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Sometimes I let ideas gestate in my brain until I feel like their ready to burst forth, but then I realize that they're never half as incredible on paper as they are in my brain. Or even articulate. Maybe that's okay. Who really wants to write like a Victorian anyways? Or even read one?
I keep coming across studies in eschatology....when I say studies I guess I should really be saying inferences either drawn from scientific evidence, scripture, or read from chicken guts (usually the scientists doing this type of inferring are dilettantes in the field and not experts). I personally prefer the latter type of prophecy, at least you know you're dealing with an expert in the field. Sure they won't be winning any nobel prizes any time soon, since the numbers of oracles and their reputations are in the decline. They cost a pretty peny too, unless you find them handling snakes somewhere along the appalachians, then they're more than willing to dispense of this good advice for free: "Jesus, riding on a chariot of clouds, showering lightening bolts from his ass upon all heretics and blasphemers, and those, of course, unable to handle a snake without receiving a poisonous bite - the mark of the demon upon the flesh."
Doesn't it seem a little bit arrogant to anybody else that we assume that the Earth will end in our life time and not in the life times of those before us or those after us? Since Jesus is all merciful and filled with compassion, if he were likely to return he probably would have done so within the lifetime of Paul, like the early Christians were promised, instead of leaving that poor Jew to wander about for the past 2,000 years. Lucky for him he wasn't in Europe for all of those pogroms and the Holocaust.
Like all other non-scientific experts of other fields, it is my understanding that human life isn't set to die off in the next couple decades, but more likely in the next couple centuries, after the effects of these next decades are felt. Take that grandchildren! The reason you should probably care about global warming though is not because it will effect you, but the fact that it will effect your children, and you children's children, ad infinitum (I guess not really that infinitum). I guess another reason to care would be that it speeds up the process from which human beings and all civilizations will disappear forever, and that seems to be a death more final than even our own individual deaths. While we're here we can at least attempt to affect some sort of change that our lives are worth it, no matter how miniscule that change may be.
That brings me to oracles. I don't really much to say for them. They're right. But just be careful what you ask them to read.
I keep coming across studies in eschatology....when I say studies I guess I should really be saying inferences either drawn from scientific evidence, scripture, or read from chicken guts (usually the scientists doing this type of inferring are dilettantes in the field and not experts). I personally prefer the latter type of prophecy, at least you know you're dealing with an expert in the field. Sure they won't be winning any nobel prizes any time soon, since the numbers of oracles and their reputations are in the decline. They cost a pretty peny too, unless you find them handling snakes somewhere along the appalachians, then they're more than willing to dispense of this good advice for free: "Jesus, riding on a chariot of clouds, showering lightening bolts from his ass upon all heretics and blasphemers, and those, of course, unable to handle a snake without receiving a poisonous bite - the mark of the demon upon the flesh."
Doesn't it seem a little bit arrogant to anybody else that we assume that the Earth will end in our life time and not in the life times of those before us or those after us? Since Jesus is all merciful and filled with compassion, if he were likely to return he probably would have done so within the lifetime of Paul, like the early Christians were promised, instead of leaving that poor Jew to wander about for the past 2,000 years. Lucky for him he wasn't in Europe for all of those pogroms and the Holocaust.
Like all other non-scientific experts of other fields, it is my understanding that human life isn't set to die off in the next couple decades, but more likely in the next couple centuries, after the effects of these next decades are felt. Take that grandchildren! The reason you should probably care about global warming though is not because it will effect you, but the fact that it will effect your children, and you children's children, ad infinitum (I guess not really that infinitum). I guess another reason to care would be that it speeds up the process from which human beings and all civilizations will disappear forever, and that seems to be a death more final than even our own individual deaths. While we're here we can at least attempt to affect some sort of change that our lives are worth it, no matter how miniscule that change may be.
That brings me to oracles. I don't really much to say for them. They're right. But just be careful what you ask them to read.