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originally posted by: charlyv
Dwelling on the "End Times" is really a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It means you have given up trying to correct the problems of the world and are ok with non-reality excuses as justification of your failure to contribute to a better world.
If enough people adopt this attitude, then the evil wins because we collectively allowed it.
But what follows the destruction of Iran is what's concerning.
originally posted by: EmmanuelGoldstein
Why in this day and age are we still thinking like this?
What if I said that according to the third Harry Potter book, that the end days are here as it was written by volderbutt?
It’s just a collection of word of mouth stories and songs, translated many times over and finally picked over by some whack jobs in the Orthodox Church to make us what? Feel good about paying Caesar his dues?
Can we like, live in the real world?
This is mind boggling to me how people still base their fears on this kind of crap.
This only holds true for Hindus, who expressly rejected Buddhism for disrupting their games of imaginative speculation. Westerners need something more concrete, they demand facts and proofs, for which reason, Aristotle's system successfully placated them for centuries.
originally posted by: Degradation33
People are wired for abstraction.
They wish to give meaning to their lives?
originally posted by: Degradation33
Simpler put, why do people check horoscopes, use divination, believe in synchronicity, divine intervention, prayer, and magic?
It's perfectly natural for people to turn heavenward when science and reason fails to give an account for the how and why. This tendency did not arise from education, habit, and genes.
originally posted by: Degradation33
People are predisposed and culturally indoctrinated to look up instead of within when confronting the scary and unknown. So much so it's committed to our genes.
The Antichrist in Nostradamus' dictionary is certainly not a political institution, it's plainly indicated in his letter to King Henry II as a warlord/conqueror (Xerxes, Attila) and situated in the context of Christ's return.
originally posted by: Degradation33
Nostradamus was just trying to call The Spanish Inquisition and Vatican (in his own time) The Antichrist.
Yes, there's a mania to link them up with recent events, but there's also a mania to render them as already long fulfilled. People forget that he wrote that they were perpetual prophecies, with more than one meaning. They show little interest in his views/ideas and blatantly disregard for the French language. James Randi did more good than the majority of Nostradamus translators, paying respectful deference despite his skepticism.
originally posted by: Degradation33
People still can line up his deliberately vague political commentary with recent events.