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Re: Doomsday scoreboard

#91

Post by eru »

fluoridation wrote: post #66
kulahan wrote: post #59

One mildly interesting fact that MANY Christians get wrong: There is no lead-up to the apocalypse. The Messiah will return "like a thief in the night" and "nobody, except my Father, knows the hour of my return" (I probably butchered those two quotes). Either way, the Bible is pretty clear (as was Jesus): there will be zero indication the apocalypse is coming. None. It'll just... start.

The book of Revelation also cites various signs that are metaphorical enough to be applied to just about anything. It's pointless to cite the Bible to defend a theological position, because someone else can cite a different part that can be interpreted to say the exact opposite.

That's why the Catholics have a guy in charge who infallibly tells you how to interpret the damn thing. Instead of having every Tom, Dick and Harry have a stab at misunderstanding scripture.

Re: Doomsday scoreboard

#92

Post by eru »

kulahan wrote: post #76
bloppe wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The homeless man currently yelling outside my window is an equally authoritative source of information about the apocalypse as the Bible, and he thinks it's coming soon.

A billion people don't believe there's some truth to what the homeless man outside of your window is saying, and someone leading a legitimate-enough revolution that they're put to death by the King of Rome is probably a tiny bit more believable. But I get what you're saying either way. I just think it's an interesting factlet.

Who's the King of Rome? The Romans famously got rid of their kings long before anyone ever thought of Christianity, and later it took until the fall of the Empire before anyone was both a king and in charge of Rome.

Re: Doomsday scoreboard

#93

Post by nneonneo »

undershirt wrote: post #79
bironran wrote: post #25

It's missing the January 19, 2038, the unix epoch end. Only 12 years and a bit from now. Very much in our time.

9/11 happened 1 trillion milliseconds after the unix epoch.

Not quite; the first attack happened at approximately UNIX time 1000210380, which isn't quite as round as "1 trillion milliseconds". (It was about 2 days after 1e9).

Re: Doomsday scoreboard

#94

Post by akerl_ »

eru wrote: post #91
fluoridation wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The book of Revelation also cites various signs that are metaphorical enough to be applied to just about anything. It's pointless to cite the Bible to defend a theological position, because someone else can cite a different part that can be interpreted to say the exact opposite.

That's why the Catholics have a guy in charge who infallibly tells you how to interpret the damn thing. Instead of having every Tom, Dick and Harry have a stab at misunderstanding scripture.

It's a good thing there's always exactly one pope.

Re: Doomsday scoreboard

#95

Post by gnabgib »

akerl_ wrote: post #94
eru wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why the Catholics have a guy in charge who infallibly tells you how to interpret the damn thing. Instead of having every Tom, Dick and Harry have a stab at misunderstanding scripture.

It's a good thing there's always exactly one pope.

Well that's provably false.. there've been three popes[0] and zero popes happen now and then (2025[1], 2013[2], 2005, 1978..)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis

Re: Doomsday scoreboard

#96

Post by fluoridation »

eru wrote: post #91
fluoridation wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The book of Revelation also cites various signs that are metaphorical enough to be applied to just about anything. It's pointless to cite the Bible to defend a theological position, because someone else can cite a different part that can be interpreted to say the exact opposite.

That's why the Catholics have a guy in charge who infallibly tells you how to interpret the damn thing. Instead of having every Tom, Dick and Harry have a stab at misunderstanding scripture.

Not that that stops individual Catholics from having their own opinions anyway. It's fractal cherry picking.

Re: Doomsday scoreboard

#98

Post by potatoman22 »

eru wrote: post #92
kulahan wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A billion people don't believe there's some truth to what the homeless man outside of your window is saying, and someone leading a legitimate-enough revolution that they're put to death by the King of Rome is probably a tiny bit more believable. But I get what you're saying either way. I just think it's an interesting factlet.

Who's the King of Rome? The Romans famously got rid of their kings long before anyone ever thought of Christianity, and later it took until the fall of the Empire before anyone was both a king and in charge of Rome.

After the Roman Republic, they switched to having an emperor. Jesus was crucified during this Roman empire. The kings of Rome were around 600 years before this. They meant the emperor, not the king.

Re: Doomsday scoreboard

#99

Post by layman51 »

bironran wrote: post #25

It's missing the January 19, 2038, the unix epoch end. Only 12 years and a bit from now. Very much in our time.

Right, but there's no doomsday prophecies around the Year 2038 problem as far as I can tell. I think it falls in the same kind of category of known problems that are certain to happen at some point. Some other things I was thinking of were the theorized ARkStorm, and also an earthquake that could happen in the Cascadia subduction zone.

Re: Doomsday scoreboard

#100

Post by o11c »

akerl_ wrote: post #94
eru wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why the Catholics have a guy in charge who infallibly tells you how to interpret the damn thing. Instead of having every Tom, Dick and Harry have a stab at misunderstanding scripture.

It's a good thing there's always exactly one pope.

Okay, where's the "falsehoods programmers believe about ..." article for popes?
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