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Author Topic:   Knowing an upcoming disaster, what to do?
Taz
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Message 1 of 23 (512521)
06-18-2009 5:53 PM


Recently, a 50 year old time capsule was openned up at a local elementary school. The capsule was suppose to contain pictures, letters, and other messages school children at the time wanted to give to school children 50 years in their future. The ceremony was quite lively as many authors of those messages (now adults) attended.
While other school children received pictures and letters, my nephew got a paper filled with seemingly random numbers. Bored with the message, he gave it to me. That night as I was glancing through the numbers, a sequence of numbers caught my attention. It read 91101. Followed it was the number 2996. A quick search on the internet turned out that 2996 people died on september 11th of 2001. Captivated by this "coincidence", I spent the rest of the night looking through and searching on the internet the dates and number of deaths of written on the paper. By the morning, I was able to pick out a definite pattern of dates and number of deaths of every major disaster world wide in the last 50 years.
Between these dates and numbers of casualties were seemingly random numbers that I, at the time, hadn't figured out what they meant yet. In order to see if this piece of paper indeed could predict the future, I began to monitor the news for what the paper predicts as the next major disaster. Incredibly enough, there was a disaster on that exact date where that exact number of people perished. What's more, it occurred to me that those random numbers between the dates were actually GPS coordinates.
This brings me to the crux of the matter. The last date shown on the message is 2 days from now. There's no number of death and there's no GPS coordinates. I have to assume that this upcoming disaster will happen everywhere and that it will affect everyone.
When I was about 20, I turned into an atheist after spending all my life as a devout fundamentalist christian. Now that I am faced with my own mortality as well as the mortality of every other human being on Earth, should I turn back to god or should I continue to deny god's existence? Will "Judgement Day" be a planned event meant as a wakeup call for all of us or will it just be an event, one of many in the universe?

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Taz
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Message 3 of 23 (512543)
06-18-2009 7:50 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by AdminNosy
06-18-2009 7:40 PM


Re: Where to put this?
Concentrate on the last paragraph and tell me where you think it should go.

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Taz
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Message 5 of 23 (512550)
06-18-2009 9:13 PM


The reason I brought this topic up is death does have a profound impact on people. Despite my strong atheism and skepticism, I have recently begun to wish there is a god and there is an afterlife. The reason for my sudden doubt in my non-faith is I've recently lost a life long friend (if people didn't know any better, they'd think we were a gay married couple) due to a gun shot wound. His death has left a hole in my life. I guess my instinct is to try to fill the void with spirituality.
The world's most famous atheist, Richard Dawkins, have said many times now that he plans to have cameras and plenty of witnesses around his death bed in order to avoid a rumour after his death that he'd converted right before his death. Why? Believers have for centuries been saying that atheists will eventually convert when staring death in the eyes.
I bring to the table an even bigger question. For our resident atheists, will you use spirituality as a mean to comfort when faced with total planetary annihilation?

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Taz
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Message 9 of 23 (512568)
06-19-2009 3:38 AM


I think you guys misunderstood me.
My recent doubt in my non-belief in a deity has nothing to do with the fear of hell fire. I've lived my life as best as I could based on my conscience. If that's not good enough for god (whatever deity it may be) simply because I've refused to make animal sacrifice or kill every man, woman, and child of a sinful city like Vegas, I don't want to have anything to do with that god.
The question started popping up in my head because there's this thing in my head that keeps wanting to meet my friend again. You could say I'm in the depression stage.
Anyway, the point of this thread is about you guys, too. Are you going to seek comfort in spirituality if you're faced with death or total annihilation?
Edited by Taz, : No reason given.

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Taz
Member (Idle past 3321 days)
Posts: 5069
From: Zerus
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Message 22 of 23 (512684)
06-20-2009 12:03 AM
Reply to: Message 20 by Hyroglyphx
06-19-2009 9:23 PM


Hyroglyphx writes:
What are the dates?
2 days from today.
First things first... Do you have any way to find out who wrote down the series of numbers?
A school girl 50 years ago name Lucinda.
If they are still alive (they'd probably be about 60 yrs old) you can interview them and have them recollect what the significance of the numbers were to them.
Went this route. She died a few years back.
Start with the simplest explanations and work your way out, systematically ruling certain things out while giving way to the possibility of others.
I've considered me seeing what I wanted to see.
Are you able to accomplish this?
Already done so.
Coincidently, here is a picture of me smiling.

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