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Art Deco User ID: 473495 United States 07/21/2009 12:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Indeed, it is a timely, and good post So, basically, all we have to do is look around us.... I kinda thought that for a while. It's sorta like we're in the modern version of the last days of the roman empire. Anyone got a violin? Last Edited by Art Deco on 07/21/2009 12:23 AM In ten years we'll look back on this moment, laugh nervously, and quickly change the subject. |
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9teen.47™ User ID: 730762 United Kingdom 07/21/2009 01:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Nation that forgets God is heading for judgement. It would seen to me that the Muslim world is being punished first. In the Western world it seems pretty obvious to me that the USA is already feeling the Lords wrath, with the UK following as a close second. The Missing Day... [link to www.chick.com] Last Edited by 9teen.47™ on 07/21/2009 01:08 AM Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. Psa 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God. Jer 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman]. STOCK UP NOW. You should have at least 6 months worth of basics for every member of your household. Stay away from crowds when trouble starts, do not forget water storage, tobacco is worth more than gold or silver, and be kind to hungry children. |
Earth Daughter User ID: 726701 United States 07/21/2009 01:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think apathy and scorn should be on that list too. People seem to be too desensitized in regards of honoring life. Maybe it comes from watching too much graphic stuff in films - perhaps. But there seems to be a sense of uncaring for others and categorizing some groups of people as 'worthless', undeserving of compassion or respect. "Arrows of hate have been shot at me too, but they never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world, with which I have no connection whatsoever." - Albert Einstein |
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Duncan Kunz (OP) User ID: 721478 United States 07/21/2009 01:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Nation that forgets God is heading for judgement. It would seen to me that the Muslim world is being punished first. In the Western world it seems pretty obvious to me that the USA is already feeling the Lords wrath, with the UK following as a close second. The Missing Day... Quoting: 9teen.47™I agree that a culture that loses its relationship with its god(s) is on the way to extinction, but it is this very fact that makes the Muslims so dangerous -- they do practice their religion, and they practice it with a lot more vigor than we do. It is Islam -- although you and I may not consider it the "true" religion, it is obvious that the Muslims do -- which unites the Arabs, Iranians, Indonesians, Africans, as well as many immigrants from these cultures in Europe. Christianity used to unite Europe and the Americas, but does so no longer. It's this, more than any other thing, that makes Islam such a mortal danger to the rest of the world. Where's the EVIDENCE, Jim? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 715531 Canada 07/21/2009 01:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | people think we have a two party system. Want to see the cruze missel that shot down flight 800? [link to www.show-the-house.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 730469 United States 07/21/2009 02:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “…if any nation deserves the privilege of claiming a divine ancestry, that nation is our own; and so great is the glory won by the Roman people in their wars that, when they declared that Mars himself was their first parent and father of the man who founded their city, all of the nations of the world might well allow the claim as readily as they accept Rome’s imperial dominion. These, however, are comparatively trivial matters and I set little store by them. I invite the reader’s attention to the much more serious consideration of the kind of lives our ancestors lived, of who were the men, and what the means both in politics and war by which Rome’s power was first acquired and subsequently expanded: I would then have him trace the process of our moral decline, to watch, first, allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration then the modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies need to cure them… I hope my passion for Rome’s past has not impaired my judgment; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater of purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds; none has been free for so many generations from the vices of avarice and luxury; nowhere have thrift and plain living been for so long held in such esteem. Indeed, poverty, with us, went hand in hand with contentment. Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every form of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 730469 United States 07/21/2009 02:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Historian Livy in about 29 B.C. speaks of Rome, “…if any nation deserves the privilege of claiming a divine ancestry, that nation is our own; and so great is the glory won by the Roman people in their wars that, when they declared that Mars himself was their first parent and father of the man who founded their city, all of the nations of the world might well allow the claim as readily as they accept Rome’s imperial dominion. These, however, are comparatively trivial matters and I set little store by them. I invite the reader’s attention to the much more serious consideration of the kind of lives our ancestors lived, of who were the men, and what the means both in politics and war by which Rome’s power was first acquired and subsequently expanded: I would then have him trace the process of our moral decline, to watch, first, allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration then the modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies need to cure them… I hope my passion for Rome’s past has not impaired my judgment; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater of purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds; none has been free for so many generations from the vices of avarice and luxury; nowhere have thrift and plain living been for so long held in such esteem. Indeed, poverty, with us, went hand in hand with contentment. Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every form of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 730530 New Zealand 07/21/2009 03:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | :hummbird: Quoting: 9teen.47™The Nation that forgets God is heading for judgement. It would seen to me that the Muslim world is being punished first. In the Western world it seems pretty obvious to me that the USA is already feeling the Lords wrath, with the UK following as a close second. The Missing Day... [link to www.chick.com] the mark of a sick culture is chick and co. with the pic of young girls |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 730530 New Zealand 07/21/2009 03:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | :hummbird: Quoting: 9teen.47™The Nation that forgets God is heading for judgement. It would seen to me that the Muslim world is being punished first. In the Western world it seems pretty obvious to me that the USA is already feeling the Lords wrath, with the UK following as a close second. The Missing Day... [link to www.chick.com] or have a look at this .pedophilia is common in jewish orthodox religion .www.abibitumikasa.com |
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Avian User ID: 265661 United States 07/21/2009 07:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Indeed, it is a timely, and good post Quoting: Art DecoSo, basically, all we have to do is look around us.... I kinda thought that for a while. It's sorta like we're in the modern version of the last days of the roman empire. Anyone got a violin? you hit the nail on the head got silver...get rid of Federal Reserve Notes now for stuff that will hold value "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frédéric Bastiat food, water, ammo, weapons, battery back up solar, hand well pump, wood stove and 1 year of food...oh yeah PM's too...good luck |
{ARCHER} User ID: 599924 United States 07/21/2009 07:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I personally don't believe that everyone should be going along with everything everyone else does. That must be a very old book. The "Majority" rules. Small weird groups such as gays, porn, militants, etc. etc. etc. are what set the world out of balance. IMO. |
TX PATRIOT User ID: 730803 Thailand 07/21/2009 07:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Indeed, it is a timely, and good post Quoting: Art DecoSo, basically, all we have to do is look around us.... I kinda thought that for a while. It's sorta like we're in the modern version of the last days of the roman empire. Anyone got a violin? The Roman Empire, which in the glory days was a... Republic. Good thread, Duncan. |
Nailer45 User ID: 729282 United States 07/21/2009 07:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sagging pant, rap music, and dumb ass reality shows are more signs... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 627137$2,000 rims on a $300 car. crack ,ebonics,Rap music, Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson |
Phennommennonn Forum Administrator User ID: 723794 United States 07/21/2009 07:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | :::hi5ver::: political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 554023 United States 07/21/2009 07:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. Quoting: {ARCHER}I personally don't believe that everyone should be going along with everything everyone else does. That must be a very old book. The "Majority" rules. Small weird groups such as gays, porn, militants, etc. etc. etc. are what set the world out of balance. IMO. I personally believe what the Zetas say. The self-centered beings will be shuttled out of here to prison planets eventually. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 320717 United States 07/21/2009 07:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Excellent. I would add: Poor treatment of the vulnerable: elderly, children, sick, women, disabled, immigrants, homosexuals, minorities, poor, and animals. Environmental destruction. Rigid religious beliefs and stereotypes. Profit as a primary motivation. Infidelity/divorce, lack of permanent commitment |