Showing posts with label End-Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label End-Times. Show all posts

Friday, June 14, 2013

The End of Everything: Part I

People Really Want This?

Tell me...please...because I really want to know...why do some people in the religious world want these terrible things to happen? Because they think they will be saved? Because they think it makes them right? Because they think it will be the end of all they consider to be evil according to whatever their religion is? Because they think that somehow it will validate all of the deepest fears of mankind from times past to times present and future? What? Why do people want this terrible shit to happen?

There are so many religions, or rather, versions of Christianity or some kind of faith that is based in part or whole on the Holy Bible. Any you know what? ALL of these faiths are veying for the aggressive attentions of a God who seems absolutely hell bent on destroyinig somebody and something so long as it is in spectacular...and painful...fashion. Then they try to make it look glorious and awesome and awe inspiring by adding ridiculous pictures of what I am assuming is supposed to be angels. They look like something from an alien movie. I am far more likely to believe in the existence of aliens than some God and His supposed army of angels that await to suck all the good people to heaven and send all the bad ones to hell. Whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2afPuDC4DBg

 It really does not matter how many beautiful cultures and colorful people of history predict anything specific thing as such things do not automatically lend some great truth to one goddamn predicted thing. Truth is based on fact(s). You can find facts by scientific methods and even this really great thing called...common damn sense. Unfortunately, the commonality of this sense is just not as common as many would have it be or even hope it to be. Consistency in the old myths and mythological predictions and assumptions of cultures of old have something in common that many of the religious of the universe somehow always forget: they did not understand the world around them and so made up stories to explain that which they did not understand.

This does not mean we should disrespect their mythology, no. We should appreciate such for the creative and cultural and traditional beauty that they offer, as well as utilize them as tools to preserving the records of past cultures and beliefs. But we should never confuse an appreciation for these beautiful cultures and myths and histories of beliefs as foundations of truth. There may be  foundations of philosophies in these beliefs, but understand that just because something may be categorized as a 'philosophy' that does not make it truth. And just because something may be related to some great and grand end of all time event that mirrors some biblical absurdity it does not make any of it truth in part or whole.

Don't you just love the end of the world videos that start with the sound of an air raid siren? REAL original. But, we have bigger things to discuss here, right? The video starts with this thing about wild fires that forced thousands to flee from their homes. Yes. This has happened many MANY times throughout history and with great frequency and ferocity. You want to know why?

Well, not only do we have this amazing thing (what some would marvel at and identify as a planetary phenomenon) called 'weather' that often has a great affect on such things as fires, but there are also these creatures called 'human beings' that often use things such as fire or combustibles or engage in activity that could or does cause fires (especially when people did not know something they were doing would cause a massive conflagration), or creates a danger of such. Sometimes there are even fires so great that it boggles the mind. Let us consider a few of these, shall we?

Firstly, you must understand the differences in great forest fires and great fires that destroyed cities AND you must understand and take into great consideration that fire or the threat of fire has always been a problem for mankind. Big differences here, okay? You DO understand that a city that is burned down (or very nearly does burn down) will have recorded far more people fleeing for their lives or being killed as opposed to fires in the wilderness areas of any nation in the past or the present. For those who enjoy utilizing scary wildfire facts to suit their biblical needs it is not fair or ethical to try to utilize the sheer acreage of great fires to insinuate that far more people were killed or displaced than really were. I am not saying that all those (religious or otherwise) who state fires in the stat category from the perspective of the sheer size of the fire are lying or purposely stretching the truth; actually, that would still be lying, right? It does happen, but I do not think it is something commonplace.

Now, while there have been historical accounts of great big fires that destroyed cities let us first go to Rome, where in July of 64 AD a massive fire, according to Tacitus, is said to have burned for six days destroying a good portion of the city. Of course, like many things in recorded history there are differences of opinions as to exactly how much of Rome actually burned. Many historians of the time either mention it in passing while others do not mention it at all. Interesting.

In the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, more than 100,000 people were left homeless: http://history1800s.about.com/od/urbanconditions/a/chicagofire.htm

In September of 1666 in London, England, a fire raged through the city and left an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 inhabitants homeless: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London

In 1906 after an approximated 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, California, the ensuing fire made approximately 200,000 people homeless: http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/sf/

How about heat waves? This video makes it sound like great heat waves in history are rare. This is not true. In October of 1924, Marble Bar, Australia set the record for most consecutive days with temperatures of at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit, 1988 and 1980 were both terrible years for heat waves in the United States, in August 2003 one of the worst heat waves in 150 years smothered Europe...the list goes on. Heat waves are nothing new:  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0886145.html

What about when it comes to mega storms that relentlessly pummel the cities below with snow, ice, rain, etc?

Are these really the creation of a really pissed off Creator? Doomsday theorists of present times are certainly not the only people to have thought that raging storms were punishment from God:

In 1703, a HUGE storm that is said to have pushed a ship nearly fifteen miles inland was so terrifying that some people concluded it was punishment from God for the sins of Great Britain. Many pilgrims thought that the Colonial Hurricane of 1635 was a sign of apocalypse. Who would fail to mention the mega 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas? But, despite these facts, verifiable facts, the religiously deluded would rather have you believe such weather anomalies are only relevant to whichever year is being passed-off and THE year of the end times and rapture. Ridiculous.

There really is not point in me listing any of ther other halfbaked claims these people make. Check it out for yourself.

Here we go AGAIN with the end-of-the-world video beginning with the stupid air raid siren sound. This time the video depicts earthquake and tsunami damage. While the damage is horrifying and the scope of the damage beyond the imaginations of many these situations are NOT unusual within human history. The 1575 Valdivia quake is said to have been 8.5, the 1737 Kamchatka quake 9.0, the 1755 Lisbon quake 8.5, and there are numerous records of quakes killing not just thousands or tens of thousands, but hundreds of thousands. Such was the case with the 1556 quake in China that killed an estimated 250,000 people MINIMUM. By the way, modern times are not the only times when mass numbers of animals died. The most obvious is the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. There are REASONS why these animals died in such great numbers and is has nothing to do with God or Jesus or the devil or Satan or some big judgment on mankind. 

What is wrong with people? What is WRONG with people? The unusual nature of an event or the fact that someone has never before seen anything like it DOES NOT confirm or even remotely validate such an event being an act of God. There are real reasons for these things happening and it IS NOT JESUS.

This video is simply FUBAR. Listen to the charming, beautiful music in the background as picture after picture depicts the destruction of the earth by improbable and implausible astronomical events.

We need not be ignorant of the coming 'tribulation' because the entire story is not worth so much as a farthing of the value of the ministries built upon such a stupid idea to begin with. Stop scaring yourselves with stupid stories that have been carefully fabricated from the holy cloth of a very deluded religious text.

There is always some religious group or nut or ideaology ready and willing to prophesy, share their prophecies, debunk the prophecies of others, and a whole load of other stupid things. Get a life, people. In fact, you DO have a life it is just unfortunate you spend it living in fear of death. Such a waste.

I am so sick of hearing about the end-of-all-time crapola in the Holy Bible's book of Revelation. Let's see what some of the ORIGINAL words of the book of Revelation were before the religiously deluded of the universe decided to twist them into something ridiculous:
     From the Book of Revelatin' in the Tenement Gospel, Chapter 4:13-22...
   
     "13 And behold, a dead horse, and the men standing astride of it were beating it in order to get it to comply with their wishes, but it would not respond for it was dead. Crowns with the word ‘Dunce’ were given unto the men who beat the horse,
            14 For they were trying to sell the dead horse in an effort to pass it off as something valuable. Unto the people who passed them by they said, Come, buy this horse and it shall till your gardens and take you anywhere you wish to go.
            15 And when some people passing by asked why the men were trying to sell a dead horse the men said, It is not dead, only resting. For the men who buy this horse and manage to wake it, it shall be an asset unto them.
            16 It came to be that some of those passing by the men with the dead horse paid them no mind at all while others simply wanted to stare at the carcass and yet others wanted to buy it.
            17 And behold, I saw a green horse, and the man who sat on him wore golden armor and held a great sack of money. The horse had a bridle and a saddle made of pure silver. And this man had the ability to speak sweet words to people in order that they give him their money,
            18 For he promised them that if they gave him money he would lead them to the eternal way and to a special seat in heaven next to Jesus.
            19 Then I turned, and behold, I saw a blue horse, and the man who sat on him was crying and his expression was one of great sorrow. And to this man was given the burden of a heavy heart,
            20 For he allowed the destructive promises of his supposed faith to divide him from his family and from his friends and from society.
            21 And I looked again, and behold, I saw a yellow horse, and the man who sat on him was trembling with great fear. And this man was consumed by the non-sense rumors of what might happen to him when he would die,
            22 For this man chose his faith according to the terrible tribulations that that particular faith promised to save him from if he would only believe."

Before the religious Chicken Littles of the universe jump to their feet and scream "Apocalypse!" when the next quake happens, please...I implore you...go to this website and learn a little something of value about the geology of this planet. STOP pretending earthquakes are so goddamn uncommon. Geeze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzLK0IDs0U&list=PLCA4A08BDEAD31ADA

So what is the point here? The point is Christianity is totally bogus.  How so? Not real hard to prove if you consider that many adherents claim to be messengers of the greatest message of love from the greatest God ever, but then turn around and consistently urge and pray for and expect and, yes, even hope for crap like this to happen. Big time hypocrisy.


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Monday, May 20, 2013

The Mother of All Battles

Blood as High as a Horse's Bridle?

     Revelation 14:20, "They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1600 stadia." Now isn't that a scary thought? Can you imagine war so bad that the blood of the dead rises to the bridles of a horse? For all those who would place their entire trust in the Bible as to how the world will end this is one of the more commonly quoted verses when engaged in efforts to convert a non-believer.
     But why in the world would believers try to lasso converts with such a horrible story of mayhem and destruction? What happened to informing others of all of the great love that Jesus is supposed to be? Then when the non-believer asks why such a horrible scenario would happen in the first place they are informed that it is God's will that man suffer in order that man come to an understanding of how very much he needs God and the salvation of Jesus Christ.
     In this video the viewer is treated to a story of what will happen or is likely to happen at the time of the rapture. The world, supposedly thrust into the darkness and therefore needing help and salvation, no longer has the believers of the Bible hanging around to tell them what to do being as though they were raptured. And for all of those individuals who rejected God and Jesus and the imbalanced horseshit of the Bible and its ideals of salvation, well, such people are slated to suffer great punishment. Why? Because they used their freewill to choose what they wanted and not what God and Jesus wanted.
     By the way, the part about the antichrist formulating a false peace in the Middle East is seriously fucked up, right? Imagine this, God says He wants to save everyone and in all reality does not want anyone to suffer eternal damnation. God does not want people to fight, but to only love Him and get along with each other. Right. God loves people so much that He has allowed the pathetic fighting to continue century after century after century. Then God allows some grand peace accord. Then God pulls the rug out from everyone and lets them all know that it was a sham and not real peace. What an asshole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkm6oEgTrY

      Do you think people listen to themselves as they spout off about the battle of Armageddon and what will supposedly happen? Do they at ANY POINT realize how ludicrous what they are saying is? Jesus coming back in the sky on a white horse and leading a massive army. If I want to know the future go and read my Bible? Screw that! The Bible does not say anything good about the future but would have its adherents believe that there is no hope whatsoever for mankind to make things better. No hope. The only thing people can do is believe in Jesus and God so that when the earth is destroyed they can go to heaven after God rebuilds. 

     Isn't it just so convenient for believers that the Bible says there is no hope for mankind, but if people want to make it through eternity all they have to do is believe in God and Jesus. God and Jesus will fix everything that is wrong with the world and will obliterate all of those people who were against the Bible and its doctrine of insanity.
     Look for this sign, look for that sign. Whatever you see happening in the world (the bad things) are a sign of the times and intended to be taken to mean that everyone is about to punch out at the timeclock for the last time...ever.

     The worlds last chance you say? I suppose it would be the world's last chance if the Christians or uber-religious were in control. Those freaks WANT war of untold proportions to happen. Why? Because they think they will go to some special place that is better than the special place you will be going. Untold war will be the validating factor for Bible-based faiths. Look how bad the war is, see I told you.

     Sure, the Bible talks about Armageddon. In fact, the Bible talks about this supposed last battle of all battles so very much that it mentions it...ONCE. So WHERE is all this other information about this battle coming from? You got it! Believers scour the Bible for any passage that even remotely refers to some grand last battle and then take that information and try very hard to use it to scare people into believing.

     One of the things I thought did not make sense about the story of Armageddon was in Sunday School we learned that Jesus said it was a wicked generation that sought a sign. Then, right after we literally learned that seeking signs are bad we are then taught that God and Jesus will be loading earth and mankind with all sorts of signs in the last days...so people know Jesus is back. You do see the problem here, right?

     Watch this video and try to understand that this is precisely why many people fall for the sucker stories of religion: they are scared to death! Perhaps a believer would say, "Yes, they should be afraid and since they are they are seeing God's message and will be saved." Don't you people ever stop? For the weak minded of the world who hear this supposed message of hope and who decide to believe, they often do so out of pure fear. That is not belief. That is not faith. That is not ethical (on God's and Jesus' part). And frankly, believing because you give into the threats and the fear is unacceptable.

     This is hilarious. Every one has their own version of what the Bible means when it comes to the end of the world and when that end will happen.

     If you changed only the names of God and Jesus to Mutt and Jeff and then told the story of the Bible exactly the same way people would think you were a nut. So, what makes it any more believable just because the names are God and Jesus? You ever see God and Jesus? People in the Bible times did? I don't care about that because we are not in the Bible times. Have you ever seen God or Jesus or both? You haven't, have you? What is that you say?
     The Bible is written proof of God and Jesus being real? You know, Bernie Madhoff had paperwork to show there was all kinds of money in his little scam thing he had going. The guy looked legit for the longest time. Then people figured out he was nothing more than a charlatan. The figures that were written and printed down were nowhere near the truth even though people thought it seemed legit.
     Tell me, is there anyone out there who would have allowed themselves to be bullied into believing Bernie and his scam? If he went up to you and said, "Give me the money in your IRA or I will kill you," would you have done it? Of course not! You would be appalled by such behavior. So what is the difference when Jesus or God say, "Believe this way or you will die?"

     More bullshit theories of when and where Armageddon will officially begin. Don't you just love how people eagerly twist the Bible or the circumstances to which they are applying verses to in order to validate their claims?

     Don't you just love the slow, sweet sound of the piano music as the screen shows a mushroom cloud? As if war is okay. As if the thought of billions being murdered by some God or his son were a good thing.

     People are so convinced of the hopelessness of mankind. I think that in and of itself is the most saddening. Wow. Thinking there is no hope. Thinking there is nothing that can be said or done or worked out to make things better for everyone. Do you want to know what makes a situation hopeless? When you have people who represent any deity who tells them that if people do not believe the same they should be persecuted or put in jail or put to death or starved...THAT is hopeless. That is what religion teaches...hopelessness.
     I don't want your stupid stories of people torturing each other. I don't want your screwy Bible that insists on drawing lines of separation between people. I don't want your screwy, violent, spoiled, conceited God and His Son telling me what I should and should not do according to whatever twisted view of love that they harbor within their little black hearts.

     The Bible is a fairy tale and there is only ONE certainty when it comes to the Bible: People will continue to fight over it. Plain and simple.

     The more you get people to believe when it comes to the Bible and whatever is going on in the world, the better control you will have over them. If you can manage to sound like you really know what you are talking about you will acquire a greater following all that much faster. What better way to control people than to tell them this great and horrible thing is going to happen, but if they do exactly as you say they will be okay?

     This is simply hilarious. Particularly funny in the part in the beginning where it says that the earth is God's footstool. You know what, that is not a good thing. If someone or something is your footstool that means you walk all over them with complete and utter disregard.

     This video is a great reminder of the twisted nature of religion. Scare people. Scare people real bad. Scare them with stories of untold destruction and murder and mayhem and demonic possession. Scare these people so badly that they truly believe and think that there is no hope whatsoever for mankind. Then provide them with a way out by telling them that if they become a slave to Christ they are good to go.

     Crap, crap, and more crap.

     Hah! I totally love watching the Nostradamus shows and similar shows. People are always saying that he predicted this and that, but can never prove such until something bad happens. Then you get some devoted follower of Nostradamus popping up and claiming that the old charlatan seer predicted this or that. Please.


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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Waiting for Jesus...

...and Waiting and Waiting and Waiting...
     This is absolutely amazing. This gentleman even knows the length of time that the supposed rapture itself will take: 1/64th of a second. Granted I am not by any means a Bible scholar per se. I was, however, raised in a very religious family where the lessons of the Bible were pounded into us day in and day out. I cannot find any verse in the Bible that offers the measurement of 1/64th of a second as the length of time for the actual rapture it self to occur. 

     So this guy basically says that we are pretty close to hearing a knock at the door that will be Jesus. Listen specifically to when he says the rapture and the return of Jesus or at least the marvelous signs of such will return...as it seems Thanksgiving and Christmas will be good candidates.
     Then he goes on to insinuate that the state of countries on the continent of Africa and the wars in the Middle East are ever=present signs Jesus is getting closer and closer. Never mind that the African continent has suffered from untold catastrophe for as long as anyone can remember, I mean, go get a goddamn history book and read for yourself.
     But then you have the guy's claim that the skirmishes in the Middle East mean something. So ridiculous. Geeze, the cultures in the Middle East fight because they choose to fight and have always fought each other over gods and cultural practices and every other friggin thing they can stew up a fight over. The fighting in the Middle East is nothing new.

      This guy is a hoot! Just another faithful interpreter of Bible rhetoric who twists and turns the words of the Bible to fit with the badly mutilated meaning of human struggles in conjunction with the Bible meanings so that whatever version of when Jesus' arrival is supposed to be can be validated. Go and write a better story.

      Look! Up in the sky...it's a tornado! It's a hail storm! It's...JESUS!

      Why can't an earthquake just be an earthquake? Why can't a volcanic eruption just be an eruption? A flood a flood? A tsunami a tsunami? A sinkhole a sinkhole? No one will argue that the forces of nature are not scary. Yes, they can be utterly frightening. But these movements of our planet and the weather upon the planet are part of the health of this living planet and have jack shit to do with any kind of deity utilizing the forces of nature to kill and frighten people as a warning that He is about to return.

      More cheesey pictures with even cheesier music accompanied by a deluge of scripture intended to bully and frighten people into believing that a vengeful and self-righteous God and His son are on their way to badger humanity a little more before deciding who gets to live and who gets to die. It sounds suspiciously like Hitler is about to make another grand entrance.

      Do you like the music of the opening sequence? The people who did this video do a very good job of mimicking the ABC Nightly News music before putting in a few extra tones so that no copyrights are broken. 

      Watch this video from beginning to end as it is an excellent example of, "Don't let the fear of religion happen to you." Living a life of fear. Nice. That is SOME GOD you have there. By the way, where is all the love and compassion and grace of this God? You don't really have to answer because not only do you NOT have a sufficient answer, but it is really more of a rhetorical question to begin with.

      That's right, let's use one of the more recognizable opera songs associated with terror and destruction and then couple THAT with loads of scary imagery with just a slight peppering of delusional scripture.

      This is so stupid. Why would anyone want back some deity that allowed so many horrible things to happen to untold millions within history? WHY? Oh, but it is man's freewill that did all the bad shit. Whatever, dude. That is a complete copout and you know it. How many millions and millions have died ion recorded history due to floods or wildfires or the forces of nature altogether? How does that compute into your special little equasion of the freewill of man? Do the forces of nature have freewill as well? Why in the world would a loving and righteous God allow the frightening use of weather to announce the return of His son? So everyone can see Him? If He is the Son of God wouldn't everyone know who He is to begin with and so all that is divine can dispense with killing and frightening people with forces of nature?

      Classic 'Jesus is coming back to get you' bullshit.

      Every election there is one group or another that tries desperately to use the stories emerging out of the election to fashion some kind of proof that Jesus is reaching out to push the doorbell to announce His return.

      Oh LORD! This guy looks like an Oompah-Loompah on steroids hopping about on a religious stage as he tries desperately to validate all of his disillusioned religious claims. Jesus is here! Jesus is here! Enough!

      Don't forget that all difficult times must be a sign of Jesus coming back.

      Oh look, two pompous assholes communing over religion. Quick! Get the camera! Jesus MUST be coming back for real this time.

      Listen to what the guy says at the beginning, "For those who don't believe that the Bible is real..." Oh, the Bible is REAL alright, it just isn't true. Big difference there, sir. It is amazing when people come across something they either have not seen and experienced for themselves or something that usually does not occur on a regular basis but that is still scary nonetheless and then take that and chalk it up to some kind of twisted validation of the claims of the Bible. So very goddamn sad people waste their time with such garbage. Jesus is coming back? No no no. And the constant assertions and fighting over such does absolutely nothing to backup such a stupid claim to begin with and does nothing to help people or situations or society.

      Sure, sure, sure. And there were also people who claimed that Reagan himself was the antichrist and was a sure sign that Jesus would return sometime in the 1980s. Go back and formulate a better story.

      Hah! This John Hagee guy is a real hoot. I will be doing a blog on him, but for now just get the basic message that this guy thinks some mighty guy nmaed Jesus is on His way back to earth. Nope.

      Oooohhh. Signs that jesus is on His way back to earth to torture people some more in order to get them to believe and bow to and serve this God who seemingly has a very big problem with wanting attention and lots of it.



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