Did anyone hear the news last night about the cost of wheat going up? Some countries are actually guarding their flour like it was gold or something. Anyways the cost I believe is going up 40 or 50%. Our current supply in the USA is down 60%. They are blaming it on farmers planting corn for biofuel. Also this reminds me a several threads I read on this site about people feeling like they needed to stock up on food, maybe because Jesus will come and the Trib will start and remember how Joseph had told his people to store food up for a drought of 7 yrs was coming, kinda reminds me of that, so that people during the trib will have food. This is all leading up for Rev 6 a quart of wheat for a days wages. Prophecy is being revealed before our eyes. Jesus is coming really soon! [Dancing smiley]
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What atrocious smugness! Christlike(?!?) Maybe the Christ that killed the tree for not having fruit because it wasn't in season, kind of like that Christ. But that shit-eating grin will get wiped off your face if there IS a real famine, and you've counted on God (as revealed through your brainwashing religion) to look after you.
What a surprise!
You guy's have been saying that for 2000 years.
Did you ever think that maybe the rapture happened in the middle ages, and that the plague was really a coverup for all the missing people? Maybe we're in the 1000 years of Satans rule now?
Or maybe you were just stood up.
These people are actually happy about an upcoming famine because they won't be here??? Oooohhhhh that Christian love is just so warm and fuzzy.
Back in the days of old Germany, post WWI, you could haul a wheelbarrow full of DMs to the bakery and be able only to buy a loaf of bread. Inflation was that bad.
And then Hitler came to power.
And here we are... over 60 years later and still no sign that Hitler was the anti-christ.
So these things happen over and over and over again... they're never signs of the end times, just signs of the times.
The Trib is late coming? Guy lives in Chicago, takes the Tribune, it's late one morning = Rapture!! Jeebus is coming, Oh Nose!!11!!1 Run tell Chicken Little. See? SEE?? Toldjaso toldjaso nanner nanner nanner.
Rising cost of wheat =/= Apocalypse, you fucking idiot.
Anyway, it wasn't that long ago that wheat prices were so low that farmers quit planting the stuff. (something like 1914 levels)
When I read the opening sentence:
"Did anyone hear the news last night about the cost of wheat going up?"
I didn't read the rest. I looked away and started thinking. How could somebody possibly take the rising cost of wheat, and tie it into religion?
Before I even read the rest of the quote I knew that whatever it said, and wherever it was from, I was about to read the most ridiculous, tortured connection I have ever viewed. This is a person who saw a story about the economics of grain and tied it into their philosophy on the existence of life after death.
Wheat.
Say it with me.
Fucking wheat .
What neural pathway misfired to cause this connection? Who has their brain wired in this aberrant manner? How can something like this be allowed to happen? What we are talking about here is a chasm. On one side is religion. On the other is wheat. In between is a yawning pit of screaming horror and madness. Which means that I now have to find a way to make my way through life knowing that there is somebody in the world who hammered a stake into the ground on the side of wheat, then descended into the pit of insanity so they could clamber up on the opposite side and hammer in a second stake beside religion, forming a bridge between the two.
Am I the only person whose hands are shaking from considering this possibility? I don't think i've ever been so scared as I am by this comment.
"Trib" is dispensationalist shorthand for "tribulation", the seven-year period in which the Antichrist is supposed to have full reign over creation...except for the regular judgements that God visits on him and his followers.
{sigh} Rapture Ready...They forget that there's a reason why pride is considered the most grave of the Cardinal Vices. Nor do they see that calling themselves this is a cardinal example of such...
a quart of wheat for a days wages
Ok, let's see... Wheat is at US$ 10.64 per bushel at the moment. A quart being 1/32nd of a bushel, so a quart = 33 cents. Frankly, if that's what you call a day's wages I don't think "da trib" can come soon enough for you.
You obviously have not engaged your brain before opening your mouth and letting this drivel spill forth.
Assuming you are correct and things get so bad here that people are given a quart of grain for a days wages, you think our infrastructure would be intact? What kind of job would you have? The 7-ll wouldn't have anything to sell, so you'd be unemployed. You shovel manure in a stable? OK, here's your quart of grain...now what?
Oh, you stockpiled food? How do you get weevils out of flour and rice? Ants out of sugar? All those cans have gone rusty and some are bulging...haven't seen an egg or glass of milk for years...or a haunch of meat, since there's no electricity to power the freezers.
Do you really think you can survive this kind of thing better than the "heathens" in Third World countries who don't worship your god but who know how to live at the most basic of levels?
Moron.
Some countries are actually guarding their flour like it was gold or something
I propose my plot for the next James Bond movie, working title 'Flourfinger'.
Eccentric billionaire Farina Aleuron (hopefully to be played by Ann Coulter in a leather catsuit) has a plan to make the USA's flour reserves (stored in Fort Knox, natch) radioactive, thereby forcing up the value of the flour stockpiled in the giant silos of her secret underground hideout in McBee, South Carolina. After many adventures she is foiled by 007, who uses his fundie knowledge that the radioactive decay rate of the strontium-90 in Farina's dirty bomb isn't constant to gain the few extra weeks needed to defuse it.
I think I could be onto a winner here...
a 7 year draught, huh? Perhaps today select individuals could get by with adequate preparation, but there's absolutely no way that anyone could survive such a thing even 50 years ago. I just love when these guys present me with more bizarre tales of fiction.
''Jesus is coming really soon! [Dancing smiley]''
and during his coming, he will viciously murder anyone who doesn't kiss his ass
yeeeey!!!!! [superduperdancingsmiley]
So that is why Christians become gleeful at the world's agony and even try to make the problems worse?
You know, Jesus has been coming 'soon' for a long time.
God opened your head and took a big fat shit in it. Yeah, that's right, you got god's shit for brains.
Wheat's a non-spoilable commodity valued at over $800 an ounce now is it?
I don't think they'll be selling bullion breakfast bars anytime soon...
9/10 for making complete shit up though. Well done!
Most people don't get paid daily, nor do they purchase wheat that needs to be ground by hand.
But a long time ago they did--back when that verse was even remotely relevant.
Prices are raising = > People are stockpiling food => Jesus is coming back ?
Whoa. You really don't have a clue how logic works, heh ?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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