Ragnarok Approaches!
#26
Posted 21 May 2011 - 09:24 AM
They are still arguing in academic circles about whether Easter is on the right day or not because of the possibility that Jesus was using a different calendar than the rest of the kingdom at the time the bible was written.
Do you also realize that there are at least 6 times that we know of that the universal calendar dates were messed with in our past (Caeser, etc)?
Dates and calendars are such a human device, with all the mistakes and errors that are possible with anything done by humans.
#27
Posted 21 May 2011 - 09:37 AM
#28
Posted 21 May 2011 - 01:08 PM
Seriously? No, I don't think so.
They are still arguing in academic circles about whether Easter is on the right day or not because of the possibility that Jesus was using a different calendar than the rest of the kingdom at the time the bible was written.
Do you also realize that there are at least 6 times that we know of that the universal calendar dates were messed with in our past (Caeser, etc)?
Dates and calendars are such a human device, with all the mistakes and errors that are possible with anything done by humans.
Easter doesn't have a fixed day because it's not a Christian holiday at all:
http://en.wikipedia....org/wiki/Ēostre
As with basically all of the Christian holidays, they attached to an existing festival to try to assimilate it. If they were actually trying to mark the anniversary of a historical event, it would fall on the same day every year.
The 2012 thing? It's the Mayans' (and a few other cultures') millenium. That's it. It just so happens that every 5000 and change years, all of the planets you can see without a telescope form a neat line, and multiple cultures decided that the cycle of that makes a nice huge-ass time unit for when "year" is way too short to measure with. We decided not to use some rare astronomical event, and just said 1000 years are a millenium. That's pretty much the only difference.
As for the various Christian "end of the world" ones of which there's multiple per year, these have an even simpler explanation. Money. If you've convinced someone that the world will end and that only the righteous will be saved, and then provide them the chance to a great act of righteous through your church (by giving them all of your money), then they'll do it. After all, they don't need it, they're not going to be here. It's a sickening, but sadly effectively, scam.
Of course, that "Hell" thing they're afraid of? Yeah, that's not a Christian concept either, nor was it even a place of punishment:
http://en.wikipedia..../Hel_(location)
If you've done The Sign quest, you're also familiar with this.
Edited by Mwrip, 21 May 2011 - 01:11 PM.
#29
Posted 21 May 2011 - 02:11 PM
#30
Posted 21 May 2011 - 02:19 PM
#31
Posted 21 May 2011 - 02:34 PM
So I'm supposed to die at 6 PM? It's already past 6 here on the east coast..
#32
Posted 21 May 2011 - 05:03 PM
#33
Posted 21 May 2011 - 05:23 PM
#34
Posted 21 May 2011 - 05:57 PM
#35
Posted 21 May 2011 - 06:12 PM
Edited by Forzando, 21 May 2011 - 06:15 PM.
#36
Posted 21 May 2011 - 06:52 PM
Seriously? No, I don't think so.
They are still arguing in academic circles about whether Easter is on the right day or not because of the possibility that Jesus was using a different calendar than the rest of the kingdom at the time the bible was written.
Do you also realize that there are at least 6 times that we know of that the universal calendar dates were messed with in our past (Caeser, etc)?
Dates and calendars are such a human device, with all the mistakes and errors that are possible with anything done by humans.
lol wut. You mean at least 6 times christians have tried to steal popular event days they say the other people had it wrong? You also realise the bible was written by men so probably has a lot of errors in it as well ^^ (they didnt have spellcheck in those days).
Edited by Hrothmund, 21 May 2011 - 06:52 PM.
#37
Posted 21 May 2011 - 10:22 PM
Poetic Edda is obviously an apocalypse of nuclear war.
#38
Posted 21 May 2011 - 10:25 PM
"Drink this butterbeer. This butterbeer is my blood."
"Are you ill, Harry?" asked the disciple Ron.
Amen. Praise be to Rowling.
#39
Posted 21 May 2011 - 10:30 PM
I'm glad of not being raptured, if the descriptions of heaven are accurate, that is one superboring place
Edited by Kadnya, 21 May 2011 - 10:31 PM.
#40
Posted 23 May 2011 - 02:30 AM
Since we were not raptured, that means we were not part of the good people that God decided to save. Now we just need to wait until some horrible disaster starts/hmm
I'm glad of not being raptured, if the descriptions of heaven are accurate, that is one superboring place
No, it's because Macho Man did what he had to do.
#41
Posted 23 May 2011 - 03:06 AM
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