Is it Armageddon?
By John Amato Monday Jun 16, 2008 6:00pm
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Worldwide---we've got cyclones, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and now floods.
- Authorities closed a bridge connecting Illinois to Iowa over the swollen Mississippi River, as levees along the country's second-longest river were being topped with sandbags Tuesday to defend against rising water.
With some 2500 National Guard already deployed across the state trying to keep the floodwaters at bay, experts believe the Mississippi, the country's second longest river, could crest during the next two days.
Iowa Governor Chet Culver warned the Mississippi would be the next battleground, as floodwaters from the state's Cedar, Iowa and Des Moines rivers poured into it.
"It's likely we'll see major flooding in every city on the border, from New Boston on down. We're very concerned about that," he said.
This is a nightmare. Keep an eye out for Locust swarms....
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Im not very religous... so lets blame global warming, weather cycles, or media cycles. Much more plausible.
Are you a spiritual man John?
I'm waiting for the next earthquake here in Calif. Make sure you have plenty of canned food, dry goods and lots of water on hand.
Some extra gasoline would be nice, but it's not like you'll be able to go somewhere. Camping stove and propane cylinders will come in handy.
Armageddon. heh heh. yeah, that's it.
Well, what did you think G-d would do because of gay marriage? I'm guessing we ain't seen nothin' yet.
19% of the US public believes Bush has done us a favor by brining on the end of times. That explains his base-level support
I believe in God, but yeah, I think global warming is the more likely culprit.
Attila the Appeaser, Bilderberg Despot @ 5:
But, but why is Iowa being punished for California??
Locusts generally don't care for the wet weather.
bush is going to inspect this flood also,
is this going to be another fly-over?
bush is so insensitive to others needs
he is hitting the bottle too much thses days
so at what point does civil disobedience turn into sedition?
what does the government have to do to push us to march on washington?
killing obama?
bombing iran?
what can get the people of the USA to turn off the tube and make some moves?
mudshark @ 2:
if you really want to be ready for the next earthquake
you had better protect yourself and get
blackwater the hell out of san diego before the
take over and start killing everyone on site.
I wonder if a televangelist $@%# head is going to come forward and blame Iowa for it's obvious wide-spread lascivious gay practices.
Or that man who beat a toddler to death on the side of road in California. People start losing their minds and committing atrocities?
Cripes, maybe it IS the 'pokkyclipse and the crazier republicans can rapture out of here so we can clean this place up.
marko @ 10:
nothing would move the people.
heck, they did nothing after 9-11.
marko @ 10:
Shh! Right after Ultimate Fighter, dude.
...and the anti-Christ is vice president of the United States, the end times are upon us!
Bonkers @ 13:
It might be worth opening regional "Rapture Centers" to facilitate the move. That reminds me of that old movie "Soylent Green".
Well, what did you think G-d would do because of gay marriage?
My thoughts exactly! I am guessing most of the places have constitutional amendments against gay marriage, and God done smote those bitches hard 'cause she is pissed that Jesus came all the way down here to preach love and compassion, and those assholes were too stupid to hear his message!
Where are the pestilence and frogs
In the armpits of Frenchman?
Blue Lensman @ 8:
I'm sure there will be some newly created dry areas for them to visit. Like Georgia for instance.
miss_kitty @ 20:
How 'bout Crawford, Texas? I hear there's good brush there..
Blue Lensman @ 21:
And some "bushes" that could use eatin'! Oh, and as for the floods...maybe they will wash some of the "red" out of those states.
"Is it Armageddon?"
Well, if you survayed your countrymen about what to do to react to these catastrophies, the most common answer would probably be to "pray". So it has to be true. And penguins occupy 90% of our brains too. Better believe it.
Brownie! Brownie! got a job for you, man.
Armageddon?
Maybe.
At least the impeachment process for GW has begun.
Harry R. Sohl @ 18:
So ... your saying if the is a god he has very very bad aim? He or she is sending harm on the people who believe in him/her because someplace 2500 miles away did something?
I guess that would be logical to anyone who can believe in the sky guy/girl.
I personally think i'm better off as a non-believer.
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
Erik @ 25:
They sent it to committee. That's second only to flat-out tabling in terms of killing something.
Got back to Iowa City last night. Seems we missed some excitement while on vacation. tee hee
You're f*&ing kidding us with this post right?
And I've said it before, I'll say it again-earthquakes aren't caused by global warming.
They just happen from time to time. So does weird weather, global warming or not.
Blue Lensman @ 17:
I want a raptured Republicans luxury SUV, so I can put it on blocks and raise some chickens in it.
I reckon those useless SUVs would make mighty fine hen coops.
Also there will be plenty of vacant R housing for the homeless and druggies to take over, and squat in.
Finally we could see some equality and people off the streets and safe at night.
Informative video on HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Reasearch Program)the new weather modification and mind control Star Wars Defense Initiative (SDI)weapon of the US military. HAARP is capable of creating weather like hurricanes and tornadoes and tsunamis and earthquakes. It is also capable of altering peoples moods. From WETA TV a PBS station. Run a Google.com search for HAARP. Also search HAARP on YouTube.
Yes it's Armageddon because Bush and Cheney are the Anti-Christs!
Not to worry, have faith, good always wins over evil, lol!
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Newbie @ 12:
Or it could be a judgment on the morality of the Republican party and their religious money grubbing lackeys.
God is sending us a subtle hint that he doesnt like McCain's womanizing and gambling ways, plus Rudi Giuliani dressing up in womens clothes.
The eight years of Republican corruption is being judged and found wanting, their sins are being punished.
Is it Armageddon?
No it's the earth. It's not always peace and harmony.
skycypher @ 30:
You do know that HAARP is a faith based initiative program, it involves squads of religious types praying in unison to affect the weather.
Barbara Key @ 7:
Right, why does He punish the born-again Christians for the sins of the evil latte drinkers on the coasts?
Doesn't the second amendment guarantee the right to arm a geddon?
you know the end is near because the Chicago Cubs have the best record in baseball.
I'm sure Bush is on the case already. Just like he was in New Orleans. That should make them folks feel a whole lot better.
Red state Amerikuh' can thank them lucky stars of theirs that they voted compassionate conservative, Because now they are going to get exactly what they voted for!
WhenIsItEnough @ 4:
If God is going after anyone about marriage, he best start with the heterosexuals....they've done such an admirable job honoring it.
and a helpful hint...if you wear loafers, you are Raptured quicker!
marko @ 10:
the american people will rise up in mass when american idol is cancelled and when danceing with the stars is allso , thier will be armed rebellion !
I really, really wish the locusts would come and swarm in Limpball's studio.
Billy Hussien Pilgrim @ 35:
God is the father of a 30 something long haired pot head not fled the nester, he sympathizes.
tyree @ 40:
when the beer runs out.... then there will be blood on the streets
General Jack D. Ripper @ 41:
the only swarming Lumpy Rash would recognize is the rustle of little pills in bottles.
abarts @ 39:
dont forget the flag lapel pins, country choice optional
Billy Hussien Pilgrim @ 35:
Well, according to the "God Hates Fags" people of that wack-job church, he punishes them because "America is soft on gays" and good old God doesn't discriminate between gay and non-gay victims when he is doling out his punishment for the USA..
It must be global warming. We never had floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes before an inconvenient truth was released.
Im sure earthquakes are linked to global warming somehow too.
Is it Armageddon? No. More than likely natural disasters are due to clear cutting. Or pig farming. Takes yer choice.
No. It's just a lot of rain.
Billy Hussien Pilgrim @ 35:
Haven't you heard? He raptured 20,000 a couple of weeks ago.
L.A. Confidential @ 49:
Conspiracy theorist! ; )
Could we please have a president now who understands science and the law? Or one who cares about actual people, not just fetuses? How about small businesses in the area--do they have insurance? I am so sick of living in bizarro world. It rains tons, the water goes down hill and down river. Hello? Is this thing working? Can anybody hear me?
dadams @ 9:
No, he is an opportunist. He will fly over to see how he can repay his supporters like the crew ships that send him a hefty campaign fund and was repaid with Katrina, putting victims on the ship and serving them champaign, then billing the government. Expect Bush's cronies come swooping in like the locusts that was brought up before for the almighty dollar!
Let's not be little Hagees. (Well it's just too easy to be a "little" Hagee.) What could this be? No not armageddon, not Harry Potter, not the Catholic Church, not the vengance of God for Homosexuallity. There must be a rational explaination. Hmmmmm.
Global warming?
No, it couldn't be. That's just a Liberal agenda. Let's try God's vengance for occult Harry Potter Liberal Homosexuals.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
On a serious biblical note, the bible does describe earthquakes, pestilences, food shortages, etc. as a sign of the end of this system. (Luke 21:11) And 2 Tim 3:1-5 describes attributes people would display, like lovers of themselves, lovers of money self-assuming, haughty, fierce, puffed up with pride, etc...the kind of people that contribute to global warming and such disasters.
I don't consider myself "religious" but the bible is so interesting.
Is it Armageddon?
I don't know but I am just one of many volunteer fire departments that are trying to fund raise just to put diesel in our fire trucks.
It is not looking good.
Who was the guy, (Rummy?) who said, "Shit happens." ?
Fall @ 55:
The bible talked about the GOP?
I was out bagging today, at a little town called Niota. The river was seriously a few inches away from the River Road that goes along the Miss. River. It's very humbling to see how mighty the Mississippi can be. We need to learn to respect the forces of this world, and not let them get out of hand.
And as far as the apocalypse, yes the bible speaks of such things, but think of all the times these things have happened in the past. I am a strong Christian, but refuse to believe these are a sign of the end of times. No one will be able to know when it happens.
tyree @ 40:
well, stealing two elections hasn't done the trick. negligence or possible downright complicity in the worst attack on u.s. soil hasn't done the trick. the dismantling of the u.s. constitution hasn't done the trick. 4 dollar gas hasn't done the trick. the 6 dollar box of wheaties hasn't done the trick.
don't know, ty, i kinda doubt pulling the plug on the telly would have much effect, either.
maybe outlawing nachos at wal-mart would be what it'd take to get the masses to bum-rush the pitchfork and torch aisles...
Zilam @ 60:
well, y2k was kind of a bust, and the end-timers like john hagee seem awfully dim when you consider they bought the gov't's "official" 9/11 story, hook, line 'n sinker.
myself, i always thought jesus was preachin' that peace, love and hope bull$#!+.
Some town on the Mississippi was probably planning a gay parade. It's their fault.
I've got your locust swarms right here: it's the "year of the locusts" in Appalachia. The seventeen year cicadas have emerged, are flitting about in their clumsy swarms, and are screaming like little mechanical banshees.
I'm not very religious either, but all these things do make me wonder sometimes...
Are there statistics about the number of people who are killed each year in natural disasters? I know it would have to approximate, but I'm wondering if we have the data to show whether these past few years have been extraordinary.
I cant wait to see who gets dispatched to rebuild Iowa... maybe they can build some mixed residential commercial condo's starting in the low 900's. I wonder how long it will before God speaks to the leader to tell him to send armed blackwater commando's in to go door to door to kick ou.. err umm i mean rescue people.
Where is Pat Robertson? Why isn't he asking why God is angry with the Red States??
mudshark @ 3:
You know it's the reason being given in churches across America, now we got a bunch loons waiting to suddenly disappear.
Yes, it is Armageddon, and i'm rapture ready. Are you? http://www.raptureready.com/
I live in Cedar Rapids and the water is finally going away. I was fortunate enough to find housing on top of a large hill when I moved here about two months ago. The highways are clearing up and the clean-up is beginning. People at my office are talking about requesting funds from FEMA in a very tongue-in-cheek manner. After the Katrina fiasco, very few expect to see any kind of relief.
I hope Bush comes to inspect the floods and is dumb enough to stick his hand in the water (here's a hint: we're giving out free tetanaus shots to those that do work in the grime for a long period of time).
Wait, ive seen this movie before. It was a little film called AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.
No, it's not Armageddon. Ever since the Reagan years, when Reagonomics was so messing up the economy, one thing that was done was to move money away from maintenance programs which looked after
the drinking water
the bridges
the levees
etc...
Which would have been fine, for 1 term, maybe. But no succeeding administration has ever raised the tax, or funneled the existing tax money back into those programs.
So the levees are gonna break.
The bridges are gonna collapse.
The drinking water system (and eventually the sewage system) are gonna fail.
So relax. It's not armageddon.
It'll only look and feel like armageddon.
The Mississippi is the nation's second longest river? Which river in the U.S. is longer than the Mississippi?
joe! @ 33:
In fact, it never is.
is it Armageddon --? suppose that depends on your definition.
is Nature showing humanity its own reflection, writ large, in the mirror of winds, water, earth disturbances, etc.? I would say, emphatically, yes. 'business as usual' -- the way human beings have conducted themselves, as societies and as empires (built on greed, enslavement, cruelty, selfishness, power-grabbing, and all the usual elements of power run amok), for thousands of years -- has evoked a serious response from Nature.
it's Newton's 1st Law amplified for everyone to see, or not see: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
if we can wake up and perceive the reflection in the mirror -- a karmic accumulation of all the negativity we've put into this planet and one another for millenniae -- and change our behaviors, collectively, accordingly, the disasters and so on will calm down. if not, well, we're like the toddlers who keep wanting to run into traffic and are constantly baffled why their Mom is really angry with them.
my understanding is that all of these disasters -- and their increasing frequency and intensity -- are providing us with a drastic series of wake-up calls. let's see how many of us actually answer the phone.
truth be told @ 69:
No, but I am waiting for the great pumpkin.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Repubs start working this Armageddon angle into their presidential campaign rhetoric.
What I find ironic is that the worlds 2 top carbon polluters are now faced with massive flood disasters. Karma?
Need I say it.
Dec. 21 2012
Bush has sent us into a downward spiral.
The rich will control the weak and poor because they plan on America being morbidly obese from too much fast food.
We won't be able to march on Washington because of our rising gas prices, but because the complacent fat asses won't be able to get out the door.
People need to wake up.
The rapture idea is heretical and unBiblical.
The limey who came up with the idea couldn't even sell it in his own country and had to peddle it here.
timber @ 71:
I wonder how Al Gore likes being Jor-El.
He's even less wooden than Marlon Brando.
What will it take for Americans to wake up and realize that the climate crisis is real?
John @ 72:
I have to agree. Every generation since FDR's New Deal has invested in our infrastructure. This stopped when the conservative era was ushered in by Reagan's election. This is payback for neglect.
Kevin @ 73:
The Missouri, but not by much.
Please GAWD, rapture your more rabid, less intelligent followers so we can live in peace.
Ahh yes, the baby boomer's ideological gift to the millennial generation, "Me, Me, Me, Me." Lower taxes, lower taxes, more for me, bigger is better. Who needs infrastructure, affordable health insurance, this is a grab for whoever can get the most!
I was pleased to see the National Guard used for their intended purpose for ONCE.
Here in Colorado the pine forests will be gone in 5 years thanks to beetle-kill (more specifically the fungus they carry from tree to tree) which will go unchecked unless temperatures fall to consistent critical cold (our winters are warmer).
This means erosion and floods without the trees whose roots hold back thousands of gallons per sq eigth of a mile.
Once the pines quit taking up and holding off (conserving runoff)billions of gallons of wasted spring runoff hasten the exhaustion of water supplies,and make treatment very difficult, and that's just for openers.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 85:
That's what Armegeddon is for. A culling of THAT particular failed non-evolutionary herd.
ysbaddaden @ 80:
There was a true story last year of a bunch of Ohioan Rapturists who went into debt by hundreds of millions thinking the raputure assured they wouldn't have to pay it back. That's how unfathomably, worse-than-we-ever-thought-it-could-possibly-be fucking stupid they are.
dumbstruck @ 77:
I hope they DO, oh, if only they froth at the mouth like Cujo.
Fucking assholes.
truth be told @ 69:
It's only for the Special like yourself. Why not advance your order? You know, get there ahead of time.
If you and your friends jump off a very steep cliff with jagged rocks below, you'll FLY!
Meanwhile, bush head to congress to seek off shore drilling ban be lifted. He sure is one busy boy. I live on the Florida's gulf coast, and the gov, who has opposed this, has, out of the blue, jumped on it like a fly on shit...........McCain't claims it as his new energy policy.
I've been on the phone all morning, so far haven't gotten anywhere, cept to school a few totally-asleep-at-the-wheel interns.
My heart goes to all who are dealing with this mess............there by the Grace of God go all of us.........except bush and his evil followers.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ in Chiang Mai @ 26:
God is a giant mannequin sitting in the lap of every fundamentalist 'christian' saying what they want "god" to say. Like, "Make Gay People Feel Like Shit And Isolate Them From Committing To Each Other". Yeah. That's WHAT GOD TOLD ME. Fuck Yeah.
"God Told Me To Get My Friends And Beat The Crap Out Of And Kill That Gay Kid With A Baseball Bat And Take Turns".
If there was a god (and if 'it' gave a shit) that god made a certain percentage of gay people with the same capacity for love as any ungay.
"It" (god) is an asshole, made in the image and likeness of fundamentalist (probably gay themselves) sadist.
We have an unprecedented number of toads at our dog park. Does that count?
Doesn't the second amendment of the US Constitution guarantee our rights to arm a geddon?
It doesn't matter whether you have faith in biblical prophecies or not. They will still come true. You can call it nature instead of god, doesnt matter one bit. We will probablt all be either burned, drowned, or starved.
You do agree that animals have an uncanny ability to predict catastrophic events such as tidal waves and earth quakes?
Is it not theoretically possible that a human animal would have the same pre-event awareness?
We are doomed. Save your souls! Send me your money!!
You think the price of groceries is outrageous now, just wait a couple of months.
crazytown @ 88:
Yup...I think if there is such a thing as this so called "Armegeddon" or "Ragnarok" it will be a hoot! I'm gonna have my video camera..(borrowed,from one of the "raptured" souls) and a cooler full of brew, a bag full o' happiness, my lady by my side...and those freaks can kiss my sacreligious, heathen, non-believin ASS!
ysbaddaden @ 95:
Nope, I believe it was for bears.
It is ironic, maybe god does approve of gay marriage! All the Midwest biblical morons are getting theirs and so far in CA, not one earthquake because of gay marriage! It's like San Diego (heavy into Jeebus town), it took almost burning the whole thing down twice to get those people some perspective on real life..
truth be told @ 69:
The Best of the Christian Classics link.. Do they show rape, murder, incest, stoning, stabbing, torture, smiting? Those are the Christian classics! I couldn't bring myself to go further than the schizophrenic home page, sorry.
It can't be Armageddon. The good Pastor John Hagee would have told us so if that were true. Just God's punishment of those nasty people for some sin. Who knows? Maybe some of them were considering voting for Obama in November.
Armageddon...yes, global warming and climate change that doesn't support life anymore will get you an out-of-body experience. Prior to that experience, dying definitely hurts...alot. Reality bites. Sorry for the disappointment but somebody had to tell you "truth be told@69".
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