Did you think I was so stupid that I didn't know you made this thread from your conversation with me in another thread?
I may only be a nutjob to you sir, but I'm not stupid.
You give yourself too much credit
I didn't make this thread in direct response to you. I made it because I was struck by the fact that a high percentage of the stuff I read in this forum makes no sense.
You may notice that in the OP here I essentially asked the question why is such a high percentage of thinking on end time prophecy so crazy. While we obviously have had our disagreements, you alone do not constitute a high percentage of my experience.
Really this isn't a new observation for me, I was just struck by it afresh when I started reading this forum. The same phenomenon holds true looking back on my experiences outside of this forum as well. Eschatology attracts wierdness.
A couple months ago I ran into a guy who portrayed Jesus return as an alien invasion, and even had a prophetic "innaugeral" (sp) address which Jesus was going to give from the lawn of the white house, and the main thrust of the address was an explanation of liquidating billions of the earth's population (which is how this guy construed the rapture).
At first I thought he was just mocking christians or something, but he was actually serious.
In this forum, I've run into conspiracy theories at every turn, which is ok, I like conspiracy theories, but most of them aren't terribly believable. Especially when they start throwing around terms like "crypto-jews".
You in particular weren't that "nutjobby" I just happen to disagree with your views on ecclesiology, but the response I got when I disagreed was essentially "YOU DENY THE WORDS OF CHRIST!!!! YOU ARE OF THE WORLD!!!" and then some psycho-babble about the secret info which Jesus revealed to you, but you can't tell us yet.
So.. yea, that begins to sound a little nutty too.
Then on top of that you've got every one and their brother running around with all sorts of theories on what the "symbols" or prophecy REALLY mean. Except no one ever seems to have theories.. they KNOW