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Apocalypse now: why we shouldn't fear if the end is nigh : Comments

By Peter Sellick, published 9/11/2005

Peter Sellick deciphers the religious significance of waiting for the apocalypse.

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Thanks Peter for your comments. It is refeshing to read some senceable thoughts.
"Realist" made the following comment on your "sermon": If we spent more time being productive as a people and less time on things such as religous interpretation & trivia, I bet we would have a far more fruitful life, and actually leave something behind more than ideaology for our children.
The sentiments he/she put forward are precisely the reasons we have an unpleasant world to live in. If we reject the Prince of peace it is indeed presumptuous of us to expect a peaceful society to live in.
The world largly rejects Jesus and we can see the results.
Kind regards
Dave
Posted by Dave Powell, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 3:12:09 PM
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Yes dave all the worlds ills are caused by non christians.
That would have to be the silliest post ever put on this site and there have been some doozies in the past.
Posted by Kenny, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 3:29:45 PM
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"Apocalypse now" - should we really be taking this seriously, be alarmed? After all, it is not the end of the world! Not Ragnorak, not Gotterdammerung.
cheer up - it is nothing more than the "revelation of God's purpose". And if that is about to happen now, we might be enlightened about any number of variations from the thoughts that Sells has provided for us.
It all depends upon who/what/if any, your god or gods, happen to be. And may such diversity continue! Restless bedfellows within the ambit of Christianity, and of Islam, of Judaism; and the practitioners of Taoism, the Buddhists, Hindus, the Shinto, the quiet athiests: all have somewhat differing viewpoints relating to what might or might not be appropriate in regard to the supposed purposes of God or Gods.
Let us not be be unduly dogmatic about it. Australian society is a broad church, so to speak. And we are all entitled to our disparate points of view on what that purpose, if any, happens to be. Such views will range from the deadly serious, through the irreverent, to the downright humorous. The only ones likely to give rise to problems for society are the members of the first of those three groups.
I find it hard to believe that Sells' "friend of the sinners" really brought about the end of the world for the Trilobites. As the last of the little beasties - the end of 350 million years of lineage for its genus - gasped its last - would it's last thought, had it been aware of the situation, been "well I have had a good innings. What has been dished out for our mob has been better than for most"?
It is doubtful that Armageddon, God's purpose, had much to do with the perpetuation of Trilobites for such a long period. And even less so for human beings when their tenure on earth has been only a lousy couple of million years. Life processes will chug on regardless, long after "the end is nigh" has reached reality for humanity.
Posted by colinsett, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 7:31:35 PM
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Be alert, not alarmed....
Posted by The Big Fish, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 8:48:47 PM
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The sky is falling... the sky is falling!

Duck and cover! :O

It quacks me up that people as bright as Sells evidently is not only fall for this kind of duck's droppings, but also literally "preach" it.

'Nuff said, I reckon. It just encourages them.
Posted by mahatma duck, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 9:03:47 PM
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From a distance this scenario makes me laugh. The black pots are calling the white kettle red, and the white kettle is calling the black pots green, metaphorically speaking.

Consider the content of the written article. Is It right or wrong, true or false? There are hundreds and thousands Christian denominations, sects, each with their own unique It, such that there is a set of Its numbered It one thru It infinity, only one of which is the true-it. The set of Its we will call BIG It. The big-it is the Bible and the true-it is the correct understanding or interpretation of the Bible. The big-it may be deemed true or false by an observer. In either case true-it remains true, the rest of the its remain false.

When you (Peter's opponents) rubbish Peter, is it Peter's It or BIG It you are having trouble with?

True-it can be determined legally, logically and mathematically. Once determined true-it constitutes the proof that big-it is true.

Daniel's chronological prophesies given more than 500 years before Christ and has been historically proven down to the time Napoleon put the Pope in prison, terminating the 1260 years of Papal Supremacy.

I tried to include a graph of Daniel's prophesy but it didn't work

Regards
Posted by GoldBrick, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 9:21:23 PM
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