We Christian people have so little time left here on earth, it is shocking..... I do not believe there will be a single Christian person on earth in about 8 years from now or LESS! Most likely less too!!! With Many of the world wide Christian people dying in about 4 1/2 years from now at the Mark of the beast!!
Since we have so little time left, do we children of GOD need to be wasting the next 4-6- years studying in college?
That does not sound very smart to me, it does not sound wise, in fact, it sounds like a trap from satan!!!
What if instead of going to college, you were to study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week? If you were to skip college, and study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week, can you even imagine how your life would change?
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Well, for one thing you'd be a lot poorer, a lot less educated, and a much lower contributor to society. For another thing, you'd feel really stupid in 5 to 7 years when you realize Garrett is full of shit and has to revise his doomsday predictions by another few years.
"...so little time left here on earth.."
Now where have I heard that before?
http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm
Yeah, forget college, there are lots of fast-food careers waiting for you...
Tears to Joy Ministries, a highly recommended site. The minute I saw the picture of a Disneyesque science fictional, white, sparkly city with red lights glaring temptingly at a couple of naive youngsters, I knew I was going to be in for some great life lessons. Not sure what the rather sinister lady in the middle distance is supposed to mean though. Perhaps it means, "Beware of Ghostly Relatives" or "Don't be suckered by dead mothers".
And I was right. The first lesson I learned was that education is a great protection against religions' slavering minions.
The second lesson I learned is that drinking alcohol helps you to reject zombies.
"If you were to skip college, and study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week, can you even imagine how your life would change?"
None of these people would be able to even change a lightbulb.
Well, for one thing you'd be a lot poorer, a lot less educated, and a much lower contributor to society. For another thing, you'd feel really stupid in 5 to 7 years when you realize Garrett is full of shit and has to revise his doomsday predictions by another few years.
This guy s all over the place. At one point he uses alcohol consumption as a danger of going to these "satan run" colleges, then lists statistics that show you are LESS likely to use alcohol if you are a college graduate than if you aren't. You know you're an idiot when you disprove your own claims with your own made up numbers.
I do not believe there will be a single Christian person on earth in about 8 years from now or LESS!
Please don't get my hopes up.
If you were to skip college, and study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week, can you even imagine how your life would change?
Can you say, "Hi, welcome to McDonald's?"
"I do not believe there will be a single Christian person on earth in about 8 years from now or LESS! Most likely less too!!!"
" can you even imagine how your life would change?"
Um, yes, I would be missing out on a ton of valuable knowledge, the capability of ever having a good job, actual human contact...
Not to mention, Jesus never said that you have to have the Bible memorized in order to be saved. What if, instead of studying the Bible 4 hours a day, 6 days a week, you went out and served the less fortunate...?
Considering the fact that your lot has been saying the world is coming to an end "soon" for 2,000 years(!) a little long range planning seems very appropriate. 2nd Thessalonians backs me up on this. In case you're wondering Garrett, 2nd Thessalonians is part of the bible.
Remember also Garrett that even you do not know exactly when the end will come. You may not hear this from your groupies, but the fact is that you are just a human being. As such you can be as wrong as Harold Camping, Hal Lindsey William Miller and all the others of your ilk.
Second, I hardly see where ignorance helps your cause. In college a person can learn history, archaeology, ancient languages, comparative mythology and a host of other subjects which can make them an even better missionary if applied intelligently. Oh yes, and it can increase their earning potential, which means bigger tithes to your coffers (I thought that would get you.)
So, do you still think that promoting ignorance is smart?
Yes, keep them uneducated. Then wonder why, at 80 years old, you're still financially supporting your 50-60 year old offspring.
Sounds like a plan.
What if instead of going to college, you were to study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week? If you were to skip college, and study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week, can you even imagine how your life would change?
Yes, your entire life will consist of an photographic memorization of the Bible text, Public Assistance & an incredible life-long career of saying "You want fries with that?".
"What if instead of going to college, you were to study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week? If you were to skip college, and study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week, can you even imagine how your life would change?"
Are you sure you want me to answer that?
Actually Mr. Felender, when I was in college I took a Bible as Literature class where I ended up reading more of the Bible than I ever had before. Most of what I read was not that appealing.
I believe this was also Jehovah's Witnesses policy, as they always assumed the coming of Armageddon was just around the corner, making college education a waste of everyone's time. As the JWs have now become a bit gun shy in putting an exact date on the end of the world, they may not still pursue it.
I do not believe there will be a single Christian person on earth in about 8 years from now or LESS! Most likely less too!!
I wish!
But even if I do wish, I have the ability to reason and use logic so no, there will still be over a billion Christians on this planet in 8 years time unfortunately!
If you were to skip college, and study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week, can you even imagine how your life would change?
Yes, you would be stocking shelves at your local Walmart and living on food stamps!
I hope the people that look at dangerous cults are keeping an eye on these people. He may be just a demagogue, but if he starts counting down to The End with his followers close by, it might not end happily. He needs to be watched.
If it is all talk and things turn out well, his followers can spend the rest of their lives wearing a radiant smile saying "Welcome to Walmart!"
@Darryl
You're right about the JWs. Various sorts of Brethren are also keen on the idea. The aim is to keep the kids out of college and prevent them from: a) coming into social contact with people who are not saved; and b) picking up ideas or, even worse, theology, that leads them to question the cult in which they've been brought up. It's hateful. Some have got round this by founding their own fundie universities. Not even that is good enough for Garrett Felender.
This reminds me of the monks and priests of the early Christian Church who didn't believe in keeping themselves clean because the 'end times' were just around the corner, so why bother?
"If you were to skip college, and study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week, can you even imagine how your life would change?"
Why, yes. I could have been ignorant, and an insufferable bore. That would have been ever so much better than being educated enough to know the consequences of a decision like that. Of course, if I studied it long enough, I might decide it's a cook book for the world's oldest scam, and start a ministry of my own.
Yeah, you might have as little as two or three thousand years left here on Earth. Why would the Earth be void of Christians especially in eight years? What about Hindus, Muslims, Pagans, Buddhists? Why would so many Christians die in January of 2018? Wasn't the Mark of the beast 616?
You might not want to do that extensive study of the Bible, really. That is how most atheist were made; by extensive reading of the Bible, and realizing just how contradictory and incredible it is.
Here in Sweden, Garry and his followers wouldn't even be saying "You want fries with that", as burger joints would rather hire college students eager to earn a few bucks, than ignorant and gullible fundies stuck in the Dark Ages.
can you even imagine how your life would change?
Yeah, I'd be a moron living in a double-wide in Nankipoo, TN who studied the Bible instead of a college-educated professional with a good salary, health insurance, a paid-off mortgage, a pension and a nice, fat 401(k). And according to your own Bible, I'll make it to heaven, if there is such a place, before you will. Reread Matt. 25:14-30 - the parable of the servant who hid his talent instead of investing it.
While my preference is that these Christians either start acting more like the man they claim to follow, or turn away from their fundamentalist beliefs entirely, I doubt that will happen.
Therefore, I support this plan. In fact, why stop at 4 hours a day for 6 days a week? Why not just stay indoors reading the bible all the time?
Yes, I can imagine you poor as dirt, trying to get a job at McDonald's, but having to settle for 3rd assistant to the back-up night janitor at the Church of the Holy Nitwits.
He tells people to work as ministers and/or do charity such as giving clothes and food to the homeless. He has a whole chapter that's basically about people not caring enough about safety during sex, then tells them how to be safer and never tells them not to have it. He never tells anyone they're going to Hell. This person sounds like they're keeping exactly in line with an interpretation of Jesus's actual recorded teachings, and the page makes them sound a lot like a Bible hippie. This is just weird, and I enjoyed reading it but don't really think it fits with the site, which is almost all about hate turning stupid in a funny way.
If I didn't go to college, I wouldn't get the education I need for my desired career, and would end up spending the rest of my life as either a burger-flipper at McDonald's or as a worthless waste of space.
So yeah, I'd say that college is kind of important.
Here's a joke:
how can you tell a liberal from a social-democrat?
David Graeber suggests there are two reasons why the US working class votes republican: 1. "Support the troops!", 2. Even if infinitesmal, there is still more hope of your kids becoming a part of the economic elite, than of them becoming a part of the cultural elite.
His second reason stands to reason here: Yes, let's heap disdain unto the uncultured (provided that they are white and male, so we don't seem bigoted).
That said, Garrett's advice is, of course, imbecilic.
"If you were to skip college, and study the bible say 4 hours a day 6 days a week, can you even imagine how your life would change?"
Yes, you would be working the drive in window for minimum wage and cursing Obama for trying to raise it because he is a socialist.
Four years on, and no significant dip in the amount of Christians on Earth, yet. It's still the largest religion on this planet.
Study Matthew 25:35, extensively, and you might realize why you are probably going "downstairs", instead of "upstairs", dearie.
When I was in grammar school, Sweden still had a State Church (something the US has never had, but we had it for about a thousand years), and we sang a hymn at the beginning of every school day and one at the end of each day too. We had several Christianity lessons each week. Now, sweetie, tell us which is one of the LEAST religious countries on Earth?
Too much of a good thing, and all that...
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