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Dave W.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 07/15/2006 : 04:23:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by R.Wreck
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by H. Humbert
I hope this degree of communication might in some way put a damper on future hysteria. In 30-40 years, I'd love to be able to plop a link to that thread in front of a couple of bible beaters and say "look, these people were absolutely convinced that Jesus would be here any minute, just like you, and they were wrong, just like you." I think part of the reason why knowledge of all the failed prophecies of past end-timers doesn't dissuade them is that it's hard to connect with the dead and forgotten people who held such beliefs. But say 40 years of threads speculating about a rapture that never comes? Hopefully that sense of failed history will lead a few of them to realize the ridiculousness of maintaining such beliefs.
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Well, H, you can start by using this wonderful site to show them that their brand of nonsense is nothing new.
Long one of my favorite sites. I may have put it up in here a time or two, myself. Here's another in the same vein.
The rapture crowd, et al. of the same leanings, has some amusement value in that they simply fail to read any history that doesn't fall in line with what they think that history ought to be. They are the sheep that the Bible lauds, really, and there is a sound reason for that. Without the blind faith of all but brain-dead followers, no religion could exist in modern times. The Bible, the Koran, the Torah; all would be mere museum curiosities.
But the sheep are manifest, and if they don't chase the 'official' will o' the wisp, they will find some other, crackpot philosophy to spend their time and empty their bank accounts on. Scientology or Heaven's Gate or the Church of Latter Day Saints or Falun Gong, by way of examples.
Kool-Aid comes in many flavors, does it not?
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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pleco
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 07:47:01 [Permalink]
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Paulos23
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 10:04:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Go see the NAO Design website, which includes working links to PayPal for the 'Donk "tank" and at least one photo of some guy driving the thing. I particularly like the way it looks at night with the lights on. More than that, however, I really like their "Infernoptix," which is a freakin' digital display made of fire.
I have to say, the tank does look impressive but it really can't have that much armor on it with only a 40hp engine. I was waiting for the right moment to use it on the board.  Edit: here is their website about it http://www.jl421.com/. There are some broken links in there, but if you go back to the home page you can usualy get to the page you want to from there.
Heh, I really like their PneumatiPak, for those squirt gun battles you just have to win. You would win them by the intimidation facture alone.  |
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Paulos23
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 10:11:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Long one of my favorite sites. I may have put it up in here a time or two, myself. Here's another in the same vein.
Ah, those magical dates of when the world will end. Of course I put my money on 12/24/2011 when the Fifth World ends. Of course the Sixth World is to start the next day.... |
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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Paulos23
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 10:14:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
And of course the Rapture Ready crowd is creaming in its pants.
Dang, it looks like they shut down that thread. Could they be getting wise? |
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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Dave W.
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 13:12:38 [Permalink]
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I have to say, the tank does look impressive but it really can't have that much armor on it with only a 40hp engine.
The thing only weighs 900 pounds, or less than half of my Saturn four-door. |
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leoofno
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 15:57:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
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I have to say, the tank does look impressive but it really can't have that much armor on it with only a 40hp engine.
The thing only weighs 900 pounds, or less than half of my Saturn four-door.
The site says "plush interior", but it looks pretty spartin in the photo with the guy driving it. It look spretty crappy, in fact. And whats with the "400 watt premium sound with PA system"? So you can be listening to some good tunes when you get blown up in your little tin can? 
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Randy
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 17:39:46 [Permalink]
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http://www.surpluscityca.com/mmbc/motor.html
For a cool little 'fight the commuter traffic' car, try a British Ferret Scout Car. Some are street legal, and can be had for under 20k. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 23:51:30 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Paulos23
Dang, it looks like they shut down that thread. [Rapture Ready] Could they be getting wise?
Google still has the cached link but I can't make a hyperlink.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:iW2NTw3jHlcJ
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Copy that address without the line breaks. If I leave the line breaks in, this board adds all sorts of weird stuff. I'm sure Dave, Kil, and or @tomic can explain.
Another way to get to the same cache: copy this line
http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=264610
into Google's search engine instead of the address line. Then click on the cache instead of going to the site.
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JohnOAS
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 06:05:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
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Originally posted by Paulos23
Dang, it looks like they shut down that thread. [Rapture Ready] Could they be getting wise?
Google still has the cached link but I can't make a hyperlink.
Here you go!
Them "RR" folks sure is scary.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 07:52:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JohnOAS
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
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Originally posted by Paulos23
Dang, it looks like they shut down that thread. [Rapture Ready] Could they be getting wise?
Google still has the cached link but I can't make a hyperlink.
Here you go!
Them "RR" folks sure is scary.
Indeed...
But something that puzzles me: it is said that the Rapture will only be for a very limited number of customers. What gives anyone, however devout, the idea that they have a guaranteed, free-of-charge ticket on the Concord to Heaven?
They think rather highly of themselves as well.....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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R.Wreck
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 13:15:45 [Permalink]
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Dang, it looks like they shut down that thread. [Rapture Ready] Could they be getting wise?
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Here you go!
Them "RR" folks sure is scary.
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Indeed...
But something that puzzles me: it is said that the Rapture will only be for a very limited number of customers. What gives anyone, however devout, the idea that they have a guaranteed, free-of-charge ticket on the Concord to Heaven?
They think rather highly of themselves as well.....
What scares me is that Rapturephiles don't realize how fundamentally (pardon the pun) wrong it is to wish suffering, destruction, and ultimately death on billions of your fellow planetary inhabitants just so you can get invited to Jay-zuz' birthday party and get to eat all the cake and ice cream you want without ever getting sick. Their self-centered assholiness is utterly contemptible. |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 13:46:38 [Permalink]
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Too true, wreck, too true.
And worse yet, a fair percentage of these perverts are looking forward to a front-row seat for observing the suffering in Hell. It makes you wonder if there is really a benign religion, at least in the main stream.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 17:45:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Indeed...
But something that puzzles me: it is said that the Rapture will only be for a very limited number of customers. What gives anyone, however devout, the idea that they have a guaranteed, free-of-charge ticket on the Concord to Heaven?
They think rather highly of themselves as well.....
That's just the old Calvinist idea of the "Elect" (aka "Irresistible Grace" or "holy rape of the soul"), that there are a mere handful of chosen Christians predestined to get into heaven whether they like it or not.
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