The Hour is Near

Other Signs-

'Ali ibn Abi Talib said, "The Prophet led us in praying Salat al-Fajr (the
morning prayer). When he had finished, a man called to him: 'When will the
Hour be? The Prophet reprimanded him and said 'Be quiet!' After a while he
raised his eyes to the sky and said, 'Glorified be the One Who raised it
and is taking care of it.' Then he lowered his gaze to the earth and said,
'Glory be to the One Who has outspread it and has created it.' Then the
Prophet said, 'Where is the one who asked me about the Hour?' The man
knelt down and said, 'I asked you.' The Prophet said, 'The Hour will come
when leaders are oppressors, when people believe in the stars and reject
al-Qadar (the Divine Decree of destiny) when a trust becomes a way of
making a profit (Insurance), when people give to charity (Sadaqah) reluctantly, when adultery becomes widespread - when this happens, then your people will perish.'"

The signs are everywhere

Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign

And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do
So I took off my hat I said imagine that, huh, me working for you

woah!

Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign

And the sign said anybody caught trespassing would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and yelled at the house, Hey! what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in
If God was here, he'd tell you to your face, man you're some kinda sinner

Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign

Now, hey you Mister! can't you read, you got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can't even watch, no you can't eat, you ain't suppose to be here
Sign said you got to have a membership card to get inside Uh!

And the sign said everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all,
I didn't have a penny to pay, so I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said thank you Lord for thinking about me, I'm alive and doing fine

Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign

Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign

Right on.

Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign


For sure.The loser's wail of woe.

The Great Disappointment

Religion In a Pigeon Hole

No disppointment HERE

Why take a chance on cheating yourself? Get an Online Appraisal before you Sell Your Soul

timber-

It's another version of that "chicken consciousness" I told you about many posts ago.No doubt CC is a version of the lizard one and so on.

Did you see the sparrow one in Eraserhead?

Timber

Nice Pidgin article ! Heres a quote from the Pidgin Bible:


God da Boss: "So, eh! no go worry an say, 'Wat we goin eat?' o 'Wat we goin drink?' o 'Wat we goin wear?' You know, da odda peopos all ova da world, dey try get all dat kine stuff. But yoa Fadda inside da sky, he know you guys need um. Main ting, make God yoa Boss, cuz he da King. Do da right ting jalike he do, an you guys goin get all da stuffs you need." (Matthew 6:31-33 )

Where did you learn to write like that fresco?

Dat priddy dinkie.

Raul-7,

According to the Book of Revelation, no one knows the hour except God Himself. Yes, there are signs. Keep in mind that every generation has said that we are in the end times and, obviously, weren't. So, you cannot expect anyone that is a non-believer to take the Hour is Near very seriously, Raul-7. If they don't believe in God in the first place, they aren't going to believe He's coming again.

J_B, always loved that song!

Spendius,

http://www.pidginbible.org/index.htm

Momma Angel,

There was a large Church noticeboard near me which for thirty years displayed the message.

"The Messiah is Coming Now !"

Last year the church was turned into luxury appartments.

fresco-

I'm worried I might take too long getting to sleep tonight for tittering.I have come across some pigin in my time but it takes a lot of practice to manage it ironically.

fresco wrote-



Well-luxury apartments are the best place in my opinion.

"Nothing lasts forever." I think just about everyone would agree with that. Whether it's a mountain, a mole-hill, a distant star or the Twinky that's been lodged in the back-seat of your dad's Buick since 1967, all things eventually fade and are no more. As impermanent beings ourselves, we know and ungracefully accept this fact. One day, the end will come for our friends, our family, our neighbors, our IRS auditors, and even for ourselves. Yes, even the world, itself will one day stop spinning on its familiar axis and its property value on the open market will plummet.
The question is, "When?"
That's a toughie for a lot of people. According to science, our planet has a good five billion years before the warrantee on our sun runs out. At which point, it will expand to a Red Giant, engulfing Earth and the other inner planets and become far more cost-effective to replace than repair. Especially when one considers that the entire Universe only has a scant ohh, fifteen, sixteen trillion years to expand beyond all conceivable reason before it runs out of steam and starts collapsing back in on itself. Much like the current US economy.
Science also has shown us that the formation of the Universe was a messy business that left quite a bit of litter behind in the form of giant ice balls and big, nasty rocks. Many of which have the unfortunate habit of crashing into our planet uninvited and at highly inconvenient times. A fact the dinosaurs know about only too well...or would have, if there were any still alive...and had brains larger than a throat lozenge ...which they're not and they didn't...so, forget I even brought it up. Anyway, the point is, however long our planet has, we as a species might get dusted as early as tomorrow afternoon, somewhere around tea time, should a large enough chunk of space litter choose that moment to come barging rudely into our atmosphere.
On the other hand, there's God's Wrath. In the theory favored by those whose idea of the Universe is a small, cramped space consisting primarily of ghosties and ghoulies and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, the world ought to be coming to a screeching halt any day now. So imminent is the End, in fact, that you may not even get to finish reading this sentence before being either whisked away to glamorous Paradise or plunged into Eternal Damnation. Assuming you're still with me, let me make clear that the supporters of this concept are all absolutely sure that Armageddon is at hand and that we are living in the very Last Days. The signs are all there, they say, the omens and portents are in place, the numbers are right and all the USDA prime grade prophecies are coming true. No doubt about it, the End is seriously nigh. So, ha-ha to everyone who just had their car washed.
The trouble with this theory is that it's been espoused many, many, many times before. Near-countless times before. Over thousands of years. By millions of people. Ad nauseum. And yet, to state the thuddingly obvious, they've all been wrong. However widespread the belief, however devout the believer, however precise the calculations, however unshakable the certainty, the promise of Doomsday's arrival has remained stubbornly unfulfilled. And yet, here we are in the dim, dun dawn of the 21st century, going at it again like post-modernist Chicken Littles. And if anything, cock-a-doofus-dooming with greater gusto than ever before.
The why, the what, the where, the when, the who and the how is what this site is all about. This peculiar obsession humans have for watching the clock when we should be enjoying the party has been going on for millennia. And despite an utterly abysmal historical record of failure upon failure and reality's willful refusal to call time-out, it's one that never seems to lose its dubious charm or go mercifully away.
The following pages contain the most comprehensive collection of apocalyptic prophecies I could compile. Plus, discussion about the various types of Doomsday warnings and obsessions, quirks of the calendar, predictions of apocalypse from around the world and assorted other related stuff. So, if you think you have time to look them over before the Big One hits, the UV rays fry you, the nuclear winter freezes you, the Rapture captures you, the aliens abduct you, the earth opens up to swallow you, the black helicopters come to get you or the dreaded Satanic computer pixies plant a bar code in your forehead and plunge the world into commie-pinko conspiracy chaos, then, by all means, enjoy!

The end of the world as we know it....again
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941/

http://across.co.nz/WorldsWorstDisasters.html
This is culled from a list of the 66 worst disasters since you just asked about the last century. You ought to take a look at some of the earlier stuff if you think this is the end times.

Caribbean, 1902
Martinique, a small French colony in the Caribbean, has a volcano "Mont Pelee" which unleashed its fury and wiped out the town of St. Pierre.....Around 30,000 people were killed.


Italy, 1908
An earthquake of 7.2 magnitute and the tidal wave that resulted, destroyed several southernmost Italian cities and towns and approximately 123,000 people.


China, 1911
Yangtze River flood - approx: 100,000 deaths.


Italy, 1915
Avezzano, Italy - 7.5 earthyquake takes nearly 30,000 lives.


World-wide, 1918 - 19
Influenza pandemic takes somewhere between 35 million and 75 million lives (some reports estimate around a hundred million, but those can't be confirmed) - at least 16 million people died in India alone. This is clearly the worst disaster - at least in the last thousand years.

China, 1920
In the north China there was a drought that caused 20 million victims and took at least 500,00 lives.


China, Gansu - 1920
Gansu, China is hit with an earthquake measuring 8.6 and kills around 200,000 people.

Japan, 1923
A third of Tokyo is destroyed and much of Yokohama in an 8.3 earthquake which between 140,000 and 200,000 people.


China, 1927
An earthquake 7.9 - hit Nanshan City and took about 200,000 people.


China, 1931
A flood on the Changjiang River took at least 145,000 people (other estimates go over a million, but we have not confirmed that).


China, 1932
Another earthquake, this one northwest Gansu Province, killed about 70,000 people.


China, 1935
Another Yellow River flood "caused 27 counties inundated and 3.4 million victims". How many actual lives were killed we don't know. If you have facts, let us hear from you


China, 1933
Another Changjiang River flood takes the lives of at least 140,000 people.

Pakistan, 1935
About 30,000 lost their lives in a 7.5 earthquake.


Chile, 1939
Some 28,000 people were killed from an 8.3 earthquake in Chile.


China, 1939
A flood takes about 200,000 lives.


Turkey, 1939
More than 32,000 lives were lost from a 7.9 quake in Erzican Province.

China, 1942 - 1943
A drought in the Henan province took the lives of more than a million people.


Turkmenistan (USSR), 1948
A 7.3 earthquake took over 110,000 lives.


India, 1950
Around 30,000 people lost their lives in a quake of 8.6 magnitude in Assam, India.


World-wide, 1957
At least a hundred thousand people (some reports say over a million) died from the "Asian Flu" - about 70,000 in the USA alone.


China, 1958 - 61
As many as 20 million people died in this famine.


Peru, 1970
A 7.9 earthquake and resulting landslides killed about 66,000 in Northern Peru.


19 - Bangladesh, 1970
In 1970, a cyclone and related floods killed about 500,000 people. With winds of up to 230 km/h, the cyclone crashed into the heavily populated coastal area of the Bay of Bengal, where several river deltas normally provide fertile land. The terrible winds produced massive waves, which wiped out many entire villages. Millions of people were left homeless in this country that is one of the most densely populated and one of the poorest in the world.

Vietnam, 1971
Red River flood flood leaves about 100,000 dead.

China, Tangshan - 1976
The worst earthquake damage in modern times was in northeast China in 1976. It was July 28 when a massive quake, measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale, shook the industrial mining city of Tangshan. Officially 255,000 people died, and another 164,000 were severely injured. But others (unofficial, but perhaps more accurate?) estimate that about 655,000 perished. Some ninety per cent of the buildings were destroyed. It took at least ten years and massive investment to rebuild the city.


Iran, 1978
An earthquake measuring 7.7 takes about 25,000 lives.

Africa, 1981 - 1984
Rivers and lakes dried up from the drought that had incredible impact on twenty African nations. During one season about 20,000 were starving to death EACH MONTH. 150 million were facing starvation if help didn't come right away. People from around the world began to respond to this crisis - but for hundreds of thousands of people, it was too late. (If you have figures for this, please let us know. When combined with other relatively recent African famines, the fugure is well over 1,000,000)


Colombia, 1985
Volcano Nevado Del Ruiz claimed the lives of at least 25,000 - mostly from the mudflow which resulted from the volcanic eruption.


Armenia, 1988
An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastated Armenia in 1988. At that time Armenia was a republic of the Soviet Union. The town of Spitak was destroyed and it took the lives of all of its residents. In Leninakan, Armenia's second largest city, eighty per cent of the buildings collapsed, and over 100,000 people perished there.

Iran, 1990
a 7.7 earthquake in northwest Iran killed at least 50,000 people.


Bangladesh, 1991
Flooding again took its toll on this nation. About 139,000 lost their lives.


North Korea, 1995-98
Over 3 million are said to have died from famine and floods in North Korea.

West Africa, 1996
About 25,000 loose their lives from a meningites outbreak.


Iran, 2003
Earthquake in Bam, Iran, officially kills 26,271 people.

Ok, then comment on the other two signs or are you blinded by science.

I never thought I'd see anyone actually use that phrase.

That was funky.

Yes; how can someone take the words of scientists over the word of God.

Raul, I pose a challenge to you;

Demonstrate objectively that faith be differentiable from superstition.