All hell appears to be breaking out between Israel & Lebanon and Bush refuses to pressure Israel. Things are heated between India & Pakistan. North Korea and Iran are problematic. And these jackasses are happy.
Is it time to get excited? I can't help the way I feel. For the first time in my Christian walk, I have no doubts that the day of the Lords appearing is upon us. I have never felt this way before, I have a joy that bubbles up every-time I think of him, for I know this is truly the time I have waited for so long. Am I alone in feeling guilty about the human suffering like my joy at his appearing some how fuels the evil I see everywhere. If it were not for the souls that hang in the balance and the horror that stalks man daily on this earth, my joy would be complete. For those of us who await his arrival know, somehow we just know it won't be long now.
I am excited beyond words that the struggle of this life may be over soon and I can finally be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
I too am soooo excited!! I get goose bumps, literally, when I watch what's going on in the M.E.!! ... [I]t was quite a day yesterday, in the world news, and I add in local news here in the Boston area!! Tunnel ceiling collapsed on a car and killed a woman of faith, and we had the most terrifying storms I have ever seen here!! ... it is most indeed a time to be happy and excited, right there with ya!!
Lets all cheer for Jesus.
Sometime I despair for humanity.
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It's really scary to think that our president and a portion of the party running the country not only believe that there will be an "end time" but by their faith, you have to think (like these yahoos you speak of) are wanting it to come.
How much does this affect Bush's decision making, even if it is subconsciously?
The posibilities, if you take them to their not so extreme ends are pretty frightening.
Disgusting.
Those who enjoy this state of affairs should be encouraged to help the military fulfill its recruiting quotas.
A friend of mine named Vadim is in the Israeli Army. I've tried to contact him by phone a number of times recently without any success. Now that things have escalated, I'm really worried about him, his wife Carmit and their two young daughters.
It takes a lot to get my ire up but reading the posts the good Dr. included for purely illustrative purposes certainly did the trick. Unless I missed a recent edict from Pope Benedict XVI, two of the pillars of Christianity are loving your fellow man and being selfless.
Those who enjoy that state of affair should be declared to be mentally unfit to serve in the military. With very few exceptions such people hurt a war effort. They could foolishly get themselves or those under them killed. Or maybe they will kill indiscriminately bringing shame on the military or worse help the enemy recruit.
While you may be correct, the alternatives are:
1.As privates, they may fight with more vigor defending their religious viewpoint.
2.They should show more restraint when dealing with the general population as a whole, being consistent with the strictures of their religious viewpoint.
3.They might disappear at some point, hopefully not while in combat.
Although if number 3 were to occur, remaining troops would have to act quickly to recover the weapons left behind to prevent them falling into the hands of the enemy. Captured American weapons could provide a decisive edge to the enemy.
"Those who enjoy this state of affairs should be encouraged to help the military fulfill its recruiting quotas."
Those people should be immediately stripped of all earthly assets, which should be given to the poor. If the Rapture is coming soon, the poverty of the Rapturists is trivial. If the Rapture doesn't come soon (or at all), then the poverty of the Rapturists is a deserved punishment for propagating harmful crap.
Good.
Too many people have been "pressuring Israel" to just sit there and take the constant terrorism for far too long. No other nation on Earth would be expected to "show restraint" over and over and over again when faced with enemies who show no restraint themselves, who preferentially target the innocent, who have no interest in compromise or co-existence or peace, and whose goal is your complete destruction.
Sad as it is for those caught in the crossfire today, in the long run the only thing that will bring a lasting peace in the region is for Israel to Israel to demonstrate that not only will chronic terrorism against them not work, it will produce unacceptable losses on regimes that either support such activity, or fail to control it.
In college, I took a class in the anthropology department called "Millenarian Movements," or something like that. I still think about it a fair amount, especially when I run across sentiments like the one you quoted above. It's interesting that when you start to look into it: it seems as though people have ALWAYS believed that they were living in the end-times. (And they've always held that belief with a weird mix or horror and, like your quoted person above, excitement.) Sometimes and in some places this belief becomes more fervent than in others. But it never seems to be entirely absent, either.
Sometimes I think about global warming in this regard. I have no doubt that global warming is as real as it gets, and that we should take serious steps to curb it, but I think that it's probable that the human tendency towards apocalyptic thought inflects the way we think & talk & feel about global warming, too.