You probably just did the stupidest post ever. Putin was elected, he is no longer "prime minister" of Russia. So I dont see how he will rule indefinately lol. So since your wrong about everything you said Im sure he didnt kill off his competition. By the way he did a lot of good things in his term, and your playing the liberal game by saying he is like Hitler.

If you watch the Zeitgeist flick, you see religions are all a bunch of crap, based on astrology, and the "endtimes" prediction is just a misinterpretation of the transition from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius.

just as the second coming of christ might be seen as the ascendancy of mankind's best instincts, the anti-christ might be seen as the possibility of our worst natures gaining dominance. just as the search for god is the manifestation of our desire for guidance, the search for its opposite seems little more than our need to find a scapegoat for our own shortcomings. unable to comprehend the infinite; this obsession with the apocalypse, armageddon, the rapture, ragnarok or whatever else you may call it seems nothing but our own need to define existence as something finite that we can understand.

i'm no shrink. i have no phd in psychology (or anything else for that matter); but as a long time student of human nature, as any one of us who has spent an inordinate amount of his life stoned to the gills must be, these definitions seem far more rational than the mumbo-jumbo described by the fanaticism of religion. not only is this way of thinking more rational, but more practical as well. instead of looking for the seeds of our destruction in others, we could be attempting to tame the demons within ourselves if we weren't so determined to blame outside influences for our eventual demise.

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you guys lets be honest the myan calender works on the 26,000 year old cycle of the revolution of the sun across the milky way so many other civilizations calculated this too, not cuz it was a prophacy but because its a fact about astronomay, it happend 26,000 years ago and the earth is still here, and humans were not wiped out back then, when it happens in the next few years again in 2012 it may cause great problems due to the possible reversal of the poles but mainly you dont have to worry about magical things happening, that is just what peoples imaginations tack onto rare cosmic events that could cause problems for some humans environment.

Once you understand why you dismiss all the other gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

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I dont know about an anti christ, but China and Russia may very well be the worlds undoing. This would make the Arab holy war seem like a picnic in the park. Not that Arabs in general want war.. just the radicals that think killing all the jews will be rewarded in their idea of heaven.

China and Russia fighting eachother would be enough to bring this worlds climate to an abrupt end of game. I think all the world leaders should set down and together and work out thier diffrences.

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Undertheice ...

I always enjoy your insightful posts.

God lives within us all. It is we, cursed as we are by human nature, that obscures God's manifestation from within. I was struck by this thought one Sunday morning while attending Mass. It occurred to me that the majority of those in attendance were there either out of obligation, or in a search for God. Almost in the same thought, it was revealed to me that there were a few in attendance that brought God with them to Mass to celebrate His existence within themselves.

Vi

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Do you people really believe in the BIBLE?! Religion is man made for control purposes...
Everyone is an atheist, there are too many gods to believe that YOUR god is the correct one... plus every single god is man made. Humans are nothing more then highly evolved animals, plain and simple.

I disagree, there is an architect to our universe

Yes, there are alot of crazy religions, and crazy theories why we are here, but you want to know the craziest one I've ever heard?

That the universe is constantly expanding and expanding, then will eventually collapse upon itself and we are all here just cause.

No, this isn't random, I believe this life is our test, how well did you do with the things given to you, did you despair and forsake, or did you have faith?

Meaning, if your some African baby born into some tribe, God didn't give much, so he doesn't expect much, but if you were blessed and given the luxury of living in a country like this, with all your blessing, how well did you do?

Hopefully, one day you will find that God has a teriffic sense of humor.

Vi

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There is no god, there is no anti-Christ.
Barack Obama is just a Dude
Hillary Clinton is just a Hot Milf
Hillary smokes more pot then Barack, but I'm sure ether of them will do a good job.
Hillary is better qualified, but I think other world leaders will have a hard time trying to respect a woman. Barack will be able to get things done a lot quicker.