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patrice

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4. Interesting that you should mention Beckett, because one of these pastors mentions

Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 04:50 PM

Sep 2012

Deconstruction, which is just a hop, skip, and a jump from Absurdist literature, both areas that I was into in my under-grad work and which I think have specific relevance to some very big communications issues in the USA.

That's just one of the reasons I want to study this video a little closer; I'm interested in cognition and language.

Gotta go to the grocery store right now, though.

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Waiting for Armageddon - Evangelical Documentary by [View all] patrice Sep 2012 OP

Reference to previous DU discussion: patrice Sep 2012 #1

Waiting for Godot Blue Owl Sep 2012 #2

Interesting that you should mention Beckett, because one of these pastors mentions patrice Sep 2012 #4

I watched part of it earlier, hard to get through &very disturbing sasha031 Sep 2012 #3

VERY death cultish!!! Maybe even pathological. nt patrice Sep 2012 #5

no doubt their pathological sasha031 Sep 2012 #7

That bit about the "righteous" being ready really freaks this old patrice Sep 2012 #8

and horrible cruel & selfish sasha031 Sep 2012 #11

Delight. You're right, sasha, it is like a physical addiction to self gratification. patrice Sep 2012 #12

oh man! FirstLight Sep 2012 #6

I can never figure out where they think Jesus went. In their theology, he's God, right? i.e. always patrice Sep 2012 #9

So if God and Jesus are these all-knowing controlling beings? dballance Sep 2012 #10

One of the absolutely finest persons I have ever known is Southern Baptist. She loves The Bible too patrice Sep 2012 #13

The whole Rapture thing... jeepnstein Sep 2012 #14

There's another way to look at it. SarahM32 Sep 2012 #16

The Actual Prophecies of Jesus vs "Christian" Myths (like the "Rapture," Armageddon, etc.) SarahM32 Sep 2012 #15