Posted on 08/09/2006 9:02:18 AM PDT by presidio9
Better cancel those holidays. We now have a date for Armageddon, and it's a week on Tuesday - August 22.
This information comes from no lesser source than the Wall Street Journal, where Bernard Lewis, President Bush's favourite historian, provides the details.
"In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity," the professor writes, "there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time - Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, the long-awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined.
"Mr Ahmadinejad [the Iranian president] and his followers clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the US about nuclear development by August 22. This was at first reported as 'by the end of August', but Mr Ahmadinejad's statement was more precise."
Lewis continues: "What is the significance of August 22? This year, August 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to 'the farthest mosque', usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (cf, Koran XVII.1). This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and, if necessary, of the world."
This sort of quasi-religious scaremongering always finds a receptive audience in the United States, especially among Christians of the jihadist
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But at least you'll get a front row seat from where you sit!.............
That would just be unacceptable. You're right; I need to get it early. There'll probably be a Doomsday run on beer at the stores.
Do I need to tape my windows?
And, of course, the actual timing of the event is significant.
For example, if one decided to have a little "Goodbye and Godspeed lunch" with ones' chums, you run the risk of paying the caterer in advance and then not having the thing come off, due to the timing of the actual "End of The World" event.
I'm really not quite sure what to do about this.
*laugh* Fraid you're right. The one thing towels aren't good for, is carrying towels.
Bright lights! Bright lights!
Is English your second language?
I fail to recall ever objecting to anything today.
As for your kind offer, I accept it with gratitude.
I am in the same camp as Oppenheimer who, when told that having a horseshoe over the entrace to his lab was 'disrespectful' of science replied, "I understand that it works whether you believe in it or not."
I am convinced that my God is not petty. She certainly isn't manipulative.
Depends on what you're doing in there.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
I think that is for Passover, not Armageddon.
But I am not an expert...
Yes, Lewis coined it; Sammy expanded on the concept three years later, and subsequently.
"Women, children and minorities hardest hit"
I'm in Cal. I'll scare up a bottle of Jack or something plenty mellow to bring along ;)
I have a meeting that night. Good! I can skip preparing the handouts. ;-)
Pinz
Pile of uranium and loooong piece of cannon fuse.
"She certainly isn't manipulative"
She must be God then!
The idea of objection I got from the tone and the question you asked. If I misinterpreted what you typed (easy to do without voice inflection and facial expression), I most humbly apologize.
And we won't have to pay any taxes.
This Armageddon thing might be kind of fun.
Wonder what I should wear?
I'm all for Christianity, but if the bunch of you don't cut it out you're going to get a perfectly silly thread moved to "Religion."
And nobody wants that.
I wish I had known about this before I paid my mortgage this month!!!
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Fortunately I have until the end of the month to pay the second installment of the real estate taxes.
Too bad about the first installment, tho. That was due in March.
Oh well, I won't have to pay the credit card bill either.
Only FReepers could come up with a Live Thread for Armeggedon(sp). LOL
I was going out the door to buy more school clothes when I just *had* to check FR and now I am wondering if we don't already have enough to last through the 21st.
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