(Yet another "Oh my god the Rapure's gonna happen any minute" type thread.)
FoundAgain:
Not only do the days seem to be shorter and closer together, the sun's light is all wrong. Has anyone else noticed that? There are times that I have stopped dead in my tracks because the light is just wrong for the time of day or the season of the year.
JY11:
It's funny that a few of you mention changes in the sun, the sky, the clouds, ect. I was thinking a few days ago of starting a thread about that very thing! To me, the sun seems unusually bright this year, but the quality of the light is lower. The cloud formations here in central New York State have been bizarre over the last few months.
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"Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Children no longer obey their parents. They show disrespect for elders, gobble up their food at the table, and tyrannize their teachers. The end of the world is near"
-Assyrian Tablet, circa 2800 BCE
"There are times that I have stopped dead in my tracks because the light is just wrong for the time of day or the season of the year."
Seasonal Actinic Disorder?
Um... clouds?
Watcha thinkin'? Gawd playin' yo-yo with the sun?
Got photo grays? Fergit yer sun glasses?
Complete fuckwit?
Ok, I'm out.
After the longest day of the year (June 21, 16 hrs of daylight)the days get shorter up until the shortest day of the year (Dec 23, 8 hrs daylight) then the days get longer again.
The dates may not be exact but it's close. I'm just explaining why the day is mysteriously getting shorter :)
Deep depression can also cause problems in visual perception. I remember when I went through manic depression, even on bright, sunny days everything appeared to have a very surreal, greyish tinge.
I'm thoroughly convinced that the arseholes at RR are all manic depressives. Must be a rough life constantly sitting around depressed about teh gheys getting married and praying for God to destroy all of humanity.
I agree! *rolls eyes* It started June 21 and the days are getting shorter and shorter. I looked up the times for sunset and I was right! ok....enough already. We have high humidity here in the South and the light seems dull/hazy. Obviously low humidity days are brilliant with sunshine with nature standing out in sharp contrast rather than having the haze. Here's the kicker: In December the days will become longer! Pagans have celebrated Yule and the return of the sun for centuries. Return of the SUN....get it?
Didn't think so.
In 2001 or 2002 (I think) there was a huge meteor shower (Leonid?). I was outside on my back on a cold November morning 1:00 to 5:00 a.m. watching a pretty awesome event. Bet you were hiding under your bed, terrified.
"the sun seems unusually bright this year, but the quality of the light is lower "
And while cars seem to keep getting faster, the quality of speed just gets lower.
WHAT? Contradict yourself much?
Not only do the days seem to be shorter and closer together, the sun's light is all wrong.
Quick! Call the US Naval Observatory ... they haven't noticed this yet!
"Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many Antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." 1 John 2:18, written around 85 AD
Any day now ... any day ...
There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O'clock.
It's high time we started seeding Rapture Ready with signs of the end times:
--I noticed the days are now only 23 hours, 55 minutes long. Is this a sign of the end times?
--Today my morning coffee went cold unusually fast. Is this a sign of the end times?
--Have you noticed we used to only get 32 cable channels, now there are thousands? Is this a sign of the end times?
--I saw a clip on YouTube of a dog that could talk. I'm thinking this is either the devil's work, or animals getting ready to praise the work in miraculous speech. Is this a sign of the end times?
--I came back from the beach today and noticed freckles WHERE THERE WERE NO FRECKLES THIS MORNING. Is this a sign of the end times?
--I heard a scary noise last night. Is this a sign of the end times?
--There seem to be so many people on this board talking about the end times. Is this a sign of the end times?
It's what I imagine a conversation between two patients in the loony bin would be like. Well, same difference, I suppose, since this is Rapture Ready...
Your view of the world is clouded by your insanity. Nothing has changed regards to the sun. The sun didn't set until almost 9pm last night, and I live in the Midwest. That's normal, just like it is every July.
Every year, from December 21 to June 21, the days continually get longer. Every year from June 22 to December 20, the days continue to get shorter.
Now, about that rapture...
... days seem to be getting shorter and closer
together.
I can sort of buy the shorter, but I'm not so sure of the closer together.
My AC adapter and headphones for my portable CD player are both broken. This surely is a sign of the End Times.
Also, the days are "closer together"? WTF?
"Not only do the days seem to be shorter and closer together, the sun's light is all wrong."
Yeah, you know, it happens every year, just after Midsummer. Uncanny, isn't it? But you know what, they'll start getting longer after Midwinter, so it all balances out.
This reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin is talking about how the days are getting colder and shorter. He then proclaims that the sun is going out, and the world will soon become a lifeless ball of ice.
The key difference: Calvin is allowed to think this, because he's six years old. I daresay this fundie would be considerably older than six, and is thus not allowed to be this stupid.
My alarm clock didn't ring this morning, surely this must be sign of the end times?
It could also be because of summer break... no, END TIMES I tells ya!
To me, the sun seems unusually bright this year, but the quality of the light is lower
unusually bright with low quality of light? How the hell is this possible?
As for haze, as someone mentioned humidity, or pollution. Even in rural areas factory farming techniques cause a lot of pollution. These aren't the farms your grandpa grew up on.
....
Is this guy serious?
"Not only do the days seem to be shorter and closer together, the sun's light is all wrong."
Thats called the equinox and solstice..are you just FINALLY noticing it?
Headache, I swear that when I downloaded that image on Sunday 13 July at roughly 9.45 a.m GMT +10, that Soho is displaying a picture of the Starship Enterprise moving across the face of the sun.
Well, that or a pixel error that resembles it.
Yes!! Here the days are getting shorter!! The nights are getting colder!!! It's the end times!!!
Or maybe it's because I live in the Southern hemisphere. Oh well, I'll just have to soldier on, then.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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