Posted on 08/14/2006 9:41:57 AM PDT by Kimberly GG
"Should we be concerned about Iran, Islam's 12th Imam, and August 22? Bloggers have been reporting on this for some time now, today the Wall Street Journal has an op-ed on the subject. I have wondered for some time if our government pays any attention to this subject. Apparently they do.
Last evening, one of our friends in the State Department happened to call. During our chat, I asked him, from the perspective of someone working amid diplomatic circles for the last 20+ years, what the biggest story of the year was. Biggest, as in frightening long-term troubles for us. He responded that it was the 18 page letter Ahmadinejad sent to President Bush. He then carefully explained why. That 18 page letter was maybe a one day story at best in the MSM. The reason why the news media thought that was either because they have no idea what news really is or because that letter made George Bush look good, really good. -- Mrs. P at Patum Peperium "
"Infidel Bloggers Alliance is all over the subject here: "Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Says Ahmadinejad May Have "Cataclysmic Events" In Store For August 22nd" from Infidel Bloggers Alliance, who says: Of course, we've been on this for weeks here at Infidel Bloggers Alliance. But, when the Wall Street Journal starts saying the same thing, even I prick up my ears:................"
(Excerpt) Read more at righttruth.typepad.com ...
The planes that were in the works to blow up over the Atlantic would have made it so the passengers, "just magically disappeared". In the book of Revelation, "people will just magically dissappear". This makes it abundantly clear that Ahmy thinks he's a doomsday prophet. Whether his efforts are real or fabricated does not matter. He believes in his invincibality and most of the rest of the Islamists/and,or Muslims are just as nuts as he is, or he has them scared senseless. He will do whatever it takes to make the world believe, "he's the one to be worshipped"...
I think the Brits spoiled the August 22 fun last Thursday by thwarting the new terrorist attack plot.
In these troubled, twisted times of mankind, I sumize that there are fewer and fewer things that Almighty God looks upon and says: "This is good."
But, He can't help but be entertained with the volume of "dooms day" prophets.
One can only imagine His shaking His head and smiling at the pathetic attempts to "know" His detailed plans for us.
I agree....the man is clearly nuts.....crazy enough to do anything! Whether he will be successful or not remains to be seen, but I don't think anything will keep him from trying! And though they've slightly lowered the alert, I hear there may be many many more involved in the plot that they are looking for.
I am quite certain that many more plots exist, worldwide. For once it was discovered that the U.S and London could be attacked successfully, the rest of the world was peanuts. Once the 2 Main attractions are incapacitated, the rest is a piece a cake...
I agree. Many 'prophets' and speculators have come and gone. IMO, the problem though with this guy is that he's not just speculating, but would like nothing more than to control the timing and while he may not achieve the 'biblical' armageddon, I don't think it will keep him from trying. From what I've read, if he is successful he believes it will force the return of the Hidden Imam, an event that Ahmadinejad has decided should happen now.
Noting that this is now in 'chat', does anyone suspect that media coverage of the subject will increase come Monday?
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Thank you,,,,,I'll check it out!
I thought Rove was behind the rise of Ahmediwhatever. ;')
http://www.varchive.org/lec/671206pri.htm
Mankind In Amnesia:
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If you dont have a Bible just stop at a motel and you find one there. And there you will read if you open it twicethe chances are better than fifty-fiftya description of some phenomena that are certainly not peaceful. The foundations of the earth were discovered, coal was falling from the sky, earth was trembling, hills were moving into the sea, sea and land were changing places, mountains vomited lava and were molten like wax.
And this kind of pictures are found in the prophets through the Psalms and also in the books of Genesis, Exodus and Numbers, without end. Even fundamentalists read them as metaphors. Follow the description the Dominican monks wrote down as told by the aborigines of this continentI quote it in Worlds in Collisionand imagine stones falling from the sky with crashing noises and bitumen pouring down, and men trying to go on the roofs, while the buildings collapse, or to climb the trees which throw them away; imagine the Pacific Ocean rising like a towering wall and approaching the continent, the entire land burning with a thousand volcanoes; new mountains going up and the water carrying everything away. This is not a vision: it is described in historical texts and folk traditions and in epics of many races of the world. We dont like to think about those things as real events.
Already about the time of the first century B. C. started the forgetfulness. In the Sibylline books or in the New Testament many sentences tell of the expectations of Doomsdaya scene taken from the experiences of the past. The phenomenon of the creeping-in oblivion you can observe in the debate between the anti-clerical Lucretius who understood the heritage of ages and the clerical Cicero who claimed that the planets are gods. Nothing can happen to them and whoever claims that at any time they can be at fault should be brought to court and for a capital punishment. The Pythagorean secret teaching, the Stoic philosophy, all the mysteries and various rites, all go back to those experiences, in order to re-live them...
:') Good lookin' out. :')
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I never can view a fireworks display without thinking about how the Chinese put to use their invention of 'gunpowder' -
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The fortunate find in the seventies, at Mawangdui, China, of a Han dynasty silk comet atlas sheds considerable light on earlier enigmatic motifs...
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/sw/swpi.html
Fireworks displays appear to be recreations of what historic man saw in the sky...
Comet displays are electrifying. [rimshot!]
A Leonid Meteor Explodes
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