RR, the Mars Face, and the Anti-Christ

Keziah Mason

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http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?threadid=123679

This is quite the humorous little gem in which folks wonder about the upcoming Mars landings, the Mars 'face', the Anti-Christ and all the rest that we've come to love from the RR crowd.

Even more fun was the person who found the name Beagle 2 "chilling".

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Leave it to Fundies to take Richard Hoagland seriously. That's the real problem with religion. Once you buy into one set of irrational nonsense, buying into any other set becomes that much easier.
 
Jesus Christ (meant as an expletive)! Some of those posts are almost paranoid schizophrenic...

Too bad those Rapture folk accept registration on a basis of religious belief, otherwise someone might be able to talk a lick of sense into them...
 
holy fricken crap.

This is the kinda of stuff that makes me wonder why people even take this seriously. It's laughable how they try and mix science and religion.

If we do find life on Mars, its somehow connected with "The Anti-Christ?" I honestly tried to figure out what exactly that post had to say, but it's so muddled in conspiracy and paranoia.

Now I understand while cults like this commit suicide. All that stress. :(
 
I really think that the church's ban on premaritial sex is an effective method to keep their people stupid and pliable. Seriously those people on RR need to get laid, real soon!
 
..I am going to grab ahold of my faithful dog and hope he can go with me in the Rapture!(I have been teaching him about Jesus.the Bible says to preach the gospel to all creatures...who knows?
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Another cracker!
 
If we do find life on Mars, its somehow connected with "The Anti-Christ?" I honestly tried to figure out what exactly that post had to say, but it's so muddled in conspiracy and paranoia.
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It looks to me that the OP believes Hoagie's statements about structures on Mars. He just thinks Hoagie is "deceived" and that instead of a Martian civilization creating the structures it was Satan out to trick us. Add on a huge heaping of paranoia and apocalyptic cult nonsense and you've got yourself a real winner of a thread. Or at least one that should hopefully amuse a lot of us here.

While amusing, and also rather troubling that there are people who completely buy into this, it along with the rest of the Rapture Ready board is a amazing look into the superstitious mindset. I find it fascinating how any little thing that is slightly outside the everyday existance of these people is suddenly turned into vast signs and portents of their belief that the end is near. Absolutely fascinating.
 
Hypocolius said:

My concern is that fallen angels are about to pass themselves off as our alien space brothers
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Hahahha... SOME of these people must just be joking, though...

..I am going to grab ahold of my faithful dog and hope he can go with me in the Rapture!(I have been teaching him about Jesus.the Bible says to preach the gospel to all creatures...who knows?
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There's no way this guy's serious...
 
sorgoth said:

Hahahha... SOME of these people must just be joking, though...
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I would dearly love to believe that.

However, after seeing so much of this sort of stuff over there, I'm afraid they aren't joking. These are folks who put together rapture checklists (I spewed my morning caffeine when I saw that one) and letters to those left behind. That's the trouble with far out woo-woos, it's so difficult to tell them apart from the jokers.
 
I'm sure today's earthquake will tie in with all this non-sense.

KM and you're right on target about people embracing all manner of kookiness once they take that first step into woo woo land.
 
sorgoth said:

There's no way this guy's serious...
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I thought the same with that one actually. There was a smiley after the post which I was unfamiliar with (It doesn't seem to have been included on my quote), so possibly he isn't serious. It' so hard to tell though. I once had a friend tell me that he no longer believed in evolution, was converting to Judaism, and was quite convinced by the whole Bible code thing. I laughed politely, and waited for the punch-line. He was serious, but the kicker is that he has a Phd (Chemical Engineering) he's a lecturer in Archaeology, and does some Palaeontological work too.
 
Too bad those Rapture folk accept registration on a basis of religious belief, otherwise someone might be able to talk a lick of sense into them...
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Ah, the naivety of youth. Give it a few years and you’ll realize just exactly how futile it really is to try to “talk a lick of sense” into hard core fundamentalists. Wanting simple answers and fearing uncertainty, the fundamentalist constructs a worldview based on a chosen dogma and then tries to fit every observation into the structure of that dogma. Since anything that doesn’t fit is a danger to the structure around which his life is built, it can only be viewed as a personal attack or the work of the devil. Reasoned arguments are useless against such a mindset. The only thing that changes such a world view is some personal tragedy or traumatic event that rips the whole structure out by the root. And even then, reason is unlikely to win out. The fundamentalist just flounders until he finds another dogma to replace the one he lost.
 
They kicked me out for posting that Christians were a majority in the United States. It's a dictatorship in there, with no freedom of speech whatsoever. Their mindset does not allow for it. You'll have better luck talking sense into a cabbage.
 
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