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Published on Oct 16, 2013 Strange Fire General Session 1. Speaker John MacArthur 10-16-2013

Scientists have been making bone headed predictions of the future for decades. Found this on the web. Thought it an interesting bit of history.

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Reality TV shows are making increasing numbers of people convinced that they're the stars of their own, unwanted television programs. Psychiatrists are treating more people for so-called 'Truman Show' delusions -- named after the 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey as a man who spends his entire life unwittingly at the center of a fictional world that's being broadcast to millions of homes. The startling cases often afflict successful people who develop paranoid fantasies that they're being filmed at all times and that the world that's in front of them isn't real. Their friends and loves ones are actors. The news...

This is pretty wild... A phenomenon known as a 'roll cloud' -a very rare form of Arcus cloud- was seen in eastern Texas early this morning... it's formed when a cool outflow of air from a substantial thunderstorm jets-out ahead of the system in a rotating rope that can run 50 miles long... More at Reaganite Republican ____________________________________ KTLV-TV   Wikipedia  h/t Doug Welch

Wildly bizarre half-plant/half-animal creature - with a lovely name "Eastern Emerald Elysia" This beautiful leaf-shaped sea slug Elysia chlorotica lives in shallow pools along Atlantic coast of North America, eats algae with gusto - one meal is enough for its lifetime! - and by using photosynthesis like any other plant, shatters the most basic definition between the "animal" and "plant" kingdoms. It may not be "easy being green", but for this slug it turned out to be highly efficient! This is the ONLY natural example of genes shared between the living kingdoms of "plants" and "animals" Shaped like a leaf?...

Ron Paul has Brothel “Pimpin for Paul” Ron Paul, known for his Libertarian views, has picked up a new endorsement. The Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a Nevada brothel has begun a campaign they are calling “Pimpin for Paul” The owner of the Brothel, Dennis Hof said in a statement “We decided to go with the guy that’s more about state’s rights — and that’s Ron Paul,” Hof did a survey of 500 prostitutes to see which candidate they wanted to support, and the results were close between Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich. “We thought real closely about supporting Newt Gingrich —...

If these "ARE" the TRUMPETS??? They should be welcomed when you know your heart is true to love!!!

It was the first time the competition was conducted in San Francisco and there was bone-chilling water temperatures along with the usual Bay area wind. But just as surfer Dusty Payne of Hawaii braved the cold to ride a wave, a SHARK (flash scary shark with loud music or sound effect) appeared in the water and SCARED THE DAYLIGHTS out of Dusy who described the sight as quote, "the biggest fin I've ever seen in my life coming at me. I've seen dolphins and it wasn't a dolphin." unquote. So, not only did Dusty lose it, but he also lost...

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Believe it or not, Barack Obama is cracking jokes about the horrific fires in Texas. I guesshe won't be using Bill Clinton's old line, "I feel your pain," when people complain about the terrible economy. How presidential, how empathetic: At a Silicon Valley fundraiser Sunday, the president took a jab at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, saying that he's a "governor whose state is on fire, denying climate change." Aside from the fact that this is just a cheap political shot at the expense of Americans who are suffering, it is just not funny and weird.

The image of a face appears from a massive storm cloud filmed in New Brunswick on Aug. 1, 2011. The face disappeared within a minute; a lightning bolt from the related storm went on to kill 40 goats FREDERICTON — Was it the face of Jesus or the face of the devil? A You Tube video showing a series of bizarre cloud formations over rural New Brunswick has millions of people worldwide guessing.

THIS terrifying tree is one that children are certain to leave alone. With its haunting beady eyes, twisted snout and crooked teeth the shrub has been dubbed the scariest in the country. The un-fir-gettable 70ft beech was spotted by David Garnham in the grounds of Stowlangtoft Hall in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3630763/This-is-really-scare-tree.html#ixzz1PQF08fO5

Whenever I see something that just doesn't fit, first I wonder why it happened and then I try to fix it. You know, like a picture on the wall that is crooked or just doesn't seem to go with the theme of the rest of the pictures. Inevitably I cannot help but try to fix the problem. Unfortunately, somethings are just too difficult to fix on your own and you need some help. Kind of like the situations below in the pictures. You will want to fix the problem, but sometimes it's easier to want to fix the problem then...

NEW YORK (CBS 2) — Did you see it? Chopper 2 HD sure did. It was a bizarre, glowing red-hot streak in the sky — right at sunset Wednesday — moving briskly behind the Manhattan skyline. CBS 2 reached out to a top astronomer who looked at the video. He said it looks beautiful, but that is was like nothing more than what’s known as a “contrail” — condensation from a commercial or military jet. The aliens, apparently, are not coming.

AFTER an eight-day monster battle a British fisherman has caught one of the world's most fearsome freshwater fish. Monster catch on Congo fishing trip Pause 0:00 / 0:39Scrubber mute Share Fullscreen Monster catch on Congo fishing trip Expert fisherman Jeremy Wade has caught a 50 kilogram tigerfish during a fishing expedition in Africa. 22 October 2010Sky News WATCH MORE VIDEO Angler Jeremy Wade wrestled the 5ft-long goliath tigerfish during a fishing expedition along the Congo River in Africa. The tigerfish - believed to be a deadlier version of the piranha - has 32 teeth that are a similar size to...

BIRCH CREEK, Mich. - A Michigan family's property has a sudden unexplained divide. A large unexplained crack now runs 200 yards through the Salewsky family's property, eight miles north of Menominee in Birch Creek. The family thinks it happened yesterday around 9:00 in the morning. The ground raised five feet up, taking trees along for the ride. Some cracks were up two feet wide and five feet deep. "The house shook, the chairs shook," Doug Salewsky said

Here's some of today's top offbeat news headlines: From the Useful Info Nation Offbeat News Page: AP STRANGE NEWSIndonesia's smoking toddler kicks the habitPolice: Pa. woman zaps self, brother with stun gunBOING BOINGBoneless, clubfooted French Connection model invades MelbourneCRACKED4 Lessons Learned Infiltrating a Homeless Community6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (That Have Totally Been Solved)DIGG TOP OFFBEAT

Police in southern Russia are investigating allegations of animal cruelty after a donkey was made to parasail as part of an advertising stunt, Russian media report. The donkey was sent up into the sky last week by entrepreneurs hoping to attract people to their private beach.

Anchorage Police are asking residents to take extra precautions around bears after a bizarre incident Thursday morning almost a triggered a bear attack in East Anchorage. Officers say they responded to the 200 block of Yellow Leaf Circle just after 10 a.m. when neighbors called to report a woman was chasing a bear down an alley. When they arrived, they learned that a black bear had jumped into Karan Nixon's fenced yard on the nearby Orange Leaf Circle, snatching her pet rabbit "George" with its teeth. After hearing the rabbit screaming, the Nixon, who was wearing stockings, then chased the...