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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 12:01:50 PM EST
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Hey - maybe Bush is the Antichrist.

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by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 01:16:46 PM EST
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We had this theory that Bush was indeed the antichrist, that the 7-year tribulation coincides with the 7 years between 9-11 and the 2008 Presidential election, and that the Rapture was a metaphor for the abduction of several thousand American Muslims in late 2001 by the Bush Administration, or the global Bush gulag (remember, Islam is an Abrahamic religion which did not exist when the Apocalypse was revealed, so muslims are believers in the same God of the Book of Revelations).

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 01:23:06 PM EST
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Probably what depresses more than anything about where we are today is that it's 2007 and biblical narratives are still hanging around like a bad smell.

I doubt Bush is the antichrist any more than he's the christ.

I think it's more likely he's someone with serious psychological and emotional problems - which unfortunately are shared by a substantial segment of the US population.

Wilhelm Reich was a bit of a crazy too in some ways, but he tried to popularise the idea of Emotional Plague. And that's exactly where we are today, I think - a population with substantial cognitive and emotional difficulties, and no clear solutions.

It's the psychological equivalent of living in the Middle Ages, before basic sanitation was invented, and people died a lot for stupid reasons, pointlessly, and blamed it all on god.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 01:31:50 PM EST
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Science-y types often say "we evolved for life on the Savanna" (and as such we weren't meant to stare at computer screens all day, for example). On the cultural plane, religion also evolved and made sense for a different time and place. It's utterly outmoded today, but replacing that mental space with myths (or fewer myths, for those that can handle it) that work for us in the modern world is an exercise that will take many, many generations to complete as the inertia is so strong.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 07:11:09 PM EST
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While we're beyond the pale i'll mention that the third antichrist in Nostradamus is named "Mabus"  which is not hard to twist into Bush, W
by paving on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 02:18:35 PM EST
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maybee we have the wrong antichrist, and Mabus should be Ma Bush, his mother.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Sep 21st, 2007 at 10:20:36 AM EST
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Sure, it just happens to be the Hook 'em Horns sign for the University of Texas Longhorns. That's what I keep telling myself.

by Magnifico on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 05:54:37 PM EST
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Yeah, he sure ain't Metal...


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by Number 6 on Fri Sep 21st, 2007 at 10:04:16 AM EST
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