is this revalation?
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Yeah, forget the Mayan calendar.
My calendar ends in less than two months, and that's got me worried!-
me too. -
Crap, mine too!!! -
Buy a new one, sillies.
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Like I said in my blogs, disasters (signs of your "end times")happen in this broken world. Great attempt to walk where many are afraid to tread. Congratulations! -
Don't worry, compared to what this world used to be like 100s of years ago with plagues, torture, corruption, wars, beheadings, gladiators at the Colosseums and people being fed to the lions, dictatorships and so on. These are good times in comparison. We are much more civilized now. So its a real mystery to me why people think that these are the sign of the times.
Throughout history, there were many times people thought it was the "end"-
we have every one of those things, except perhaps the Gladiators. -
Here is why I think this...
Turn on the news,you will see a REPEAT SEX OFFENDER just outta prison for 15 yrs... has now turned into a serial killer,these pedophiles are the same...just like the gladiators we as a society allow this to continue.
Then ya got your terrorist,last time I checked they prefer to cut off your head and post it on line...can we say NICK BERG?
Then ya got a nation (iran) that as of 5 minutes ago I see people chanting death to AMERICA....
Now we have this thing called global warming...call it what you will,but the bible say seasons become one....
You can say civilized,but this isn't my definition of being civil and that is the tip of the iceberg...that's melting btw -
Tip: Turn off the news
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I'm certainly not saying that things are perfect, but at least we prosecute sex offenders instead of stoning the victims like in times past.
There have always been terrible things that went down. A few hundred years ago a poor person stealing bread would be placed in a pillory for public sport. Progress happens, just sometimes slower and less perfectly than we would like. -
Part of it really is exposure...I kind of agree that a lot of this stuff has been going on for CENTURIES. What do think slavery was if not a terrorist act? Columbus "discovering" America? Terrorist act. The bombing of Pearl Harbor...? Terrorist act.
It's a common theme in humanity. -
samureyed has a point - news services focus on what's not happening as it should.
Have you ever seen this headline: "THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE CAME HOME FROM WORK AND WATCHED TELEVISION" - followed by tens of thousands of names? You haven't, and won't. That is not "news" - that's life going on as it normally does (on parts of America, anyway - different cultures have different norms).
What you will see are headlines like this: "DOZENS KILLED IN FREAK ACCIDENT" or "WRONG-WAY VAN HITS SCHOOL BUS". That doesn't mean that you'll die if you drive. It means that we live in an imperfect world. -
Gladiators ... "FootBall"
Norski ... "I got my eye on you!"
lotus .... It is a common theme among MEN not women but MEN.
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Well,it isn't an attempt. I'm asking a question that everybody knows they want to ask,but don't.
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No, I think financially things are difficult for people and so they seek consolation in any ray of hope they can turn to-- even if that comes in the form of a longing for the end of the world. -
If it was just financial I don't think people would be so worried.
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Well who knows....it may just be that we have exposure to SO MUCH more, so we see and hear about so much more.
There is no doubt that things are getting increasingly worse. But it's bound to happen, and I don't think it has anything to do with what your religious beliefs are. I think humans are more prone to take than give, and because of that the distruction of our planet and civilization was bound to happen. It's Evolution baby. -
You say potato I say patato
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I don't mean the belief of evolution as opposed to creation. I mean it's evolution...it's people evolving and changing and messing up the world.
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Its all relative to your individual situation. You think they guy sitting on the beach outside his villa thinks its the end of times? Of course not. But the poor family in the city, struggling for health care and food, well thats another story.
I say turn off the news, the tv, shut off the computer and figure out what you need to do for yourself in order to keep you and your loved ones safe and healthy. The more we listen to everyone else tell us how it is, the more we are going to believe them. -
Your use of the phrase 'end times' assumes a very specific set of assumptions. I'm a Catholic, so yes, I expect that there will be a general judgment. Since it hasn't happened yet, and since time exists in creation, we are - in a sense - in "end times."
However, every deadline I've run into for the last 45 years or so has breezed by with no apocalypse. People who are professionally interested in this sort of thing have written a new book, about how The End will surely come - generally in four or five years from the date of publication - and the cycle begins again.
Actually, it seems to be a whole lot of overlapping cycles. "The End Is Near!" books are a perennial favorite in some markets.
I'm sorry if this seems cynical. I'm sure that some of the people who write and market that sort of thing really believe what they say. And most of their followers almost certainly do.
But, although I think it's "end times" in the sense that sometime between this moment and many billions of years from now the final judgment will occur - no, I don't think it's "end times" in the American sense of the term. -
Keeping it real I'll say this. If you're a believer of the Bible, a believer or revelation and prophecy, than I would say yes it is. When, who knows. Alot of Christians think our generation will witness it. According to the Bible and prophecy, certain events/signs need to occur. A series of them already have, some haven't but are in the works. Just my two cents -
Okay. But don't hold your breath - and don't be disappointed if a few decades go by and it's more of the same old thing. We're right here in the stream of time - and don't see the big picture.
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I think a lot of generations felt they would see it. There are slavery songs about seeing the coming of the lord...and that was over 400 years ago....
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That's what I think to. As odd as this sounds,I'm not scared either.
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People have thought the world was coming to an end since Revelations was written. Every generation has had a certain number of people who believed it would happen when they were alive.
Wrong.-
On the other hand, sooner or later, somebody could be right.
If cosmologists are anywhere near correct about how much time we've got before the universe becomes uninhabitable - I'm not going to be like the little kid in the back seat, asking "are we there yet?" at two-minute intervals.
Anyway, the timing isn't my decision - for which I'm duly grateful.
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No worries holly, in response to your reply, I think those things you mentioned have been happening since beginning of mankind but on a larger scale and besides, why worry about?, nothing you can do about it. Don't you think?
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I am not worried about it at all. I'm glad,I know what the next chapter is. I do however feel sad for what happens all around us every day.
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Its happening around us every day because the media highlights it to sell newspapers and ad space on television, but if they turned around and started to show all the good things happening in the world which I can think of hundreds, then who in the hell would watch the news.
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I would prefer to watch good news.
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I would
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No, they were preaching that 2000 years ago. -
Not likely the end of times, and please sex offenders- fifty years ago grown men in half the states could legally marry 14 year olds. We are a much more legalistic society than ever before, too many lawyers. But the world has never had more abundance and sensitivity to wrong doing than now, and exploitative media to dramatize it. I think reading even a little history would let you know these are far from the "Bad Days." And you would know that people have been talking about the end of days since the beginning of them. -
That is true,BUTTTTT look at revelation then say that
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the world has always held bad things, we just have instant access to knowledge now. What used to take weeks, months, years to find out about, if at all, we now get in our faces via tv and the internet. But for every bad story you hear, think of the thousand of good things you do not hear about.
I don't know when or if the world will end or why it might but focusing on the things that are bad only takes away from the blessings and possiblities we get each day.-
True. When I start to focus on the bad I remember to fix my eyes on Jesus.
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That is exactly what the prohecy said people would say...
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I just read a book by David Jeremiah and he said it well. He said we don't know the TIME of Christ's coming, but we do know the SEASON. If we are not in the season, I feel we are near it.
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Exactly...I'm not trying to say the exact date,I'm saying it feels like the "saeson"
The Bible says he comes like a theif in the night. -
Yep, the very door. It is soon. -
No, but it does appear to be the end of the American English language! Why can't people learn proper punctuation?-
Why do you not offer to gently point out the errors so others may learn from your expertise. Or, better yet post some grammar rules in a series of teaching posts, everyday for a week, and start a discussion linking the posts. Then we can have discussions with those who wish to learn and those who may only need a little help. Do something positive. I will read your posts. Just let me know. I will support this.
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Yes and most assuredly no. I am conflicted.
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There are lots of those particular signs which St. John wrote about 2,000 years ago. Too many not to sort of pay attention.
In the meantime, I am going to party like it's 2009!
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