No need to mow the lawn this weekend.

[SQUACKEE]

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I believe in Angels, I married one!

I've met the lady and she is indeed an angel, but wasn't that a 'given', considering what she'd HAVE to be to marry the Squack?!

That is one possiblilty, the other is I married a near sighted lunatic.

[26mi235]

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They have the National Science Olympiad here in Madison, WI this weekend. I note that the last prizes will be handed out on Saturday. Followed by a dance until midnight. Are they being too optimistic about getting all the prizes awarded in time, or will their party coincide perfectly with the rapture?

I spent part of the afternoon there (helicopters in the McClain Center, etc) with my younger son; my daughter who competed last year but was at the finals for Rockets for Schools this last weekend. [her Middle School team from last year made it again, possibly helped by the state getting an extra entry for hosting the competition). I do not think that they would have been able to avoid 'the end' using those devices, however.

[gm]

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"willfully ignorant & hopefully delusional"

Great, thanks! My new sig line!

[Marlow]

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"willfully ignorant & hopefully delusional"
Great, thanks! My new sig line!

So you believe in "angels and a 6000-yr old earth" ?

[kuha]

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Just for clarification:
a) I didn't actually set out to pick on religion only; there are plenty of other categories of non-fact-based belief in our culture
b) If I can provide words to live by, I'm all for it

[gm]

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"willfully ignorant & hopefully delusional"
Great, thanks! My new sig line!

So you believe in "angels and a 6000-yr old earth" ?

Yes on the angels (maybe not in the way you are thinking), and a young earth, yes. If that makes me ignorant and delusional, ummmm, ok then.

Be that as it may, I wouldn't come here and slam you for your beliefs, since people choose to believe what they choose to believe. If that is what your mind and heart tell you, well, it is what it is. I won't ridicule you for it, even if I disagree wholeheartedly with you about it.

[Marlow]

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Be that as it may, I wouldn't come here and slam you for your beliefs, since people choose to believe what they choose to believe. If that is what your mind and heart tell you, well, it is what it is. I won't ridicule you for it, even if I disagree wholeheartedly with you about it.

Where is this defensiveness coming from? Who is ridiculing you?
I think the NBA doesn't have the same level of PED problem as the NFL or MLB and people ARE openly ridiculing me here, and I have no problem with that!!

[kuha]

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I continue to be amazed at the ability of some seemingly "reasonable" people to believe--on some level--the most ludicrous nonsense.

I wholeheartedly agree. Just not from the same end of the spectrum, probably :lol:

This is where this whole thing should be left; and it makes everyone's point just fine.

[lonewolf]

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I don't remember the year ( maybe it coincided with Y2K) but back when we had the last "rapture" alert and thousands of "believers" went to the mountaintops to be picked up, I had a chance encounter at a remote ferry crossing of a stream/river in western Oregon with a small group descending from the Armageddon no-show. The men were all riding tricked out $25,000 Harleys. Their "old ladies" and kids travelled in graffiti rich $800 bread vans with quilts dangling out the doors..
They were sociable, if scruffy, guys and while we waited for the ferry admitted they did not really expect the rapture but went up the mountain for a little smoke and a lot of last-chance free love

[gh]

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well, OK, maybe it won't be tomorrow either (dang... now I have to figure out what to wear after all)

<<This time, Harold Camping sounds like a man who has suffered the whisper of self-doubt.
The Oakland minister's latest prediction of the end of the world - which he's set for Friday - is couched among words like "probably" and "maybe,"...>>

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... z1bKWNzc9q

[Marlow]

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... z1bKWNzc9q

"I do believe we're getting very near the very end," Camping, 90, said during a podcast recorded earlier this month and posted on his Family Radio website.

Well . . . some of us are, Harold . . .

[jeremyp]

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Yeah he's confusing himself with us. Betting against the end of the world is the safest bet there is.....for one obvious reason.

[Pego]

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Darn, I forgot and paid my bills this week.

[lonewolf]

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I think Harold has cried " wolf "too many times.

[Marlow]

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wolf[/u]]I think Harold has cried " wolf "too many times.

Ha, I see what you did there! :wink: