Are we on the brink of World War III?

[CurtSibling]

Ach! I predict I will visit the loo tomorrow at some point!

Some things you can predict, some you cannot...

So people, don't start about Nostadamus!

The whole prediction thing is massivley flawed, and how an old man living in medieval France can see what is going to happen many lifetimes away is stretching credibilty to the max!

Anyone who takes Nostro's biblical tainted ramblings seriously is being misled, and lending wieght to a sham.

 

[Six]

Curt, have you seen the 'George Bush is the Antichrist' page?

EVIL!

Do you believe now?

 

[Magnus]

Originally posted by FearlessLeader2
What about 'nation will rise against nation'? How is that ambiguous?

Keep trying.

Ummm, that's been happening consistently pretty much ever since the idea of 'nation' was defined!

Think about it, if GOD wrote the Bible and you think 'he' had this all planned out, maybe 'he' could have been a little more specific? The more vague the prediction, the better chance you have of squeezing some future event into it. Nobody makes dead on specific accurate predictions because they will be wrong. And most prognosticators are wrong anyway, they miss like 99% of the time, but when they DO hit, then everyone notices, giving them 'mystical powers' How come nobody talks about EVERY passage of Nostradamus and EVERY passage of Revelation? Because there are some things there that are so far off, they can never be true;they only mention the ones that have 'hits'.

To sum up I quote the legendary ska band 'Madness' - "its all eggs, bacon, beans and a fried slice."

PS - and CornMaster, at least on THIS issue, you have an ally.

 

[FearlessLeader2]

Ok, the specific quote was:

Matthew
24:6
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

24:7
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

24:8
All these are the beginning of sorrows.


So apparently we need more than JUST wars. We need wars, AND rumors of wars, AND famines, AND pestilence, AND earthquakes, AND they have to be happening all over the place.

Now we've had one or the other at any given time during history, and sometimes two or three at once. But in this day and age, we have all of them, all of the time. Sounds to me like a prophecy that is coming true.

 

[Magnus]

But there is always war somewhere in the world and there have been many wars far greater than what we are seing now, and there is always famine and horrific new infestations and disease, mainly via overcrwowding; and tectonic activity is constantly going on as the earth's crust is essentially liquid. My counter would be that the first three (war famine and pestilence) have always been around to some degree and no more, as a percentage of population, than any other time. and I know of no great leap in seismc activity in recent years. This 'prophecy' could apply to any time in history - in reality it says nothing because it is so broad and non-specific.

 

[Hamlet]

Originally posted by FearlessLeader2
Wars in every corner of the globe, inflation, disease, starvation, and death. It's all over the headlines of our papers every day.

Two words: Mass media.

"Wars, starvation disease and death" have been going on since the year dot, and will, I fear, continue to do so.

Originally posted by FearlessLeader2
We've got earthquakes in unheard of number, hurricanes, floods, landslides, and other disasters are on the rise.

Have we? It's all simply a question of visibility.

Originally posted by FearlessLeader2
The financial instability and collapse

Collapse? Don't make me laugh. Some areas of the world economy are going through bad periods, it will recover, the end.

Originally posted by FearlessLeader2
Anyways, there is a war on the way. But it's not some puny little WWIII. It the battle at Har-Mageddon, and after it, everything else is moot.

It's all about interpretation, really. What does one take the whore of Babylon to mean?

Religion has indulged in this sort of soothsaying for thousands of years, and will do so for a good while yet, I'll wager.

 

[FearlessLeader2]

The Whore of Babylon is false Christianity. '...drunk on the blood of the innocent...' and '...astride the beast...' certainly describe the people who started the Crusades and who became rich on the stolen art of Europe by accepting it as safe passage for Nazi war criminals, and manage to keep it by playing political intrigues with the UN today. Not to mention blessing soldiers on both sides of WWI and WWII, and most other wars today.