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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:04 PM
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Pat Robertson's Predictions for 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV1JodANwgI


Pat Robertson says God told him what will happen in 2011, and it's good news if you're Pat Robertson, bad news if you're anyone else.

What, specifically, did God tell Robertson? "Your country is in grave peril," Robertson said. "In two years will come a time of reckoning. Your currency will shrink in value. Unemployment will escalate. There will be turmoil."

But Robertson isn't sweating it. His CBN network and Regent University will both prosper, and his American Center for Law and Justice "will be needed like never before," he said.

Robertson -- for the uninitiated -- is the Christian televangelist who, among other things, claimed the devastating earthquake in Haiti last year was a result of Haitians signing a "pact to the devil." In an unexpected move, he recently said that criminalizing marijuana is "ruining young people
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:12 PM
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1. God told him. Then he is insane
Voices inside his head. Or, he's making it up.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:22 PM
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3. What amazes me, is that you post that when I have shown that many people
Edited on Wed Jan-05-11 12:26 PM by RandomThoughts
are listening to spiritual voices.


What do you think muse is.

What do you think this song is about.

Celtic Woman - The Voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqQnhBtxaI


Not trying to be offensive, but people are listening to voices everywhere. I can post 1000 examples of that.


That Mormon guy, he really saw text changing on plates, not saying it was right or wrong, but he really did see it. Same with many other people that see stuff like that. And people really have written down inspired, both good and bad texts.
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:41 PM
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5. Okay, I catch your drift. But do you really think God is talking to Pat?
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:49 PM
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8. I really think he is hearing spiritual messages.
you can argue the form and source, but people do here spiritual stuff all the time.


That is how much of society is ran actually. There is a group that has a set belief, and if you follow that belief the voices get you into positions, then they do what they tell them to do. Some are good, some bad.

But the reason 'the club' is so together, is they are mostly listening to voices. That is what top masons do, that is what people of faith do. Although there are sides, some only think there is one side, and there are fascinating doctrines about falls from grace that explain that.


It can even be said that is what Howard Hughes did, but in 1945 things got screwy. Same with Einstein, and many other people.

You can argue the source, but many people get inspired ideas.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:57 PM
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10. Spiritual Messages or the content of his subconscious mind?
Edited on Wed Jan-05-11 12:58 PM by emulatorloo
(which is filled with a lot of ultra conservative talkingpoints)
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 01:05 PM
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11. It has been proven not to be subconscious.
Edited on Wed Jan-05-11 01:05 PM by RandomThoughts
Unless a broadcast system existed, since it spans multiple minds.

Shown many examples of same things said by many people that are beyond coincidence or group thought.

More like a shared dll in an operating system, as metaphor.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 01:20 PM
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12. How do you account for murderers who say "God Told Me Too"?
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 10:10 PM
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15. That depends on your belief.
Edited on Wed Jan-05-11 10:12 PM by RandomThoughts
First off I do understand the concept of subconscious and don't say all things of thought are spiritual, but there are some things that are spiritual from outside a person, or in connection with many people.

Regarding your question, I have posted many times on how that concept creates problems for some. They don't use all three defensive.

It is the use of the three defenses that helps in that situation, heart and reason help with what is called discernment.

If you hear a spiritual voice, or think you do, and just do what it tells you, then you are just following orders, and they could come from a bad side things. So you also have to use the defense of compassion and ask does it fit with concepts of love and treat people how you would want to be treated. Then you also have to look at it from does it make sense, so using the thoughts of many people and what is thought best by much of society you use that defense.

Doing what you are told is never a good defense, since spiritual bad and good have some of the same abilities, they can spend time convincing you that they are right by the 'bliss buzz' and even show good things, then once you start doing things without thinking, or feeling, they can be gotten to do things that might be bad.

Why also each comment must hold its own credibility, since also something friendly that tries to help someone may not be the only thing trying to guide a person, good and bad in everyone.

So you avoid just following orders by feeling and thinking also, then if it is spiritual you choose to either be part of that spiritual or not.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 10:18 PM
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16. Guess what? Voices don't exist, unless you're mentally ill
I know the internet says otherwise. But the internet is full of lots of BS.
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:13 PM
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2. Pat should get together with The Amazing Kreskin and take the show to Branson
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jasigirl33 Donating Member (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:32 PM
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4. Did someone in his family get picked up for pot?
It isn't likely that he would change his views unless it was of some personal benefit to him or his family.
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:41 PM
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6. Better yet...
Let's review his 2010 predictions and see how many of those have been fulfilled.

My guess is -- not very many.
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:48 PM
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7. I think Pat needs new meds. nt
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 12:52 PM
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9. K&R. Pat needs therapy, heavy medication and a few years in the dayroom
watching Oprah...He would turn out a much better person.


mark
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 01:23 PM
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13. ...and so many comedians out of work.
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mercuryblues Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 01:40 PM
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14. Won't
he look like the fool among his followers, when the world ends in May.

There he is, making his 2011 predictions for 2 years in the future. Isn’t there also something in Deuteronomy that prohibits predicting the future?
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mstinamotorcity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 09:36 AM
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17. Pat Robertson is a
Charlatan. Magician. Liar. Speculator.Crook. Fork tongue speaking son of a b---h.
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