Bibliophiles unite ( Archived) (62)

Skills need to preserved in the coming years...

We all depend on our computers too much anymore. Studies show that the more complex a system is, the more likely it is to break down. It's simply chaos math applied to reality, based on man's drive to sophistication and nature and entropy's drive toward simplicity. So start collecting books people. Google is the number of the Beast...

Yeah like I needed another reason to collect more books. My home is already likened to a book shelter for abused and unwanted literature. Thanks buddy now I am going to have to get a second job to buy a bigger house...

I think the computer that the government has thats named Magog and serial numbers containing 666 is the beast, the day will come when all are channeled thru it and it is stricken with a virus or goes haywire, and everything goes down, power, water, banks, stores, stockmarket etc. Then we are doomed for most of us live in a concrete world we would be lucky to catch enough rats, birds and squirrels to live on. And no water we won't last long anyway.

If the libraries of alexandria hadn't been burned there never would have been a dark age...people need to wake up, and start preserving some of the things that actually work and are sustainable...

Ok then we just need to protect our Libraries like a Fort Knox, then they will be saved.

We have to protect our right to have libraries. There was an attitude at several points in history that if it wasn't in the Bible or the Qu'ran it wasn't worth preserving. In hard times, religious fanatics will feel justified in pronuncing end times and producing self-fulfilling prophecies. In the result of that, the more moderate of us must preserve a level of technology that fights against such ignorance. Things change, even the bad times. But by succumbing to Malthus' fears, we create them. Things are not geometric nor are they linear. Adaptation is key.

"Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh."

The separate destinies of the Church and Israel, a belief which is inherent in dispensationalism is a particular concern to some Jews and to some evangelical Christians. Evangelicals who reject dispensationalism, such as those who hold to a Post Tribulation Rapture, (or more accurately a Post Tribulation Resurrection-Rapture), see both the Church and Israel entering the crucible of the End Time together. These Traditional Pre-Millennialists, as they are called, reject dispensationalism and its end time eschatology as setting forth a dubious eschatology of an "apartheid of the Elect". They consider the dispensationalist doctrine of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture to be self-serving and highly unlikely to be the true last days policy of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Traditional Pre-Millennialists see all the covenant people of the God of Israel being refined together in the crucible of the end time. They also see the "royal priesthood and holy nation" referred to by Moses and by the Apostle Peter being unveiled in the Apocalypse as a single remnant Elect drawn out from Israel and from the wider Church in the nations.

Just to many coinidences to completely ignore...

not seeing the tree for the forrest!

I need to open my drapes.