I continue to be amazed at the things COG members speculate about. You never hear them speculating or talking about Jesus, what he did while he was on earth, what grace is, what it means to be a disruptive Christian upsetting the order of things, reaching down to help the homeless or sick, or anything of that sort. It's is either all about the law and more law, and more law or end time speculations. If you thought Art Bell was out there with his silliness, these COGers are no different. Armstrongism has always had an undercurrent of members who dwelled in conspiracy theories and speculations.
Last night it was about what is going to happen when the glaciers all melt causing the Euphrates to dry up allowing the Chinese and Indian hoards to start conquering Europe.
What is WRONG with these people?
Just be warned that if you click on the link below you will be exposed to some of the stupidest conspiracy theories I have seen yet. I am surprised that an Armstrongite would allow themselves to be tainted by this crap.
http://defenderpublishing.blogspot.com/2009/05/part-sevenread-it-before-it-is-banned.html No cheating, read the whole thing.This helps explain why I suggest that it could be 10 yrs before Jesus comes, minimum. You can see how slowly, slowly things appear to be moving now. Then I was thinking, that Germany etc don't really have capacity or materials to create the army they will need for Armageddon... tack on a few more years to collect it. But now India has joined China in killing off so many girl babies that there is a preponderance of single men in both countries. With the melting glaciers vanishing, which supply many cities with water, can it be long before the Euphrates dries up so they can cross over?? I donno where its water is sourced.
Joining the rampaging Chinese and Indians will be the Swiss.
Long time ago we were told about the secret bases in Switzerland and Germany.Whole fields and sides of "mountains" roll away to reveal bases.Switzerland is an armed camp really as all males are in the army.They have weapons they need as they are in NATO and simply need to confiscate them including nukes.There are foreign troops and planes already here in the US from both Germany and China.Germany has bought up millions of acres in the US also.They are probably far more prepared than we know. They certainly were before WW2 when we did not think they were.
At one point in time a few years ago the UK was the biggest property owner here in Los Angeles. It still may be, but do not know for sure. Does this mean that the British people will be imprisoning and torturing us also? Is Ephraim going to get his payback for Joseph's deceit. The stupid speculations are endless.
I watched a recent episode of NOVA on PBS, and scientists are indeed very concerned about the melting of glaciers. There are other phenomena resulting from global warming, and islands around the world seem to be bearing the brunt of the bad effects. It is not unusual that apocalyptic religious groups would pick up on these things and attempt to exploit them.
ReplyDeleteHowever, intellectually backing someone into a corner in which they feel they will be able to save their own asses really doesn't constitute a sincere and genuine conversion experience. That practice, though often effective in terms of church building, represents another one of HWA's theological or evangelistic errors. It was his hook, and the splinters still use it today.
I ran across some interesting statistics yesterday. Birth rates in Europe and Japan are now at a "below replacement" level. Usually when this happens, in order to sustain economic growth, immigration is encouraged from other parts of the world. Africa still has a relatively high birth rate, and would be a likely target for the recruitment of unskilled labor.
If we look around the world, we can often see a great number of emerging trends. There is such incredible diversity in these trends, that it is very easy to convincingly cherrypick those which support one's theories or agendas. In most cases, the trends end up balancing one another out, so that worst case scenario doesn't happen.
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I don't think there is any doubt that glaciers are melting. That is a proven fact. However, the Euphrates is not fed by glaciers but from rain and snow melt. As if the river needs to dry up for invading armies to cross it. It is the stupid specializations that are wrong.
ReplyDeleteI have never understood why Armstrongism is so infatuated with conspiracy theories. If they really had confidence in the god they claim is true, then wouldn't they rightly live lives of confidence not worrying about whats waiting around the next bend?
They can write hundreds of posts and never say a word about Jesus or anything he ever did or accomplished, yet they can fill hundreds of posts with minute details of law keeping and conspiracy theories.
I don't understand how glaciers can melt causing rivers to dry up?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just me :)
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