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Self ^ | 3/16/11 | kinghorse

[Soothesayer]

There is nothing miraculous about this. We’re just all a little bit more screwed today.

[Borges]

And on January 11th, flooding and mudslides in Rio de Janeiro killed more than 800 people.

[FReepaholic]

...And to top all of this, 3-11 was the day chosen for the great cataclysm. Another 11 inspired day of great tribulation has occurred. Two this year all ready and we still have 11-11-11 to go. The first was 2-11-11, when the powers to be caused Mubarak to abdicate his reign...

Holy sh!t, and we've got 4-11, 5-11, 6-11, 7-11, 8-11, 9-11, 10-11 coming up.

And just make sure you're not at a 7-11 store on 7-11. That's a double whammy.

[concerned about politics]

Numerology - the number 11 represent a major change of some sort. If numerology is a real science (I have no idea), then 11-11-11 ought to be something significant for sure.

[RJR_fan]

The eye of the fortune-teller sees human beings as impersonal pawns moved around and slaughtered by the millions to fulfill some imaginary roadmap of the future.

The eye of God sees something like this:

The fortune-tellers do not speak for the God I love and serve.

In fact, their inability to repent may indicate that God has given them over to their obsessive delusions of omniscience. However, those who truly love God will, by His grace, escape from these strong delusions, and become of some value to His Kingdom in this day of grace and opportunity. It can happen -- I once sat where they sat, and lapped up the oracular utterances of their "prophecy teachers." Then, God opened my eyes, and my heart.

I fear, though, that the hardness of heart demonstrated by this original post may be a symptom of judicial blindness of mind. These crazies are certainly bringing shame upon our Savior, and discrediting His gospel. Any unbelieving person of normal intelligence would look upon these "prophetic" speculations in the face of human suffering and say, "If that's a Christian, I certainly hope I never become one."

[Semper911]

...and I got up at 5:11am this morning. I am so screwed.

[concerned about politics]

LOL.

[DManA]

How should a Christian deal with someone like this poster who is so obviously emotionally fragile and irrational?

[kinghorse]

Nobody’s telling fortunes here Westboro-breath. I’m saying what’s happened when the date’s been associated with a number. You can call me conspiratorial until the cows come home and I’ll not protest. But fortune teller is not something I’ll take lightly.

I said watch out and be in awe of it only because my critically thinking brain says there’s something whack about that date.

[Earthdweller]

Every fortune teller I have ever met looks like something my dog wouldn’t drag home. That’s all I need to know about the 11’s onezies.

[Uncle Miltie]

[Uncle Miltie]

I’m kind of a mainline Orthodox Jewish type guy. So when my Chabad Rabbi goes off into Kabalistic Numerology, I sorta tune him out. Like the well-read Jewish lady in Adult Ed who quotes the Hebrew, and then talks about reincarnation.

[kinghorse]

Not to get too slap happy with this 11th stuff but there are a great many things happening that line up with that date. It’s bizarre or something else.

The Shah abdicated on 2-11-79.
9-11-01 US.
3-11-04 Spain.
2-11-11 Mubarak abdicated
3-11 Japan.

[Del Rapier]

His will will be done on this earth although in this particular case it has less to do with prophecy and more with business as usual.

[RJR_fan]

My friend, it is comforting to hear that your faith community also has its lunatic fringe. I appreciate your kind refusal to judge us all by our in-house crazy relatives.

[kinghorse]

Japan doesn’t fit because it’s not man-made? Oh, okay, then it’s a collaboration. ;)

Prayers for Japan and prayers for the world. Apparently a true meltdown as in complete breach of this size has planet level implications, whatever that means. There are tons of fissionable materials in the immediate area available to be the source of deadly radiation for as long as it’s left uncapped. Worse yet, one of the reactors ran on plutonium. There’s no iodine defense with plutonium.

[Uncle Miltie]

Pick the last 1,000 lousy things that have happened in the world.

Thirty three of them happened on the 11th! OMG!!!!!!

[Le Chien Rouge]

I’ve had the sign of evil since birth—6-6-66....11’s mean nothing to me.

[patriot preacher]

The eye of the fortune-teller sees human beings as impersonal pawns moved around and slaughtered by the millions to fulfill some imaginary roadmap of the future.
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I agree with your “critique” of this particular post. I find the reasoning behind it, the LACK of specific scriptural evidence for it and the absence of Christian compassion in it troubling....

I do hope, however, you weren’t painting any particular view of eschatology or theology with a broad brush in your comments. While that wouldn’t be nearly as tragic as the sentiments expressed above, it would be just as inconsiderate of individual perspectives and motivations.