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xaq_the_aereon...Because it looks like it's repeating itself all over again.
I'm saying this because of a few things I've been seeing lately...
Take the "war on terror" for example. The entire nation is being driven to hate a particular type of person so much that simply being accused of being that kind of person has from time to time resulted in their death. They had an extremely similar fiasco a few hundred years ago in Salem, Massetchusets.
Or how about this little story the 700 Club
While I have to agree that this claim is probably a bit far-fetched, if it is in fact the truth, the Christian community doesn't really have any room to speak on it. After all, how do you think THEIR religion came to be such a prominent one? Or did you simply not know about the Crusades?
...Oh, and let's not forget the latest group of folks proclaiming these to be the last days of the world...y'know, just like they've been doing for the past 2000 years STRAIGHT...
Yeah, I'd say that little bit of insight from the novel "Dinotopia" had a point about time moving in more of a helix than a circle of history or a line of evolution...the events of the past apparently will continue to reincarnate themselves in new forms forever...I can only hope one day we'll learn to see it coming and avoid it.
I'm saying this because of a few things I've been seeing lately...
Take the "war on terror" for example. The entire nation is being driven to hate a particular type of person so much that simply being accused of being that kind of person has from time to time resulted in their death. They had an extremely similar fiasco a few hundred years ago in Salem, Massetchusets.
Or how about this little story the 700 Club
(hey, can YOU think of anything better to do at 2 AM on a military base? I have a bad habit of subjecting myself to religious torture for some reason...maybe I should be working at the Portal of Evil or SomethingAwful.)
that the major sects of Islam are trying to take their religion and force it upon the entire world, killing people of other religions and declaring holy wars on every other faith on the planet.While I have to agree that this claim is probably a bit far-fetched, if it is in fact the truth, the Christian community doesn't really have any room to speak on it. After all, how do you think THEIR religion came to be such a prominent one? Or did you simply not know about the Crusades?
...Oh, and let's not forget the latest group of folks proclaiming these to be the last days of the world...y'know, just like they've been doing for the past 2000 years STRAIGHT...
Yeah, I'd say that little bit of insight from the novel "Dinotopia" had a point about time moving in more of a helix than a circle of history or a line of evolution...the events of the past apparently will continue to reincarnate themselves in new forms forever...I can only hope one day we'll learn to see it coming and avoid it.