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[Whitedog]

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[nateholtrop]

AMEN WHITEDOG

totally agree with you!!!

Nate

 

[luv2chill]

Read This

Sorry Whitedog, but I'm more inclined to believe the US Geological Survey than your "sources" when it comes to discussing Earthquakes.

l2c

 

[shiner]

<< &quot;Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.&quot; >>



That's been going on since the beginning of time and could be easily said about ANY time period is recorded history. In fact I read an interesting article recently that was published by the U.S. Geological Survey that stated that the number of earthquakes has actually decreased in the last few hundred years. If you want to make the point that there are more &quot;killer&quot; earthquakes that can be easily explained as well. You see a lot of these quakes happen in poorly developed countries where there are very few design requirements for buildings &amp; etc.. Add poor design and planning to the fact that they are building in highly unstable zones and stacking hundreds and thousands of people in these cattle barn type apartments and of course more are going to die when a big quake hits. Hell....look at Mexico City...those genuises built in the middle of a freaking &quot;extinct&quot; volcano. Gee...I wonder why they have so many quake problems?

If you woudl read your Bible a little more closely you will see that no man knows when Christ will return. Posting inflamatory stuff like this only serves to diminish the respect Christians receive. Furthermore....linking to something called the Institute for Creation Research or The Lion of Judah is not a good idea. Does this site provide truly unbiased science? I doubt it.

 

[CliffC]

Gotta luv it.

 

[MajesticMoose]

<< Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.&quot; >>



Ok so when couldn't that be?

Frankly this is IMO a load of BS meant to scare ppl. The world isn't going to end for a few billion years, so don't get you knickers in a twist. The point that there were very few earthquakes during those periods that were RECORDED is a moot one. The reason so few were recorded was that there weren't as many siesmographs. No one really knows how many quakes there were.



<< These Earthquakes AREN'T his way of being cruel and mean >>



that's right they're the result of shifting plates of the earth's crust.

I'll buy into that sh!t when wild monkeys fly out of my ass

Moose

 

[JBAR]

&quot;It's the end of the world as we know it..&quot; -Michael Stipe

&quot;I'm looking forward to death.&quot; -Jello Biafra

&quot;Come Armageddon, come.&quot; -Morrissey

&quot;C'mon Cletus, c'mon.&quot; -Grandma Klump

 

[MajesticMoose]

thanks l2c for confirming my statements

Moose

 

[JenniZ]

The 14th century was -ALOT- worse then the recent ones. Maybe you should check up on that, or did you not go back that far. All the 'signs of the times' happened in the 14th century as well as throughout the history of humans. Those are such generic predictions that anyone could say its the end of the world. Oh btw, you think you are the first to stumble upon this 'magic' sign, lol crazy religions like the Jehovah Wittnesses have been using EXACTLY what your posting here to 'determine' the end of the world.

Also on the earthquakes, you might want to think about reality here for a second. How many of those 747 earthwquakes were very small? You know technology today picks up very small earthquakes. So of course 'recorded' earthquakes prior to technological advances were far less. Also even if they are big earthquakes, MANY went undetected or not recorded, but thanks to technology today it gets recorded. Oh yeah and the fact that prior to advance communication, record keeping wasnt as advance either. Im sure LOTS of earthquakes went unrecorded, because they were too small, not to mention maybe never recorded to begin with.

Oops sorry bye bye, quit 'Trolling for god'.

 

[dennilfloss]

The 666 will show and say:

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!



Chic Plan&egrave;te (L'Affaire Louis Trio)

 

[luv2chill]

LMAO dennil...

Got I just can't stop laughing when I say that.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!

l2c

 

[JenniZ]

luv2chill:
Thats a good link, and further proves my point.

 

[MajesticMoose]

ROFL dennil

m00se

 

[Whitedog]

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[Pretender]

<< From 1890 to 1899 there was only one earthquake of killer magnitude, 6.0 or greater, recorded anywhere in the world. >>

There were also no recorded nuclear meltdowns during the 1890 to 1899 period. I'd like to thank god for bringing us nuclear energy, as well as airplanes. All hail king god!

 

[shifrbv]

Whitedog - I, for one, won't be making fun of you as others have in this thread. While some only like to focus on Christianity, if you look at many of the cultures around the world, you'll see that they are also saying we are in for a big change. Native American cultures, South American cultures, some European groups, some groups in Asia, as well as various other religous groups.

Alot of people believe that the world goes in cycles. Just as the world was coming out of one cycle which resulted in such happenings as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the church, many people believe that we are now coming out of another cycle and entering a new one. These periods of transition are often tumultuous and that's why so many people are looking at the signs. I, personally, believe that it's only a matter of time.

 

[shiner]

About the only North American native culture that mentions a cyclical nature to existance is the Mayan. Theirs is kinda creepy if you read it though. Talks about the end of the next cycle truly being THE END and makes vague references that, depending on how it's interpreted, could mean that &quot;machine will rise against man and destroy him&quot;

I don't know that much about the European or Asian religons but my masters degree is in Native American Cultures &amp; Religion

 

[Whitedog]

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[shifrbv]

Shinerburke - There are also the teachings of the Hopi nation. Like other native American cultures (such as the Mayan), they also predicted the end of their own civilization by the white man and have their own beliefs about the cycles of time.

 

[MajesticMoose]

Whitedog: that song is perfect, for you denying what we're telling you.

m00se

 

[Isla]

Ok, since shifrbv mentioned it, I'll pipe up.

I'm not into the whole End Times thing, but ever since I was a wee girl I have been absolutely certain that I would witness major changes in society/ the world. Just one of those things that I just knew... I remember being a little younger than 5 and just knowing I would be a witness to these changes. (Edit: And in my defense, a LOT has changed since 1973. )

I'm not afraid, but I have made a point of being the most loving and healthy person I can be as a result of my youthful intuition. My way of preparing for whatever may come is to be strong in mind and in body, and be prepared for loss if it that may be part of the world's growing pains.

I figure, I have nothing to lose by being honest and kind and healthy.

Good enough for me.

 

[Zenmervolt]

I think I'll side with the US Geological Survey on this one, as I believe that they have better access to the data. (Just a hunch, but I assume that geologists are better equipped to monitor earthquakes than theologists.) Is the end of the world coming, yes. Will I be around to see it, hell no, there's still a few million years before the sun becomes a red giant and the earth becomes too hot to support life as we know it.

Zenmervolt

EDIT: Whitedog, I'll think of you the next time I see some guy walking around the streets waving a sign saying &quot;The end is near.&quot;

 

[shiner]

true, but a lot of the Southwestern Tribes, like the Hopi, had their original beliefs bastardized and changed during the period between 1850 and the late 1890's. This was the period of several Ghost Dance movements, the most famous being the one led by Wavoka, and most of the Southwesten tribes were heavily involved in this religion and incorporated it's beleifs into their older religious culture.

It's actually quite hard to find any native stories that were not changed in some way after the tribes first encountered the Spanish and the rest of the &quot;white man.&quot; After that time a majority of the tribes began to see the whites as their destroyers and changed or altered their creation and death stories to match these new beliefs.

 

[Pretender]

The problem is that the numbers are misleading. Not only has our civilization spread to almost every area of Earth, so has our scientific abilities. We are able to sense Earthquakes from further away, or using satelites, and we have monitoring stations set up nearly everywhere. 100 years ago, we merely had the accounts of those who survived an earthquake, if any, to report that such a thing happened.

What am I saying? I'm saying that if there were 747 quakes from 1990 to 1994, I'd wager that at least half were in completely unpopulated areas (does god have a grudge against trees and nature?), another quarter in remote areas, underwater, or at the poles. If there had been 700-something quakes in heavily populated areas in that 4 year period, there would've been an earthquake on the news (on average) once every 2 days. Since that hasn't been the case as far as I know, that leads to the conclusion that the only thing that's changed is our ability to sense earthquakes, not their magnitude nor amount.

 

[shiner]

But Pretender...The Lion of Judah and the Institute for Creation Science say otherwise? Who am I to believe???

The ultimate oxymoron: Freewill Baptist.