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will wrote:thar wrote:If Armageddon is nuclear, then my money is on the cockroaches. Cockroaches are wimps, one of the first insects to kick it when exposed to radiation at about 20,000 rads. If I was to side with a particular insect I'd go with fruit flies (64,000 rads and prodigious breeders) or the parasitic wasp (considerably more rad resistance, but not such good breeders. Like cockroaches they also look B-movie scary, which is an important consideration). The smart money is on the bacteria. I am very much bemused by the misunderstanding of the significance of "Armageddon" among certain superstitious folk — present company excluded, of course. The battle of Armageddon was the "end time" for Josiah in the same sense that the battle of Waterloo was the "end time" for Napoleon. It signifies an epic failure, not a triumph. 2 Kings 23 wrote:29 ¶In his days aPharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king bJosiah went against him; and he [Pharaoh-nechoh] slew him [Josiah] at Megiddo [Armageddon], when he had seen him.
30 And his servants carried him [Josiah] in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took aJehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead. retrieved from http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/23?lang=eng 2012-01-19
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..."The battle of Armageddon was the "end time" for Josiah in the same sense that the battle of Waterloo was the "end time" for Napoleon. It signifies an epic failure, not a triumph..." - LeonAzul.
Depends which side you were on Leo, does it not?
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jacobusmaximus wrote:..."The battle of Armageddon was the "end time" for Josiah in the same sense that the battle of Waterloo was the "end time" for Napoleon. It signifies an epic failure, not a triumph..." - LeonAzul.
Depends which side you were on Leo, does it not?
Are there different sides when it comes to being human? 
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leonAzul wrote:jacobusmaximus wrote:..."The battle of Armageddon was the "end time" for Josiah in the same sense that the battle of Waterloo was the "end time" for Napoleon. It signifies an epic failure, not a triumph..." - LeonAzul.
Depends which side you were on Leo, does it not?
Are there different sides when it comes to being human? Point taken Leo. However there was another dimension which Josiah overlooked at Megiddo. He failed to consult God and the prophets before intervening in this war between the Egyptians and the Baylonians. If he had done so he might not have met his Armageddon.
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jacobusmaximus wrote:leonAzul wrote:jacobusmaximus wrote:..."The battle of Armageddon was the "end time" for Josiah in the same sense that the battle of Waterloo was the "end time" for Napoleon. It signifies an epic failure, not a triumph..." - LeonAzul.
Depends which side you were on Leo, does it not?
Are there different sides when it comes to being human? Point taken Leo. However there was another dimension which Josiah overlooked at Megiddo. He failed to consult God and the prophets before intervening in this war between the Egyptians and the Baylonians. If he had done so he might not have met his Armageddon. Indeed, so the take away here is that the one who is victorious at Megiddo/Armageddon is the one who is prepared, not the one who is more credulous.
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Or, you can take away that for all the huffing and puffing, the place is still there, with the cockroaches and the fruit flies...  but, to heck with thousands of years of history and holy books, - now it means a big asteroid is heading for Earth, doesn't it? or am I mixing my Armageddons and Apocalypses. I Really should have paid more attention to those lessons on the end of the world....
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