OliveOilMom wrote:
Go look at the Rapture Ready bulletin board.
Having never heard of it I went to look up some about it, dang, it is for real, not a lampoon or satire. And no, I haven't read any of the board content yet. And probably won't: I'm not as far out about the rapture and end times as it is said the posters there seem to be. Yes I expect it. No, I'm not a militant or extremest about it.
Am looking at articles about it, such as this,
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"In 1995 Strandberg founded the online Rapture Index, a Dow Jones-type measuring tool of biblical prophecy. He and 12 employees now run fourteen end-times sites, including RaptureReady.com and RaptureMe.com. The combined sites attract more than 250,000 visitors each month. He also cowrote a book due this summer titled Are You Rapture Ready? (E.P. Dutton).
The Rapture Index monitors 45 categories of various indicators prophesized in the Bible. The categories are ranked one to five based on whether they are rising or falling and include: earthquakes, mark of the beast technology, and date setting. A higher cumulative number indicates the world is moving faster toward the end times, Strandberg says."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/marchweb-only/3-24-43.0.htmlI did look as far as to see they do list legit news. I didn't look as far as to see how they interpret and/or assess its meaning.
http://www.raptureready.info/roundup-26-sep-2017/Again, not the bulletin board, the board founder's description of factors involved in downward spirals in life is legit,
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This article will attempt to identify why people fall into a downward spiral and what can be done to prevent other people from falling into the same trap.
The Causes of a Downward Spiral
There are many reasons why people fall into a pattern of self-destruction. We have no cut-and-dry reason one person stumbles and another avoids addiction. One individual may be born with a weakness for alcohol while another may have a natural dislike for intoxicants.
Somewhere at the core of all addictive behavior is the way people deal with temptation. We can educate people, but knowledge doesn’t mean that people will automatically make the right choices.
In most cases, the destructive process is hidden from the person undergoing the transformation. No one typically says, “I think I’ll slowly waste away my life.” A more likely statement people end up making is, “How on earth did I get into this mess?”
Because so many factors are at work, it would be impossible for me to list a stage-by-stage example that could be applied to all cases. The best thing I can do is compile a list of the most common reasons people get trapped in a downward spiral.
http://www.raptureready.com/2016/07/18/downward-spiral-by-todd-strandberg/
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