Re: [OT] Trump invoked in the damndest places

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:18:15 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

On 7/17/25 08:59, Paul S Person wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:40:19 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 7/16/2025 11:50 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
<mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:49:13 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:
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I still think he and his buddies are best regarded as petulant
5-year-olds.

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And not  the Antichrist? We have reached the End Times, you know.
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https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-come-a/176768454/

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This link worked properly.
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( https://tinyurl.com/45hmrnxr )

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This link does not bring up the article, causing confusion.
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The insistence that everything is getting better and better is typical
of Modernism, which, in some quarters, survived WWI and died after
WWII.
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Has anyone else wondered what the "wearable medical monitoring
devices" are intended to look like? A mark, perhaps, on the hand or
forehead?
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One of the books on Revelation I read within living memory identifies
the Beast with all of modern learning and technology, but identifies
the second beast as the propaganda department and the Whore as
advertising. Since Trump's efforts appear to be aimed at, as Disney
has Stromboli saying, "pushing you in the public's eye", that would
make the Orange Taco -- the Whore of Babylon.

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I perfer the thesis that the Book of Revelation was composed considering
the state of the Roman Empire and particularly Rome itself with its various
stupidities like Gladitoral contests, worship of many gods and goddess
imported
from all over the Empire and really confused Emperors and their foolish
wives.
  Revelatiions is not a prophetic book just one that wants the Empire
to fall ASAP.

I find the argument that it was written to encourage the local
churches to hold firm under persecution until the end to be most
useful.

And that it can do the same whenever the local churches are being
persecuted.

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But I don't think this line of thought is particularly helpful.

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Not a bit.>>

The sub-reddit /r/trump666 runs with this idea.
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That 1925 article is the earliest reference to
the Age of Aquarius I've ever encountered.

 
Also, we're about 25 years beyond the projected time.
 
Personally, if /I/ were to interpret the 1000 years as many did in
1999, /I/ would place it in the 2030s, probably 2036 or 2039,
depending on when the cruciifixion occurred.
 
I do not, in fact, interpret things that way (or any other way,
really, although I do cite others' opinions from time to time).

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I remember the arguements in print about when the Age of Aquarius
would start back in the 1960s and 1970s.  I think Astrology is only for fun
because otherwise i would be a world leader according to natal horoscope
and I am not in any sense a world leader.  However if the elecorate wants
a less decrepit narcisstic fossil than Trump I am not available. Sorry.

When Aquinas found it expedient to at least suggest that astrology
wasn't complete hooey (he was demonstrating that /what God wants/ and
/what God gets/ can be two different things at the time), he pointed
out that there was one Celestial Body which had (and still has) a
clearly visible effect on the planet Earth.

My favorite (and only) astrology book is /You Were Born on a Rotten
Day/. It gives one sign a very long lucky number and advises looking
for it everywhere. As it if could even be remembered. It advises
another sign that it's lucky number has been -- cancelled. And so on.

Actual testing has shown that the "forcasts" for each sign apply just
as well to people "born under" that sign as to people who were not.
Basically, the descriptions are so vague that they apply to everybody.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"