Posted on 12/27/2004 6:08:33 AM PST by NYer
Certainly an interesting and at least somewhat plausible perspective.
Personally, I don't think we're there yet.
I suspect that the bag of gold for a loaf of bread will be a longer than brief period--much longer.
I also have a hunch that the leveling of the land and no sea will come at the end of the 1,000 years of Peace.
But none of this is a 'set-in-stone' issue with me at all.
I just want to live close to God and walk with Him regardless.
A common perspective.
Doesn't happen to be what The Bible says. Christ chided the religious rulers for being able to tell the signs of the weather but not the signs of the times. HE went on to exhort Believers to be alert for THE END TIMES with oil in their trimmed lamps and extra oil (Holy Spirit, evidently) stored, so to speak. IN Matt 24 He outline some factors.
History has had some periods when maybe 3-4 factors SEEMED to be in the critical direction. Now we have dozens and dozens AS NEVER before in history.
Key among them--Israel becoming a nation again IN A DAY in 1948 as Scripture predicted.
Anyways, I was driving due west this morning and the sun was in the south.
One of those "Oh, Sh**" moments!!
The Professor must be liberal, makes a one sentence statement. No details, no facts just says it, so it must be true.
Lousy journalism or lousy professor or both?
"I don't understand this. Did we stand still for a while? Did we jump forward, backward, slow, speed up? In what way did it affect our rotation and what is the data for this conclusion? If it did affect our rotation, everything will be affected. So, is this an emotional response or does the scientist have some measurements to back it up?"
Those are my thoughts......sounds like "Chicken Little" hysteria (IMO)
Affected the planet's rotation???
Totally absurd!
I have seen many Jews use that notation.
I have asked and been told because people are not supposed to use the full name of God.
Still enjoy your posts.
Thanks! I'm still a skeptic, too. Tragic as this event is, the world is filled with idiots willing to use these deaths and random mechanics of the earth as a pretext for their idiot agendas. I have no doubt that these deathes will be laid at the feet of global warming, not enough US aid, too much US insularity and all of the rest of the usual litany.
Too true.
I don't mind speculations. I speculate a lot.
But the hostile certain that their construction on reality is the absolutely pristinely accurate one and that set in gold gilded concrete . . . give me a break.
Please excuse my ignorance of the subject and jumping in here, but Hasidic Jews believe in God... I don't understand the problem with using his name as long as it's not in vain?
Some sects, both Jewish and Christian, think it improper to write or say "GOD", so they leave out the vowel, so that the reader will still know what they mean, but they won't be offending "G-D".
It's a form of reverance. Chill.
Unless of course the earth sheds a big chunk of matter on it's own, or a smaller amount at high speed. That would carry off some of the angular momentum. For example, if you mounted the Mother of All Rockets at the equator directed opposite to the spin of the earth, you could theoretically stop the spin and even reverse it.
I know that you know that, but thought I'd clarify a bit. It's a closed system that conserves angular momentum. The force (or more properly torque) need not come from outside.
Angular momentum, like linear momentum, is a not a scaler quantity. It has a value and a direction. If you've changed the direction, you've changed it.
You forgot to stand up first?
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Not at all. You have a 600 mile piece of rock moving tens of feet. It will affect things, although not all that much, since the earth is very large, even compared to a 600 mile long chunck of it's own crust.
.I've heard this rumor but not from what I consider a reliable source. Do you have a reliable source?
The Philippines was not damaged by this event. The problem with "prophesy" is that it's rarely if ever 100% accurate. What good is a 95% "true" prophesy? How would you know what part of it to rely on, which part to ignore?
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