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Re: We are closing in... [Re: Pinkerton] 1
#28515270 - 10/23/23 01:23 PM (3 months, 4 days ago) |
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A bit over a decade ago I recall people sharing similar notions about the year 2012.
Before that it was the year 2000...
I should admit that I favor prophetic claims with dates, so I know when I can stop waiting for it and just move on.
For context, and maybe even entertainment, here is an episode of Juice Media's Rap News, where the theme was 2012:
Note, this was published on Dec 21, 2011, before 2012 arrived, so it captures a bit of the mood and insanity that the whole thing entailed at the time.
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Ice once told me I am all about love. I am starting to believe in it based on myself and how I socialize among other humans.
Now if I could just be less butthurt about what people around me are saying. And stop getting those crazy intrusive thoughts.
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Re: We are closing in... [Re: Nillion]
#28516365 - 10/24/23 09:40 AM (3 months, 3 days ago) |
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Nillion said:
I should admit that I favor prophetic claims with dates, so I know when I can stop waiting for it and just move on.

I've been waiting for Armageddon since the 80's. When my religious friends convinced me that Ronald Reagan was the antichrist and that the rapture was around the corner. I almost chose not to go to college because the end of the world was near. There's something seductive about gloom & doom fantasy.
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Re: We are closing in... [Re: Pinkerton]
#28516426 - 10/24/23 10:39 AM (3 months, 3 days ago) |
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I had an enrapturing childhood, to say the least.
My father claimed to have had an angel of the lord appear to him and tell him that he would witness the return of Jesus Christ to this world.
My father was thus a prophet, with a prophecy, though not a particularly impressive one.
This all happened before I was born but it shaped my life considerably and not for the better. He founded a cult-like sect in his religion. Some members of it killed some kids in Idaho not long ago. The shit they were touting as reasons for this barbaric evil came largely from my dad. The idea that kids who misbehave are possessed by evil spirits was something I heard a lot as a child.
I'm rather sensitive when it comes to prophetic, supernatural and religious claims, due to extensive experience dealing with those who make them. I hope that doesn't make me look like a jerk when I address the topics of such things, but it probably does.
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#28516463 - 10/24/23 11:15 AM (3 months, 3 days ago) |
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such things, you are doing great in the wake of exposure to it.
BTW we watched the ipcress file
excellent
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Re: We are closing in... [Re: Pinkerton]
#28516532 - 10/24/23 12:17 PM (3 months, 3 days ago) |
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It has stolen almost 11 years from my life.
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redgreenvines said: such things, you are doing great in the wake of exposure to it.
That may be true but for me the, daily, struggle is real. I'm not the biggest fan of the world, the people in it, or even being alive... but I do love the world, the people in it and being alive. That love may create expectations that lead me to resentments.
I had someone I love die earlier this month from complications related to intravenous drug use. I resented her use of these drugs and the behavior that it entailed far more than I ordinarily would have, because I loved the person who was making these choices and I wanted to see them thrive, not rot and decay from the inside out.
I cut her out of my life several years ago, I just can't have that kind of shit in my life, but thought that I would see her again one day.
And it isn't just her. I love all of them.
I have to face the realization that I cannot do anything about it, other than love them and share what I think and feel, from time to time, in the hopes that it might serve some constructive purpose greater than myself. Maybe sometimes it does and I have and or will?
I'd rather be a servant and student of a greater cause than a leader or a teacher of any form. It reminds me of politics.
I have a saying that political power rarely attracts those worthy of wielding it. Those who want the job are often the very same who should not have it. I don't even want to be here and share and at the same time I cannot help but think of Confucius in the Analects writing that as members of society, perhaps even the human race, we have a form of obligation to contribute, if we are able, to the betterment of our world. Civic duty, essentially.
Maybe that is what my presence here is? A comic attempt of some type of psychedelic community service? That could be it.
Forgive my neurotic rambling, it is one of my personality flaws and I am a work in progress.
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Re: We are closing in... [Re: Pinkerton]
#28531884 - 11/06/23 03:10 PM (2 months, 20 days ago) |
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I get more and more internal information major things are about to change.
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Re: We are closing in... [Re: Pinkerton]
#28532522 - 11/07/23 04:52 AM (2 months, 20 days ago) |
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Me and the crew:
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Quote:
redgreenvines said: world peace 
It is going to happen!
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Re: We are closing in... [Re: Pinkerton]
#28537662 - 11/10/23 06:53 PM (2 months, 16 days ago) |
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We should all stand united for the united expression of man!
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I am afraid this is a one-man show.
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Re: We are closing in... [Re: Pinkerton]
#28539553 - 11/11/23 10:55 PM (2 months, 15 days ago) |
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One man.. one country.. one Earth.. one solar system. One galaxy.. one universe!
Prep!
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like push ups?
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No, and yes..
How many push-ups will you be doing now..?
And how much will you be doing at a latter time..?
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moi? i only go half way down... 64
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Lol.. 64 is grand..
Before I was on medication I could do 50 push-ups..
But since I was put on anti-psychotics and gained 70 pounds.. I could do maybe 5 at best..
But I do some work outs daily so I'm still happy.
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64 half way down's after bicycle phew! then 128 crunches or half crunches? six pack-ish then sitting, then I'm a blob until the next day, but often lots of walking.
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BrendanFlock said: One man.. one country.. one Earth.. one solar system. One galaxy.. one universe!
Prep!
All inside one brain.
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Re: We are closing in... [Re: Nillion]
#28539901 - 11/12/23 08:45 AM (2 months, 15 days ago) |
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Nillion said: I had an enrapturing childhood, to say the least.
My father claimed to have had an angel of the lord appear to him and tell him that he would witness the return of Jesus Christ to this world.
My father was thus a prophet, with a prophecy, though not a particularly impressive one.
This all happened before I was born but it shaped my life considerably and not for the better. He founded a cult-like sect in his religion. Some members of it killed some kids in Idaho not long ago. The shit they were touting as reasons for this barbaric evil came largely from my dad. The idea that kids who misbehave are possessed by evil spirits was something I heard a lot as a child.
I'm rather sensitive when it comes to prophetic, supernatural and religious claims, due to extensive experience dealing with those who make them. I hope that doesn't make me look like a jerk when I address the topics of such things, but it probably does.
Are you comfortable sharing more about what happened in Idaho?
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