Seismic activity as a sign of the last days

Originally posted by finnegan
We are not dealing in a reasonable or even a best or most likely interpretation. We are dealing in your claim that there is only one possible interperetation, that no alternative is even possible, that to mention the possibility of an alternative is to enter into the thick woods of logical fallacy.

I am only claiming that the global conflict you look fo ...[text shortened]... possibility of error. That is a very high risk strategy and it stands on very weak foundations.

If you were looking through the flow of time from the past to the present, looking for clues as to when Christ words seemed to be most applicable at what event would you pause and say, ahhh that looks like an escalation, of 'nation rising against nation and kingdom against kingdom'? of 'wars and reports of wars'? We could plot it on a graph, like the one below.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox.htm

Originally posted by finnegan
I gave you an alternative. The prophesied events lie in the distant future and not in the recent past. I did not say I am right. I said it is an alternative that fits every one of your arguments except for just one - the argument that you are right and everyone else is wrong.

Its just too airy Finnegan, based on speculation and conjecture. I find it much more reasonable to examine the evidence from the past, of what has actually transpired and to attempt to determine if we can pinpoint the epoch that the Christ was referring to and this epoch from the First world war onwards has witnessed an unprecedented escalation in warfare. That is not saying I am right and you are wrong, its an appeal to reason based on evidence.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
yes but it cannot nor does it negate the fact that we have witnessed in this modern epoch, unprecedented warfare.

I didn't say it did, but that increase is rather more plausibly explained by technological advances in transportation and weapons technology - the Second World War would have been a little difficult to fight with chariots and triremes. Incidentally, wars could be pretty apocalyptic even in the middle ages, look up Timur, also known as Timur the Lame or Tamerlane, on Wikipedia if you've got a quarter of an hour to read about pyramids of skulls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Its just too airy Finnegan, based on speculation and conjecture. [...] That is not saying I am right and you are wrong, its an appeal to reason based on evidence.

Everything you're saying is based on speculation and conjecture too. First and foremost, it's based on your assumption that a "prophesy" contained in a few words written 2,000 years ago is somehow going to come true. You simply can't get "speculation and conjecture" more undiluted than that.

Originally posted by DeepThought
I didn't say it did, but that increase is rather more plausibly explained by technological advances in transportation and weapons technology - the Second World War would have been a little difficult to fight with chariots and triremes. Incidentally, wars could be pretty apocalyptic even in the middle ages, look up Timur, also known as Timur the Lame or ...[text shortened]... ot a quarter of an hour to read about pyramids of skulls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur

I see, so far

Finnegan - some unspecified point in the future
Fmf - nothing
Suzzianne - nothing
Proper Knob - wars of the middle ages
Deep thought - Tamarlane
Ghost of a Duke - jam doughnuts

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I see, so far

Finnegan - some unspecified point in the future
Fmf - nothing
Suzzianne - nothing
Proper Knob - wars of the middle ages
Deep thought - Tamarlane
Ghost of a Duke - jam doughnuts

Having abandoned the doctored earthquake data you offered at the outset, you have made this thread about you and your superstitions.

Originally posted by FMF
Having abandoned the doctored earthquake data you offered at the outset, you have made this thread about you and your superstitions.

more nothingness, how predictable and how banal. Do you ever think that you will manage to post something informative, remotely interesting or will we be treated to dog bites man forever more?

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
more nothingness, how predictable and how banal.

Do you think the world will end, and billions of people destroyed with it, in your lifetime?

Originally posted by FMF
Do you think the world will end, and billions of people destroyed with it, in your lifetime?

No one knows when the end of the system will come.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
No one knows when the end of the system will come.

roigam, also from your organisation, said it would happen in his lifetime. Later he changed his mind and said that, although he didn't know when it would happen, he hoped it would happen in his lifetime. Do you hope it will happen in your lifetime?

Originally posted by FMF
roigam, also from your organisation, said it would happen in his lifetime. Later he changed his mind and said that, although he didn't know when it would happen, he hoped it would happen in his lifetime. Do you hope it will happen in your lifetime?

I see that we are once gain getting away from an objective subject to a subjective one so beloved by our resident troll. Sorry I refuse to be subjected to your incessant personalising of debate. If you have something else to proffer of an objective nature I will consider it, if not it will be ignored.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I see that we are once gain getting away from an objective subject to a subjective one so beloved by our resident troll. Sorry I refuse to be subjected to your incessant personalising of debate. If you have something else to proffer of an objective nature I will consider it, if not it will be ignored.

Your prediction that the 'end is nigh' is entirely subjective. The only real topic here is your subjectivity and how it plays out when you try to discuss it with people.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
In view of the tragic recent events in Japan and Ecuador are any of the doubters still insistent that we have not seen a marked increase in the frequency and magnitude of seismic activity as prophesied by the Christ in the book of Matthew, chapter 24.

DATES PERIOD NO. EARTHQUAKES (Mag. > 6.99)
---------- ...[text shortened]... pointers, one of these being natural events – like earthquakes.

http://www.earth.webecs.co.uk

Have you lodged any kind of complaint with the web site whose data manipulation has caused you problems on this thread?

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I see, so far

Finnegan - some unspecified point in the future
Fmf - nothing
Suzzianne - nothing
Proper Knob - wars of the middle ages
Deep thought - Tamarlane
Ghost of a Duke - jam doughnuts

The main part of my post was concerned with the ease of mass warfare now, brought about by technological improvement. You didn't address that.

Originally posted by DeepThought
The main part of my post was concerned with the ease of mass warfare now, brought about by technological improvement. You didn't address that.

I don't need to address it, its not important to the understanding of the prophecy to know why warfare escalates or is more deadly than before, simply that it is.