What the hell is going on with that book "The Great Controversy"?

[arcane1]

For the past few months it's been coming up in my Amazon account as a recommendation based on my purchases, even though it has squat to do with any of the things I've purchased there.

Today, I find in my mailbox not one, but TWO copies of the damned thing.

I live in a huge apartment building with arrays of little mailboxes that only the owner and the Post Office can open. The books are not addressed to me, so they must have had the P.O. carriers carry a ton of these fucking things around, placing them in every mailbox.



It's money for the post office I guess, but still. The postal carriers in my area have to carry that stuff on foot!


on edit: there is a little postal card in each one with the standard "current resident" addressee. That furthers my suspicion that everyone in the damned building got at least one of these.

[Archae]

1. Found it at Amazon...

Only costs a penny.

Apparently it's a doomsday book written by a 7th-Day Adventist.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Controversy-Past-Present-Future/dp/B009L3YA26/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416449460&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Great+Controversy

Lot of the one-star reviewers got it, unsolicited.

[arcane1]

3. The back cover of my two copies says $11.95

It has a copyright notice in the front, but without a date. That makes me think it's been around and gets updated as predictions fail.

I actually, for a moment, considered reading it since I have such a long commute. But I looked inside and saw how desnely packed and tiny the text was, and changed my mind. Life's too short for that!

[Archae]

4. Remember that book "The Late Great Planet Earth?"

I still remember all the "predictions" by the writer, Hal Lindsey, and when all his "prophesies" failed he faded back into the woodwork.

He's still writing, but now he's a staffer at WND.

[arcane1]

6. I never read any of his stuff but the name rings a bell.

We had a nut out here who predicted the end times a few times. He died but we're still at it!

[Archae]

8. Remember Harold Camping, and his "prophesy?"

His "end of the world prediction" never happened, and he's finally kicked the bucket.

World is still here...

[arcane1]

9. That might be who I'm thinking of, actually

The Oakland guy?

There was talk at the time of doing things on his doomsday like changing one's Facebook photo to a picture of a pile of empty clothes, but I'm not sure how many people did it. I did some test photos but they didn't come out well

[pinboy3niner]

2. The Great Controversy: About That Book You Got In The Mail

The Great Controversy: About That Book You Got In The Mail

Have you gotten your free copy of The Great Controversy? I bet you have! But don't confuse the mailed text — subtitled "Past, Present, Future" and "How Will It End?" — with a wasteful phone book. It's actually a "crucial end-time book," says Remnant Publications, the Christian publisher responsible for already blanketing New York City, Washington, DC, and Charlotte, NC, with nearly two million copies of the not-so-light reading material.

Your skepticism is shared by the publisher, who has low expectations for success in the Bay: "San Francisco is not the easiest community to reach," reads Remnant's website. "For years the city has been at the forefront of the gay movement. In fact, 15 percent of San Francisco residents are homosexual."

That's not all, folks: "The area is home to the University of California-Berkeley, a hotbed of liberal ideas. It also contains the affluent communities of Silicon Valley, where high-tech companies like Google and Facebook are changing the world on a daily basis."

How is such a thing possible? The free book, I mean. Well it isn't, really. "The books have been printed, so our immediate need is for $225,000 to cover handling, postage, and fuel costs to deliver these books to the post office," says the Remnant's site. So thanks, donors! Mass production has brought down the cost of the book to 99 cents per copy, reports NPR in Charlotte. 247,000 copies were first sent for free to 10 cities in the Bay Area, and now 750,000 more copies are showing up in mailboxes in San Francisco and Oakland.

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http://sfist.com/2014/11/17/the_great_controversy_about_that_bo.php

[arcane1]

5. I knew it. I sinned and now I'm damned.

Thanks for the info!

[pinboy3niner]

7. Rut-roh

[arcane1]

10. Not so fast! I have two densely packed volumes that say otherwise.