Are we in the End Times?

[Jovial Monk]

Christ I am sick of hearing about the bloody “End Times!”

Let us read about the jerk who wrote “Revelations:”

PAGELS: The images that have always captured people, one of them is an image of an enormous bright red beast with seven heads, with crowns on his head - a violent, raging, threatening monster.

Another is a giant whore called the Whore of Babylon, who sits on the back of one of these monsters, one of these dragons with seven heads, bright red, and she's drinking from a golden cup the blood of innocent people who have been killed.

Then there's another image of Jesus coming forth from the sky and starting the battle of Armageddon, which ends in, you know, heaps and heaps of corpses at the end of the book.

GROSS: It just seems so counter to all the images of Jesus in the rest of the New Testament.

PAGELS: It's absolutely counter to that. It's the response of one of the followers of Jesus, who was, after all, last seen on Earth crucified in a humiliating and horrible way, tortured by the Romans and dead, a very insignificant man, and his follower John sees that Jesus enthroned in heaven and returning as the ruler of the world. It's almost like a perfect retaliation for what he sees as the execution of Jesus.

GROSS: So what do we know about who wrote Revelation and when it was written?

PAGELS: Most people who look at this history think that the author - he calls himself John of Patmos, that's his name - that John was a refugee from the Jewish war that had just destroyed his homeland, Judea. And the center of that whole territory, which was Jerusalem, the Temple of Jerusalem, had been utterly leveled by the Romans in response to a Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire.

So I don't think we understand this book until we realize that it's wartime literature. It comes out of that war, and it comes out of people who have been destroyed by war.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/148125942

So it does not really apply to now!

And John of Patmos, refugee, could easily have turned to drugs, like Larry, for inspiration or comfort. Certainly explains the trashy crap that is Revelations!

[Jovial Monk]

Bit more:

GROSS: So did John witness any of this, or did he flee from it?

PAGELS: We don't know whether John witnessed it. He well may have. We think that he escaped from Jerusalem at that point and he went off to Asia Minor, which is territory that we now call Turkey, and he was waiting because he was somehow convinced that these were the last days, that something that catastrophic couldn't happen unless the end of the world was coming.

So relates to one event 2000 years ago, does not apply now.

[lisa jones]

Monk is beyond help.

Monk needs a miracle.

Asperger's syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome


It is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.[7] It was said[14] to differ from other forms of ASD by relatively unimpaired language and intelligence.[15] The syndrome was named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, who, in 1944, described children in his care who struggled to form friendships, did not understand others' gestures or feelings, engaged in one-sided conversations about their favourite interests, and were clumsy.[16]

That's pretty much Monk.

It kinda explains his INCEL status too. His mouldy green teeth confirms his virginity status.

Make that stringy hair, green teeth and old unwashed clothes

[Jovial Monk]

Just did a load of laundry, another one tomorrow.

You talking of your own situation, Larry?

Booby playing psychiatrist is a scream!

[Jovial Monk]

“restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests”

That is Booby! A small set of memes and graphics, always the same few tired topics like the End Times.

[lisa jones]

You L I E D about socks being allowed at my fine forum, Larry.

Are they NOT allowed there?

Aussie....it's Friday night and that means Drunk is clearly intoxicated. He has no idea wtf he's posting. That's why he's just contradicted himself. Again

[Jovial Monk]

LOL no alcohol for at least two weeks, Lying Larry!

Here is a pic of my laundry hanging on the slightly weird “lines” I can use. Note Socks sitting there—not a pic of someone else’s laundry!

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[Bobby]

Christ I am sick of hearing about the bloody “End Times!”

Let us read about the jerk who wrote “Revelations:”

PAGELS: The images that have always captured people, one of them is an image of an enormous bright red beast with seven heads, with crowns on his head - a violent, raging, threatening monster.

Another is a giant whore called the Whore of Babylon, who sits on the back of one of these monsters, one of these dragons with seven heads, bright red, and she's drinking from a golden cup the blood of innocent people who have been killed.

Then there's another image of Jesus coming forth from the sky and starting the battle of Armageddon, which ends in, you know, heaps and heaps of corpses at the end of the book.

GROSS: It just seems so counter to all the images of Jesus in the rest of the New Testament.

PAGELS: It's absolutely counter to that. It's the response of one of the followers of Jesus, who was, after all, last seen on Earth crucified in a humiliating and horrible way, tortured by the Romans and dead, a very insignificant man, and his follower John sees that Jesus enthroned in heaven and returning as the ruler of the world. It's almost like a perfect retaliation for what he sees as the execution of Jesus.

GROSS: So what do we know about who wrote Revelation and when it was written?

PAGELS: Most people who look at this history think that the author - he calls himself John of Patmos, that's his name - that John was a refugee from the Jewish war that had just destroyed his homeland, Judea. And the center of that whole territory, which was Jerusalem, the Temple of Jerusalem, had been utterly leveled by the Romans in response to a Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire.

So I don't think we understand this book until we realize that it's wartime literature. It comes out of that war, and it comes out of people who have been destroyed by war.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/148125942

So it does not really apply to now!

And John of Patmos, refugee, could easily have turned to drugs, like Larry, for inspiration or comfort. Certainly explains the trashy crap that is Revelations!

End Times?

What more proof do you need?

157 dead in one day.

[Jim Lahey]

Are you gay bobby?

[Jovial Monk]

End times was one Israeli’s attempt to rationalise the death of Jesus and the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.

It can be discarded as irrelevant today.


And it was clearly magic mushrooms did the writing, my god!