Dale Houstman

Steven Sullivan wrote:
> In alt.music.pink-floyd abby now <itsnomore@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>"Dale Houstman" <dmh7@skypoint.com> wrote in message
>>news:45D5FB77.3070806@skypoint.com...
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>>>abby now wrote:
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>>>>Sure we're supposed to care for the earth, but I and many believe
>>>>that this earth will soon pass away - whether there's global warming
>>>>or not.
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>>>Soon? What do you mean by "soon"? And - for that matter "pass away." I
>>>suspect humans will be here long enough to die of boredom, and I am,
>>>pretty sure earth will be sticking around for a lot longer than that. It
>>>may not be pretty for the humans at some point, but there are really only
>>>a few scenarios that would justify saying "the earth will soon pass away":
>>>a direct hit from an unbelievably large mass, the death of Sol (which is
>>>unlikely to occur any time soon), and the return of Jesus. But even the
>>>Bible doesn't claim that the planet itself will cease to exist.
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>>Your Bible must've had some pages missing:
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> Oh. You're a religious nut. Never mind. Fortunately, your kind is
> always wrong about this sort of thing.
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And repeatedly. If it weren't for the fact that these "prophecies" were
under the aegis of religious "thought," we would classify these
soothsayers as mad, because they keep repeating the same things over and
over (for millenia!) despite the fact that none of them actually ever
come to pass.

dmh