Crackpot Prophet Weighs In On Groundhog Day

Why is it that in Church of God land, with its many self-appointed blithering idiots, so many have to constantly get upset over innocuous things? Everything makes these little guys upset. Life apparently is meant to be a miserable existence. Joy, fun, and humor tend to be lacking in the personalities of these bumbling idiots and they need to make sure everyone around them is just as miserable as they are.

Every year around this time the Great Bwana to Africa and the 100 Occasional Caucasians reposts his idiocy about Groundhog Day. Every tribe and culture since the dawn of humanity has identifying legends and myths that are central to its identity. Those things are what describe them as a nation or people group.

Every religious system in this wonderful world also has its own myths and legends that are specific to their identity, including Christianity. Not everything in its sacred scriptures actually happened. Filled with countless stories employing metaphor and myths the Bible tells the story of the God of Israel in a constant battle with mythic beasts (leviathan), gods (Baal), and the forces of evil (Satan and his demons) to make the people of Israel set apart from all other nations.

For some reason in COG land it is perfectly ok for the people of its scripture to believe in and be rescued from mythic beasts and gods, but people today cannot have their own stories. This is all pretty hypocritical of Armstrongism considering how its movement is filled with so many incredulous myths and legends that set it apart from all other Christian and non-Christian groups in the world. 

The myths of Leviathan are no worse than the playfully fun people have with Groundhog Day, yet our ever-present self-righteous know-it-alls in COG land can’t stand people having fun with legends. If these adult-sized childhood bullies had been around Jesus in his time they would still be a bunch of whiny little bitches complaining about everything he said.

Even those specially chosen by God to reveal themselves in the end times of the world would end up being consumed by Debbie-downer syndrome. This includes of illustrious Great Bwana to Africa and the 100 occasional Caucasians. Always on the lookout for something to get his miserable little life upset over, he has gotten his holistic little knickers in a twist over the legend of Groundhog Day and the 1993 movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. Oh, the humanity!

There is an odd observance on February 2 each year in North America that is called Groundhog Day:

Groundhog Day … is a popular American tradition observed in the United States and Canada on February 2nd. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day sees its shadow due to clear weather, it will retreat to its den and winter will persist for six more weeks; but if it does not see its shadow because of cloudiness, spring will arrive early. 

 

While the tradition remains popular in modern times, studies have found no consistent correlation between a groundhog seeing its shadow and the subsequent arrival time of spring-like weather. … The Groundhog Day ceremony held at Punxsutawney in western Pennsylvania, centering around a semi-mythical groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil, has become the most attended. (Groundhog Day, Wikipedia, accessed 04/25/20) 

 

So, no this is not a biblical holiday, so why mention it? 

 

Well, in 1993, there was a movie starring Bill Murray titled Groundhog Day. Since coming out, it has become a cultural icon, in a sense, in the USA and elsewhere.

Groundhogs everywhere are starting to laugh in derision right now.  You know things are pretty bad when even the animals mock our Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel:

The asshattery of Bob continues:

Here are parts of a synopsis of the Groundhog Day movie from IMDb(Internet Movie Database):

On February 1, self-centered and sour TV meteorologist Phil Connors (Bill Murray), news producer Rita (Andie MacDowell) and cameraman Larry (Chris Elliott) from fictional Pittsburgh television station WPBH-TV9 travel to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities with Punxsutawney Phil, the Groundhog. Having grown tired of this assignment, Phil begrudgingly gives his Groundhog Day report the next day (February 2) during the festival and parade. 

 

After the celebration concludes, a blizzard develops that Connors had predicted would miss them, closing the roads and shutting down long-distance phone services, forcing the team to return to Punxsutawney. Connors awakens the next morning, however, to find it is February 2 again, and his day unfolds in almost exactly the same way. Connors can change his behavior, but other people do and say the same things they did and said the previous day, unless Connors changes something. He is aware of the repetition, but everyone else seems to be living February 2 for the first time. This recursion repeats the following morning and the one after that, and over and over again. … 

 

After briefly trying to rationalize his situation, and then thinking he is insane, Connors takes advantage of learning the day’s events and the information he is able to gather about the town’s inhabitants, and finds that his actions have no long-term consequences for himself. He revels in this situation for a time: seducing beautiful women, stealing money, even driving drunk and experiencing a police chase. However, his attempts to seduce his producer, Rita, are met with repeated failures. He begins to tire of, and then dread, his existence, starting the day by smashing the alarm clock and professing the inanity of Groundhog Day as a holiday in his newscast. (Groundhog Day, 1993. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/plotsummary)

Our illustrious Bob Mzungu has to immediately find fault with a fictional character and find some biblical passage that he imagines describes Bill Murray's character: 

Yes, Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors displayed what was warned about in the last days by the Apostle Paul:

1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (2 Timothy 3:1-2, NKJV throughout) 

 

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, (Galatians 5:19)

He continues with this:

Phil Connors loved the world and wanted to pursue the works of the flesh. He did not care much about the following that the Apostle John wrote when his time loop began:

16 For all that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. (1 John 2:16-17)

The Great Bwana Mzungu does go on to admit the following:

Yes, in a sense, life can be like Groundhog Day in the sense we have to go through a lot of the same or similar tests and trials to learn how to better live and serve. 

 

It takes a while to build godly character, even for Christians:

1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. (Romans 5:1-5)

Then like any good Church of God leader he lectures members on what miserable followers they are of their God. Never good enough to do anything right and if they don't shape up they will never be crowned kings and priests in some mythical kingdom that's part of Bwana Bob's imagination.

The Apostle Paul also wrote:

25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. (1 Corinthians 9:25-27) 

 

Yes, unlike Phil Connors in Groundhog Day, we are striving for an unperishable crown. 

 

Just because you may have been a Christian for a long time, do not think that if you give up you also cannot become disqualified.

Why is it that everyone in COGland is always on the verge of being disqualified over something? Christians down through the centuries have found rest and assurance in Christ, but not so much in COGland. That Christ is unknown to so many in the Millerite groups today. The law and its prescriptive of death are always hung around the necks of church members instead of having the shackles of the law broken and living free.

 

RCG: "After being promoted to Elijah status, David C. Pack will personally be involved in building God’s Temple before April 9, 2024"

 

Elephant in the Clouds

David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God is a professional religious theorist. He spends all his time studying the Bible to be the first to discover new truths hidden since the dawn of time. Part of his delusion is believing that God is guiding him to see special knowledge that no other human being has ever known.

When normal people look up at the clouds, they might see animals and faces floating by. When David C. Pack looks up, he sees the divine revelation of Bible prophecy meant only for him to receive and communicate.

The pages of the Bible are like clouds to him, and The Greatest Untold Story! is his personal platform for sharing the ever-changing visions in the sky.

Spoiler Alert:
After being promoted to Elijah status,
David C. Pack will personally be involved
in building God’s Temple
before April 9, 2024 (Abib 1).

 

Pastor General David C. Pack is perpetually stricken with acute Jerusalem Syndrome. He believes God specially chose and trained him to lead His people into the Kingdom of God just over the horizon.

The debate whether or not this is true is already over. David C. Pack has never been right about anything he has taught about when the Kingdom of God and Jesus Christ would return. He never stops but just keeps pushing the date further into the calendar.

According to the Bible, you have one chance to be proven a true servant of God. David C. Pack repeatedly failed that test long ago, yet manages to keep his job because broken people in denial willingly pay to have him lie to them. Fraudulent doctrines are safe and familiar in The Restored Church of God.

A frequently submitted question is: Does David C. Pack know he is a false prophet?

My educated opinion is Yes and no. He is aware he lies but persists anyway because he lives in constant denial. He understands he would be a proven liar only if Jesus Christ never returned when he said he would, even on Attempt #203.

See, he was right all along. It just took a while to get there. That is the RCG philosophy.

David C. Pack must keep the prophecy game running. If he ever stops playing, the last spot landed on would be False Teacherville. At that point, even he would have to accept that he embodies everything the Bible warns about.

David C. Pack is much like Russell Crowe’s character in A Beautiful Mind. He is a specially gifted man who sees patterns nobody else can, and his remarkable talents are coveted by those in need.

As a kid, I enjoyed lying on the grass, looking up at the clouds. I would sometimes see shapes and figures, faces, and animals. But even as a child, I understood they were not real, and my mind only perceived them that way.

David C. Pack is an unfortunate soul who looks at clouds and sees God’s personal guidance. But really, it was just an elephant.

Wikipedia

Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.

 

Psychology Today

Pareidolia is a phenomenon wherein people perceive likenesses on random images—such as faces, animals, or objects on clouds and rock formations. It is not a clinical diagnosis, nor is it a disorder. The brain has a tendency to assign meaning wherever it can.

 

PsychCentral.com warns of the dangers of this perception trait for an unstable mind.

 

Patternicity: What It Means When You See Patterns

Apophenia is the perception of meaningful patterns in any unrelated information, including sounds, sights, or experiences. It includes the visual-specific phenomenon of pareidolia.

 

Apophenia and pareidolia are common occurrences… challenges often only present when someone becomes fixated on specific patterns or details that others perceive as random.

 

Seeing patterns in the world can be natural. But a fixation on patterns or assigning meaning where there is none may mean something more.

 

Problematic apophenia that interferes with your functionality or daily life may be due to more than an active learning process.

 

“There are a few mental health conditions that can be characterized by seeing excessive patterns, such as OCD, schizophrenia, and autism,” explains Dr. Harold Hong, a psychiatrist from Raleigh, North Carolina. “Still, it is crucial to note that not everyone who experiences these conditions will see extreme patterns.”

 

As a Type I cognitive error, apophenia may also appear alongside conditions that feature symptoms of psychosis, according to research from 2020 Trusted Source. This can include false beliefs and inaccurate sensory experiences.

 

Apophenia may also be the result of physiological brain abnormalities or damage that affects the areas of the brain responsible for learning.

 

David C. Pack is an extreme prophetic apopheniaist. The following article hits closer to home. Well, closer to Headquarters.

Apophenia: Does Everything Happen For a Reason?

When apophenia becomes extreme, it may be a sign of psychosis. Psychosis is a mental state characterized by losing touch with reality. Psychosis is a symptom of several different mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder, severe depression, and schizophrenia.

 

The greatest concern with apophenia is that it can be a symptom of unfolding psychosis. Signs of psychosis may include:

 

·       False beliefs, such as believing that people on the internet or TV are trying to send you a hidden message

·       Hallucinations, which means seeing or hearing things that aren’t there

·       Paranoia

·       Withdrawing from friends and family

·       Having strange, nonsensical ideas

·       Not taking care of oneself or engaging in personal hygiene

·       Extreme changes in sleep patterns

·       Having trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality

·       Difficulty communicating, changes in speech patterns

·       Inability to function in everyday life

·       Trouble attending work or school

That is not Elijah floating overhead, Dave. It is just an elephant.

 

During "The Greatest Unending Story! (Part 491)" on January 20, 2024, the Pastor General was privileged to teach something nobody had ever seen before. He sold this concept hardcore.

Part 491 – January 20, 2024
@ 00:53 Last week, I knew we were still missing something or things, but what? I wasn’t sure what. I was uncomfortable with certain things, and it eventually, by the end of Sunday night...a subject popped into view that was enormous. We never saw it in eight years and two-plus months. Never saw any of it. You haven’t heard [chuckles] a word about it.

@ 08:15 How is that temple begun? What a story now unfolds. What a story. Something none of us saw, and yet, it's everywhere. You're gonna hear a series of verses, and you're gonna say, "I saw that." Then, we're gonna go to another one and say, "I saw that." …There may be a dozen of them or more, and you’ll say, “How in the world did I not recognize what I was seeing?”

It was not time for Dave’s god to reveal that information until time was short enough to make it relevant. The only person on the planet destined to get all of this straight was David C. Pack.

While reading about how special all of this is, keep in mind that David C. Pack has been silent since. Not one peep in two weeks from Headquarters regarding this topic.

Part 492 may be delivered today, but be sure that more significant changes are afoot.

@ 11:29 “…and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” Now, there’s way more in that verse than anybody has ever seen. And I been reading it for almost 58 years.

@ 12:18 That's an astonishing story. Something none of us ever saw, and I’m gonna develop it for you.

At that moment, the audience wept aloud. They were so filled with appreciative joy for their benevolent Pastor General blessing them with unveiled mysteries that have never befallen upon human ears since the Garden. Amen. Halleluiah.

Well, that is the version of reality David C. Pack sees when he looks upon his adoring fans.

@ 19:25 It’s an astonishing story. If I'd have known it on that Opening Night eight-plus years ago at the Feast in 2015, I would have never questioned whether there are three or four kingdoms. There have to be four. There have to be, and I'm gonna show you the greatest reason that could never change.

After over 490 Parts, most normal adults would learn never to utter those words again. The Greatest Unending Story! is about a confused, conflicted man stringing fabricated doctrines together that will never change until the next time he opens his mouth.

 

David C. Pack accurately describes his entire prophetic teaching career in 3…2…1…

@ 35:46 Now, chapter 6 [Zechariah]. I saw this, and I never understood what I was reading. I read it over and over and over again.

A false christ and human idol unintentionally spoke ironic truth.

@ 1:45:40 But, this is vastly more than anybody else has ever understood. I’m honored to just be able to finally see things coming together.

The brethren can now fully appreciate the critical magnitude of staying in The Restored Church of God. It would be terrifying to consider all they would have missed out on if they had left prematurely. After all, where else can they go?

That is the deceptive trap of The Restored Church of Another god. The Fear of Missing Out is not just for social media addicts. The brethren negotiate within themselves, “If I just hang on a little longer, then IT will happen.”

The IT never comes. David C. Pack changes his tune continually because he makes it up as he goes along. His ideas shift with the clouds. 

He will never be right. He can never be right. Or the Scriptures would be broken.

As a coping mechanism, many brethren no longer listen to his messages. They willfully skip him, knowing the picture will soon change again. Why bother believing or agreeing with anything that will be obsolete the next time you hear his voice?

Even the All-Believing Zealots are flummoxed when someone presses them to explain what they just heard. Sure, they will toot their Excitement Horns among each other and in their chat groups about “what Mr. Pack taught.” But they cannot explain it because nobody can.

Field brethren should not bother writing to their unpaid Faker Mollusks because they cannot explain it either. Even if they tried, the “understanding” changed again before they hit SEND.

 

David C. Pack sees Elijah when he looks in the mirror. He sees his own name printed on the pages of his Bible. He understands the Bible patterns nobody else was ever led to.

Electrifying clarity strikes David C. Pack when spontaneous understanding pops into his mind. Every idea is a revelation from God. Every theory is accurate. All his words can be trusted.

Standing on what David C. Pack says is like trying to stand on a cloud. The folly of such an endeavor is instantly realized when attempted.

The Restored Church of God is held together by illusion. The illusion that it is the One True Church. The illusion that David C. Pack is an apostle and God is revealing knowledge to him.

It is a temporary image in the clouds that anything is “on track” there. The vapor shifts in the shape of “all is well at Headquarters.” Gentle breezes manipulate moisture to manifest the "all the ministers agree" flag.

All that is an illusion of the mind trying to make sense of nonsense.

“God is leading Mr. Pack” is just a flat-out lie.

All this time, David C. Pack believed he was seeing Bible prophecy unfold in the clouds. As it turns out, it was just an elephant.

Marc Cebrian

See: Elephant in the Clouds

LCG's Germanophobia Continues Unabated

 

Those wild and crazy guys in Charlotte must spend hours a week investigating all they can find on Germany. In spite of all the embarrassing things their dead former leader spouted about Germany, todays leadership continue to double down on the fear laden messages of the past. Everything from Hitler being alive in South America to Germans building concentration camps in the United States in order to hang people up on meathooks before they are burned alive in ovens to the mass shipping off the teens of Americans to Europe to be their slaves. This could only happen as long as their parents had not already eaten them due to starvation. LCG and the COG so much need to see this happen in order to be proven right in their teachings. They need to see America and the rest of the so-called "Israelitish" nations punished for refusing to heed their message.

On February 2, they sent out their weekly blast called TW (Tomorrow's World) News and Prophecy email. It included two fear-laden blurbs on Europe and Germany. LCG members need to start trembling in fear over the rising up of the Beast power in Europe. Unfortunately, the Church of God has been tooting that horn for decades, even inviting the man they just knew was going to be the Beast to come and speak at Ambassador College. Franz Joseph Strauss is dead and gone. Herbert Armstrong's dead and gone. Rod Meredith is dead and gone. Gerald Waterhouse is dead and gone. Yet here we are, the same worn-out pathetic message they've been harping on for decades. Will they continue down this route when Gerald Weston and Richard Ames are dead and gone?

Will the 2024 Elections Change the World?  

 

The 2024 calendar year will see a record number of national and parliamentary elections, with nearly half the world’s population, 3.8 billion people, theoretically going to the polls to vote for new leaders (January 1, 2024). As Nicholas Vinocur notes in an article for Politico, “Indeed, from the United States to the U.K. and European Union, from India to Mexico, and from Taiwan to Indonesia, some of the world’s most strategically important countries will hold elections this year.” 

 

Many analysts fear that the results of this year’s elections could shift the world away from democracy and toward more authoritarianism. Dictators will likely remain and Europe could see a hard-right shift. While far-right candidates in the EU may not have enough support to take many high-level positions, their growing numbers will affect Europe’s laws and decisions. Many fear new leaders will reduce the power of the courts and silence the independent press. As a Georgetown University professor lamented in the Politico article, “Democracy is being challenged everywhere—not just in places that rank poorly on surveys of democratic values, but also in established democracies like the United States and the European Union.” A professor of EU law at HEC Business School in France observed, “This could be the year when we see the breakdown of the rules-based order.”

The book of Revelation describes the future rise of a European dictator known as “the beast,” who will eventually lead a configuration of ten nations or leaders in Europe just prior to the return of Jesus Christ. This coming “beast” will be backed by a powerful religious leader, “the false prophet”—an individual the Apostle Paul says “opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4). The 2024 elections could be a prelude to significant changes in global politics that may help to set the stage for such dramatic events. The wise will be watching.

And then in the next blurb they had this:

Europe Pushed to Stand Alone 

Western Europe and America have been allies in two world wars, the Persian Gulf crises, and many other conflicts. However, the winds of change are blowing, and the possibility of a second Trump presidency has European leaders facing a new reality—that Europe’s future defense may be up to Europeans alone (Politico, January 16, 2024)!

The United States has been Europe’s “security blanket” since at least World War II. American nuclear weapons, tanks and aircraft, and over 100,000 American troops on Europe’s soil have given comfort to many European leaders. But with America’s waning support and a larger war looming in Europe, EU leaders are pushing to rapidly re-arm and increase their own nuclear capabilities. German European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber warned, “Europe must build deterrence, we must be able to deter and defend ourselves…. We all know that when push comes to shove, the nuclear option is the really decisive one” (Politico, January 25, 2024). “Germany's military has sketched out an ‘exercise scenario’ for its planners to contemplate. It envisions a Russian attack into the Suwalki Gap between Poland and Lithuania in the period between this year’s U.S. presidential election and early 2025” (Politico, January 24, 2024). The German defense minister recently warned that German experts expect Russia could attack a NATO member in the next five to eight years. Another observer noted, “As the history of the 20th century has shown, [European] democracies may be slow to turn to a war footing, but once they do, they’re difficult to match.”

Bible prophecy indicates that Germany will lead a powerful European configuration of nations at the end of the age. External threats and fading support from America may prod Germany to act.

War is looming on the horizon. Germany is rising. Armstrongists tremble in fear.

Never do you see LCG or the improperly named "continuing" Church of "god" ever talk about the good things coming out of Germany.

Some recent headlines Armstrongists quickly ignore:

Germany's Scholz 'ashamed' at antisemitism wave as 'Kristallnacht' pogrom marked

Germany's Habeck warns antisemitism bears consequences

‘Anti-Semitism has no place in Germany’: Scholz condemns synagogue attack

German antisemitism: Robert Habeck jabs Muslim groups, threatens deportations

Germany stands by Israel – and is seeking to bring about a de-escalation

Germany's strict support for Israel, informed by history

Hamas says Germany defends Israel at ICJ due to ‘so-called Holocaust’

None of these things matter to LCG and other crackpot false prophets of Armstrongism. They all need a boogyman to place their obsession on which alleviates their failure as the true church to be the mouth piece of God.

ht: DM