I don’t believe in vampires, or the supernatural, but sometimes you get the feeling (especially when you’re in the middle of nowhere) that things ain’t that kosher.

As legend holds, the ancient plaque acted as a seal to keep something from coming out and not to bar intruders from entering.

Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great ordered a church be built on top of this ground, and over this plaque, in order to sanctify it. The church builders also constructed a statue of the Archangel Michael, armed with shield and spear, the statue looking down with the spear pointing towards the plaque.

The statue was destroyed by some nomad barbarians while the saint’s eyes were scratched as an act of sacrilege by the occupying forces of 1940. The plaque still remains intact but is showing signs of corrosion. The local inhabitants claim that on certain nights one hears unholy morbid voices emanating from the abandoned church. Some of the inhabitants fear that with the erosion of the plaque, forces may be unveiled by him that lives longer than longest, and His hand may be forced into the war that will end all wars; the final battle.

Of course logical positivism indicates that all of this is bunk….I mean fools only follow that which cannot be logically deduced and mathematically  proven (or eventually proven)….RIGHT?

So I don’t believe in vampires (at least not the undead ones), but just to be safe, I revoke my invitation!

PS>

What ya say to a Hippie Vampire ? Keep Ghoul man, keep Ghoul !

"And the heavy solo night music tells me what is buried beneath my city.

It is ambulances hooked on that one ballad.

It is a sky turning red over its opponents."

-Derrick Brown, Hot for Sorrow

10:04AM (CET)

Deep underground beneath the Swiss-French border, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, is used for the very first time. At modest power levels first, the plan is to gradually increase the power while the device and its enormous particle detectors are calibrated.

14:47.23PM (CET)

Initial results are encouraging and the team increase the power for the third collision experiment.

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A microscopic black hole is formed from the incredible energy density in the collision proving that gravity is much more powerful over tiny distances, a prediction of the multi-dimensional hypotheses of String Theory.

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Contrary to the less than compelling predictions of Prof. Stephen Hawking, the black hole does not immediately collapse in a shower of photons. It is stable and because it doesn't destroy itself the LHC's particle detector has nothing to detect. The tiny black hole shoots invisibly out through the walls of the detector's cavern.

14:48.20PM (CET)

After penetrating tens of kilometres of earth the speeding black hole weighs a few milligrams. It emerges from the ground and like a tiny hypersonic bullet passes through a row of houses on the outskirts of Lyon, on its way upward.

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Up through the atmosphere the black hole sucks in ever greater numbers of air molecules. As it grows it slows down.

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The black hole arcs silently out into space. It has slowed too much to escape the Earth's gravity. Under the influence of the Earth and Moon the microscopic singularity is in a highly eccentric and unstable orbit. The first collision could happen in a few weeks or it could be years, but it will happen. The most likely target is the Earth but the Moon may be first.

Tuesday, 23rd December 2008

An earthquake and a devastating explosion destroy the city of Chicago. Survivors see a comet-like object shooting into the sky.

Wednesday, 24th December 2008

The object is tracked by telescopes as it curves ominously out into space. It is Christmas Eve. Helpless to change the inevitable, the wise men of science look to the eastern sky and realise what shall come to pass.

Thursday, 25th December 2008

Too slowly now to slice through our planet, the growing black hole falls into the atmosphere and begins to gorge itself. Our world is eaten in the space of a few hours, bathed in the glorious light of its own annihilation.

It could happen... Merry Christmas.

Sulla rete girano comunque le più varie spiegazioni, dagli allarmisti,ai fatalisti a quelli che più seriamente si sono informati sul fatto e cè da dire che le probabilità di un tale evento sono ridotte al minimo e che se anche capitasse il buco nero si dissolverebbe in un tempo non osservabile a occhio umano,sempre se le leggi quantistiche sono esatte:Voi che ne dite comincio a godermi la vita?

und landet damit ausgerechnet auf meinem Blog. Ist heute zufällig Armageddon und ich habe es nicht mitbekommen ?

   Russia flexing its military might has sparked a barrage of posts on the internet about Gog and Magog.  The recent conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia has drawn in the European Union, Israel, Syria, and the good old United States of America.  A person’s predisposition to the Gog/Magog prophecies of Ezekiel 38-39 will play into how they view current events in light of the end of the age.

http://www.repubblica.it/2008/09/sezioni/scienza_e_tecnologia/big-bang-test/big-bang-test/big-bang-test.html

Preoccupante, consiglio comunque la lettura del libro di Umberto Galimberti sulla tecnica.

http://www.kore.it/CAFFE/umberto_galimberti.htm

Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.    

Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.    

Revelation 16:4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.    

Revelation 16:5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.    

Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.    

Revelation 16:7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.    

Revelation 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.    

Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.    

Revelation 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,    

Revelation 16:11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.    

Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.    

Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.    

Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.    

Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.    

Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.    

Revelation 16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.    

Revelation 16:18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.    

Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.    

Revelation 16:20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.    

Revelation 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.  

By Casey Sanchez, Southern Poverty Law Center- repost from ALTERNET

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Todd Bentley has a long night ahead of him, resurrecting the dead, healing the blind, and exploding cancerous tumors. Since April 3, the 32-year-old, heavily tattooed, body-pierced, shaved-head Canadian preacher has been leading a continuous "supernatural healing revival" in central Florida. To contain the 10,000-plus crowds flocking from around the globe, Bentley has rented baseball stadiums, arenas and airport hangars at a cost of up to $15,000 a day. Many in attendance are church pastors themselves who believe Bentley to be a prophet and don't bat an eye when he tells them he's seen King David and spoken with the Apostle Paul in heaven. "He was looking very Jewish," Bentley notes.

Tattooed across his sternum are military dog tags that read "Joel's Army." They're evidence of Bentley's generalship in a rapidly growing apocalyptic movement that's gone largely unnoticed by watchdogs of the theocratic right. According to Bentley and a handful of other "hyper-charismatic" preachers advancing the same agenda, Joel's Army is prophesied to become an Armageddon-ready military force of young people with a divine mandate to physically impose Christian "dominion" on non-believers.

"An end-time army has one common purpose -- to aggressively take ground for the kingdom of God under the authority of Jesus Christ, the Dread Champion," Bentley declares on the website for his ministry school in British Columbia, Canada. "The trumpet is sounding, calling on-fire, revolutionary believers to enlist in Joel's Army. ... Many are now ready to be mobilized to establish and advance God's kingdom on earth."

Joel's Army followers, many of them teenagers and young adults who believe they're members of the final generation to come of age before the end of the world, are breaking away in droves from mainline Pentecostal churches. Numbering in the tens of thousands, they base their beliefs on an esoteric reading of the second chapter of the Old Testament Book of Joel, in which an avenging swarm of locusts attacks Israel. In their view, the locusts are a metaphor for Joel's Army.

Despite their overt militancy, there's no evidence Joel's Army followers have committed any acts of violence. But critics warn that actual bloodletting may only be a matter of time for a movement that casts itself as God's avenging army.

Those sounding the alarm about Joel's Army are not secular foes of the Christian Right, few of whom are even aware of the movement or how widespread it's become in the past decade. Instead, Joel's Army critics are mostly conservative Christians, either neo-Pentecostals who left the movement in disgust or evangelical Christians who fear that Joel's Army preachers are stealing their flocks, even sending spies to infiltrate their own congregations and sway their young people to heresy. And they say the movement is becoming frightening.

"The pitch and intensity of the military rhetoric of this branch of the global Dominionist movement has substantially increased since the beginning of 2008," writes The Discernment Research Group, a Christian watchdog group that tracks what they call heresies or cults within Christianity. "One can only wonder how long before this transforms into real warfare with actual warriors."

'Snorting Religion'

Joel's Army believers are hard-core Christian dominionists, meaning they believe that America, along with the rest of the world, should be governed by conservative Christians and a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law. There is no room in their doctrine for democracy or pluralism.

Dominionism's original branch is Christian Reconstructionism, a grim, Calvinist call to theocracy that, as Reconstructionist writer Gary North describes, wants to "get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."

Notorious for endorsing the public execution by stoning of homosexuals and adulterers, the Christian Reconstructionist movement is far better known in secular America than Joel's Army. That's largely because Reconstructionists have made several serious forays into mainstream politics and received a fair amount of negative publicity as a result. Joel's Army followers eschew the political system, believing the path to world domination lies in taking over churches, not election to public office.

Another key difference between the two branches of dominionism, which maintain a testy, arms-length relationship with one another, is Christian Reconstructionism's buttoned-down image and heavy emphasis on Bible study, which contrasts sharply with Joel's Army anti-intellectual distrust of biblical scholars and its unruly style.

"Some people snort cocaine, others snort religions," Joel's Army Pastor Roy said while ministering a morning program at Todd Bentley's Lakeland, Fla., revival in late May.

As this article went to press, Bentley's "Florida Outpouring" had been running for more than 100 days straight. Many attendees came in search of spontaneous physical healing and a desire to be part of a mystical community marked by dancing, shouting, gyrating, speaking in tongues and other forms of ecstatic release.

Snide jabs at traditional church services are fairly common at Bentley's revivals. In fact, what takes place onstage at the Florida Outpouring looks more like a pro wrestling extravaganza than church. On stage, Bentley and his team of pastors, yell, chant, and scream "Fire!" and "Bam!" while anointing followers.

The audience members behave as if they are at a psychedelic counterculture festival. One couple jumps up and down twirling red and silver metallic flags. Dyed-haired teenagers pulled in by the revival's presence on Facebook and MySpace wander around looking dazed. Women lay facedown on the floor, convulsing and howling. Fathers wail in tongues as their confused children look on. Strangers lay hands on those who fail to produce tongues or gyrate wildly enough, pressuring them to "let it out."

Bentley is considered a prophet both by his followers and by other leaders of the Joel's Army movement, whose adherents claim to be reviving a "five-fold ministry" of prophets, apostles, elders, pastors and teachers, as outlined in the Book of Ephesians. Not every five-fold ministry is connected to the Joel's Army movement, but the movement has spurred an interest in modern-day apostles and prophets that's troubling to the Assemblies of God, the world's largest Pentecostal church, which has officially disavowed the Joel's Army movement.

In a 2001 position paper, Assemblies of God leaders wrote that they do not recognize modern-day apostles or prophets and worried that "such leaders prefer more authoritarian structures where their own word or decrees are unchallenged." They are right to worry. Joel's Army followers believe that once democratic institutions are overthrown, their hierarchy of apostles and prophets will rule over the earth, with one church per city.

Warrior Nation

According to Joel's Army doctrine, the enforcers of the five-fold ministry will be members of the final generation, for whom the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade constituted a new Passover.

"Everyone born after abortion's legalization can consider their birth a personal invitation to take part in this great army," writes John Crowder, another prominent Joel's Army pastor, who bills his 2006 book, The New Mystics: How to Become Part of the Supernatural Generation, as a literal how-to guide for joining Joel's Army.

Both Bentley and Crowder are enormously popular on Elijah's List, an online watering hole for a broad spectrum of Joel's Army enlistees, from lightweight believers who merely share an affection for military rhetoric and pastors who dress in army camouflage (several Joel's Army pastors are addressed by their congregants as "commandant" or "commander") to hardliners who believe the church is called to have an active military role in end-times that have already begun. Elijah's List currently has more than 125,000 subscribers on its electronic mailing list.

Rick Joyner, a pastor whose books, The Harvest and The Call, helped popularize Joel's Army theology by selling more than a million copies each, goes the furthest on Elijah's List in pushing the hardliner approach. In 2006, he posted a sermon called "The Warrior Nation -- The New Sound of the Church," in which he claimed that a last-day army is now gathering and called believers "freedom fighters."

"As the church begins to take on this resolve, they [Joel's Army churches] will start to be thought of more as military bases, and they will begin to take on the characteristics of military bases for training, equipping, and deploying effective spiritual forces," Joyner wrote. "In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc."

In a sort of disclaimer, Joyner writes at one point that God's army "will bring love, peace and stability wherever they go." But several of his books narrate with glee what he describes as "a coming civil war within the church." In his 1997 book The Harvesthe writes: "Some pastors and leaders who continue to resist this tide of unity will be removed from their place. Some will become so hardened they will become opposers and resist God to the end."

Two years later, in his book The Final Quest, Joyner described a vision (taken as prophecy in the Joel's Army world, where Joyner is considered an "apostle") of the coming Christian Civil War in which demon-possessed Christian soldiers enslave other, weaker Christians who resist them. He also describes how the hero of the novel -- himself -- ascends a "Holy Mountain" in order to learn new truths and to acquire new, magic weapons.

Kids on Fire

Bentley, who claims to be a supernatural healer, is no less over the top, playing his biker-punk appearance and heavy metal theatrics to the hilt. On YouTube, where clips of his most dramatic healings have been condensed into a three-minute highlight reel, Bentley describes God ordering him to kick an elderly lady in the face: "I am thinking, 'God, why is the power of God not moving?' And He said, 'It is because you haven't kicked that women in the face.' And there was, like, this older lady worshipping right in front of the platform and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and the gift of faith came on me. He said, 'Kick her in the face ... with your biker boot.' I inched closer and I went like this [makes kicking motion]: Bam! And just as my boot made contact with her nose, she fell under the power of God."

The atmosphere is less charged with violence at "The Call," a 12-hour revival of up to 20,000 youths led by Joel's Army pastor Lou Engle and held every summer in a major American city (this year's event was scheduled for Washington, D.C. in August).

Attendees are called upon to fast and pray for 40 days and take up culture-war pledges to lead abstinent lives, reject pornography and fight abortion. They're further asked to perform "identificational repentance," lugging along family trees and genealogies to see where one of their ancestors may have enslaved or oppressed another so that they can make amends. (Many in the Joel's Army movement believe in generational curses that must be broken by the current generation).

As even his critics note, Engle is a sweet, humble and gentle man whose persona is difficult to reconcile with his belief in an end-time army of invincible young Christian warriors. Yet while Engle is careful to avoid deploying explicit Joel's Army rhetoric at high-profile events like The Call, when he's speaking in smaller hyper-charismatic circles to avowed Joel's Army followers, he can venture into bloodlust.

This March, at a "Passion for Jesus" conference in Kansas City sponsored by the International House of Prayer, or IHOP, a ministry for teenagers from the heavy metal, punk and goth scenes, Engle called on his audience for vengeance.

"I believe we're headed to an Elijah/Jezebel showdown on the Earth, not just in America but all over the globe, and the main warriors will be the prophets of Baal versus the prophets of God, and there will be no middle ground," said Engle. He was referring to the Baal of the Old Testament, a pagan idol whose followers were slaughtered under orders from the prophet Elijah.

"There's an Elijah generation that's going to be the forerunners for the coming of Jesus, a generation marked not by their niceness but by the intensity of their passion," Engle continued. "The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Such force demands an equal response, and Jesus is going to make war on everything that hinders love, with his eyes blazing fire."

Although Joel's Army theology is mainly directed at people in their teens and early 20s via events like The Call and ministries like IHOP, sometimes the target audience is even younger. In some of the most arresting images in Jesus Camp, a 2006 documentary about the Kids on Fire bible camp in North Dakota, grade school-aged kids dressed in army fatigues wield swords and conduct military field maneuvers. "A lot of people die for God and they're not afraid," one camper told ABC News reporters in a follow-up segment.

"We're kinda being trained to be warriors," added another, "only in a funner way."

Cain and the Intellectuals

Both Christian and secular critics assailed the makers of Jesus Camp for referring to the camp's extremist, militant Christianity as "evangelical." There is a name, however, that describes Kids on Fire's agenda, if you're familiar with their theology: Joel's Army. Pastor Becky Fischer, who runs the camp, said that a third of the kids at her camp were under 6 years old because they are "more in touch in the supernatural" and proclaimed them to be "soldiers for God's Army." Her camp's blend of end-times militancy and supernaturalism is perfectly emblematic of the Joel's Army movement, whose adherents believe their cause is prophesied in the Old Testament chapter titled "An Army of Locusts."

The stark, evocative passages of that chapter describe a locust swarm that lays waste to Israel (to this day, the region suffers periodic locust invasions): "Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come." As remarkable as the language is, most biblical scholars agree that it is a literal description of a locust invasion and resulting famine that occurred sometime between the 9th and 5th centuries B.C.E.

In the Book of Joel, the locust invasion is described as an omen that an Assyrian army to the north may attack Israel if it fails to repent as a nation. But nowhere is the invasion described as an army of God. According to an Assemblies of God position paper: "It is a complete misinterpretation of Scripture to find in Joel's army of locusts a militant, victorious force attacking society and a non-cooperating Church to prepare the earth for Christ's millennial reign."

The story of how an ancient insect invasion came to be a rallying flag for 21st-century dominonists begins just after World War II in Canada. Out of a small town in Saskatchewan, a Pentecostal preacher named William Branham spearheaded a 1948 revival in which he claimed that his followers lived in a new biblical time of "Latter Rain."

The most sinless and ardent of his flock would be called "Manifest Sons of God." By the next year, the movement was so strong -- and seemed so subversive to some -- that the Assemblies of God banned it as a heretic cult. But Branham remained a controversial figure with a loyal following; many of his followers believed him to be the end-times prophet Elijah.

Michael Barkun, a leading scholar of radical religion, notes that in 1958, Branham began teaching "Serpent Seed" doctrine, the belief that Satan had sex with Eve, resulting in Cain and his descendants. "Through Cain came all the smart, educated people down to the antediluvian flood -- the intellectuals, bible colleges," Branham wrote in the kind of anti-mainstream religion, anti-intellectual spirit that pervades the Joel's Army movement to this day. "They know all their creeds but know nothing about God."

The Gates of Hell

Branham was killed in a car accident in 1965, but his Manifest Sons of God movement, the direct predecessor of Joel's Army, lived on within a cluster of hyper-charismatic churches. In the 1980s, Branham's teachings took on new life at the Kansas City Fellowship (KCF), a group of popular self-styled apostles and prophets who used the Missouri church as a launching pad for national careers promoting outright Joel's Army theology.

Ernie Gruen, a local pastor who initially promoted and gave citywide credibility to KCF pastors in the early 1980s, cut his connections in 1990. Concerned about KCF's plans to push its teachings worldwide, Gruen published a 132-page insider's account, based on taped sermons and conversations and interviews with parents who had enrolled their kids in KCF's Dominion school.

According to Gruen's report, students at the school were taught that they were a "super-race" of the "elected seed" of all the best bloodlines of all generations -- foreknown, predestined, and hand-selected from billions of others to be part of the "end-time Omega generation."

Though he'd once promoted these doctrines himself, Gruen became convinced that the movement was turning into an end-times cult, marked by what he summarized as "spiritual threats, fears, and warnings of death," "warning followers to beware of other Christians" and exhibiting "a 'super-race' mentality toward the training of their children."

When contacted by the Intelligence Report, Gruen's spokesman said that Gruen stands by everything he published in the report but no longer grants media interviews.

The Kansas City Fellowship remains in operation and has served as a farm team for many of the all-stars of the Joel's Army movement. Those larger-than-life figures include John Wimber, the founder of a California megachurch, The Vineyard, who, before his death in 1997, proclaimed that Joel's Army would not only conquer the earth but defeat death itself. Lou Engle founded The Call based on the Joel's Army visions that KCF "prophet" Bob Jones (not to be confused with Bob Jones III of Bob Jones University) received while at KCF. Mike Bickle, another KCF member, stayed in Kansas City to form the International House of Prayer.

IHOP members and other Joel's Army adherents are well aware of how their movement is perceived by other conservative Christians.

"Today, you can type 'Joel's Army' into a search engine and a thousand heresy hunter websites pop up, decrying the very mention of it," writes John Crowder in The New Mystics. Crowder doesn't exactly allay critic's fears. "This is truly warfare," he writes. "This battle is not a game. They [Joel's Army warriors] will not be on the defense; they will be on the offense -- and the gates of hell will not be able to hold up against them."

So far, few members of the secular media have taken notice of Joel's Army, even as they report on Protestant dominionists like Pat Robertson or the more outrageous calls for the stoning of gays and lesbians emanating from Reconstructionist circles. There are exceptions, however. On the DailyKos, a well-read, politically liberal blog, a diarist has been blogging for two years about her experiences as a walkaway from a Joel's Army church. She writes under a pseudonym out of fear of physical reprisals.

She may have real cause for concern. As Wimber, the late founder of The Vineyard, put it in one of his most famous and fiery sermons, one that is still frequently cited by Joel's Army followers: "Those in this army will have His kind of power. ... Anyone who wants to harm them must die."

*wiping tears from my eyes*

Let's hope nothing tragic like this ever happens again to a republican or to any republican in the Gulf Coast for that matter!

Spit.

We are all holding our breath that Louisiana and the other Gulf Coast states will be safe. ;-)

In the meantime, George McCain will use the devastating damage of Hurricane Gustav to help his campaign, because as we all know, as a POW, he is a true champion in protecting America! Oh yes, he'll push back the hurricane with one arm tied behind his back and will then use the image as a way to convince those young Evangelicals, who are offended he picked a BIMBO TO BE HIS VICE PRESIDENT, that he truly is the best choice and the only choice for America come November!

(Palin photo is photoshopped by the way)

38 million people viewed Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention which is the highest amount of viewers to watch ANY speech by a Party candidate for the presidency in the history of our nation.  And isn't it funny that the officials of the Republican National Convention are expecting lots of no-shows at theirs? What if after all the Palin scandals this week and after Johnny spent those long 2 days picking her out to be his VP, that most of his delegates don't show up and Ron Paul ends up winning the candidacy because his supporters did show up? Oh boy! Now that would make for some great television. It's very possible ole Ronnie's win could top Barack Obama's numbers in viewers when Ronnie does his acceptance speech! Bah hahahahahahahahaha!

(hat tip to Scout Finch on Dailykos for posting the above video!)

And yet, we non-believers are steadfastly assured by people of faith that our concerns about religion are needlessly strident, hysterical, and completely without foundation, and at the very least, they most certainly shouldn’t be applied in any way to Christianity which, we’re repeatedly told, is a loving and beneficent faith.

Well, we’ll see about that. Meet Todd Bentley, a 32-year-old, prodigiously tattooed, body-pierced, shaved-head Canadian preacher who’s been leading a continuous “supernatural healing revival” in Lakeland, Florida, a city of half a million located smack-dab in the middle of the panhandle, that its 19th century founder Abraham Munn had originally thought of naming “Red Bug” for some curious reason.

Bentley himself has temporarily stepped down from his position with the Abbotsford, B.C. based Freshfire Ministries and his role as main attraction at the “Lakeland Outpouring” as it’s called due to the fact that he “entered into an unhealthy relationship on an emotional level with a female member of his staff,” as ministry officials put it in a recent press release. What’s of far more concern than another hypocritical charlatan like Bentley claiming to be a prophet (there never seems to be any shortage of those in the world), or the laughable fraudulence of his faith-healing shakedown, is the truly disturbing ideological movement behind it, as outlined in this eye-opening article by Casey Sanchez of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

According to Bentley and a handful of other “hyper-charismatic” preachers advancing the same agenda, Joel’s Army is prophesied to become an Armageddon-ready military force of young people with a divine mandate to physically impose Christian “dominion” on non-believers.

“An end-time army has one common purpose — to aggressively take ground for the kingdom of God under the authority of Jesus Christ, the Dread Champion,” Bentley declares on the website for his ministry school in British Columbia, Canada. “The trumpet is sounding, calling on-fire, revolutionary believers to enlist in Joel’s Army. ... Many are now ready to be mobilized to establish and advance God’s kingdom on earth.”

Joel’s Army followers, many of them teenagers and young adults who believe they’re members of the final generation to come of age before the end of the world, are breaking away in droves from mainline Pentecostal churches. Numbering in the tens of thousands, they base their beliefs on an esoteric reading of the second chapter of the Old Testament Book of Joel, in which an avenging swarm of locusts attacks Israel. In their view, the locusts are a metaphor for Joel’s Army.

Nothing to worry about when it comes to Christians, huh? But wait, it gets much, much better.

Joel’s Army believers are hard-core Christian dominionists, meaning they believe that America, along with the rest of the world, should be governed by conservative Christians and a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law. There is no room in their doctrine for democracy or pluralism.

Dominionism’s original branch is Christian Reconstructionism, a grim, Calvinist call to theocracy that, as Reconstructionist writer Gary North describes, wants to “get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.”

[snip]

Rick Joyner, a pastor whose books, The Harvest and The Call, helped popularize Joel’s Army theology by selling more than a million copies each, goes the furthest on Elijah’s List in pushing the hardliner approach. In 2006, he posted a sermon called “The Warrior Nation — The New Sound of the Church,” in which he claimed that a last-day army is now gathering and called believers “freedom fighters.”

“As the church begins to take on this resolve, they [Joel’s Army churches] will start to be thought of more as military bases, and they will begin to take on the characteristics of military bases for training, equipping, and deploying effective spiritual forces,” Joyner wrote. “In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.”

In a sort of disclaimer, Joyner writes at one point that God’s army “will bring love, peace and stability wherever they go.” But several of his books narrate with glee what he describes as “a coming civil war within the church.” In his 1997 book The Harvest he writes: “Some pastors and leaders who continue to resist this tide of unity will be removed from their place. Some will become so hardened they will become opposers and resist God to the end.”

Two years later, in his book The Final Quest, Joyner described a vision (taken as prophecy in the Joel’s Army world, where Joyner is considered an “apostle”) of the coming Christian Civil War in which demon-possessed Christian soldiers enslave other, weaker Christians who resist them. He also describes how the hero of the novel — himself — ascends a “Holy Mountain” in order to learn new truths and to acquire new, magic weapons.

If, as Dawkins asserts that religion is a “virus of the mind,” then it has to be said that the Joel’s Army theology is an intensely noxious strain of it.

I love a good disaster movie as much as the next man but I generally love them because they ore often a hoot in their stern seriousness, and their outrageous scenarios. I had seen the trailers for this new one "Scorched" and I let it through to the keeper deciding that enduring the adds would be too much for this chap to put up with for the sake of watching the newest Aussie drama but now I know that it is based upon the most outrageous warminist alarmist scenario. I may find it irresistible.

"Mother nature is on the warpath. It's Armageddon," the publicity kit modestly proclaims. Media previews have described the plot as "scarily plausible". Director Tony Tilse claims the idea of a city running out of water is "basically a true story, but it just hasn't happened yet".

Oh, really? Perhaps what is more scarily plausible is that the producers of the program didn't bother to speak to Sydney Water or the Sydney Catchment Authority before going to air. They would have discovered that even in the worst-case scenario, Sydney already has enough water in its huge network of catchments to meet demand until 2014. The city's new desalination plant will come on line by 2010 and will be able to supply 15 per cent of Sydney's demand, but has been designed to quickly double its capacity to a half-billion litres of water a day.

Scorched is the headline act in a wave of climate porn to hit Australia in coming weeks. In 2006, Britain's Institute for Public Policy Research reviewed media, government and activist reporting of climate change and found it to be confusing, contradictory and chaotic, leaving the public feeling disempowered and uncompelled to act.

Most notable was the tendency to use alarmist language, or climate porn, which offered "a thrilling spectacle but ultimately distances the public from the problem".

Scorched producer Kylie Du Fresne says the telemovie is not meant to be seen as a documentary, but admits "we were interested in blurring the lines between fact and fiction".

[...]

Climate disaster movies date back to the release of Soylent Green in 1973. The dystopian science-fiction film is set in a severely over-populated and overheated (as a result of climate change) New York in 2022 facing chronic food shortages. Charlton Heston plays a detective who discovers to his horror that the newest food substitute (Soylent Green) is made by reprocessing dead people.

Then in 1995, Kevin Costner starred in the box-office flop Waterworld, a kind of climate-change crisis meets Mad Max movie set in a futuristic Earth where the polar ice caps have melted and the few survivors sail around or live on floating islands, inevitably fighting with each other.

The most explicit climate porn may well be the 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow. Released two years before Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, it grossed 10 times more at the box office. Melting ice sheets and glaciers caused the Altantic Ocean currents to stop suddenly, plunging the entire northern hemisphere into a deep snap-freeze. The film was derided by most climate scientists and highlighted the real problem with creating drama about the effects of climate change: in reality the changes are not sudden, but slow and insidious.

The ironic thing is that it is going to be shown to an Aussie audience that is still feeling the effects of what has been a rather cold winter in many parts of the country. There is something truly delicious about that which  makes me chuckle.
Cheers Comrades
:lol:

But an unexpected war is imminent, according to best-selling new biblical analysis

WASHINGTON - Even though Russia has advanced south into Georgia, a best-selling new Bible prophecy book says suggestions this signals an imminent march into the Middle East are mistaken.

Instead, says Bill Salus, author of "Isralestine," the world is about to be surprised by a different kind of devastating regional war involving Israel and its Arab neighbors.

"Isralestine: The Ancient Blueprints of the Future Middle East," currently rising to the top of the prophecy charts, says scholars have missed a significant piece of what the Bible reveals about the future of the region. And it has many of them reconsidering their prophetic model for the near future.

"You can set Russia's recent invasion of Georgia and Israel's concern over Iran's nuclear aspirations on the back burner, not that these topics lack importance," says Salus. "The stage is not adequately set for the highly publicized Ezekiel 38 and 39 Russian-Iranian nuclear-equipped consortia of nations to invade Israel. Psalm 83 comes first, and then Ezekiel 38 follows on its heels like a Goliath shadow. There are two distinct invasions of Israel, one building upon the other, with both occurring sequentially in the Middle East."

According to Salus, the next war in the Middle East will involve Israel's closest Arab neighbors - not faraway Iran or Russia, the re-emerging military power to the north. He says a sometimes overlooked or misinterpreted passage in Psalm 83 is the key to understand the next major prophetic development. He says it suggests Palestinians, al-Qaida, Hezbollah, Hamas, Syrians, Saudis, Egyptians and Jordanians will confederate and launch an all-out war against Israel before what has been called the "battle of Armageddon" involving another alliance of Iran, Russia and Turkey.

"Indeed something is very near, but it is not Armageddon," says Salus.

The theory has many long-time students of Bible prophecy sitting up and taking notice.

The result of this regional war will be devastation for the Arabs who launch it and startling territorial and resource gains by Israel, claims the theory. It is this unexpected development that will precipitate the final showdown involving what has been termed "the Ezekiel invasion."

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Conscience is the battleground where our various proclivities and compulsions fight it out with the things we know to be true and proper.

If religion and God’s tenets form our conscience, then the stakes are raised. It not only becomes a personal conflict over civil rules or ethical standards but it rises to the level of spiritual warfare – the battle between good and evil.  

Anyone who reflects on the issues of living a spiritual life, according to God’s tenets, will realize that these are issues pertaining to the human heart and mind. God, through religion, wishes to win over our minds and hearts. Similarly, maleficent influences seek to rule hearts and minds.

Victory on this level means complete victory. Principles of life obtained by the human heart and mind, through conscience (or the lack of it), cannot be quashed by physical threats or by brute force.

If the ultimate battleground between good and evil is played out on the psycho-turf of the human heart and mind, why then, do people still believe God will return to earth to “kick butt?”

God compels no one towards having religious faith or belief, otherwise he would have come down from the cross and asserted his divinity and authority, right there and then. Compelling belief accomplishes the opposite, for it destroys free will, which is a gift from God and a derivative of love. God wants to be accepted from the principle of love not from the tip of a sword, unless that sword symbolizes the power of divine truth (as opposed to polished steel).

I have maintained throughout many posts that the Sacred Word contains deeper levels of meaning by which physical things can communicate higher, spiritual qualities. When these deeper meanings are applied to the “end times” as recorded in Revelation, including the great battle of Armageddon, we will find that these scenes pertain to events taking place within the inner lives of people. This is where God makes His ultimate and final stand. This is the only “place” where true spiritual warfare can take place and allow the Lord to make all things new – from the inside out.

Even a careful reading of the literal meanings of the words used in the New Testament back this up this thesis. When the Lord speaks about the end times, he states that the current generation will not pass until all these things are fulfilled (Matt. 24:34). Well, the generation the Lord addressed has long passed. Elsewhere, the Lord states that “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation” (Luke, 17:20). One will not point to anything unusual and say, “Look here,” or “Look there” (Luke, 17:21). So, what gives here?

The only place left to look is WITHIN us. This new wrinkle on biblical interpretation certainly allows God to fulfill his promise within a generation – anyone’s generation. The caveat is we have to take part in the fight.

En lisant le titre, peut-être vous êtes-vous demandés "Comment peut-on faire l'histoire de quelque chose qui ne s'est pas produit ?" Eh bien, c'est possible dans la mesure que la "fin du monde" est un concept¹ très ancien (vous savez, le Ragnarôk et l'Armageddon ?) et qu'elle a été prédite de nombreuses fois. Il me fait donc plaisir de vous entretenir sur le besoin qu'a l'homme de croire aveuglément en une fin, sans trop prendre le temps de réfléchir ni de se renseigner si celle-ci est probable ou non.

J'ai l'impression que les gens ont cette relation plaisante et morbide avec un destin qui se termine mal. Les choses ne peuvent pas aller bien, c'est trop louche, c'est sûrement qu'il y a quelque chose qui se trame. Vaut mieux se dire que les choses vont aller mal. De cette façon, il n'y aura pas de mauvaises surprises et, si réellement les choses terminent mal, vous pourrez dire "Je te l'avais dit hein!?" De plus, cela doit procurer un thrill, une forte sensation de "Je me sens vivant!!!"... surtout après s'être rendu compte qui rien ne s'est produit.

Ce que je trouve aussi futile dans tout ça, c'est que souvent, dans ces moments de peur, les gens ressentent le besoin de se dire qu'il faut commencer à profiter pleinement de la vie... Comme si cette mentalité n'avait pas de sens quand tout va relativement bien. Cette constatation va aussi bien pour les gens qui se savent atteint d'une maladie mortelle. Avant, on ne pense pas à prendre le temps de vivre, on se prive et on produit. Quand la mort arrive, c'est le temps de penser à reprendre le temps perdu... liberté 55 vous promet du bon temps alors que votre corps ne voudra plus suivre. Désolant.

Est-ce que ce besoin d'un dead-line pour commencer à s'activer est généralisé mondialement ?

Vous vous souvenez peut-être du fameux bogue de l'an 2000 ? Les médias nous avaient tellement écoeuré avec ça. "AHHHH les horloges des ordinateurs vont retomber en l'an 0, il va pleuvoir des avions et des missiles vont sauter pour rien!!!". Ouais, comme bien du monde, j'ai attendu le moment avec scepticisme, comme si j'écoutais les Oscars et que j'attendais pour savoir à qui serait remis le prix de meilleur acteur... alors que tout le monde s'en doute.

Annecdote: J'étais chez des amis, lors du jour de l'an 2000. Tout le monde faisait la fête et au moment du décompte, la Terre s'est arrêtée. Tout le monde attendait ensemble le bonhomme 7 heure. (Ouais, il était en retard) C'était d'une beauté... À minuit sonnant, voyant qu'on m'avait fait une fausse promesse et que j'avais râté l'occasion de subir pleins de catastrophes, je suis retourné dans le spa avec ma bière et j'ai célébré... le fait que rien ne s'est produit. Ça fait changement faut croire.

Voici maintenant une liste des prédictions de la fin du monde  depuis le début du 20e siècle. J'espère, ainsi, dédramatiser le tout et alléger vos craintes, si vous en avez.  

Vous noterez que la grosse majorité proviennent de sectes et qu'elles ont eu lieu en 1999 et 2000. Ceci me fait remarquer que ces prophètes de malheur accordent BEAUCOUP trop d'importance aux chiffres et à la symbolique. Certains vont même jusqu'à faire des calculs bizzares en se servant de la bible. Hors, parole d'historien, c'est complètement absurde sachant comment elle s'est créée.

Ces temps-ci, le gros HIT parmi les superstitions autour de la fin du monde concerne le calendrier Maya. Mettez ça à votre agenda, le vendredi 21 décembre 2012, vous allez tous mourrir! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Questionnements futils sur un sujet futil:

1- Comment se fait-il que les Mayas aient prédit la fin du monde en 2012, mais pas la fin de leur propre civilisation ? Bon, celle-là je l'ai entendue souvent et je la trouve comique.

2- Comment se fait-il qu'il y en ait qui accordent de l'importance aux chiffres Mayas alors que, selon eux, l'univers aurait été créé en 3114 avant J.-C. ? Cette date correspond approximativement au commencement de leur civilisation et au même moment, ailleurs dans le monde, tout va très bien.

3 - Comment peut-on penser qu'une civilisation, disparue depuis le XVIe siècle, puisse avoir fait une telle prévision avec les moyens du bord alors que nous sommes, à l'heure actuelle, à peine capables de prévoir des précipitations ? Dites-moi pas qu'ils savaient plus de choses que nous...

4- Comment se fait-il que quand je cherche dans google sur le sujet, je tombe uniquement sur des sites personnels obscurs, new age et sans fondements autre que des suppositions et des chiffres utilisés n'importe comment de façon à se donner un semblant scientifique ?

Je pourrais continuer longtemps...

*******FIN DE LA ZONE CYNIQUE********

Nous en sommes maintenant rendu au point où je vous dévoile la vraie raison derrière l'écriture de ce billet. Roulement de tambour!!!

Le 10 septembre prochain, sous la frontière franco-suisse, aura lieu une expérience qui (on l'espère) apportera sûrement de grandes connaissances pour la science. Moi ça m'excite pas mal en tout cas. C'est à ce moment que le Grand Collisionneur à Hadron (LHC), le plus grand accélérateur de particules (3m de diamètre et 27 km de circonférence) créé à coûts de milliards sur plusieurs années, sera mis en opération. Recréant les conditions du Big Bang, les chercheurs pourront ainsi voir ce qui s'est passé dans les instants suivant. De même, ils espèrent y découvrir le fameux Boson de Higgs. Vous vous en doutez sûrement, l'ampleur de ce projet et la méconnaissance qu'en ont les gens font en sorte de créer des craintes chez les plus peureux.  

Dailleur, j'en profite pour vous introduire à Monsieur Peureux:

La peur assosciée à ce projet est que des trous noirs pourraient être créés et pourraient détruire la terre. Hors, si cela se produit, ils seront si petit qu'ils s'évaporerons avant de prendre de la masse, affirme Stephen Hawking. Il n'y a pas de quoi frémir trop trop.

Bref, trèves de divagations. Ce que je veux dire c'est que je commence à être exaspéré par ces histoires de peur. Ne croyez pas tout ce qu'on vous dit, comme pour les légendes urbaines. En se renseignant un peu, on se rend compte que ça tiens sur rien de solide. Des catastrophes, il s'en produit régulièrement sur la panète. Vous n'avez qu'à lire les nouvelles. L'humanité n'est pas disparue pour autant, même si des individus ont soufferts. Rien ne sert de se faire des peurs inutiles, vous pouvez dormir en paix. Si vraiment un danger se profile, je serai le premier à vous en avertir. ;-)

Sur ce, comme j'arrive à la fin de ce que j'ai à dire, je vais aller profiter de la vie. ;-)

P.s. Ça parait que ça fait un bon bout que j'ai pas écrit de billets, vous me pardonnerez la longueur.

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1. Nous regroupons sous le nom d'eschatologie toutes philosophies, mythes et croyances reliées aux derniers moments de l'humanité.

В сети Интернет появилось расписание концов света на ближайшие годы. До 2020 года на Земле ожидаются как минимум 12 концов света.

Внушительный список, размещённый в блоге Ignis Fatuus, обещает, что катаклизмы начнутся в 2008 году и, если повезёт, продлятся до 2020 года, передаёт газета "Взгляд".

2008 - на землю упадёт астероид диаметром более 800 метров.

2009 - исходя из раcшифровок центурий Нострадамуса Питером Лори, в этом году настанет Армагеддон.

2010 - закончится нефть, и мир поглотит война за ресурсы. Ещё обещают, что Земля отвернётся от Солнца. Но это будет временный конец света.

2011 - конец календарного цикла Майя. Достаточно известный конец света, возможно, состоится столкновение с астероидом 2005 YU55.

2012 - очень долгожданный конец света. Здесь целый букет - время пятого Солнца, сама солнечная система станет каким-то боком к галактической оси, нарушатся все космические циклы, изменение полюсов и т.д. Дети индиго советуют подготовиться, у 0,5% населения есть шанс выжить.

2013 - Рагнарок, он же судный день. День начала и конца! Гиперпространственный переход в четвёртое измерение. Для смертных это будет смерть, а для богов - рождение.

2014 - астрофизики говорят, что к нашей солнечной системе доберётся облако космической пыли, которая сметает всё на своём пути. Скучный конец света.

2015 - конец какого-то 9576-годичного цикла, который приводит к гибели цивилизации.

2016 - Джеймс Хансен, исследователь климатического состояния на Земле, утверждает, что в этом году растают ледники, и большая часть суши будет затоплена.

2017 - конец света по теории иерархических катастроф.

2018 - ядерная война от того же Нострадамуса.

2019 - банальное столкновение с астероидом 2002 NT7.

2020 - Исаак Ньютон, исходя из предсказаний Иоанна Богослова, рассчитал, что конец света будет именно в этом году.

If you don't know what Armageddon is... you're a fool.  Read about it here.

Anyhoo, I'm taking next week off to recover/celebrate/relax.  Don't expect much in the way of posts (unless the pictures from Sunday's party come out awesome).

To tide you over for the next couple of weeks, I'm unleashing the stockpile of links brought to me by our pirate friend LinkBeard.

• The "Lego as art" phenomenon continues, with classic photographs recreated in minifig form (my personal favorite here).
• The obligatory HFB-D links: one for a ferocious attack kitten, and the other explaining (yet again) why women love cats.
• KISS Pandas!
• LinkBeard was so proud to discover an animal after his own heart.  I think, at our core, most of us are Malaysian Shrews.
• Scientific explanation for proper toilet paper installation.
• If, by any chance, this collection of photos gets you hot and bothered... there's a dating site for you!
• Unnecessary Knowledge: only "unnecessary" if you never plan to be on Jeopardy!
• "UBS - The Unauthorized Biography Of Slayer" by Ill Bill.
• Two new maneuvers for your workplace warfare: one possibly lethal, the other extremely gay.
  

VIDEO TIME!

• Photographer struck by lightning.  Looks fun.
• Slow-motion punches: admit it, you'd love to hit just about all of those assclowns.
• In belated honor of St. Patrick's Day: Muppets singing "Danny Boy".
• As a kid, tell me attempting this maneuver never crossed your mind.
• A shoo-in for a Darwin Award.  Alas, they survived.
• Oldie but goodie: Lasagna Cat

Finally, Trent sent in some updates from his neck of the woods.  Looks like Skook County has slowly devolved into a retarded version of Liberty City.

• Duct Tape Kidnapper Acquitted
• Muslim Pilot Grounded, Put On No-Fly List
• Death Penalty Sought For Shotgun Killer
• Juvenile Petitions Dropped In Illegal Immigrant Murder Case

If you're in my neck of the woods this weekend/next week, stop by and drink a few (dozen).  Also, Trent and I will be accepting birthday presents until December 2008.  Make 'em count.

This is a bit like saying that if lions were bigger, they could hunt elephants. Of course they could! But in the meantime, they are still lions, replete with claws, jaws, teeth, muscles and power enough to maintain a place at the tippy-top of the food chain, and incidentally to dispatch, in fair combat, just about anything else on the planet desirous of messing with them. However, even if a coterie of mad scientists were keen on breeding a strain of Giant Super-Lions with atomic brains and laser-eyes, I would still prefer this to America developing the real-world equivalent of a death ray.

Y'know why? 'Coz lions, awesome predators though they may be, are still in no danger of blowing up the entire fucking planet.

Behold my staggering lack of confidence in human restraint, mercy and sanity when it comes to pushing the Big Red Button, as personified by this quote from the above article:

"To be sure, there are serious arguments both for and against developing such a system. Part of the justification is that the U.S. military already has such a capability. Unfortunately, it's nuclear, which renders it worthless for anything but Armageddon."

Let's tackle this statement one sentence at a time. First off, there are "serious arguments" for such a system? As in, in favour of? Pro? Sweet Frickety Moses. I can argue seriously to be paid a $100,000 salary to stay home, write books and watch Dr Who  (incidentally, if anyone does want to pay me for this, please contact ASAP), but that doesn't mean it's a good argument, no matter how serious I am.

Similarly, very small children can argue quite vociferously for their right to stay up late, hit each other with Tonka trucks and eat sugar until they vomit, but that doesn't mean any right-thinking adult should let them. In this instance, at least, there are signs of prevailing intelligence, Congress having blocked George Bush from building his new toy two years in a row. The article phrases this as: "Lawmakers are concerned that Russia, and soon China, might mistake the launch of a conventionally-armed Trident with the start of a nuclear war against them — and respond in kind before realizing they were mistaken."  (My emphasis.)

Secondly: part of the justification for building an Awesome New Weapon (ANW) is that - wait for it - they already have one. Is it lonely, do you think? Are they trying to get it a mate? If the ANW were a giant panda, I can see why finding it a friend and eagerly awaiting the pitter-patter of little panda paws would be a good thing. There would be cute photos, and women worldwide would go, "Awwww." But we are discussing high-tech, city-destroying weaponry, and not a photogenic variety of large, endangered fauna, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say no.

Thirdly: this existing ANW is nuclear. Oh - this makes it better. The Awesome New Weapon is too awesome. They want permission to build a slightly less powerful variant (i.e. one which will leave vast stretches of God's Green Earth inhabitable for Americans after they've won the Next Great War, but still destroy the lives of countless millions) and use that instead. How do they describe it? Safe as houses, aye: "The lack of any explosive would generate precise mayhem, "comparable to the type of limited damage caused by meteor strikes.""

Meteor strikes? Meteor strikes. This is their benign military alternative to nuclear Ragnarok? This, according to the article, "Sounds nifty, until you read the fine print"?

Nifty?

Jesus.

The fine print (for those who are wildly curious) means, essentially, that the weapon "represents only a "niche capability" designed to attack stationary terrorists or nuclear weapons or supplies," and not, say, anything that moves. As weapons go, I almost like the sound of that, except (warning, warning, Danger Will Robinson) "there remains the challenge of finding a target in the first place". (Translation: we can, potentially, hit anything - just not necessarily what we were aiming at.)

The next paragraph lists two (notably specific) scenarios in which the system "could" be perfect for saving the day - except that this still "raises at least the possibility of an accidental launch of a nuclear weapon".

All in all, I think they'd be better off with a pointed stick and maybe a cartoon anvil. Possibly, under strict supervision, they can use the adult scissors. Or, here's an idea, we could not blow each other up.

Now that, I like.

To Whom It May Concern,

This is a letter that I wrote to the U.S. Space Program, NASA on Friday, August 15. It concerns how imperative it is that the Jews are not a part of the space program. They must not be a part of the future of humanity.

Thank-you very much.

Heil Hitler!

Susan F. Smith
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Dear Sirs,

The future of humanity is space. Certainly you are the first to understand this.

The development and advancement of technology is one of God's greatest triumphs with humans. Visions of God that are described in the Bible sound very much like space ships, hovering, landing, moving around. There is a reason for this. In Ezekiel 1:20-21 we have, in one of the best descriptions of the image of God throughout the whole first chapter of Ezekiel, the statement that the spirit of this vision was in the wheels, and wherever the spirit went, the wheels moved. The wheels represent human invention and technology, and this is the spirit of mankind.

A vision of God manifest in this manner is called the Shekinah.

When God spoke to Abraham, He promised Abraham, as a reward for his devotion in his willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac, that God would multiply his seed as numerous than the stars in heaven. (Ge. 22:17) Space, the stars, technology, are all spoken of throughout Scripture, and the new Jerusalem written about in Revelations 21 sounds very much like a space ship descending out of heaven.

Technology is so important in the eyes of God, that the scientific experiments during the Third Reich were written about as triumphant moments in human innovation. (De. 28:58-61) In this short passage, we see, in the midst of a graphic a description of the Holocaust, God's promise to send to the Jews the most excruciatingly painful and horrific afflictions, as His response to them for their refusal to repent.

Please note here in verse 59, we have a description of these plagues that God was going to bring upon the Jews, as being wonderful, or marvellous, exceeding in quality. This shows a sense of glee in the scientific research that the Nazis brought on the Jews. It is important here also to get a sense of the implicit wrath that is expressed in these words in Deuteronomy 28:58-61. It is also important to remember that these curses of Deuteronomy 28 are a part of Mosaic Law and the Covenant that God made with the Israelites.

A triumphant space program promises life for the human species for many years to come, undoubtedly in some manner for eternity. During these years there is certainty of growth and change, not just physically and intellectually but in spirit. Ten thousand years of human beings as separate from the apes, in contrast with ten million years of growth into the future, promises for the real human a much closer relationship with God and the eternal, and our development into a much more advanced species in terms of spirit and wisdom.

More has been written in Scripture about wickedness, and the wickedness of the Jew, than any other subject. Always, throughout the Word of God, His answer to wickedness is to destroy it, remove it from the community of human beings and destroy it - burn them, cut them off, slaughter, put them under the wheel, kill them.

The reason for this is still in some ways a mystery for humans, although for the Jews it is well understood. But humans don't understand fully the depth and expanse of the nature of wickedness, and its full intent, although it is spoken of very clearly in several places: The serpent is the enemy of God, and wants to kill Him. We don't see fully yet how that is, or why, and we don't fully see that Jacob - Israel - is the serpent, although this, too is written in Scripture. The serpent is not human. This is written and understood from the beginning. The serpent is the enemy of the human, and undermines the human, deceives him at every turn, in order to destroy the spirit and take the place of God in the world.

It is written many times that the man of sin wants to exalt himself above God, and expects people to worship him as such. (Is. 14:13-14, 2 Thess. 2:3-4) The serpent is a scourge, an animal created in spirit by a certain process, rooted in satanism, that begins at conception. What was originally created human becomes animal in mind and spirit, and the Jewish children go through a horrific process of upbringing that puts them and keeps them at bestial and carnal state. Although they still retain the image of being human, this corruption turns their spirit into that of a lower predatory species.It is the human that God has created as His crowning glory, and it is the human spirit that is expected to grow into eternity. It is this spirit that the serpent - the devil - wants to destroy. It is the human that God has created to inherit eternal life - growth into the mind of the eternal as creatures rejoicing in life and discovery, and service to God; growth into the heavens as trees reaching upward into the sky, rooted in the earth by the waters of life. We must establish our foundations appropriately.

Who knows where we are heading if we do it right? We have only seen a limited number of wonders in this world. What I do know, is that if we continue to tolerate rape and torture and slavery, meaning the works of the sorcerer, if we continue to put up with Jewish privileges and lies, we are never going to see what God intended for us.

The Jews are the rebellion, the only people in history who saw God and His right arm in the world, and rejected Him. I am telling you this for a purpose. The enemies of God are those who reject His Word and Law, and who want to present themselves as gods in place of Him. The enemies of God are those who actually hate Him and act to destroy His truth in the world. The space program would mean only one thing for them, which is to get as close to the mind of God as possible in order to destroy Him and His creation. The primary manner of destruction for the Jews is torture through ongoing inventions of instruments and devices that shred the soul and body.

Sadly for the Jews, getting any closer to God than the mud is a virtual impossibility, because if they take over the space program - and I'm sure they are working hard on this - they simply are going to kill it. No one would get out of here alive. This is because the Jews are mud.

Gentile scientists and military leaders, when taken captive by the Jew, are not going to excel or achieve in the manner that is needed to move us forward. Gentile captivity becomes cynical and depressed, and will slip up or hold back in their inventions and their efforts, because they simply won't be allowed to do their best. The Jews won't allow the Gentile to think for himself. The Gentile captive will always be forced to make bad decisions, both in his career and for his family, because he will be forced to serve the interests of Israel and the carnal Jew.The Jewish rabbinate requires that their captive Gentile men who fall to Jewish women in marriage -and this is about the only marriage for the Gentiles we are seeing now in this country, also thanks to the Jews - live clandestine hours and weeks in their lives as gadabouts, homosexuals with little fluffy dogs called Fifi, hanging around cities, wearing foppish clothing and frequenting exclusive parties. They all are mandated to do exactly the same thing and behave in exactly the same manner, because satan requires this to appease the dark spirits.

The Gentiles of talent will be given a career, but that will be about all they will have in their lives, and the rest of their time is lived in submission to the mandates of the carnal Jewish leadership. They will have little or no real family life, as their children will be raised as Jews, and will be instructed to insult, rape, and brutalize their own father for being inferior to them, on account of his bloodline. This includes top ranking Gentile military, scientists, scholars, attorneys, and political leaders. No one is exempt. The gadabout will have no freedom to voice personal opinions, at least those that are contrary to what the Jews want him to say. His Jewish wife will always have the last say in important matters, as she is backed by the rabbi. And he will be gang-raped and reprogrammed - beaten, humiliated, insulted, and brutalized - every three weeks or so, to keep him in total submission to the Jews. This will happen as his Jewish wife is looking on.

Drugs - prescription or not - and alcohol are rampant in the community of captivity, on account of the despair.

Total submission means facing the threat of public humilation, such as public vomiting or defecations if the Gentile acts contrary to the Jewish mandates. In time this threat means destruction of family, career, and life, if they insist on not submitting. These Gentile gadabouts, even your best astronauts and scientists and pilots, will lose their sense of personal responsiblity or moral grounding, because one of the requirements of the captivity is that they commit ongoing abominations and asocial - anti-Gentile - behaviors and aggressions in order to keep their good standing with the Jewish leadership.

I am speaking of your astronauts, your military leaders, and your scientists, the Gentiles who have always been the heart and spirit and backbone of the space program as well as all of our human advancement in medicine and technology.

And it doesn't end here. Israel is engaged in the ongoing process of destroying all Gentiles of any leadership abilities, and all Gentiles of spirit. Their final goal is the creation in the Gentiles of a complete underclass, a silenced and docile subspecies that has no capacity to resist the dominance and terror put upon them by their Jewish masters. We are looking at Jews going into nurseries and taking babies and dropping them on the floor to cause brain damage, raping babies and children, torturing them with substances that make them vomit, kicking them in the head. Some of the children will be chosen for future captivity, the more spirited ones will be chosen to be tortured to death in dungeons. Undoubtedly, the Gentiles at NASA are not immune, nor their children, from this attack.

The Jews see the Gentiles as their enemies, and they see themselves in an ongoing war with them. The Gentiles they take into captivity will be forced to help the Jews in this war.

Undoubtedly this desolation and horror will reach up into the space flights and explorations, not to mention the research on the ground. The Jews, due to their own programming, cannot abide by having the Gentiles do anything that dominates them, and will take measures to see that this doesn't happen. Mediocrity and cynicism will become the standard, not to mention rape and tortures, because the Jews will always insist on having the last word, and their grounding is in satanic values, meaning terror and Jewish privileges, including their right to go into your home and murder your children.

Wickedness is wickedness, and the Jew is the superlative sorcerer. The Gentile mind is putty in their hands, at least the fallen Gentile. The talented Gentile scientist and physicist will see their brains carved out just so, and their talents will be honed while the rest of their minds and lives will be carnal and dull, so the Jews can control every aspect of their existence.

The U.S. military establishment, including NASA, are primary targets for takeover by Jewish women. It's a part of their battle strategy, to utilize the Jewish whores to seduce the Gentile men into captivity. Young Jewish girls, and even older women, frequent parties held near the bases and on the bases, in order to catch themselves a Gentile man of talent, a military man, in order to bring him into captivity. They will tweak the man seductively, and will probably sleep with him around the third date. After a few liasons, the woman will introduce a sex toy, a large finger for anal stimulation, and the aroused man will submit. Then it's over and he's taken captive. The poor naive Gentile doesn't even realize that the woman he's getting involved with is most likely already married, and her husband is watching everything. How the Jews lie! She'll tell him she's single, and she'll even marry him and divorce her other husband at some opportune time, all for the purpose of taking the Gentiles captive for Israel.

This finger she uses? It's a dildoe and a squirt bottle. She causes anal orgasm and squirts a fluid inside him that causes horrible diarrhea and vomiting at the same time, and when this happens she puts a curse on him to make him think of himself as a worm. It's a humiliating experience, and the man will start sobbing from the trauma of it. He has messed and vomited all over himself, and she tells him to clean it up. But the Jewish woman, being an ace sorceress, will later tweak the experience and make the man lose control and submit to her. This is when it is over.

This is also how the men fall to homosexuality, a state of mind that is used later to keep the captive soft and compliant.

God mandates that the Jews never inherit space. Lucifer the morning star must fall from heaven and make his home with the worms in hell. In Isaiah 14:4 - 24 we have a very graphic description of the fall of the Jew, what his intentions were, how he weakened the nations, and what his end will be. This same event is depicted in Revelations 12:7-10. Here Lucifer and the King of Babylon are called satan, the serpent, and the dragon. No matter what you call him, it's the Jew.

This is what it means to be kicked out of heaven -they are not going with us into the future. The Jew must not go with us into the future, or we are all going to die. If the Jew is allowed to take over the space program, you are going to see events such as child tortures in your space stations; ongoing rapes; exclusive Jewish hangouts in space where Gentiles are taken to be tortured and mutilated; rituals such as carne pon in your labs, where Gentile children's groins are cut out so they hemorrhage on the floor, and the Jews get on their hands and knees and lick up the blood, while the child is screaming her lungs out for her mother. Perhaps this would be the child of one of your Gentile astronauts, if they last that long in the program.

Above all else you are going to see ongoing deterioration of moral and accomplishment in the space program, until everything collapses.

In Isaiah 14:7-8 we see that as one of the outcomes of the fall of the Jew - the whole earth will be at rest, and everyone and everything will break forth into singing, and nobody chops down the cedars anymore. We will finally be at peace.

We don't know what God plans for us, until we get rid of the scourge that is destroying everything. We have never seen the world sing for joy. I believe that is what we are going to see after it's over. God tells us that this is the path to real peace.

I envision this event of the fall of Lucifer as something like a collapse of a huge hidden Jewish bunker and lab, something falling to earth that collapses the bunker all the way down to its bottom level, exposing the truth and horror of covert Israeli operations. Maybe you have some ideas of your own.

God wants peace for all of humanity, and a world without rape and terror, a world of abundance and well-being and spirit. It's not going to happen for us until the wicked are destroyed forever, just as it has been written for millenia. This is the true Zion, the world without the Jew.

Perhaps you could warn your men about the Jewish whore. That would be a big help.

Heil Hitler!

Susan F. Smith ]]> http://derekclontz.wordpress.com/?p=195 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:53:18 +0000 derekclontz http://derekclontz.wordpress.com/?p=195 Copyright (c) 2008 Derek Clontz/4-Page Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 

The snarling, fiendish face of the devil can clearly be seen in the boiling clouds of the storm over wind-whipped Keystone Heights, Florida.

It appears in only one frame of a strip of photos taken with a state-of-the-art Canon SLR digital camera with a super wide angle lens, Clontz said.