Obama is the anti-christ?

[HyperU2]

....you're not sleeping?

Just hungry.

 

[yolland]

My sense of humor is fully intact, it's just that I prefer to run around waving a pitchfork and ranting hysterically about the impending apocalypse.

 

[Harry Vest]

My paranoid side is beginning to wonder...Obama visits Mexico...Felipe Solis dies a few days after shaking hands with Obama...swine flu outbreak begins...major earthquake hits Mexico today...and oh ya, while comet holmes was bursting a million times it's size who was sweeping the nation filling stadiums with frenzied record crowds...Obama. Now I know most of you will think this utter nonsense, and it quite likely is...but, it still kind of makes me wonder?

 

[BVS]

Good to see you back...

 

[Harry Vest]

Good to see you back...

Thanks!!!

 

[maycocksean]

Tell ya what.

I'll check back in a week and see if everyone's caught up on their sleep AND GOT SOME SEMBLENCE OF A SENSE OF HUMOR BACK.

I'm finding this thread quite amusing actually. . .

 

[indra]

I have an absurd-reaction-to-an-Obama-painting story -- and I'm actually (kind of) involved!

I'm the art rep for my favourite musician/singer who is also a painter. He's doing a solo exhibition (paintings with spoken word pieces over music for each painting -- it covers all his arty stuff...music, poetry, painting) at a gallery which is located in the lobby of an office building. Now this gallery isn't a commercial gallery (yes, they do sell the art, but it isn't primarily a shop), but part of an initiative by the city's technology council to promote culture in the region.

One of the paintings in this exhibition is a portrait of Obama, and this portrait, or rather the title of this portrait -- "Finally, a Good Guy" -- caused some people who work in the building to pitch a hissy fit. Several people called it "potentially offensive" to people who do not feel Obama is "finally, a good guy" and petitioned to have it removed or at least to have a big fat disclaimer plastered on it that it "does not reflect the views and opinions of all the tenants of the building."

It's a painting in a exhibition by a particular artist -- they are his views and thoughts. I don't know where these folks ever got the idea any of these paintings were supposed to reflect any other than the artist's opinion, but that's apparently what they feel (looks like they need a bit more work on that understanding culture thing ). So there was a little tempest in a teapot, but the painting is staying. With no disclaimer either.

The painting is doing it's job -- it's showing the opinion of it's creator and getting a reaction (both positive and negative) from it's viewers. It will be interesting to see if any of the offended parties show up at the opening this Friday to express their displeasure to the artist.

 

[Vincent Vega]

My paranoid side is beginning to wonder...Obama visits Mexico...Felipe Solis dies a few days after shaking hands with Obama...swine flu outbreak begins...major earthquake hits Mexico today...and oh ya, while comet holmes was bursting a million times it's size who was sweeping the nation filling stadiums with frenzied record crowds...Obama. Now I know most of you will think this utter nonsense, and it quite likely is...but, it still kind of makes me wonder?

Obama has the power to cause earthquakes?

That's cool.

 

[Harry Vest]

Obama has the power to cause earthquakes?

That's cool.

Apparently, and what's even cooler, he has the power to deliver swine flu to the masses.

 

[A stor]

My sense of humor is fully intact, it's just that I prefer to run around waving a pitchfork and ranting hysterically about the impending apocalypse.

 

[AliEnvy]

Obama is the anti-christ?

When pigs fly.

 

[maycocksean]

Obama has the power to cause earthquakes?

That's cool.

Well, you know when you're the antichrist and all. . .

 

[Tiger Edge]

When pigs fly.

When pigs kill humans

 

[Vincent Vega]

Apparently, and what's even cooler, he has the power to deliver swine flu to the masses.

Actually, fever is hot.

 

[AliEnvy]

 

[the iron horse]

 

[INDY500]

He will rise from obscurity. Check
He will be seen in the eyes of the world as a great man of peace. Check

Go early, it should be extra crowded in church this Sunday.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Well that 2012 movie is coming out next month

 

[melon]

He will rise from obscurity. Check
He will be seen in the eyes of the world as a great man of peace. Check

Go early, it should be extra crowded in church this Sunday.

You do realize that the "antichrist" theology we hold today is thanks to the 16th century Counter-Reformation, and not any Biblical precepts, right? A Jesuit priest, Francisco Ribera, tied the idea of the "antichrist" to apocalyptic futurism to deflect from the widespread Protestant view that the "antichrist" was the contemporary Papacy. Protestants, too, started to believe in this "futurism" only in the early 20th century. Up until Ribera's writings, the "antichrist" could refer to any number of contemporary enemies of the Church, but none of them were expected to usher in the end of the world.

I'm sure you were probably being facetious, but frankly I'm tired of this kind of superstitious nonsense hampering progress.

 

[bigjohn2441]

obama is the anti-christ and george w bush killed the dinosaurs

 

[coemgen]

You do realize that the "antichrist" theology we hold today is thanks to the 16th century Counter-Reformation, and not any Biblical precepts, right? A Jesuit priest, Francisco Ribera, tied the idea of the "antichrist" to apocalyptic futurism to deflect from the widespread Protestant view that the "antichrist" was the contemporary Papacy. Protestants, too, started to believe in this "futurism" only in the early 20th century. Up until Ribera's writings, the "antichrist" could refer to any number of contemporary enemies of the Church, but none of them were expected to usher in the end of the world.

I'm sure you were probably being facetious, but frankly I'm tired of this kind of superstitious nonsense hampering progress.

As a Christian, I second this post. He's not the anti-Christ. That's just more fear talk from the Right, which is wrong.

 

[nathan1977]

Agreed, coemgen. There are plenty of reasons to be surprised at Obama's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. Fears that he's the Boogeyman aren't one of them.

 

[Knuckle]

This thread isn't funny. It shouldn't be locked (yet), but the very notion that people in general might consider this a legitimate subject of debate is frightening. These kinds of topics (and the other hyperventilation about needing to "take back the country" from a socialist or fascist Obama) is dangerous. Don't tell me about how "spirited" debate is common throughout American political history. Does anyone really have any doubt about the real threat this nonsense (whipped into frenzy by right wing talk radio and tv) presents? Seems like the same propaganda and atmosphere in Israel before a misguided, ultra right wing, self-perceived, patriot felt that he had to murder Itzhak Rabin to "save" Israel.

PS: I'm not suggesting any comments here are out of line or dangerous, just the "issue" at large. We might as well discuss whether or not Obama is a space alien sent to destroy us.

 

[deep]

shouldn't be locked, yet?

locking down threads just prevents persons with the correct information from having an opportunity to present it to misinformed individuals

it also allows misinformed people a chance to either get better informed or expose themselves and their ideas to the daylight, where other people can reach their own conclusions about the arguments presented.

 

[Knuckle]

shouldn't be locked, yet?

locking down threads just prevents persons with the correct information from having an opportunity to present it to misinformed individuals

it also allows misinformed people a chance to either get better informed or expose themselves and their ideas to the daylight, where other people can reach their own conclusions about the arguments presented.

I am in almost complete agreement with what you've said. I don't like seeing threads locked. I said "yet" because no one here suggested that violence was the appropriate response to a suspected "antichrist". Gotta go...catching the train to the Yankees game now. Go Phillies!

 

[deep]

have fun at the game

I think Thomas Friedman wrote an article recently with your same concerns

 

[HyperU2]

He just destroyed the Nobel committee's credibility.

 

[deep]

What?

He nominated himself and fixed the voting?


Axelrod did some pretty shifty things during the primaries keeping Michigan and Florida delegates out.

But I don't think they had anything to do with this.

and you may recall their last attempt to win at the Olympics, they came in last.

 

[indra]

I wondered who dragged this topic back up.

 

[INDY500]

The whole world is depending on the U.S. -- and you -- to literally save this planet.
-- Michael Moore posting on news of Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

When sycophantic "followers" stop making a Savior out of Barack Obama then others of us will stop making him the antichrist.

Both are equally ridiculous and should be ridiculed at every opportunity.