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World to end on August 22
Guardian ^ | 08/09/06 | Brian Whitaker

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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To: M. Thatcher

Don't you have some signed pictures of Rush to mail out?


781 posted on 08/09/2006 10:59:56 PM PDT by Howlin (Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
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To: Howlin
You want one?

By the way, you're still wrong.

782 posted on 08/09/2006 11:00:35 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: Dajjal

Much appreciate it.

Night and please be safe!. Prayers!


783 posted on 08/09/2006 11:58:11 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

True enough.

But some flavors delivered in some manners in some contexts come off very cruel and unfitting. Not on this thread, to my mind. I've been rather comfortable with the black humor on this thread. Perhsps too much so.

But humor can be a hazardous thing wrongly or poorly done in some situations.

Making a joke about mothers eating their own and aborted babies, for example, in front of a mother who just had a still birth would not be very tolerable at all, imho.


784 posted on 08/10/2006 12:00:39 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Quix
Making a joke about mothers eating their own and aborted babies, for example, in front of a mother who just had a still birth would not be very tolerable at all, imho.

Of course.

785 posted on 08/10/2006 12:06:49 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

JUST WALK AWAY! JUST WALK AWAY!


786 posted on 08/10/2006 1:05:48 AM PDT by Democratshavenobrains
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To: All

I hope this thread isn't dead, funny stuff.

Wake up call: Were any of the planes heading out of England this morning going to Israel??????????


787 posted on 08/10/2006 5:16:49 AM PDT by epaul
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To: epaul

Not the targeted ones. All were headed to our soil: United, Continental and American Airlines. Some reports have included British Airways.


788 posted on 08/10/2006 5:19:19 AM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: MikeA

I mock and look down upon your sacred beliefs. . .


Sorry. Couldn't resist.


789 posted on 08/10/2006 5:22:10 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (War is Peace__Freedom is Slavery__Ignorance is Strength)
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To: Quix
Or are we to construe it that such threads are really not meant to include us at all?

Sounds great. Go back to the "Religion" forum. We'll all be happier.

790 posted on 08/10/2006 6:57:04 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: presidio9

Ping for later (but before the 22nd).


791 posted on 08/10/2006 6:58:17 AM PDT by Son Of The Godfather
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To: Quix

No one cares that you are an Evangelical. You are starting to sound like a gay person: Always trying to draw the conversation back to one aspect of your personal life.


792 posted on 08/10/2006 7:09:44 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: McGavin999

Don't bother reasoning with lunatics. This wingnut took a typically lame Moose-limb prophesy to heart and decided to use that as an excuse to jam his own particular brand of religion down our throats.


793 posted on 08/10/2006 7:14:33 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: Realism
Nope.. I guess I wont be doing Armageddon day this time, maybe next time. :)

Well, I guess that means Tueday's out. Got anything going Wednesday?

Cordially,

794 posted on 08/10/2006 7:19:06 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: eastsider
Tin foil can be very versatile and stylish.
795 posted on 08/10/2006 7:19:26 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: presidio9

holy crap what about the next season of LOST, someone get on the phone...i HAVE TO KNOW THE ENDING TO LOST!!!


796 posted on 08/10/2006 7:22:51 AM PDT by Irishguy (How do ya LIKE THOSE APPLES!!!!)
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To: onyx; presidio9
RU shur that's a t-back? Looks like she went over her plumber's part with a whiteout correction tape!
797 posted on 08/10/2006 7:23:13 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: onyx
Go right ahead, but for the life of me and in me, I do not know why you don't start a serious thread. I, for one, have no interest in a serious thread.

You're wasting your time.

798 posted on 08/10/2006 7:23:20 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: presidio9

Ohno, you didn't! Ewwwww, why would she think her youth would let her get away with that?! Ewwww....


799 posted on 08/10/2006 7:25:41 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: HungarianGypsy
You must be the antiChrist. You got number 666 on this thread.

Figures it would be about the Cubs winning the World Series...

800 posted on 08/10/2006 7:26:23 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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