The Antichrist is born?

[Sand]

So yeah this past week in Beebe, Arkansas thousands of birds suddenly dropped dead from the sky for no apparent reason.
Test results show they had internal blood clots formed for unknown reasons, although lightning has been speculated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/02/dead-birds-fall-from-sky-akansas_n_803358.html

As a single event this might not merit much attention. However just the week prior a hundred thousand fish turned up dead west of Bebee, Arkansas in the Arkansas river.
http://www.ktsm.com/arkansas/days-after-arkansas-louisiana-reports-hundreds-of-birds-falling-dead-from-sky

Coincidence? Or The End of Days?

[Merusk]

It's always coincidence.

There was an eyewitness report of several loud cannon-like booms prior to the birds dying.  The investigator who was interviewed on NPR said they suspected it was folks setting them off to celebrate the new year.  The person who heard the booms had gone outside to investigate and also heard the sounds of birds flying low and "the sound of wings and feathers hitting things."

The species of blackbird involved can't see well at night and doesn't usually fly unless scared and the injuries from the 17 necropsies performed were consistent with blunt force trauma.  Aka. birds ran into shit and died. 

So: redneck sets of redneck new year's celebration, device (always explosive.) ; device spooks birds; birds fly into shit and die; stupid humans freak the fuck out because they're stupid humans.

[naum]

Who does CNN call when birds fall from the sky? Kirk Cameron!!

But surprise surprise… Kirk doesn’t know why the birds fell out of the sky.

[K9]

More birds dying in Lousiana

I think the only logical conclusion is that the Antichrist is a southerner.

[Teleku]

Yeah, this is only believable to me because Arkansas does seem like the sort of place the Antichrist would come from.

[Sheepherder]

The antichrist isn't actually a specific person, read your Bible.

[Teleku]

Never!

[sinij]

I wonder in antichrist's urine will be able to solve mold problems.

[Minvaren]

The antichrist isn't actually a specific person, read your Bible.

Thought some historians interpreted it to be Julius Caesar?

[Sheepherder]

Julius died 44 BC.  I'd like to meet these historians, so that I can call them assclowns to their face.

[Vaiti]

I wonder in antichrist's urine will be able to solve mold problems.

Only if it comes packaged with Steam.

[apocrypha]

I wonder in antichrist's urine will be able to solve mold problems.

It might cure allergies if injected into your ass!

[Minvaren]

Julius died 44 BC.  I'd like to meet these historians, so that I can call them assclowns to their face.

Whoops, I got the wrong Caesar.  Nero, not Julius.

[Sand]

More dead birds and fish reported. Now worldwide. His power is spreading!

Millions of dead fish surfaced in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay in the U.S., Tuesday, while similar unexplained mass fish deaths occurred across the world in Brazil and New Zealand. On Wednesday, 50 birds were found dead on a street in Sweden. The news come after recents reports of mysterious massive bird and fish deaths days prior in Arkansas and Louisiana.

The Baltimore Sun reports that an estimated 2 million fish were found dead in the Chesapeake Bay, mostly adult spot with some juvenile croakers in the mix, as well.

ParanaOnline reports that 100 tons of sardines, croaker and catfish have washed up in Brazilian fishing towns since last Thursday. The cause of the deaths is unknown ( ), with an imbalance in the environment, chemical pollution, or accidental release from a fishing boat all suggested by local officials.

[stu]

This looks legit.  

http://www.eutimes.net/2011/01/top-us-official-murdered-after-arkansas-weapons-test-causes-mass-death/


edit:

These articles about Wheeler are actually kinda scary though.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/before_death_vietnam_vet_seen_disoriented_erratic.php?ref=fpb

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110105/NEWS01/101050356/Delaware-crime-In-Wheeler-s-final-days-details-of-a-disheveled-man

[Witchcraft]

I wonder what the ramifications would be, if any, were something like that to happen here in New York City.

[Korachia]

My bet is on, that these occurances are the forewarnings of a massive supervulcano eruption...              

...that spawns the Antichrist  

[01101010]

My bet is on, that these occurances are the forewarnings of a massive supervulcano eruption...              

...that spawns the Antichrist  

...or Cthulhu

[tazelbain]

Mint Berry Crunch is our only hope.

[naum]

WTF? More Dead Birds Fall from the Sky in Sweden, Chile, Kentucky -- Dead Fish Keep Washing Ashore

A more recent report by the Baltimore Sun places the fish kill in the Chesapeake Bay as high as Two Million. So far no one has blamed the dead fish on fireworks, so that's something for which the fireworks industry can take comfort.

Maybe God is angry with us and the End Times really are here. Get your Rapture Ready plans finalized. Tim Tebow, we hardly knew ye.

[Bzalthek]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-VI1Bbnuvc

The clowns are prophets!

[Sheepherder]

Whoops, I got the wrong Caesar.  Nero, not Julius.

Also dead before The Book of Revelation was written.  I could save you a lot more time by posting this, couldn't I:

"Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the Antichrist." (2 John 1:7)

[Cyrrex]

Whoops, I got the wrong Caesar.  Nero, not Julius.

Also dead before The Book of Revelation was written.  I could save you a lot more time by posting this, couldn't I:

"Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the Antichrist." (2 John 1:7)

OMG you are ALL the Antichrist!  I knew it!  Especially Haemish, I think...he has that mad glint in his eye.

[HaemishM]

It's all about the Magnets.

[Sand]

His power continues to spread. The dead animals are now in the UK.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/dead-crabs-wash-ashore-by_n_805211.html

As if thousands of dead birds falling from the sky and millions of fish turning up dead across the world in the last week weren't enough, the Thanet Coast in the UK is now littered with tens of thousands of dead crabs that have washed ashore.

[Sand]

He has now moved closer to the Holy See in Italy where he is destroying the world wide symbol of peace....the dove. Thousands drop dead from Italy's skies.

Dead birds, turtle doves, fall from the skies in Italy by the thousands, within the last few days. This adds to the already numerous accounts of dead birds, as well as dead fish, being reported around the world.

The dead birds in Italy were mostly the white turtle doves, these are the pretty, docile birds that are often released in flocks for celebrations, such as weddings. These birds of celebration also symbolize love. Today they join the other casualties of dead wild life from around the globe.

http://www.examiner.com/pop-culture-in-hartford/dead-birds-this-time-thousands-of-dead-turtle-doves-fall-from-the-sky-italy

[shiznitz]

I mean, really, what would you do if you saw that for real? 

[ghost]

I would say a change of attire would be a good idea post-sighting, regardless. 

[Teleku]

I mean, really, what would you do if you saw that for real? 

I think if you saw that for real you wouldn't be doing much ever again.

[naum]

Cindy Jacobs: Birds Dying Because of DADT Repeal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17WGTvPHGg

[slog]

Cindy Jacobs: Birds Dying Because of DADT Repeal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17WGTvPHGg

Well that explains everything.

[tgr]

Cindy Jacobs: Birds Dying Because of DADT Repeal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17WGTvPHGg

Tell me this isn't actually something someone seriously put their face to, publicly. Tell me this is a joke. Pretty please.

[Lantyssa]

It's real.

[Khaldun]

I'm continually fascinated by the composite God that is built up out of the theology behind those kinds of responses. This is a God who kills people not directly associated with the policies that supposedly piss him off, like soldier or children, and who offs birds, burns forests, sets off earthquakes and so on in response to every single news event covered in the 24/7 news cycle.

One of the things you run into in southern Africa is that quite a few people to varying degrees tend to think that most illness or accidents that afflict individual human beings have their cause in the social world. Not so much national policy or "big events". It's more like: your aunt got a serious illness, so the first question you ask yourself is "does someone hate her? has she done something bad to a neighbor, friend or family member?"  But the ways in which social conflicts cause these events are via "small spiritual powers" that are openly understood to be malevolent--evil spiritual entities or malicious ways of manipulating spiritual power. On some level, this makes perfect sense to me--it has a philosophical and cosmological consistency to it even if it's ultimately a pretty troubled way of dealing with the world.

But here, we've got people with a similarly anti-naturalistic vision of causality that they attribute to a single omnipotent entity that they would otherwise describe as the definition of supreme goodness, benevolence and love. The inconsistency is just 

[MahrinSkel]

If you don't understand how it happened, God did it.  And if you don't understand why, it's because somebody pissed him off.  Find out who and punish them, so God doesn't take it out on everyone else.

Seriously, that's the logic.

--Dave