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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
In previous threads from around a year or two ago, there was a mention of something about 'a home in space' streaking like stars into the atmosphere - people put it down to referring to the Mir Space Station destruction. Maybe it wasn't. Then people like to go make snide remarks. Maybe a little digging up on previous threads? I'm just as legitamate as Fox News Channel here people... I remember something someone posted to the forums, you decide (except I don't have a polarised view that I try to ram down your throat at every opportunity).
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 

"I'm just as legitamate as Fox News Channel here people..."

So, not at all, then?
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
hence the smiley face.

But I do remember the thread about the 'prophecy' I'm talking about. Everyone thought it was Mir - what if it wasn't?
 

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Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
 
So how does the Columbia disaster mean the End Of The World As We Know It? Unless of course, mister prophet meant the 2nd Gulf War following the Columbia disaster
 

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Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
 
You make a prophecy vague enough, and it will ALWAYS seem to come true at some point in the future. Depending on how you interpret one, you can apply its meaning to everything from World War Three and the subsequent End Of The World [Again] to next week's BASEBALL game.
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
BUFFY: This is how many apocalypses for us now?
GILES: Oh, uh, well... six, at least. Feels like a hundred.
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 

"Everyone thought it was Mir..."

I assume "everyone" means the majority of the people left over after you remove the actual majority, who think it's bullshit?

[ February 03, 2003, 07:30 PM: Message edited by: TSN ]
 

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
 
People who believe in prophecies are stupid ass-monkeys.
 

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Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
 

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Originally posted by First of Two:
People who believe in prophecies are stupid ass-monkeys.

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While I take personal offense to the use of the derogatory term "stupid ass-monkeys," I wholly agree with the sentiment of your statement.

-MMoM
 

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
 

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Originally posted by First of Two:
People who believe in prophecies are stupid ass-monkeys.

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If only I could formulate this into something to be slung towards Dukhat...
 

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Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
 
*Initiate Sarcasm Machine*

Prophecies were nothing more than smart people making fun of dumb people in the olden days when they didn't have wonderfully clever remarks like "Stupid ass-monkeys"

*Deactivate Sarcasm Machine*

I agree prophecies are so general, they could relate to almost any event or person. Like horoscopes. Most prophecies nowadays are more for amusement. They're the things you see on the National Enquirer (Is that spelled right?)

(That is the one with the stupid stories like terrorists planning to blow up the internet, and Hitler predicts Internet Porn? Right?)
 

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
 
No, man. That's Weekly World News. They rock. Best investigative reporting in the world.
 

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Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
 
Just in case you're a complete assmonkey.
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
The sad thing is that some people think it's amusing to come up with shit like that... I think it's completely inappropriate.

But then, what do I know, anyway?
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
I'm JUST saying I remember the discussion back last year or so about 'prophecies' etc. and the Mir crash-down and I say hey it might have referred to Columbia? And I get a called a stupid ass monkey??

Delenn expresses it best:

"What must happen will happen. Valen said this day would come. Were we to stand in the way of prophecy?"
"But...What if you are wrong?"
"Then speak well of me when I'm gone."

-- Delenn and Lennier in "Chrysalis"
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
.....mabye a ignorant Ass-Monkey?
NOT you personally, but there's plenty of ignorant jerkoffs that just love to say "it's all been foretold by so and so".
Same Ass-Monkeys hat think the pyrimids and Stonehenge were built by freakin' aliens.
Morons.
BTW, Weeekly world news this week has a great story of duck hunters shooting an angel by mistake.
Gotta be true.
 

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Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
 
And we say it might have referred to ANYTHING.
 

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
 

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Originally posted by AndrewR:
Delenn expresses it best:

"What must happen will happen. Valen said this day would come. Were we to stand in the way of prophecy?"
"But...What if you are wrong?"
"Then speak well of me when I'm gone."

-- Delenn and Lennier in "Chrysalis"

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Ahhh...but even Delenn told Lennier that "we know now that Valen was Jeffrey Sinclair, that he knew only what Sinclair knew. when he left us, the future became fluid."

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Originally posted by TSN:

"And we say it might have referred to ANYTHING."

More accurately, it referred to nothing, since it's crap.

BTW, I predict that, in the future, something will happen that will be considered a disaster, and it will involve something blue. And the number of people who die will be a multiple of 1.

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