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Avoiding Doomsday Hype and Hysteria
American Vision ^ | Nov 17, 2009 | Gary DeMar

Posted on 11/17/2009 6:46:44 AM PST by topcat54

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To: Quix

All valid points that are well documented, yet ignored, as just another day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.


21 posted on 11/17/2009 7:24:39 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: GL of Sector 2814

Removing baryonic material would mean all matter and dark matter are removed. Fundamentally a bad thing to lose all your protons, among assorted other atomic elements ;-)

In the movie, unprecedented solar activity accompanied by huge solar flares bombard the earth with multiple orders of magnitude more neutrinos than ever before. In the movie they are referred to as “mutated neutrinos” (snicker) because they are behaving like no neutrino has ever before. [ this is the Deus est Machina/ ‘magic occurs here’ of the movie ]. These “mutated neutrinos” act like microwaves to heat and liquify the earth’s core to the point where tectonic plates shift and portions of the earth crust liquefy — with predictable disaster porn results.

As you wrote, “normal” neutrinos are deomnstrably harmless, but these Mayan calendar neutrinos have mutated ... zombie neutrinos ;-)

Aside from that, the movie is ‘true’ enough to be enjoyable as science fiction drama.


22 posted on 11/17/2009 7:36:20 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: o_zarkman44
I don't sweat it. I keep an eye on what goes on in the world. I know what the back of the Book says, and keep my family and I ready to either go into hiding from the government, (ironically I am typing this on a government computer) or be taken home, however God's plan rolls out.
23 posted on 11/17/2009 7:37:49 AM PST by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: DYngbld

I have a feeling many will be on the run from an oppressive, anti Christian government. Nearly everything our government does defies the basic principles of Christianity, notwithstanding liberty. Obviously we are going to be at odds to the point of criminal persecution because of our defiance to this criminal government trying to impose shackles on freedom of speech etc..


24 posted on 11/17/2009 7:46:36 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: Quix

“6. Evidently, the original post also thinks that an engineered global flu pandemic designed to reduce the population markedly and also quite in keeping with Biblical prophecy predictions about end times plagues . . . evidently the original post’s perspective is also that such devastating and cruelly engineered plagues would be no big deal . . . a few hundred million deaths here, a few hundred million deaths there . . . no big deal.”

OK, I agree with many of your points however, if the H1N1 flu pandemic was manufactured by some unnamed cabal then they did a poor job of it. It’s been fairly ineffective so far at killing people.

That said, I agree that many of us feel “in our spirit” that there will be some baaad stuff happening in the next few months/years. Whether 2012 has anything to do with it doesn’t really matter. Be prepared to go in the next second or at the end of our normal lifespan. We need to be prepared because we could walk out in front of a Mack Truck anytime!


25 posted on 11/17/2009 7:46:43 AM PST by vanilla swirl (Maranatha!)
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To: GL of Sector 2814
announced that the ship had been cleansed of baryonic matter. 10 brownie points to the first person to point out why that would be bad.

Duh. That would be, uhh, us. And everything else we can see, hear and touch.

26 posted on 11/17/2009 7:47:50 AM PST by Lee N. Field (I am not a navi, nor do I ramble on pretending to be one on teh Interwebz.)
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To: o_zarkman44

THANKS BIG FOR BEING AWAKE AND INFORMED, WITH YOUR HEAD IN THE LIGHT VS SOME DARK PLACES OR SAND.

THANKS for your kind reply.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.


27 posted on 11/17/2009 7:50:43 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: DYngbld

GREAT PERSPECTIVE

AND WELL PUT.

THX.


28 posted on 11/17/2009 7:52:18 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: vanilla swirl

It’s not clear if the H1N1? is it . . . is the real McCoy of the deadly engineered pandemic or merely a sort of testing the waters dry run.

And, some wonder if a different or evolving variety of the H1N1 will be dramatically more deadly.

The Thing in . . . Eastern Europe . . . Ukraine is it? . . . that sounds a lot more dreadful . . . and mysterious.


29 posted on 11/17/2009 7:55:22 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Hodar
Floods, fires, earthquakes, storms and having a star fall from the sky and wipe out 1/3 of the life on the planet just seems a bit too dramatic for my tastes. I prefer a nice nap that turns to be permanent.

You don't think those things haven't happened --how about the fire bomb raids on Japan --Roman crucifixions --Impaling on states--burning at the stake--hang drawn and quartering--nazi gas chambers--skinned alive by indians --wasted away by cancer--bubonic plague--leprocisy
30 posted on 11/17/2009 7:58:07 AM PST by uncbob
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To: uncbob
You don't think those things haven't happened

No, I don't think they have happened yet. According to John, who wrote Revelations 8, things are going to get really nasty. A third of the oceans turning to blood, a star will fall and poison the waters, the sun, moon and stars being extinguished - I'd just as soon not be around. It's not going to be a big parade with Jesus on a float.

31 posted on 11/17/2009 8:08:30 AM PST by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Hodar

Come on we have had floods fires earth quakes volcanoes erupt and meteors hit the earth with people dying—and what difference does it make if you die in a house fire or one like you describe


32 posted on 11/17/2009 8:13:28 AM PST by uncbob
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To: uncbob

We all have goals. Mine is to die on the beach in the Carribean during an afternoon nap. Some people want to be around for the second coming; I’ll pass. Wake me up on Judgement Day.

If you want to be dodging meteriors, evading floods and generally avoiding fires - be my guest. I’ll be rootin’ for you.

Hows the old saying go? .... “I want to die like Grandpa, quietly pass away in my sleep. Not screaming and panicing, to finally perish in a fiery crash like his passengers.”


33 posted on 11/17/2009 8:19:44 AM PST by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: topcat54; Gamecock

Ping for a later read.

Has anyone seen this flick yet? Is it any good?


34 posted on 11/17/2009 8:22:19 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: GL of Sector 2814
“This as bad as the time someone on a Star Trek episode announced that the ship had been cleansed of baryonic matter. 10 brownie points to the first person to point out why that would be bad.”

There wouldn't have been a ship left, or a crew, since all the protons and neutrons (atomic nuclei) would have been “cleansed.” Electrons would be left. Also, since the antimatter they use for fuel is antibaryonic matter, it would still be there. If any of the antimatter collided with electrons - boom!

“Cleansing” the ship of non-baryonic matter would have been just as bad. If all electrons disappeared, all the molecules in the ship and crew would break apart. (With no electrons, what would remain are positively charged atomic nuclei, which would repel each other.) At least there’d be no boom, since the antimatter would also have been “cleansed.”

35 posted on 11/17/2009 8:26:05 AM PST by FiscalSanity
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To: Blueflag

Maybe reverse polarity neutrinos?


36 posted on 11/17/2009 8:46:42 AM PST by kenth
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To: Quix

Thanks for the ping!


37 posted on 11/17/2009 9:20:29 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Quix
Are You Suffering From E.D.?


38 posted on 11/17/2009 10:01:34 AM PST by topcat54 ("Don't whine to me. It's all Darby's fault.")
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To: topcat54

THANKS.

Feeble non-sequitur responses full of denial of reality are quite welcome. It helps display the cluelessness of the original perspective quite well.


39 posted on 11/17/2009 10:04:52 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix
8. Probably the VERY NEAR miss of the recent largish asteroid that we only had less than 12 hours notice of . .

Largish??

If it had hit, the ~6-meter wide space rock would have disintegrated in the atmosphere as a spectacular fireball, causing no significant damage to the ground. ( ASTEROID NEAR MISS:)

9. Evidently the advancing increase in frequency and degree of drama of the UFO demonstrations and .

Have you recovered yet from your last abduction?


40 posted on 11/17/2009 10:12:42 AM PST by topcat54 ("Don't whine to me. It's all Darby's fault.")
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