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What if it really WAS all real?

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Liger Null

19:29 / 02.06.06

According to Joseph Cannon, there is a strong possibility that Dubya is the grandson of The Beast 666 Himself. One must admit that the resemblance between Barbara and Uncle Al is rather striking.

At first I was amused by the prospect. "HA-HA, TAKE THAT, FUNDIES!!!! You voted in the Antichrist!!!" was my initial response. But then I remembered the Papal Prophecies, and the fact that the year 2012 is right around the corner, and I thought, "What if the End really is nigh?"

What if we really are living in the End Times? How does one prepare for such an event? In other words, what can the average person do to increase hir chances of coming out on top?

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19:40 / 02.06.06

Singing Take That numbers?

Olulabelle

19:42 / 02.06.06

Seriously? If you are lucky/unlucky enough to survive you will need to know the following:

Fuck off somewhere unpopulated.

Make sure you know how to support yourself, learn how to plant seeds and how to mill grain. Make sure you know basic medicinal skills, western or otherwise. Make sure you can build a structure to live in. Get a weapon if you can do such things because other people who can't might want the food you make or you to make it for them.

They're just basic things.

The not very serious answer is:

Have heaps and heaps of sex and do what you want when you want because it won't matter anyway, because most likely you'll be dead.

Liger Null

20:11 / 02.06.06

Have heaps and heaps of sex and do what you want when you want because it won't matter anyway, because most likely you'll be dead.

Doing what I want when I want is not economically feasible, and I personally find sex to be greatly overrated. I like the "learn to mill grain" idea much better.

Do you think there'll be zombies? 'Cause that would be cool.

ibis the being

20:22 / 02.06.06

Hey, thanks for tapping straight into my deepest, most bone chilling and insomnia inducing fear.

Liger Null

20:34 / 02.06.06

I dunno, I think it's kind of comforting in a weird way: it indicates that perhaps there is indeed a God, and that Ze's got a seriously fucked up sense of humour.

Which brings me to another question: What's the best way to make peace with the Divine? It's glaringly obvious that the Right-Wingers are going about it the wrong way (or are they? Maybe they're just fulfilling the Plan, like good little Judases) Is kindness and caring enough, or is some greater personal sacrifice called for?

Tom Paine's Bones

21:34 / 02.06.06

I suspect I'll probably be having a lie-in.

I seem to be whenever there's a major terrorist attack, war is declared etc.

I'm vaguely worried that my laziness may be the cause of all the evil in the world.

Ganesh

21:36 / 02.06.06

Wanking. A lot.

Andria

22:01 / 02.06.06

I must have forgotten to lock the keys on my cellphone, because I just discovered there's a new entry in my phonebook which says only "......666666666666666666".

Yet another sign of the impending Apocalypse.

Olulabelle

22:25 / 02.06.06

But you know what? I don't really think that Alistair Crowley can have been grandfather to the anti-christ. Isn't it too obvious?

You'd have to ask someone much more Temple-versed than me, like Trouser or Gypsy or Mordant but as far as I understand it from what I have read he may have seen himself as being the great beast but he was brought up in a fairly staunch Christian family and he rebelled against it. Being the great beast was fairly heretical in his time, but by today's standards it's not that big a deal, really.

I mean he wasn't that much outside the Christian mythos. He didn't claim to be Loki or anything.

Liger Null

00:33 / 03.06.06

But you know what? I don't really think that Alistair Crowley can have been grandfather to the anti-christ. Isn't it too obvious?

Obvious to everyone but the religious right, at least. Which is what makes the whole thing such a delicious irony. I mean, is there any real doubt that if there was an honest-to-goodness Antichrist among us, that Bush would fit the bill, regardless of lineage?

Who better to serve as Antichrist than one who actively exploits the names of Christ and God to further his own destructive ends?

Sheesh, I'm starting to scare myself here.

I don't know if Crowley ever claimed to be Loki, but I think he did have ties to Horus (help me out here, Temple-folk). He was of all faiths in his fashion.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:14 / 03.06.06

I think it's Bono meself. Apparently considered very charismatic by many, has welcoming ears at the UN and wants to unite all nations, cure starvation, all that stuff...

Ganesh

01:16 / 03.06.06

Is that Bono the first evictee from the Big Brother House?

"Immantenising the Eschaton. And everyfin. And everyfin."

Spyder Todd 2008

03:42 / 03.06.06

...
I really and truly want this to be true. And I want the story to break on national news, and Dubya forced to publicly deny being the grandson of the Great Beast. I will give some one all of my pennies if that happens, I swear.

ibis the being

15:40 / 03.06.06

I mean, is there any real doubt that if there was an honest-to-goodness Antichrist among us, that Bush would fit the bill, regardless of lineage?

Who better to serve as Antichrist than one who actively exploits the names of Christ and God to further his own destructive ends?

My dad is a big fundy and one time my SO said to him, "How can you think Bush is a Christian? He's more like the Antichrist!" and my dad answered matter of factly, "You know, you might be right. I've considered that he could be." And yet you voted for him twice. Oh, dad.

Kiltartan Cross

19:14 / 03.06.06

I shall play Destination Eschaton on loop while the bombs fall.

Sounds like a plan.

I come straigh from uni and the temple forum to this thread and my christian parents home. You and my mother, frightening me, being mean.

I'm gonna tell God on you!

Princess

20:07 / 03.06.06

I come straigh from uni and the temple forum to this thread and my christian parents home. You and my mother, frightening me, being mean.

I'm gonna tell God on you!

Mourne Kransky

23:29 / 03.06.06

I would manage somehow to convince Ganesh it was all his fault and die smugly.

stabbystabby

05:52 / 05.07.06

well, it'd happen here first, due to the international date line being so close, so i'd post a warning here and then run off to the countryside. try and find the last of the v8 interceptors, and track down the remaining fuel....

You must be mad.

indeed. ah ha ha ha ha haaaa

Triplets

07:37 / 05.07.06

Don't forget the dog. Dogs are fucking awesome.

Gypsy Lantern

09:07 / 05.07.06

For the record, there's a degree of discrepancy between what Crowley meant by the title "The Beast 666" and the popular notion of it as portrayed in the film The Omen and other cinematic sources. You really have to understand the basics of Crowley's cosmology to get what he's on about. It's fairly convoluted.

Re: The Apocalypse/ 2012/ etc. Don't worry about it. I'll sort it out.

Quantum

09:50 / 05.07.06

Re: The Apocalypse/ 2012/ etc. Don't worry about it. I'll sort it out.

We've got a team of numerologists working on it right now in the temple, just in case Lantern's might is insufficient. I'm hoping they'll prove it's actually 2102 that the timewave collapses, I mean, it's an easy mistake to make.

illmatic

10:33 / 05.07.06

6 is the number of the Sun in Crowley's system, and the whole thing ("current") is supposed to be "solar-phallic".He centre. He told a court that in calling himself 666, he was taking on this role, therefore they could just think of him as "little sunshine". Got to love him for that.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:35 / 05.07.06

...Because if you DON'T love him for that, he will place upon you a TERRIBLE CURSE!11!!

Quantum

10:54 / 05.07.06

Have you read the link in the original post? It's top class conspiracy theory, allegedly AC gets Barbara's mum to assist in his sexual exhaustion;

the year 1924 has a special significance in the Crowley chrnology. At this time, he is said to have undergone the "supreme ordeal" connected with his attainment of the Grade of Ipsissimus, the highest magickal achievement within his order.

which makes me think more that Crowley was just another pawn in the great game played by the Bush clan to steal our precious bodily fluids.

Ticker

11:55 / 05.07.06

In my home we take the Apocalypse very seriously as the Big Holiday.
The spouse gave up smoking for a wedding present and gets to start up again if the big 'A' goes down and I get to have real livestock.

So I suspect my arsenal will co-mingle with that of my other survivalist pals and we'll end up in a big commune ala Mad Max. Ethanol powered motorcycles, melting down our own bullets and raising veggies and animals.

No grain for milling, 'cept maybe the seasonal corn because it is not as economical as feeding your beasties. I'll eventually need to enslave an orphan to be my eyes after my glasses break and I run out of contact lenses.

We figure when the timewave collapses everyone will just realize the Myth of Progress went bust and everything will return to the regularly scheduled program.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

15:56 / 05.07.06

I'd hide in a bank vault until it was all over, then gather up copies of all the books I haven't had time to read.

Then, I'll break my glasses and shout how unfair it is.

What a TWIST!

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

17:04 / 05.07.06

My fiance's little sister had to ask me once if I REALLY thought there would be a zombie apocalypse because my stock answer for "Why do you own a 12 gauge shotgun in the middle of a city?" is "Zombies."

On that note my friends and I have spent many night up late and 24 hour diners planning for the end times. Depending on the nature of the end times we had a variety of plans, 1 for nukes, 1 for rapture, 1 for zombies etc...

MissGogo

16:57 / 06.07.06

I gave up on the apocalypse already 1984. We were storing food in the basement, nothing happened, and next thing you know, Chernobyl blows up one year later. 2012? Ha. You can keep it. I survived a multiple broken heart, tumors, childhood traumas, car accidents, sexually transimitted diseases, psychotic boyfriends and rainy summers - why should I be afraid of the end of the world?

Become Vernon Wells.

I'd very much like to find out if apocalypse sex is as hot as it seems to be.

(And I have to congratulate Elijah for the best rationale ever for owning a 12 gauge shotgun in the middle of a city)

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