: Apparently the Imperial Communist has become ever more successful in inducing fear into his subjects. He does this to exact their capitulation. The earthly kingdom message is spreading like rampant wild fires these days.*snort* - Robert's trademark vague gibberish. Define "Imperial Communist", Robert; don't you know that communists don't have heirarchies as such; thus the idea of a communist Empire is inherently autocontradictory?
(I'm not a Communist, but I know that much about Marxism.)
: Some recent testimonies that validate this view:
: 1) A physicist with space science is tormented over the hypothesis that this earth will bake itself to death in 50 years time. Apparently this fear dominates his entire being.
Erm, wrong. In many ways I'm having a ball. I certainly wouldn't describe "fear" as my usual state of being.
It might be worth clarifying my position on ecological disaster; I don't believe that humanity is doomed; at least, not in the short to medium term. I do believe that the society in which we live is doomed; as Karen said "the end of the world *as we know it*".
In strict survival terms, I've got a handful of aces; I'm a large (6 foot 4 inches) and strong twentysomething vegetarian man with a good constitution and no allergies. I'm liable to survive anything short of nuclear war, plague or chemical weapons. I can live off the land in most bits of the world and can look after myself. I'm not concerned about my survival.
There are, however, a lot of people less fortunate than me. People I care about and people I've never met, who haven't been as lucky as I. I consider it my duty as a human being to look after my fellow humans as best I can.
Perhaps you feel differently, although I would find your Christianity a little hollow if you did.
: 3) A millenialist is worried over bar codes on super-market products which eventually will be used to dominate him with a world monetary system. Apparently he is waiting for the "inevitable" disaster to strike.
Actually, it's a Christian-originated scare, that; the idea that every barcode has "666" for the Beast on it is a fantasy straight out of Revelations.
: 4) Even more fear is spread amongst ozone depletion prophets, animal "rights" rebels, the Y2K crowd, stock market crash consultants, population "time-bomb" tickers and, on and on and on, und so weiter.
Good grief; do you have any evidence of reasons to be cheerful about the above subject?!
To take one example, no-one is exactly sure how the older command-and-control systems behind the nuclear arsenal will react to the Y2K rollover?
The US and Russian governments aren't; that's why they signed an agreement a few weeks ago declaring that any nuclear blasts that occuyr as part of this will be entirely accidental. I'm sure the knowledge that you were nuked entirely by accident would be a great comfort to the smears of grease smoking in what was once a major city...
Furthermore, there is expected to be a massive run on the markets this autumn; the major investment banks are trying to gear up to this problem.
Of course, let's see exactly where the Y2K problem comes from; it comes from millenial anxiety linked to our use of the Christian calender. If we'd stuck to the Roman calender, we wouldn't have that problem for another 243 years yet (it would then be 3000 A.R.)!
: What hogwash!
Exactly why is it hogwash? Or is hogwash a name you call something you can't refute by logical means?
: Are these not clear examples of enslavement to the worldly kingdom?
Is not breathing a clear and ever-present enslavement to the worldly kingdom?
Stop breathing for Jesus; reach salvation in asphyxiation!
: Regardless of which corner of the political spectrum these wild fires emanate, the message is still the same, "Cower to your Imperial master or else you're gonna' really get it."
Which makes it massively different from, say, "Do what the Bible says or burn in Hell for all eternity?".
(Actually, it *is* different; we don't have any objective proof Hell exists.)
:Sadly, their dutiful subjects go to extreme lengths to indeed cower. Perhaps they even sit up at night until two o'clock in the morning with blood-shot eyes worrying about these "inevitable crises" to come.
Don't look at me; I'm versatile; I can survive.
However, I care for others, rather than merely devoting myself selfishly to my own salvation and declaring everyone who doesn't agree with me to be damned and enslaved.
Gideon
