• [OT] Trump invoked in the damndest places

    From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 12 07:52:15 2025
    Godwin's law -- the one about the inevitability of Nazi mentions
    as a function of length of an online debate -- needs a companion
    about the inevitability of a too-complicated idea stimulating
    a reference to Trump.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UAP/comments/1lvf00t/ serious_world_ufo_day_ross_coulthart_renews_calls/?sort=new

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to mailbox@cpacker.org on Sat Jul 12 08:32:59 2025
    On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 07:52:15 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
    <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    Godwin's law -- the one about the inevitability of Nazi mentions
    as a function of length of an online debate -- needs a companion
    about the inevitability of a too-complicated idea stimulating
    a reference to Trump.

    There's a difference between the two?

    Oh, wait, a reference to Trump would be more specific.

    Other than that, none at all.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UAP/comments/1lvf00t/ >serious_world_ufo_day_ross_coulthart_renews_calls/?sort=new
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Charles Packer on Sat Jul 12 14:42:10 2025
    On 7/12/25 00:52, Charles Packer wrote:
    Godwin's law -- the one about the inevitability of Nazi mentions
    as a function of length of an online debate -- needs a companion
    about the inevitability of a too-complicated idea stimulating
    a reference to Trump.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UAP/comments/1lvf00t/ serious_world_ufo_day_ross_coulthart_renews_calls/?sort=new

    Yes but Godwin himself is said that with Trump at hand
    the NAZI references are completely natural. He said that in
    the first Trump term. I agree. But Trump is not a Fascist
    because that idea is one he cannot understand.

    He just wants to be a Mob boss.

    bliss

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Bobbie Sellers on Sat Jul 12 17:30:59 2025
    On 7/12/2025 2:42 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:


    On 7/12/25 00:52, Charles Packer wrote:
    Godwin's law -- the one about the inevitability of Nazi mentions
    as a function of length of an online debate -- needs a companion
    about the inevitability of a too-complicated idea stimulating
    a reference to Trump.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UAP/comments/1lvf00t/
    serious_world_ufo_day_ross_coulthart_renews_calls/?sort=new

        Yes but Godwin himself is said that with Trump at hand
    the NAZI references are completely natural.  He said that in
    the first Trump term.  I agree.  But Trump is not a Fascist
    because that idea is one he cannot understand.

        He just wants to be a Mob boss.

    I keep telling people that is his role model goal!!!

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com on Tue Jul 15 11:49:13 2025
    On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:42:10 -0700, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:



    On 7/12/25 00:52, Charles Packer wrote:
    Godwin's law -- the one about the inevitability of Nazi mentions
    as a function of length of an online debate -- needs a companion
    about the inevitability of a too-complicated idea stimulating
    a reference to Trump.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UAP/comments/1lvf00t/
    serious_world_ufo_day_ross_coulthart_renews_calls/?sort=new

    Yes but Godwin himself is said that with Trump at hand
    the NAZI references are completely natural. He said that in
    the first Trump term. I agree. But Trump is not a Fascist
    because that idea is one he cannot understand.

    He just wants to be a Mob boss.

    He's too sloppy to succeed at that.

    One of the guys whose prison sentence was commuted (but who was not
    pardoned) has been saying nasty things about him as result. I don't
    know if he can prove clear Trump involvement in the insurrectionary
    activity he was convicted of or not, but he clearly thinks he took the
    fall for him.

    Back in 2016, in another context, I noted that cosying up with
    alt-right militia grouips was a poor choice, as, if they felt
    betrayed, they were both mean enough and armed enough and determined
    enough to take serious and effective action.

    I still think he and his buddies are best regarded as petulant
    5-year-olds.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Wed Jul 16 07:55:50 2025
    On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:49:13 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:


    I still think he and his buddies are best regarded as petulant
    5-year-olds.

    And not the Antichrist? We have reached the End Times, you know.

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-come- a/176768454/

    ( https://tinyurl.com/45hmrnxr )

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to mailbox@cpacker.org on Wed Jul 16 08:50:07 2025
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
    <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:49:13 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:


    I still think he and his buddies are best regarded as petulant
    5-year-olds.

    And not the Antichrist? We have reached the End Times, you know.

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-come-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    ( https://tinyurl.com/45hmrnxr )

    This link does not bring up the article, causing confusion.

    The insistence that everything is getting better and better is typical
    of Modernism, which, in some quarters, survived WWI and died after
    WWII.

    Has anyone else wondered what the "wearable medical monitoring
    devices" are intended to look like? A mark, perhaps, on the hand or
    forehead?

    One of the books on Revelation I read within living memory identifies
    the Beast with all of modern learning and technology, but identifies
    the second beast as the propaganda department and the Whore as
    advertising. Since Trump's efforts appear to be aimed at, as Disney
    has Stromboli saying, "pushing you in the public's eye", that would
    make the Orange Taco -- the Whore of Babylon.

    But I don't think this line of thought is particularly helpful.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Wed Jul 16 15:54:57 2025
    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer ><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:


    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-com= >e-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    So long as the spurious "=\n" is first removed.


    Has anyone else wondered what the "wearable medical monitoring
    devices" are intended to look like?

    An apple watch.

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  • From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Thu Jul 17 07:33:10 2025
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:54:57 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:


    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-
    com=
    e-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    So long as the spurious "=\n" is first removed.


    Pan, my newsreader, puts that in when it truncates line length.
    I haven't found any way to alter that behavior.
    As for tinyurl, I suspect that newspapers.com has an abivalent
    relationship with it, as the shortened link worked when I tested it.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Charles Packer on Thu Jul 17 14:21:32 2025
    Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:54:57 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >>><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:


    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-
    com=
    e-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    So long as the spurious "=\n" is first removed.


    Pan, my newsreader, puts that in when it truncates line length.
    I haven't found any way to alter that behavior.

    Other than using different newsreader software? xrn, for example,
    is truely WYSIWYG. For Pan, perhaps they offer a non-flowed mode;
    I see that pan doesn't include the correct header telling the reader
    that the content is flowed (your pan posts show Content-type: text/plain
    rather than 'flowed').

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to mailbox@cpacker.org on Thu Jul 17 08:56:37 2025
    On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:33:10 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
    <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:54:57 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >>><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:


    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-
    com=

    Note additional line break inserted here!

    e-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    So long as the spurious "=\n" is first removed.


    Pan, my newsreader, puts that in when it truncates line length.
    I haven't found any way to alter that behavior.
    As for tinyurl, I suspect that newspapers.com has an abivalent
    relationship with it, as the shortened link worked when I tested it.

    Have you tried using "<>" as delimiters?

    <https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-come-a/176768454/>

    I don't think Agent, at least, will break it.

    As to the shortened link, what it brought up here was <https://www.newspapers.com/>, which is hardly the same thing.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 17 08:50:10 2025
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:54:57 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:


    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-com= >>e-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    So long as the spurious "=\n" is first removed.

    Yes.

    I hit "R" and edit the link back into useable form.

    I started using "<>" around links as that keeps them from being
    broken.


    Has anyone else wondered what the "wearable medical monitoring
    devices" are intended to look like?

    An apple watch.

    Sorry, don't do Apple.

    But the idea that Apple is the Sign of the Beast is ... interesting.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to petertrei@gmail.com on Thu Jul 17 08:59:36 2025
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:40:19 -0400, Cryptoengineer
    <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/16/2025 11:50 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
    <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:49:13 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:


    I still think he and his buddies are best regarded as petulant
    5-year-olds.

    And not the Antichrist? We have reached the End Times, you know.

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-come-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    ( https://tinyurl.com/45hmrnxr )

    This link does not bring up the article, causing confusion.

    The insistence that everything is getting better and better is typical
    of Modernism, which, in some quarters, survived WWI and died after
    WWII.

    Has anyone else wondered what the "wearable medical monitoring
    devices" are intended to look like? A mark, perhaps, on the hand or
    forehead?

    One of the books on Revelation I read within living memory identifies
    the Beast with all of modern learning and technology, but identifies
    the second beast as the propaganda department and the Whore as
    advertising. Since Trump's efforts appear to be aimed at, as Disney
    has Stromboli saying, "pushing you in the public's eye", that would
    make the Orange Taco -- the Whore of Babylon.

    But I don't think this line of thought is particularly helpful.

    The sub-reddit /r/trump666 runs with this idea.

    That 1925 article is the earliest reference to
    the Age of Aquarius I've ever encountered.

    Also, we're about 25 years beyond the projected time.

    Personally, if /I/ were to interpret the 1000 years as many did in
    1999, /I/ would place it in the 2030s, probably 2036 or 2039,
    depending on when the cruciifixion occurred.

    I do not, in fact, interpret things that way (or any other way,
    really, although I do cite others' opinions from time to time).
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Thu Jul 17 16:30:57 2025
    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:54:57 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >>><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:


    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-c= >om=3D
    e-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    So long as the spurious "=3D\n" is first removed.

    Yes.

    I hit "R" and edit the link back into useable form.

    I started using "<>" around links as that keeps them from being
    broken.


    Has anyone else wondered what the "wearable medical monitoring
    devices" are intended to look like?

    An apple watch.

    Sorry, don't do Apple.

    Samsung, then. The samsung looks just like any classic mechanical
    wristwatch (What watch? Ten watch. - Casablanca).

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Thu Jul 17 16:32:04 2025
    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:33:10 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer ><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:54:57 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >>>><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:


    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will- >>com=3D

    Note additional line break inserted here!

    e-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.
    =20
    So long as the spurious "=3D\n" is first removed.
    =20

    Pan, my newsreader, puts that in when it truncates line length.
    I haven't found any way to alter that behavior.
    As for tinyurl, I suspect that newspapers.com has an abivalent=20 >>relationship with it, as the shortened link worked when I tested it.

    Have you tried using "<>" as delimiters?

    <https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-com= >e-a/176768454/>

    Doesn't seem to help with your posting software, which "flowed" the URL.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Thu Jul 17 10:22:29 2025
    This discussion of the capability of the news/reading/posting tools
    should really go in the test newsgroups. It is off topic here I believe.

    bliss- who just read Eternal-September.test where another set of posts concerned the same topic, likely yuur news provider has a similar newsgroup.

    On 7/17/25 09:32, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:33:10 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
    <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:54:57 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
    <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:


    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will- >>> com=3D

    Note additional line break inserted here!

    e-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.
    =20
    So long as the spurious "=3D\n" is first removed.
    =20

    Pan, my newsreader, puts that in when it truncates line length.
    I haven't found any way to alter that behavior.
    As for tinyurl, I suspect that newspapers.com has an abivalent=20
    relationship with it, as the shortened link worked when I tested it.

    Have you tried using "<>" as delimiters?

    <https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-com= >> e-a/176768454/>

    Doesn't seem to help with your posting software, which "flowed" the URL.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Thu Jul 17 10:18:15 2025
    On 7/17/25 08:59, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:40:19 -0400, Cryptoengineer
    <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/16/2025 11:50 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
    <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:49:13 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:


    I still think he and his buddies are best regarded as petulant
    5-year-olds.

    And not the Antichrist? We have reached the End Times, you know.

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-come-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    ( https://tinyurl.com/45hmrnxr )

    This link does not bring up the article, causing confusion.

    The insistence that everything is getting better and better is typical
    of Modernism, which, in some quarters, survived WWI and died after
    WWII.

    Has anyone else wondered what the "wearable medical monitoring
    devices" are intended to look like? A mark, perhaps, on the hand or
    forehead?

    One of the books on Revelation I read within living memory identifies
    the Beast with all of modern learning and technology, but identifies
    the second beast as the propaganda department and the Whore as
    advertising. Since Trump's efforts appear to be aimed at, as Disney
    has Stromboli saying, "pushing you in the public's eye", that would
    make the Orange Taco -- the Whore of Babylon.

    I perfer the thesis that the Book of Revelation was composed considering
    the state of the Roman Empire and particularly Rome itself with its various stupidities like Gladitoral contests, worship of many gods and goddess
    imported
    from all over the Empire and really confused Emperors and their foolish
    wives.
    Revelatiions is not a prophetic book just one that wants the Empire
    to fall ASAP.




    But I don't think this line of thought is particularly helpful.

    Not a bit.>>
    The sub-reddit /r/trump666 runs with this idea.

    That 1925 article is the earliest reference to
    the Age of Aquarius I've ever encountered.

    Also, we're about 25 years beyond the projected time.

    Personally, if /I/ were to interpret the 1000 years as many did in
    1999, /I/ would place it in the 2030s, probably 2036 or 2039,
    depending on when the cruciifixion occurred.

    I do not, in fact, interpret things that way (or any other way,
    really, although I do cite others' opinions from time to time).

    I remember the arguements in print about when the Age of Aquarius
    would start back in the 1960s and 1970s. I think Astrology is only for fun because otherwise i would be a world leader according to natal horoscope
    and I am not in any sense a world leader. However if the elecorate wants
    a less decrepit narcisstic fossil than Trump I am not available. Sorry.

    bliss - born with Leo Rising, in the year of the Fire Ox.
    <https://www.chineseastrologyyear.com/archives/5924>

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.co on Thu Jul 17 14:33:38 2025
    Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
    I perfer the thesis that the Book of Revelation was composed considering
    the state of the Roman Empire and particularly Rome itself with its various >stupidities like Gladitoral contests, worship of many gods and goddess >imported
    from all over the Empire and really confused Emperors and their foolish >wives.
    Revelatiions is not a prophetic book just one that wants the Empire
    to fall ASAP.

    But the fall of the Roman Empire was a prophecy! And it was one that was fulfilled!
    --scott

    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com on Fri Jul 18 08:28:23 2025
    On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:18:15 -0700, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

    On 7/17/25 08:59, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:40:19 -0400, Cryptoengineer
    <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 7/16/2025 11:50 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
    <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:49:13 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:


    I still think he and his buddies are best regarded as petulant
    5-year-olds.

    And not the Antichrist? We have reached the End Times, you know.

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-come-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.

    ( https://tinyurl.com/45hmrnxr )

    This link does not bring up the article, causing confusion.

    The insistence that everything is getting better and better is typical >>>> of Modernism, which, in some quarters, survived WWI and died after
    WWII.

    Has anyone else wondered what the "wearable medical monitoring
    devices" are intended to look like? A mark, perhaps, on the hand or
    forehead?

    One of the books on Revelation I read within living memory identifies
    the Beast with all of modern learning and technology, but identifies
    the second beast as the propaganda department and the Whore as
    advertising. Since Trump's efforts appear to be aimed at, as Disney
    has Stromboli saying, "pushing you in the public's eye", that would
    make the Orange Taco -- the Whore of Babylon.

    I perfer the thesis that the Book of Revelation was composed considering
    the state of the Roman Empire and particularly Rome itself with its various >stupidities like Gladitoral contests, worship of many gods and goddess >imported
    from all over the Empire and really confused Emperors and their foolish >wives.
    Revelatiions is not a prophetic book just one that wants the Empire
    to fall ASAP.

    I find the argument that it was written to encourage the local
    churches to hold firm under persecution until the end to be most
    useful.

    And that it can do the same whenever the local churches are being
    persecuted.


    But I don't think this line of thought is particularly helpful.

    Not a bit.>>
    The sub-reddit /r/trump666 runs with this idea.

    That 1925 article is the earliest reference to
    the Age of Aquarius I've ever encountered.

    Also, we're about 25 years beyond the projected time.

    Personally, if /I/ were to interpret the 1000 years as many did in
    1999, /I/ would place it in the 2030s, probably 2036 or 2039,
    depending on when the cruciifixion occurred.

    I do not, in fact, interpret things that way (or any other way,
    really, although I do cite others' opinions from time to time).

    I remember the arguements in print about when the Age of Aquarius
    would start back in the 1960s and 1970s. I think Astrology is only for fun >because otherwise i would be a world leader according to natal horoscope
    and I am not in any sense a world leader. However if the elecorate wants
    a less decrepit narcisstic fossil than Trump I am not available. Sorry.

    When Aquinas found it expedient to at least suggest that astrology
    wasn't complete hooey (he was demonstrating that /what God wants/ and
    /what God gets/ can be two different things at the time), he pointed
    out that there was one Celestial Body which had (and still has) a
    clearly visible effect on the planet Earth.

    My favorite (and only) astrology book is /You Were Born on a Rotten
    Day/. It gives one sign a very long lucky number and advises looking
    for it everywhere. As it if could even be remembered. It advises
    another sign that it's lucky number has been -- cancelled. And so on.

    Actual testing has shown that the "forcasts" for each sign apply just
    as well to people "born under" that sign as to people who were not.
    Basically, the descriptions are so vague that they apply to everybody.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 18 08:15:14 2025
    On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:32:04 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:33:10 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:54:57 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:55:50 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >>>>><mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will- >>>com=3D

    Note additional line break inserted here!

    e-a/176768454/

    This link worked properly.
    =20
    So long as the spurious "=3D\n" is first removed.
    =20

    Pan, my newsreader, puts that in when it truncates line length.
    I haven't found any way to alter that behavior.
    As for tinyurl, I suspect that newspapers.com has an abivalent=20 >>>relationship with it, as the shortened link worked when I tested it.

    Have you tried using "<>" as delimiters?

    <https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-christ-will-com= >>e-a/176768454/>

    Doesn't seem to help with your posting software, which "flowed" the URL.

    Well, /that's/ discouraging.

    The link is not broken when I download my own post from Eternal
    September. But clearly this is not as universally effective as I had
    thought.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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