First Haiti, then Chile and now Taiwan? Who's next? SF?

[dvs909]

Detroit looks like it was hit by a quake. just sayin.

[n2bimmer]

So yeah, the earth is shaking everywhere, the poles are gonna shift, and we are all gonna die.

Man its pretty scary. I hope it stops.

[MvancE30]

Lol, just drop it guys. No need to get all crazy over it. For people that dont read the Bible or other Religious books wont understand what im saying. Lets forget it.

although i don't believe in the bible i do think its important for everyone to know what it says. nobody should ever limit there knowledge

[chadthestampede]

although i don't believe in the bible i do think its important for everyone to know what it says. nobody should ever limit there knowledge

Stop going off topic.

[decay]

although i don't believe in the bible i do think its important for everyone to know what it says. nobody should ever limit there knowledge

study of the bah-bull is properly limited to the topic of mythology. just like studying what the ancient druids, greeks, and romans believed.

i wonder who's next on the earthquake roulette. oh shit, i live in california...

[Kershaw]

its all just personal mythology as dk said.

[jrhaile]

Detroit looks like it was hit by a quake. just sayin.

Detroit is a prime example of what a socialist-like run city looks like...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw

[decay]

Detroit is a prime example of what a socialist-like run city looks like...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw

oh fuckin' please. it didn't just happen this year.

the economic failure in detroit is a result of decades of poor business practices that resulted in the big 3 not being able to compete with the products their foreign competitors were selling. you'd think they'd have learned that lesson during the gas crunch of the early 70's, but apparently those mf'ers had amnesia and weren't ready to deal with $5/gal gas via any other method than continuing to rebadge crappy japanese subcompacts.

if you really want to mark it down to who was holding the ball at the time, detroit was kind of an empty shithole back in 2008 too.

[jrhaile]

Oh fuckin' please. The politics of Detroit led to the city's financial problems and ultimate failure. Watch the video or shut the fuck up.

[decay]

Oh fuckin' please. The politics of Detroit led to the city's financial problems and ultimate failure. Watch the video or shut the fuck up.

i did. that shit is the same as michael moore from the other direction. sorry for not buying the propaganda. enjoy your kool-aid.

[MvancE30]

wasnt detriot's failure a combination of a lot of things? poor political decisions (curruption) and poor business choices?

[VacMan]

nobody should ever limit there knowledge

I find this ironic and quite humorous.

Unrelated, but I was googling an "Oh the irony" image to use and came across this gem. It's not really on topic, but then neither is this thread, so I'm going to post it anyway because I thought it was great.

[decay]

detroit wasn't and isn't the only city run that way.

look at... well, most of the west coast. and yes we have our issues out here also, but obviously running the gov't in this fashion didn't cause the spectacular failure detroit has had.

i'm not saying i don't have a problem with it, either- but let's apply some critical thinking here and wonder if one specific factor didn't cause failure in one place, maybe a failure in another place wasn't due to that factor.

[jrhaile]

snowball affect mafucka

[Ferdinand]

KJ is good to but NIV is easier to read and understand.

The Bible surely ain't straightforward. We need an even more dumbed-down Reader's Digest version of the Bible that's "easier to read and understand". As though anybody actually understands anything that is being revealed in Revelations, no matter which version they're reading, King James or New International Version.

I've been told that, "Eating an apple a day keeps the doctor away...", unless of course you're Adam or Eve in which case you should avoid apples at all costs, especially if the apple is being offered to you in a garden by a talking snake. Ah yup. Note to self, avoid talking snakes... Check, got that. You see a talking snake coming, you get yo' ass over to the other side of the street right away! Clear enough. Makes sense to me.

Bible thumpers will of course rush to point out that there's really no such thing as a talking snake, despite the fact that everything else in the Bible (with the exception of the talking snake of course) is the Word of God and must be believed because it's written in stone, or written in some slightly other form in each of the 100 different versions of the Bible. They will quickly point out that these things were obviously never intended to be taken literally, except for the parts that are meant to be taken literally, which parts are often difficult to distinguish from those parts that aren't meant to be taken literally...

To tell the difference, these things need first be deciphered by a licensed and qualified interpreter in the form of the local shaman/minister/priest/pastor/pope, or by whoever writes the most recently dumbed-down Bible version, or in born-again circumstances you could perhaps rely on a self-interpretion by some exceptionally enlightened Bible students.

Like pretty much everything else in the Bible, the snake and the apple are not meant to be taken literally but are symbolic of other deeper meanings. If God commands that you must not partake of the fruit from the forbidden tree on pain of expulsion from the garden, you can safey interpret that to mean that thou shalt not drive your E30 car at excessive speeds on pain of punishment by speeding ticket. Except they didn't have cars back in the days when the first versions of the Bible were invented. They probably didn't have talking snakes either though, but poisoned apples do seem to be a recurring theme in other equally believable fables and fairy tales.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that the Mayan 2012 end-of-world story is every bit as much a fairy tale as is the Revelation story in the 100 Biblessss.