Antichrist Candidates

[63dot]

I was wondering who you thought would make a short list of Antichrist candidates from your country?

Here are mine:

George W Bush
Richard Cheney
Fred Phelps
Karl Rove
Pat Roberston
Bill Gates

Here are deceased Americans that have crossed my mind:

Richard Nixon
Jerry Falwell
Jesse Helms
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Lyndon Johnson
Senator McCarthy
Meyer Lansky
John Gotti
JFK
...and many others who have been powerful, rich, popular, unpopular, charismatic, revered, respected, and/or feared.

[kornyboy]

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Look up Dr. Jose Luis de Jesus on YouTube.

[pooky]

I vote for this thread.

Yes, this thread is definitely the antichrist.

[Aranince]

HILARIOUS!

You forgot Obama.

[Mord]

I nominate me :P

[costabunny]

Can I suggest a group invite for that Wesbro Baptist lot?

[arkitect]

I nominate me :P
Seconded!
:D
I was wondering who you thought would make a short list of Antichrist candidates from your country?

Here are mine:
Bill Gates
etcetera…

Bill Gates? Seriously?
I find Steve Jobs far more sinister… There is just something about him that makes my skin crawl.
I mean, he's a great salesman and he is very good at leading you into temptation… ;)

[ucfgrad93]

I nominate me :P

Seconded

All in favor, say "Aye!"


AYE!

[obeygiant]

This thread is really dumb, even for PRSI standards.

[iShater]

All in favor, say "Aye!"


AYE!

Aye! :D

[MacDawg]

This thread is really dumb, even for PRSI standards.

Indeed, and there have been some real doozies

Woof, Woof – Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

[Osarkon]

All in favor, say "Aye!"


AYE!

Ah heck, I'll bite.

Aye!!

[MacDawg]

Ah heck, I'll bite.

Aye!!

Any opposed??

:dogeyes:

Motion carried

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[leekohler]

This thread is really dumb, even for PRSI standards.

Agreed. This is pretty silly. 63dot- come on, dude. This is beneath you.

[arkitect]

This thread is really dumb, even for PRSI standards.

Agreed. This is pretty silly. 63dot- come on, dude. This is beneath you.

Oh, I didn't realise it was a "serious" thread… :o

Besides. For anyone to take it seriously you'd have to believe in said Antichrist in the first place.

Unless the OP actually does. In which case, oh dear…

[Apple Ink]

This thread is really dumb, even for PRSI standards.

Indeed, and there have been some real doozies

Woof, Woof – Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

Any opposed??

:dogeyes:

Motion carried

Woof, Woof – Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

Agreed. This is pretty silly. 63dot- come on, dude. This is beneath you.

Petition in favor of opposition!

[leekohler]

Oh, I didn't realise it was a "serious" thread… :o

Besides. For anyone to take it seriously you'd have to believe in said Antichrist in the first place.

Unless the OP actually does. In which case, oh dear…

This thread really serves no purpose other than to fan partisan flames, as I see it. I know that's not the intent, but everybody is a bit touchy about politics at the moment. There's nowhere for this thread to go but ugly.

[BoyBach]

I nominate me :P

Seconded!
:D

All in favor, say "Aye!"


AYE!

Aye! :D

Ah heck, I'll bite.

Aye!!

Any opposed??

:dogeyes:

Motion carried


I, BoyBach, the Acting Returning Officer for the MacRumors PRSI Forum, hereby give notice that Mord has been duly elected to the position of 'The Antichrist™' for the seat of the PRSI forum.

;)

[63dot]

This thread really serves no purpose other than to fan partisan flames, as I see it. I know that's not the intent, but everybody is a bit touchy about politics at the moment. There's nowhere for this thread to go but ugly.

i am voting for obama, but he did cross my mind

for some, he is like some sort of savior

many religious people do not believe the antichrist will be a person, but more of an idea, or a government, and those are just as valid theologically

i believe, like in the movie, "the omen", that it can be a us president or a major advisor, especially since there are no other superpowers left

if the antichrist is a person, i seriously doubt he will come from bhutan or iceland ;)

[TSE]

This thread is really stupid. Are you that much of a fanboy of Apple where you think Bill Gates is an anti christ? He is a great guy, a great businessman, and is one of the pioneers of modern day computing. I may not like what his company has done in recent years, but hats off to Bill.

[skunk]

I'm tired of being the AntiChrist. I willingly cede my position to Mord, in exchange for a small but regular pension.

[SMM]

I was wondering who you thought would make a short list of Antichrist candidates from your country?

< ... snip ... >



What is an Antichrist?

[skunk]

What is an Antichrist?An invention of the Mad "Saint" John, holed up in his island fastness of Patmos writing lunatic tracts a very long time ago.

[Macky-Mac]

I'm tired of being the AntiChrist. I willingly cede my position to Mord, in exchange for a small but regular pension.

so instead of being listed as a "macrumors Demi-God", you want to be identified as "antichrist emeritus" ?

[skunk]

so instead of being listed as a "macrumors Demi-God", you want to be identified as "antichrist emeritus" ?Perhaps "demeritus" would be more appropriate...

[63dot]

This thread is really stupid. Are you that much of a fanboy of Apple where you think Bill Gates is an anti christ? He is a great guy, a great businessman, and is one of the pioneers of modern day computing. I may not like what his company has done in recent years, but hats off to Bill.

I was a Microsoft field tech and made good money so I am not an Apple fan boy. Sure, I like Apple better than Microsoft but both companies make useful products.

Mostly, if there is an antichrist living here, which may or may not be the case, it could be someone who is popular and/or powerful.

Sometimes my tendency in reading what John of Patmos wrote would lead me to believe that the antichrist has to be evil, yet smart. That kind of rules out our president then. :)

[iShater]

That kind of rules out our president then. :)

touche! :D

[SMM]

An invention of the Mad "Saint" John, holed up in his island fastness of Paphos writing lunatic tracts a very long time ago.

You peaked my interest, so I read what Wiki had to say. I heard the term used before, but it was from the mouth of someone I considered pretty shaky, like Hagee. It sounded like a way for some christians to put a sinister name on someone they do not like. The fact that the OP wants to tag a number of low-lives with this name, makes me wonder if a great number of people just assume this thing/person exists?

Lee was correct:

"This thread really serves no purpose other than to fan partisan flames, as I see it. I know that's not the intent, but everybody is a bit touchy about politics at the moment. There's nowhere for this thread to go but ugly."

Sure enough, someone applied Obama to it, and the OP used JFK. Normally, I would take grave exception to this, except I really could not take anyone serious, who actually believed this nonsense (IMHO).

[iShater]

I think you guys missed that the OP said it would be someone smart that nobody would suspect, this why he had a lot of the names he did. At least that is what I understood.

[Prof.]

I vote for this thread to be sent to wasteland. It serves no purpose other than to bash other individuals.

[skunk]

You peaked my interest.I hope I piqued it.

[SMM]

I hope I piqued it.

Yes, sometimes my semi-illiteracy shows. ;)

[iJohnHenry]

Yes, sometimes my semi-illiteracy shows. ;)

Please, don't feed the intellectual thugs. :p

Dick Cheney.

He makes everyone else look like Apostles.

[63dot]

I think you guys missed that the OP said it would be someone smart that nobody would suspect, this why he had a lot of the names he did. At least that is what I understood.

that's exactly what i was thinking

i am not trying to bash one political party over the other...if the AC comes from the usa and is a political leader, my guess is that this person will be high up, and unusually popular at first

i think rev. hagee looks too much into it in a literal sense, but at least he has people thinking and talking about it

[Cromulent]

Is this thread actually serious or a joke? I can't work it out.

[dukebound85]

some think its the late Pope John Paul ll

heres a link to amuse yourselves lol
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/duncan/070201

[Badandy]

Is this thread actually serious or a joke? I can't work it out.

I increasingly think this the more I read the PRSI forums. Between Don't Hurt Me and 63dot, I think this forum might have gone bat **** crazy.

[arkitect]

Is this thread actually serious or a joke? I can't work it out.

I thought it was obviously a joke thread.

How could anyone possibly consider this a serious question? :o

[Sesshi]

From Wikipedia:

[This one Antichrist is spoken of in more detail by Paul in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. Paul writes that this Man of Sin (sometimes translated son of perdition) will possess a number of characteristics. These include "sitting in the temple", opposing himself against anything that is worshiped, claiming divine authority]
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2231/applehqdj1.jpg

[working all kinds of counterfeit miracles and signs,]
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2429/applepcadsit7.jpg

[and doing all kinds of evil.]
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-04/bz_apple

[BoyBach]

I'm tired of being the AntiChrist. I willingly cede my position to Mord, in exchange for a small but regular pension.


You bloody politicians are all the same. So long as you get your 'perks', you couldn't care less about us proles!

[imac/cheese]

You bloody politicians are all the same. So long as you get your 'perks', you couldn't care less about us proles!

What did you expect from the Antichrist?

[skunk]

I thought it was obviously a joke thread.

How could anyone possibly consider this a serious question? :oTalking of a country where 105% of the population believe in the literal truth of the Bible and in the coming of the Last Days, do you really need to ask?

[it5five]

Talking of a country where 105% of the population believe in the literal truth of the Bible and in the coming of the Last Days, do you really need to ask?

Come on now. There are some atheists in this country. It's more like 54% (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/53_of_churchgoers_say_attendance_is_growing) of the population believes in the literal truth of the bible. It's at about 75% (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/general_current_events/75_in_arkansas_alabama_believe_bible_literally_true) when narrowed down to the "Bible Belt" only.

[skunk]

Come on now. There are some atheists in this country. It's more like 54% (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/53_of_churchgoers_say_attendance_is_growing) of the population believes in the literal truth of the bible. It's at about 75% (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/general_current_events/75_in_arkansas_alabama_believe_bible_literally_true) when narrowed down to the "Bible Belt" only.Sorry, I was quoting from a poll conducted by Diebold, so my numbers may have been a bit out...

[it5five]

Sorry, I was quoting from a poll conducted by Diebold, so my numbers may have been a bit out...

It's quite understandable.

I'd hate to see the Diebold results for the poll conducted only in the "Bible Belt".

[pinktank]

wow, you think they are really Antichrist, I think they are just plain people

[Sesshi]

True. Arguably the only true example is a single figurine of Jesus made out of titanium.

[skunk]

True. Arguably the only true example is a single figurine of Jesus made out of titanium.Surely there's some nitrogen in there, too?

[TSE]

touche! :D

Or he is so smart he is trying to trick all you guys into believing he is dumb.

[Sesshi]

Surely there's some nitrogen in there, too?

No, because if you are going to be a Grammar Nazi about it you fail either way :p

[solvs]

What is an Antichrist?
An allegory based on a vague concept about man's innate corruptibility at the hands of false prophets promising them good while delivering evil.

Between Don't Hurt Me and 63dot, I think this forum might have gone bat **** crazy.
63dot was one of the founding members of the PRSI and DHM used to be a Republican. Can you blame him for being a little miffed? I know you're not exactly happy with your party right now either.

Geez, lighten up people.

(and you know if it's me saying that, you really do need to)

[Badandy]

63dot was one of the founding members of the PRSI

I don't get your point. Have your read his/her recent posts?

and DHM used to be a Republican.

And I'm not even talking about political affiliation here, I'm talking about conspiracy theories and not using logic or any recognition of the existence of the scientific process.

[63dot]

An allegory based on a vague concept about man's innate corruptibility at the hands of false prophets promising them good while delivering evil.


63dot was one of the founding members of the PRSI and DHM used to be a Republican. Can you blame him for being a little miffed? I know you're not exactly happy with your party right now either.

Geez, lighten up people.

(and you know if it's me saying that, you really do need to)

i have usually held majority opinions here on most topics like preferring macs, not liking gw bush, and being excited about upcoming apple products

i admit i meet very few fellow democrats who believe there is an anti-christ or will be

and to be totally honest, most christians dont' believe in the anti-christ as a reality, either

it is probably one of the few opinions or beliefs i have that 99 percent of the people will laugh at or totally disagree with

that being said, i don't believe in ufo's, bigfoot, faith healers, much of the new age, the loch ness monster, or fox news :)

it is safe to say i am a skeptic

[solvs]

I don't get your point. Have your read his/her recent posts?
You said "gone crazy". I was just pointing out that it always has been. :p J/k 63. Not saying I agree with everything, never had, but I don't think anyone is serious about Bush being literally that bad. See the post after yours for his clarification.

And I'm not even talking about political affiliation here, I'm talking about conspiracy theories and not using logic or any recognition of the existence of the scientific process.
Just pointing out why so few of us dispute him too much. Again, most of it just comes from anger and/or disappointment. Can't say I blame him. I doubt DHM really thinks W is the antichrist though. I'd hope.

Though I have to admit, I wondered a few times if W was self-fulfilling the prophecy or something.

[63dot]

You said "gone crazy". I was just pointing out that it always has been. :p J/k 63. Not saying I agree with everything, never had, but I don't think anyone is serious about Bush being literally that bad. See the post after yours for his clarification.




What I did was nuts using the word "candidate" in an election year. I should have mentioned the word belief or disbelief in the AC. I hope I didn't piss off any Obama or McCain fans.

Speaking about candidates, what about Paris Hilton for President? :)