>> ^ponceleon:

...how the FUCK do you jump from unusual cloud = end of the world


it's quite common, many religions mark the end of days with signs and wonders in the heavens:

I will show wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.

The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

-Acts 2:19-20

and for the ignorant majority who are desperate for something meaningful in their lives they grab onto The End Is Near scenarios because it's something they can understand.

>> ^IronDwarf:

Do you really believe that there are people in this world that are so evil that they believe they are justified in making this happen at the cost of thousands of lives, and who would actually go through with it?


Yes. Apparently you weren't around during Viet Nam and have been asleep for the last 10+ years of the Gulf Wars.

Not thousands, but many Hundreds of thousands of lives have been pissed away in the name of western goals by truly evil men during our lifetime.

Faith: intentional ignorance. Belief in something you know isn't true.

Being aware of the thousands of years of debate, I think most intelligent rational honest believers, if pressed, will admit they know the video's arguments are correct, and that their faith comes down to this:

Why do you believe?
I believe simply because i choose to believe.
But why do you choose to believe?
Because... what if it's true.

Fear. Eternity is a long time to go "oops" and people are covering their bets saying "well yeah i know it makes no logical rational sense but... what if."

Didn't the late William F. Buckley dismantle Rand's Objectivism in an article which explained why charity was actually one of the cornerstones of Conservatism?

Anyway I recently worked with a guy in his early 20's who was extremely intelligent and accomplished (attending San Fran Conservatory of Music) who was a rabid Ron Paul / von Mises / Ayn Rand disciple.

He could spout volumes of theory, philosophy and history to back up his arguments, but when it came to everyday common sense stuff he was ignorant, like he didn't know if a job paying $26,000/yr was considered a lot of money or not, or that the name of the tool you use to "turn things" was called a crescent wrench.

Turns out he was the son of a self-made millionaire, he would take jobs doing manual labor for a few months as kind of a lark, believing that he was experiencing 'real life' when in fact he was insulated from working class reality by daddy's millions.

Interesting guy, fascinating discussions, but ultimately he was living in fantasy land.

ohfuckinay, *!SMACK!* laid him out then finished with a "learn a lesson asshole!" hard shot to the face, dude's head musta been swimmen.

i love clear-cut black and white situations like this, they happen so infrequently in life.

this is the first vid in months that i've watched several times.

She looks like she could be the lardbutt in that "Winkers" video.

Poor Uncle Ron, living in a 19th century utopian fantasy world.

>> ^HugeJerk:
Extremists in the making.


Right wing conservative Domestic Terrorists in the making.

They're like Children of the Corn. Only evil-er.

video works for me.

I'm not surprized by the 18%, i'd bet $100 1/2 the people i work with wouldn't know in which direction the sun rises and why.

poor rich guys.

i mean really, how does one struggle along on only $100 million after-tax dollars these days. tsk.

pfft, acid is perfectly fine while you're driving.

it's when you come to a stop and the rest of the world Keeps On Flying Past You that's disturbing. O_o

Driving on acid in winter in Minneapolis is WheeeEEEeeeEEEeeeEEE!!!

yeah nowadays liability laws would prevent discharge of a firearm in such a heavy residential neighborhood, especially by an OFF DUTY cop who, what, just happened to wander by with his 12-guage? god only knows where all the ricocheting pellets ended up.

>> ^NetRunner:

She's quitting because she's about to get hit with another big scandal

DING!
Local speculation is that some bombshell is about to drop, or would if she didn't resign.

as RedSky pointed out, unless she just ran a marathon, she's very tense, terse and having great difficulty with breath control.

Someting's up.

and then they shot him.

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