[TheRealThing]

I know, and agree. I jest.

Sometimes, it's all that keeps me sane. If I sit and think about it and dwell on our prospects, I get depressed....sincerely depressed. "I" can do nothing about it.

It continues to confound and amaze me how this country has gotten to this point. Honestly, the circumstances have led me to believe in mass hypnotism. There is just no other explanation that makes any sense to me.

Yeah, I agree and I know it might seem like if one were to look up the definition for pessimist, my Avatar could reasonably be right beside it in the left hand margin. :biggrin:

We see end times prophesy, unfolding every day right before our very eyes. Most folks aren't even aware of it because they don't remember how things were as recently as the Reagan Era. Frankly you wouldn't even need to go back that far, the Clinton Era would do it. Even though those days marked the start of many of the policies that have brought so much hurt and pain on our nation due to legalized abortion and a liberally spurred separation of church and state campaign gone nuclear, Americans still lived in Shangri-La. Looking back on those days feels sort of like looking at a poster of Marilyn Monroe, how could someone so beautiful, really be dead? I remember America the beautiful from the 1980's, it was a time of optimism which literally swept the entire nation.

Spring mornings still have that sweet smell and buoyant feel about them, and yet I know things are now different. I like to think it isn't over yet and, like you say, there isn't a lot we can do about it anyway, but possibly, we do ourselves and anybody we care about a monumental disservice if we 'protect' them from the truth in an effort to spare them the grief. At any rate, I believe it is incumbent upon those who know the truth to sound the alarm, some will listen and realize the truth. As in the days of Noah, in Jesus Christ, God's own Ark of salvation, there is both escape and eternal life. I believe the Lord included prophecy, those little glimpses into the future, to get our blood boiling and encourage us to do His good will.

In a nut shell. Though I am constantly climbing up on the backs of liberals, they are doing what they feel is best for this country and ultimately the world. The real problem is that they employ the wisdom of man, rather than "The Light of the World," and as a result, they naturally fall short. Hence the founding fathers oft reference to the "God of Nature." The fear of God is the BEGINING of wisdom. "The Light" then, has far more than religious implications. To be truly wise, and to truly understand this universe, man's heart and mind must be illuminated by the Spirit of God. Albert Einstein said that true genius and true understanding must be first seen in the mind. He conceived E=MC2 before he could prove it. And yet, although men are incredibly intelligent, they still fall short of the illuminated truth they could have, if they're hearts and therefore their minds, were lit by God's own light of understanding. That coming through the indwelling of the Spirit of God through the miracle of salvation.

So, the more men try to do on their own, the more they will fail and, the inevitable truth of end time prophesy will be revealed for the unbreakable and unalterable steel trap that it is. To God one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day, therefore, time has no meaning for Him. He can see forward and backward in time, like rewinding or fast forwarding a VCR tape. Consequently, He has already seen the end of all things. The wars, the famine, the one world government and the incredible slaughter that I believe lies in man's near future. And because of that fact, the prophetic texts of man's end is written from a historical view. Every last word will be literally fulfilled because prophesy is God's own first hand report from the future. He gave us the signs to look for because 'some' will be watching.

On this day 2,014 years ago, He arose from the grave. The most documented event in all of history. Ceasar's own seal graced the tomb. No mortal had the courage to dare to break that seal! He was later seen by hundreds of His joyous followers and, we serve Him and honor Him in our day still. HAPPY EASTER, HE IS RISEN!