When my friend Janet sent me a link to this piece from a very recent talk (given by James Rayford at a Kingdom Hall in Houston Texas), I actually forced myself to listen to it. I’m going to comment below, so that you can begin to understand what happens to the self-identified “Great Crowd” (who believe they will inherit a paradise earth after Armageddon) in all those hours of listening at the Kingdom Hall. This is why they can feel…
Here’s an interesting list from AlterNet – their ten most popular stories of the year. ALterNet is a great resource, although a couple of the stories surprised me. They also have the top ten most discussed (which leans hard on 9/11), the top ten Iraq myths, the top ten outrageous right-wing comments of 2006, the top ten most popular book reviews, the top ten sex and relationship stories, and my personal favorite – a meta-list of the top ten top-ten…
“The prophetic speedometer of end-time activity,” the Rapture Ready site claims to factor together end time components into a “cohesive indicator” and to “standardize those components to eliminate the wide variance that currently exists with prophecy reporting” to measure the type of activity that could act as a precursor to the rapture. “You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as…