Message #261222

[Hermocrates]

According to some religious fanatics, we need to worry about the next earth's major catastrophe only when one specific species goes into mass extinction. This being whereby, suddenly, in a twinkling of an eye, half of the human population goes extinct. The fanatics have labeled such as, "The Rapture." But I say that this next catastrophe will be only caused by one culprit. And you, Stelth, have hit the sheep on their heads; it's, definitely, money. Those fanatics are cajoled by their greedy leaders (preachers) who sell them tickets to this great event, the great Rapture. These flocks of sheep sow their seed (money, money, and more money), in the hope of a promised harvest. The seeding usually goes to their preachers' pockets, whereby they, the preachers, live in luxury, and become gluttons for all material stuff. As a reward to their faithful flock, the sheered sheep, these lowest of the human specie, the preachers I mean as lowest, bombard them, the sheep, with hopes that they, the sheep, will reap a great harvest. This harvest, is a promise (false, and empty of course) of the sheep getting rich themselves. But besides the getting rich of the sheep, and after spending all that money, of course, the gullible sheep will also obtain a ticket for a seat on the train to heaven, whereby being raptured in a twinkling of an eye. With this rapture promise, the sheered sheep, gladly thinks that they will be spared the turmoil and horrors of the coming catastrophe awaiting those of us remaining, because we, the remaining half, have no seed (money) for the greedy preachers' pockets. These gladdened sheep, however, never think to be loving to their unfortunate neighbors, as they are rightly taught, and one would think that they would give their tickets away. No! they just laugh at us, without as much as feeling sorry for our upcoming woes, as the trumpets sound off. Those also remaining, part of the half not raptured, and in trouble deep too, are those like me, the goats, who are stubborn, and have some extra seed around, but only just enough for a "rainy" day though, and fortunately, just enough brains not to fall victim to this lower specie of horrendous and ferocious, earthly, money gluttons (preachers and their accomplices).

I really don't know who is worst off, those that are expecting to be raptured and be spared pains and sorrows, or those of us that are, relentlessly, and religiously searching for the lost Atlantis, expecting to find who knows what? After all, the tale of Atlantis, does contains moral allegories about riches, greed, and the consequences for not keeping in compliance with godly laws/decrees. Why was Atlantis destroyed after having been blessed so long with all its riches, power, splendors, and happiness? Atlantis, that great and powerful empire, amassed the most riches an empire had ever done, or ever will be likely by future empires. Those were the priests' words related to Solon.

Does not the USA, resemble the wealthy and powerful Atlantis, before it decided to invade and attempted to subjugate all those within the Pillars of Hercules? And which, after failure, caused by the gods, was also thereafter further punished by the gods, who sank that Island continent in a day?  Babylon, oh Babylon the great has fallen, in just one hour you went under, never to surface again! Perhaps John also read Plato!