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Yeah we've got about that long, give or take. The absolute latest the Lord will arrive and rapture good Christians away will be November 8th, 2021.
I believe but am not certain that this timeframe was imposed by the re-election of Obama, but that's irrelevant now.
Cash out now, bros! What are you gonna do? Try to get in good with the Big Man so you don't have to hang around for thousands of years of apocalyptic strife? Or just overindulge in hedonism and debauchery?
If taking the latter option, please remember to avoid being on major intersections or highways during the timeframe in which the rapture will probably happen. The loss of so many drivers will cause more than a bit of chaos. Of course, moving to a region in which the christian faith is rare will void that issue and you can carry on commuting as usual.
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Now that academic scrutiny is well aside and we can put any doubt to rest about our remaining time on this earth: I've always wanted to drive a tank.Posts: 15421 | Registered: Aug 2005
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well, yeah. being as I am not arnold. Like I wanna drive a tank! And I want it to be a newer tank, but not one of those ones like the abrams where the actual driver is all segregated away in their own little hidey-hole.
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no, that's stupid. They'd tell me "oh sure we'll fast track you to tank driving! Just sign right here!" then once I enlist they'll redirect me to being a combination high level military intelligence expert slash navy SEAL and I'll be all like 'wtf' and they will be all like 'sorry bro you get put where your strengths lie'
i will have unkind words for them as I single-handedly liberate various south american nations from amphibious operations then peel out of my wetsuit and hop into an airdropped aston martin to discuss intelligence swaps with that guy in the dos equis commercials.
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Isn't Ron getting on in years? I don't mean to diminish him in any way by mentioning age, but it seems like predictions many years out get safer to make the less likely one is actually live to see their fruition.
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quote:hop into an airdropped aston martin to discuss intelligence swaps with that guy in the dos equis commercials
Sadly, the world's most interesting man is IRL this guy, who is arguably not the most interesting man in the world because his Wikipedia page is rather boring.
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: no, that's stupid. They'd tell me "oh sure we'll fast track you to tank driving! Just sign right here!" then once I enlist they'll redirect me to being a combination high level military intelligence expert slash navy SEAL and I'll be all like 'wtf' and they will be all like 'sorry bro you get put where your strengths lie'
i will have unkind words for them as I single-handedly liberate various south american nations from amphibious operations then peel out of my wetsuit and hop into an airdropped aston martin to discuss intelligence swaps with that guy in the dos equis commercials.
You forgot about your Jamaican neighbors bro.
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There are tank restoration/museum places around that keep good running examples around for renting out to movies and what not. With enough cash to donate to their cause, I'm sure they would let you drive.
As for the most interesting man, I might go with Elon Musk or Christian Erland Harald von Koenigsegg
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Am I missing something, or is the intended purpose of this thread just to mock another forum member?
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Samprimary: What Jake said is pretty much how I'm feeling about this thread. I'm not very comfortable with threads designed to make fun of other posters. The discussion about what you are going to do before the inevitable rapture I guess is fine. But in general this thread feels like mocking Ron for his prediction.
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2014 Apr - 2015 Mar John Hagge and Mark Biltz - Mark Biltz in 2008 with John Hagee claim that four "blood moons" in 2014 and 2015 may represent prophecies allegedly given in the Bible relating to the second coming of Jesus Christ. [95]
2020 Jeane Dixon - This alleged psychic claimed that Armageddon would take place in 2020 and Jesus would return to defeat the unholy Trinity of the Antichrist, Satan and the False prophet between 2020 and 2037. Dixon previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962. [96]
2021 F. Kenton Beshore - Beshore bases his prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus could return in 1988, i.e., within one Biblical generation (40 years) of the founding of Israel in 1948. Beshore argues that the prediction was correct, but that the definition of a Biblical generation was incorrect and was actually 70–80 years, placing the Second Coming of Jesus between 2018 and 2028 and the Rapture by 2021 at the latest.
2021 at the latest. well, Messiah Foundation International says that the world is to end in 2026, when a comet would collide with Earth in accordance with Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi's predictions in The Religion of God. (but that is obviously ridiculous).
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As for the most interesting man, I might go with Elon Musk or Christian Erland Harald von Koenigsegg
Can he be dead? I'd go with George Plimpton. [/QB]
I don't think so. Hard to have a fun and interesting time hanging with a dead guy. Unless it's Bernie. Posts: 891 | Registered: Feb 2010
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quote:Originally posted by Dogbreath: You forgot about your Jamaican neighbors bro.
As I have actual for real Jamaican neighbors now, I took it upon myself to enjoin myself to their lives and personal business, in spirit, and use them as a conveniently malleable crutch to profess my connection to their rich exotic peoples and how to have such an accord ensures that I am more racially tolerant. Than you.
Actually no all I did is brought them some beers and once we got to know each other pretty well I said "so here's a funny story about why I laughed when I heard I had Jamaican neighbors"
And I told the story.
And they said "Yeh fookin for real? That's great."
NEW APOXXYLYPXE GOAL: save them from the next coming of christ since I do not believe they are, strictly, as the term goes, goodly men in the graces of our lord jesus
BACKUP GOAL IF TOO LAZY: give them more beer, as I can't drink beer anymore.
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quote:Originally posted by Jake: Am I missing something, or is the intended purpose of this thread just to mock another forum member?
quote: Originally posted by BlackBlade: Samprimary: What Jake said is pretty much how I'm feeling about this thread. I'm not very comfortable with threads designed to make fun of other posters. The discussion about what you are going to do before the inevitable rapture I guess is fine. But in general this thread feels like mocking Ron for his prediction.
Of course this thread feels like mocking Ron…That's what we do around here. In the 10 years since I started visiting this community, this forum changed from "Books, Films, Food and Culture" to "Books, Film, Food, and Mercilessly Mocking Those Who Disagree the 'Established' Point of View."
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: Yeah we've got about that long, give or take. The absolute latest the Lord will arrive and rapture good Christians away will be November 8th, 2021.
I believe but am not certain that this timeframe was imposed by the re-election of Obama, but that's irrelevant now.
Cash out now, bros! What are you gonna do? Try to get in good with the Big Man so you don't have to hang around for thousands of years of apocalyptic strife? Or just overindulge in hedonism and debauchery?
If taking the latter option, please remember to avoid being on major intersections or highways during the timeframe in which the rapture will probably happen. The loss of so many drivers will cause more than a bit of chaos. Of course, moving to a region in which the christian faith is rare will void that issue and you can carry on commuting as usual.
Whenever I read one of your posts in a topic you create, I get this nagging feeling that you are slowly losing your mind, and that you may be insane.
Then in a later post you explain exactly what you are mocking / making fun of, and I get a good laugh.
The suspense during the wait though is sometimes unbearable. I WANT THE REVEAL!
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I think the two options (secret mockery / insanity?) can coexist in an entangled state. I'm pretty sure I've been insane since at least 2011 anyway.
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quote:Originally posted by Geraine: Then in a later post you explain exactly what you are mocking / making fun of, and I get a good laugh.
The suspense during the wait though is sometimes unbearable. I WANT THE REVEAL!
Is this a serious question? Reread post #3. The book in question was written by a Jatraquero who also happens to post under his real name, and says very similar things in his posts here.
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i wasn't able to work from january to mid march of this year on account of how my health had been slowly plagued with an escalating battery of horrid neurological symptoms, muscle weakness, loss of balance and coordination, extreme fatigue, weight loss from can't-keep-anything-down-itis, and I was a near complete medical mystery getting tested for everything from myasthenia gravis to mononucleosis to guillain-barre to lyme disease.
after a progressive month or so of lying around at home wasting away and rollercoastering through some hideous symptoms, gluten was excluded from my diet and it halted most of my worst symptoms overnight, so while I remain a bit of a medical mystery I probably have celiacs given how promptly and dramatically the dietary exclusion alleviated issues like peripheral neuropathy and tremor.
pending the return of an immunoglobulin blood test and possibly an endoscopy to survey the state of my intestines I am to remain on a strict gluten-free diet. And not work more than 35 hours a week while the most ataxia-like symptoms abate.
NOTE: WHILE THIS SITUATION DAMPENS THE HUMOR POTENTIAL OF MY 'FAD' DIETARY LIMITATION, AT LEAST SOMEONE GETS A BUNCH OF FREE BEER OUT OF IT
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apparently it's not fatal, or at least if it is it would conceptually require years upon years of going undiagnosed while steadily getting more and more screwed up by cerebellar wasting.
and that's like, only if your gluten sensitivity includes that particular host of effects
also it is not a confirmed diagnosis and maybe if I'm lucky I just have some sort of post viral fatigue that's going away on its own. then, more beer. and fresh baked french bread.
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Nah, that doesn't diminish much at all. I mean, I'm glad you're not suffering a bunch of nasty symptoms. But I'm still gonna be amused that your magical cure just happened to be the same magical cure everyone else has stumbled across, surprisingly coincidentally mysteriously.
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Dan, are you familiar with Celiac? It's an actual, documented and empirically testable disease, and the palliative (not cure) for it has been a gluten-free diet decades before gluten-free became a "thing."
The two people I know with it (again, diagnosed by physicians, not chiropractors or naturopaths, 20+ years ago) have really mixed feelings about the gluten-free fad. On one hand it's nice that there are now some prepared foods they can buy, but on the other hand it makes people skeptical about the reality of their diagnoses and sometimes casual about labeling things "gluten free" that really aren't.
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Samprimary, do you like cider? Lots of that is gluten free. I have a couple of friends with Celiac - one of them is a doctor. I just like cider. There are also a whole spectrum of gluten sensitivities. Just because something is idiopathic doesn't mean it is pretend.
I've tried the Redbridge sorghum beer and the Omission lager. The former, IMO, isn't quite beer. It's pretty close, though. Worth a try. Omission lager is good (as lagers go) but there may be traces of gluten left after the removal process. It's supposed to be celiac-safe, though.
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quote:Originally posted by dkw: Dan, are you familiar with Celiac? It's an actual, documented and empirically testable disease, and the palliative (not cure) for it has been a gluten-free diet decades before gluten-free became a "thing."
The two people I know with it (again, diagnosed by physicians, not chiropractors or naturopaths, 20+ years ago) have really mixed feelings about the gluten-free fad. On one hand it's nice that there are now some prepared foods they can buy, but on the other hand it makes people skeptical about the reality of their diagnoses and sometimes casual about labeling things "gluten free" that really aren't.
Oh I know, I've known people with celiac for quite a while.
I also know people who were convinced they had celiac and got tested over and over until they got a positive result. From what I understand, there's at least as significant a false-positive rate as there is a false negative, but that was sort of lost on them.
In general, celiac diagnoses have increased dramatically, and I'm skeptical that this is solely because instances have gone up. I'm sure some of them are legitimate; due to the increased awareness. But it's not a trivially simple thing to test for. I suspect plenty of those supposed diagnoses have more to do with it being an easy explanation. Most of the tests help with diagnosis, they aren't slam dunks in and of themselves (maybe excepting intestinal biopsy while on a gluten diet? If I remember right that one can be pretty effective.)
If Sam genuinely has celiac, well, that sucks. Given he made this thread to mock and laugh at another poster, I'm not going to lose sleep over chuckling a little at his situation. And I'm not going to rule out the possibility that the diagnosis is hogwash and his improvement is due to coincidence or placebo. Both are common, but people tend to get offended when you point that out. Fortunately, Sam's health is in no way harmed by my skepticism.
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Of course other people - those who find your opinion valuable - might be harmed by it if your scoffing discourages them from getting checked or making changes that might help them.
It doesn't hurt Samprimary because he knows better than to take your opinion seriously.
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quote:I'm not going to lose sleep over chuckling a little at his situation. And I'm not going to rule out the possibility that the diagnosis is hogwash and his improvement is due to coincidence or placebo.
thanks dan! but what diagnosis
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quote:Originally posted by kmbboots: Of course other people - those who find your opinion valuable - might be harmed by it if your scoffing discourages them from getting checked or making changes that might help them.
It doesn't hurt Samprimary because he knows better than to take your opinion seriously.
quote:Sam's health is in no way harmed by my skepticism.
Unless it's placebo and you've undercut his belief in it!
Ah crap, that's a good point. Nevermind, Sam. Wheat is poison, you should probably just eat nuts and berries and raw scallops.
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quote:Originally posted by kmbboots: Of course other people - those who find your opinion valuable - might be harmed by it if your scoffing discourages them from getting checked or making changes that might help them.
It doesn't hurt Samprimary because he knows better than to take your opinion seriously.
Fortunately I don't suggest that people avoid getting checked. So I guess I dodged a bullet there.
I don't even suggest people avoid making changes to their diet. But I'll continue to be skeptical at improvements directly attributed to those changes, thanks.
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In case anyone was curious (like me, because I've barely heard of gluten intolerance aside from the fad aspect), apparently the distribution might be pretty focused on white people (but needs more study of course). Roughly four times more likely it seems in this group.
quote:While CD is known to predominantly affect Caucasians, less is known about the incidence of CD in non-Caucasians. As this cohort of active military service personnel incorporates large numbers of individuals who are non-Caucasian, with unhindered access to medical care, the low incidence seen in non-Caucasians likely reflects a true difference in biologic predisposition, although rates increased during the study period that may implicate secular trends in environmental influences which has been seen in inflammatory bowel disease rates among non-whites.[40] It is unlikely that there would be significant differences in environmental exposures or diet due to common food and preparation and provision with the military service, though it is possible that there may be inherently lower suspicion for CD by the medical personnel caring for individuals who are non-Caucasian. Future active surveillance study should be considered including sampling of non-Caucasians to verify that incidence is truly lower and not simply undiagnosed.
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