Now we've finally got an Armageddon date...

[cynatnite]

A top expert on the Mideast says it is possible Iran could pick Aug. 22, the anniversary of one of Islam's holiest events, for a cataclysm Shiite Muslims believe will forever resolve the battle between "good" and "evil."

Princeton's Bernard Lewis has written an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal advising that the rest of the world would be wise to bear in mind that for those who believe the end of the world is imminent and good, there is no deterrent even to nuclear warfare.

As WorldNetDaily has reported, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged his people to prepare for the coming of an Islamic "messiah," raising concerns a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic could trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions will set the stage for the end of the world.

He's also said, in a WND report, that Islam and its followers must prepare to rule the world, because it is a "universal ideology that leads the world to justice."

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51445

:rofl:

[hatrack]

1. Bernard Lewis - STILL ALIVE!

:eyes:

[Miss Chybil]

2. And it will be carried live - or dead - on CNN! nt

[AnnieBW]

3. Oh, Goody!

Hubby and I can run up our credit cards in Las Vegas and lose the money for the mortgage payment at the blackjack table! :D

[cynatnite]

4. That's less than two weeks away

:bounce:

I'm so excited I could be raptured right now.

[Horse with no Name]

6. Do you think white shoes would be too presumptious to enter

the Kingdom of Heaven? Or should I dress with modest brown shoes?
I can't believe these decisions that need to be made.
I am just GLAD that I have time to get my eyebrows waxed before the rapture.
I would HATE to go through eternity with bushy eyebrows.

[Nia Zuri]

8. Go with beige toned sandals

[never_get_over_it]

21. The white shoes are fine

since its before Labor Day your good to GO ....man I have got to get an appointment for a hair cut and color

[Ghost in the Machine]

28. I thought you got a robe and flip flops when you're raptured...

I don't wanna go if there ain't no flip flops in heaven.. that would SUCK!

2 weeks huh? Now I feel silly for buying a boat today.

[Horse with no Name]

30. Oh crap

Better get that pedicure I have been putting off--open toes and all.

[mwb970]

38. Do they allow liquids during the Rapture?

I was going to make me up a big vat of Jesus Juice, but if liquids are banned now I'm not going to bother.

[Jim__]

5. ...for those who believe the end of the world is imminent and good...

Princeton's Bernard Lewis has written an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal advising that the rest of the world would be wise to bear in mind that for those who believe the end of the world is imminent and good, there is no deterrent even to nuclear warfare.

I trust that Bernard Lewis doesn't think that statement only applies to Muslims.

[fordnut]

43. i think Bush will make them think

it's the apocolpse if he nukes them. is the moron still
talking about doing that?

[LunaC]

7. Gee - what a coincidence!

US-Canadian exercise "Vigilant Guardian" Aug 17-26 (same exercise run on 9-11)

(FFN Editors note: These same "Vigilant Guardian" drills were being run on 9-11, which depleted the NORAD air defenses. More coming soon on these drills in August...)

http://www.falseflagnews.com/wargames/red_alert_us-canadian_exercise_vigilant_guardian_aug_17-26
http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=58878&issue=08042006

Then when you consider that Bush Is Rumored To Be Seeking A “Persian Gulf Incident, I’ve got to wonder if the WSJ/WND is putting out prepatory propaganda to prime the public pump.

August 22, eh?

[CrushTheDLC]

33. So, with these "drills" being held in Ontario

Would that leave Toronto wide open for a terraist attack?

For a long time, I have thought that the next "terra" event would involve a Canadian city close to the US border. Toronto and Vancouver seemed the obvious choices, but Windsor Ontario might work even better, given the proximity to the large Arab American community in the Dearborn/Detroit area. Convenient scapegoats for the Bush bastards and all they have to do is cross a bridge, or be accused of launching something accross the river.

[KyndCulture]

9. The world can't end before the 30th.

Cause it's my birthday!

[cynatnite]

10. What about a pre-armageddon party?

:party:

[WestSeattle2]

26. This is what I love about Democrats....

we always see the silver lining! World ending? Throw a freakin party! YES!!!!

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[tanyev]

11. We made reservations for a cruise in November.

I've never been on a cruise before. :cry:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

18. That's my brother in law's

birthday, too. Guess we'll have a good excuse for not getting him a card this year. (Not that we don't love him, we just often forget)

[Nikki Stone 1]

12. O great. How many Armageddons can we stand?!

I opt for a new religion with no end of the world.

[sueragingroz]

13. I always figured... that if the world is going to end...

I may as well be in Bermuda for it.

We may slowly starve and kill one another after the food shipments run out... but hey, there's fabulous beaches!

[walldude]

14. At least they have the decency to wait till after my vacation

it's my first in 7 years.

[Rex]

15. Oh please, Iran knows they will be wiped off the face of the planet

just like America knows an attack on Iran would cause WWIII. I would hope Iran understands this. I'm pretty sure even Idiot Boy and his dad Dick Cheney know this.

[blurp]

23. They don't care if they're destroyed. That's the point of the article!

As for intent, a passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, reveals priorities: "I am decisively announcing to the whole world that if the world-devourers (i.e., the infidel powers) wish to stand against our religion, we will stand against their whole world and will not cease until the annihilation of all them. Either we all become free, or we will go to the greater freedom which is martyrdom."

The article is a warning about how the policy of MAD (mutually assured destruction), which seems to have worked during the cold war, won't work against a country like Iran. In fact, it's a sort of inducement for destruction.

[Rex]

32. Same could be said about the rapture crowd.

I just hope cooler heads prevail.

[LunaC]

35. Bingo!

For those who believe, the devotion is real. Tears stream down the cheeks of 2,000 men ripe for the return of the Mahdi, the 12th Imam they expect will soon emerge to bring justice and peace to a corrupt world.

-snip-

As at a Christian revivalist meeting that promises healing and redemption, many weep as they pray for the Shiite Muslim version of the second coming of the Messiah.

-snip-

"Bush said: 'God said to me, attack Afghanistan and attack Iraq.' The mentality of Mr. Bush and (President) Ahmadinejad is the same here - both think God tells them what to do," says Mr. Mohebian, noting that end-of-time beliefs have similar roots in Christian and Muslim theology.

"If you think these are the last days of the world, and Jesus will come , this idea will change all your relations," says Mohebian. "If I think the Mahdi will come in two, three, or four years, why should I be soft? Now is the time to stand strong, to be hard." That mind-set also hearkens back to the missionary ambition of the newly forged Islamic Republic. "What Ahmadinejad believes is that we have to create a model state based on ... Islamic democracy - to be given to the world," says Hamidreza Taraghi, head of the conservative Islamic Coalition Society. "The ... government accepts this role for themselves."

Any possibility of détente with the US may also be in jeopardy, if the US-Iran conflict is cast in Mahdaviat terms. That view holds that the US - with quasireligious declarations of transforming the Middle East with democracy and justice, deploying military forces across the region, and developing a new generation of nuclear weapons - is arrogantly trying to assume the role of Mahdi.

More………

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1221/p01s04-wome.html

[RebelOne]

16. All those fundies at Rapture Ready are preparing to leave.

It is just too, too funny that people really believe they are going to be swept up to that mythical place called "heaven." And they think they will be walking on streets of gold.

[Megahurtz]

22. I think it's going to be hilarious to see

them create this big Armageddon mess for themselves hoping they will be "Raptured up"
only for them to find out they're still here!!!

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

24. Oh Yes, Hilarious

:crazy:

only we all get to go along for the ride to the hell they create on earth

[RebelOne]

25. Too bad it won't happen.

I sure would like to get rid of them. Then we will have a more peaceful world.

[SPKrazy]

36. An Armageddon Would Create A More Peaceful World?

I don't follow

[Der Blaue Engel]

17. Aw, c'mon! My birthday's gonna be Armageddon??

I mean, sometimes I feel like turning 40 is the end of the world, but I didn't think anyone was taking that literally!

[WestSeattle2]

19. 2 days before my payday?!! My company gets almost 2

weeks of my work for free? I always get screwed.

[Odin2005]

20. My Mom won't be happy. Her birthday is on the 23th.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

27. you don't bring out a new product before labor day -

andrew card

[leftofthedial]

29. another rapture rupture?

[CrushTheDLC]

31. Why couldn't they make it August 15, or something?

If I wait until the 22nd to pay my bills, I'll have a bunch of late charges - if the world doesn't end. Can't these goddamned terraists do the right thing and end the world when it's convenient? I mean they have to pay their AlQaeda Express cards, don't they??

[aaronbees]

34. Whoo hoo! I'm on vacation that day....

I'd hate be at work when the end of the world hits. Gonna go live it up in the meantime! ;-) :party: :nuke: :tinfoilhat:

[hippiechick]

37. AWESOME, I have a dentist appointment scheduled for the 23rd !

:evilgrin:

[mwb970]

39. LOL!! (n/t)

[Oak2004]

40. Unfortunately (more or less)

there are likely to be survivors of all the fundies' various Armageddons -- I imagine large parts of the non-insane world will decline the invitation to participate, and the geographies/nations involved pretty much preclude all-out nuclear war.

The most likely result of any Armageddon enactment would be Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and perhaps a few other Middle Eastern countries in a state of utter radioactive ruin, nations immediately downwind of them in crisis, with a good part of the citizenry sick or dead from fallout they're too poor and/or uneducated and/or unwilling to be able to shelter from effectively, possibly a few Western cities destroyed, a sixth to perhaps as much as half of America's military dead, wounded, or dying, America an international pariah with very little oil, and the triumphant rise of China as the world's most powerful nation.

Yup, sounds like a real (food) riot for us survivors.

I suppose we could look at the bright side. At least there will be a significant decline in fundamentalism around the globe. Where can Jesus return to if Jerusalem is a glow-in-the-dark crater?

[LSK]

41. so rapture was postponed a few days?

:shrug:

[Norquist Nemesis]

42. Is Pat Robertson extending his visit in Israel?

Wolfie was in total and complete AWE when he interviewed him a few days ago. Well, at least we'll have "on the ground" coverage of the event with all of the snews crews in the ME!

[leesa]

45. Does Wolfie understand that Pat intends to slaughter him before the

kick-off?

[soup]

44. Problem.

My son was called to report for jury duty August 30th.

Should he
fill out and return the "Why I should be excused" forms in anticipation of being unavailable?
wait and see?
risk the consequences if he fails to appear?