Tiday’s Laugh 2-7-19
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Transcript:
Man 1: the Bible is man’s fairy tale search for God. It’s a contradictory translation of many translations.
Man 2: it’s the only book where hundreds of prophecies were fulfilled to the letter.
Man 1: Those were written after the fact.
Man 2: Actually—
Man 1 (fingers in his ears) Can’t year you. TA DA TA DEE BLAH BLAH HEY NONNY NONNY BO DOH!
Man 2 (thinking): Poor soul.
Mick Williams (commenting on his own strip)
‘A leftist mind is a closed mind.’
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Absolute fucking projection. It's never the people with actual logic and reason on their side that plug their ears and run away, it's the fundies. Once again Mick ends up writing a humiliating self-parody.
The "poor soul" thing at the end - So pitying and smug at the same time. As only fundies can manage.
it’s the only book where hundreds of prophecies were fulfilled to the letter
Brexit becoming a clusterfuck. The title of "Star Wars IX": what is it? What is the final boss of "DOOM Eternal"?
Things that are of the now or what is to come. But what about a film in the 1970s: "The Wicker Man"?
Because for all your claims, if your BuyBull didn't mention something with an actual Strawman, then what does that say about your 'argument' that's currently burning in one like Edward Woodward did at the end of that extremely un prophecised scenario: and he played a fundie Christain like you, Dick Willy.
Some of the prophecies which were expected to be fulfilled during the prophet's lifetime either sort of occurred centuries later under very different circumstances (for example, Ezekiel propesized that Nebuchadnezzar would destroy Tyre. He failed to do so... but it was much later destroyed by Alexander the Great) or haven't happened yet. That alone puts things to doubt.
According to Isaiah, the king of Israel was assured by the titular prophet that an enemy kingdom would be dealt with. To seal the prophecy, he was told that a young girl would become pregnant, and the enemy would be defeated beforehand. It came true within that same book. Centuries later, Christian writers mistook that for messianic prophecy.
Some of the prophecies which were expected to be fulfilled during the prophet's lifetime either sort of occurred centuries later under very different circumstances (for example, Ezekiel propesized that Nebuchadnezzar would destroy Tyre. He failed to do so... but it was much later destroyed by Alexander the Great) or haven't happened yet. That alone puts things to doubt.
Ezekiel also prophesied that Egypt would become a barren wasteland and nobody would live there for a period of 40 years. However, that never happened in recorded history since that prophecy was written. So I guess that part of the Bible wasn't divinely inspired, since it didn't come from the Lord ...
it’s the only book where hundreds of prophecies were fulfilled to the letter.
In late November of 2016 I was reminded by a friend that in the summer of 2016 I had suggested that Trump may in fact very well win the election.
A prophecy fulfilled. I have to face the possibility that I am indeed God.
So you're the one thinking that a book has the magical ability to predict the future, and you're not even going to question it? When was the last time you saw one of these things in real life? Oh, right. You shouldn't question it when it's your favorite holy tome.
hundreds of prophecies were fulfilled to the letter.
Oh, really? Care to list those "hundreds of prophecies"?
Also, let me tell ya somethin', Micky, if you make a prophecy, any prophecy vague enough it's almost guaranteed to come true. Let me demonstrate: I predict it's going to rain multiple times this year. And I predict that almost everyone on this site will be dead within the next 2 centuries.
Let us see if that's true, hm? Because if it is, I MUST be the second coming!
However, if you manage to at least 10 extremely specific predictions that indeed come true (like the future of the GoW games, anything about Death Stranding, One Piece ending, Star Wars IX's reception...), then we'll talk. But as far as I care, you might just be a time traveller. Not a holy conduit.
A leftist mind is a closed mind? You mean the one to the left of the older man in purple?
The people thinking that Jesus fulfilled the prophecies had to twist themselves and the arguments more thoroughly than the DNA strands are twisted.
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The man in purple started out fine, but then turned fundamentalist, so I'm thinking he's a Strawman, a Mick Projection Project.
Man 2: it’s the only book where hundreds of prophecies were fulfilled to the letter.
Oh please. Not only is he not mentioning any specific ones, I bet he'd just either come up with some weird "explanation" for, or maybe totally ignore, stuff like, say, Matthew 16:28. ("Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.")
Man 1: You mean like the prophecy that Tyre would be destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and never rebuilt?
Man 2: Can't hear you, LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!!
Ya know, while I admit I can't draw to save my life (as opposed to Mick, who's completely unaware of his lack of talent), I do have a better idea of what a "comic" is supposed to be.
Case in point, a single pic showing Mick going through a legal, messy divorce... with reality .
The Oracle of Delphi made thousands of prophecies and they were all fulfilled to the letter, even if one tried to prevent them from happening (see, for example, that case when the childless royal couple of Thebes received a prophecy that their son would kill his father and marry his mother, so when they finally had a son, they slashed his feet and abandoned him in the woods. But he was found and adopted by the also childless royal couple of Corinth. The child grew into a strong and bright young man. One day, he travelled to Delphi, where it was prophetised that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he vowed never to return to Corinth, instead taking the road to Thebes. On the way, he got into an argument with a traveler coming from the other direction that escalated and ended with him killing the other traveler, and when he got to Thebes, he defeated a monster by outsmarting it and was rewarded with marrying the recently widowed queen...). Of course, not all costumers interpreted the letters correctly...
@KingOfRhye
Matthew 16:28. ("Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.")
Maybe, the crowd included some immortals?
@Pharaoh
There's also the Preterist viewpoint of those prophecies which had historical context and both Jewish and Roman statments to back them up, but fundies aren't to happy with those ones.
For anyone who gives a $#!t or looking for an interesting read.
"On the "Soon" Return of Jesus"
http://www.tektonics.org/esch/soon.php
Everyone notices not only the diversion but where it occurs.
"Man 1: Those were written after the fact. Man 2: Actually"
Why didn't you continue?
Because you have no HONEST answer to that. Biblical scholars will never argue that (Fundamentalists have NO Biblical scholars, lots of illiterate preachers and follower but NO SCHOLARS)
The prophecies are realized only within the old Testament and mostly in the New which is, every book, totally aware of the previous claims. AND STILL THEY"RE NOT ACCURATE.
Another bullshit flip the script, opposite history lying your fucking ass off shit cartoon.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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