Wow. Cool story. Thanks, ZH.

The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds [millionths of a second],"

Woo Hoo!

Good news fer folks like Spud who always want to sleep in just that little bit longer.

Be Well.

I thought I noticed something a little different.

I read an article yesterday which stated that the five major quakes in the past year were unrelated - calling them "mega-thrusts" - the same day this happened there was a 4.4 near OKC.

Earthquakes in the past week:

Immanuel Velikovsky's "Earth in Upheaval" is an interesting read. One of a trilogy of books he wrote on cataclysmic terrestrial and extraterrestrial events, this one lays out the case the Earth's axis flipped 180 degrees.

An article I read last night noted the Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 shifted the axis 6 microseconds.

"Chilean Quake Shifted Earth's Rotational Axis"

Obama's fault.

Good news = Bad News

Spud = decaffeinated

Be Well.

Stupid Liberals believe that with a treaty humans can control the earth's temperature to within a few tenths of a degree celcius and now mother nature has shown us how insignificant we are. Only arrogant Liberals believe they can have total control over nature.

"Chilean Quake Shifted Earth's Rotational Axis"
Obama's fault.

Well, he should quit messing around with that new earthquake machine the U.S. military has. It's not a damn toy, you know?

And only a loon believes there's such a person as "Mother Nature."

"And only a loon believes there's such a person as "Mother Nature."

Whataya mean!? I saw her on TV some years back with my own eyes and I saw what she did to people who tried to fool her! You best be careful, Doc.

"Only arrogant Liberals believe they can have total control over nature."

Only pathetic conservatives believe we are helpless to control our own destiny. They believe that in regards to our economy, climate change, virtually everything.

Whatever, wake me up when humans are able to alter the axis of the earth.

Mind blowing. Great find ZH!

Luke 21:25 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Sura 50:22 Judgment Day is the "Hour when every human will be shaken into a unique and unprecedented self-awareness of his deeds; he will squarely and starkly face his own doings, not-doings, and mis-doings and accept the judgment upon them. . . . "

Nanc will you be prepared to face Mohamed?

"I saw her on TV some years back with my own eyes and I saw what she did to people who tried to fool her! You best be careful, Doc."

He is dead, jackass - the dead know nothing.

Nanc he ascended into heaven. He will stand with Moses and Jesus to determine your fate. I hope you have answers for your wickedness.

the dead know nothing.

The dead know one thing....that it is better to be alive- Johnny Got his Gun

Luke 21:25 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

My Sister's Earth Science Textbook, page 215 - "We live on a seismically active planet."

Stow the tired old boogeyman-in-the-sky routine.

Zombie - I will acquiesce to your scientific knowledge, but can you deny the threat of earthquakes are increasing in number and strength?

earthquakes are increasing in number and strength

That's not particularly shocking for several reasons. First, instrumentation has improved dramatically so more earthquakes can be detected. Second, we're looking at a time interval that is less than the blink of an eye on a geological time scale. Third, the fluctuation is so small that even if instrumentation and the small interval of observation weren't factors, it probably wouldn't be statistically significant.

#23 - according to their stats, 2009 was the only year worldwide earthquakes actually went down for the entire 2000-2010(to date) time period. Otherwise they dramatically increased each year.

22256(2000)
23534(2001)
27454(2002)
31419(2003)
31194(2004)
30478(2005)
29568(2006)
29685(2007)
31777(2008)
14788(2009)*
1939(2010)*

*as of March 2, 2010 - don't know why there's one by the 2009 total!

#19 Jackass, speaking of Mohammed, spoke thusely> He will stand with Moses and Jesus to determine your fate. I hope you have answers for your wickedness.

You must have received your religious beliefs on a fortune cookie. True?

And are you assuming that Nanc is wicked or do you know something about her that the rest of us don't?

p.s. - Zombie, yesterday they stated there have been close to 180 aftershocks, some measuring 6.+ - don't know if you've ever been in a 6.+, but it feels suspiciously exactly like an earthquake!

#25 - anyone who is not like him is considered wicked - hence, I've never charged for sex like all the women he knows so I'm wicked.

...anyone who is not like him is considered wicked - hence, I've never charged for sex like all the women he knows so I'm wicked.

#27 | Posted by nanc at 2010-03-02 12:20 PM

I've never charged for sex either, nanc, but with the way the economy is going lately we just may have to change our wicked ways. lol

God is.

God rules.

We will all meet Him.

Hope it goes well for you; whether you whistle in the dark or curse the darkness.

Is Jackass a Muslim now?

#30 - No, he is but a contrary like myself only opposite...

#28 | Posted by CalifChris - HA! Won't have to, my husband just started with a new employer - mo money - mo money - bennies! YAY!

#28 | Posted by CalifChris - p.s. - not that I've NEVER been wicked in other ways...*;]

ZOMBIE!:

So does the time come back to where it was before the EQ??

It was a big bump.

So does the time come back to where it was before the EQ??

Probably not, if the change in the rotational axis and length of the day is caused by a change in Earth's mass distribution. I think we'll have to get used to the shorter days.

"Is Jackass a Muslim now?"

Not quite yet but they are on the way to becoming synonyms, that's for sure.

From Nanc's Article:

In the past seven days there have been more than 258 recorded earthquakes of a magnitude higher than 4.5 on the Richter's scale. Chile alone has already experienced 81 aftershocks at a rate of 4 per hour since the first big earthquake of 8.8 struck on Saturday, Feb. 27. Tsunami alarms sounded across the world.

I will add your scientific evidence to my nearly 2000 year old information predicting these days. Simple really.

#38 - Zombie, I'm glad we were given these warnings.

12 | Posted by danni,

How sad, You think you are having some control by believing anthroprogenic global warming is real.
How sad and delusional.

The earth goes thru cycles of thousands of years.
Man made Co2 is a small fraction of the whole.

The ice core samples show that Co2 rise follows warming by 800 years, not the other way around.

ITS THE SUN!

Why is it you liberal sheep are so brainwashed you have to feel guilty for everything, to the point of being completely manipulated suckers by the global elite. They are going to tax the air we breath!
Wake the fuck up!

my nearly 2000 year old information predicting these days

You call a couple of generic blurbs a "prediction"? Not even close.

I think if it were closer to the end of the world it would be far more apparent.

I got cheated out of a tsunami, though. After being woken up by the CD sirens at 6:00 AM (six hours before it was to have struck), I waited on the 29th floor of the Waikiki Hilton to see it. All I saw was ~1.5 - 2 ft change in sea level 3 times over a period of 35 minutes -- kind of like the regular tides, but sped up. It was kind of cool, but not what I hoped to see. *sigh* The huge waves on the N shore yesterday whipped up by two days of high winds were far more impressive.

Gotta finish packing. After only a week, island fever has set in. I'm ready to leave. Hawaii is pretty (but has gone downhill a lot since I was here last in 1976, unfortunately) but it's too fucking small and the traffic is horrid almost everywhere on the island. And unlike the mainland, there is no escaping it.

I am wondering if this will affect the global weather patterns and storm development. This would then need to be delineated from anything that is said to be caused by Climate Change in the future.

The Chile aftershocks are continuing - nearly all of them are still over 5.0 which seems counter-intuitive to me. Wouldn't they dissipate over days? They appear consistently as strong as the first aftershock.

Oh, great. Now the earth will warm slightly and the progressives will want trillions of hard earned dollars to compensate and make them rich.

#28 | Posted by CalifChris

You reminded me of an old joke (not you in particular LOL):

An 80 year old couple are having trouble getting by on their Social Security and meager pension, so one day the wife says, while lifting her skirt, "ya know, honey, I could sell a little of this and we could make a little extra money." The husband agrees, she puts on her best Sunday outfit and off they go..

At 8 am when they get to the street corner in town. He comes around to her door and opens it for her.

"I'll wait around the corner, dear. You come back at 5 o'clock and I'll be right here."

At 5 o'clock on the nose she approaches the car. He politely gets out, comes around the car and opens her door for her. She gets in looking a bit frazzled.

"Well, dear, how much did you make?"

"Let's see ... Seven dollars and twenty five cents"

He says, rather angrily, "WHO GAVE YOU A QUARTER"?!"

In a shaky voice she replies, "everybody".

#42 | Posted by ZombieHunter - Would you take the word of a scientist regarding the percentage of prophecies fulfilled?

The new lake China is making will also affect the rotational axis.

#43 | Posted by ExpsRedemption - you, of all people, should know the world is without end.

You've been suckered in by some prolific bullshitters, Nanc.

Why don't you just go check out Ross for yourself, Zombie? Are you so full of knowledge that this is more than you can handle? Surely you are smarter than that...

"(5) The prophet Isaiah foretold that a conqueror named Cyrus would destroy seemingly impregnable Babylon and subdue Egypt along with most of the rest of the known world. This same man, said Isaiah, would decide to let the Jewish exiles in his territory go free without any payment of ransom (Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; and 45:13). Isaiah made this prophecy 150 years before Cyrus was born, 180 years before Cyrus performed any of these feats (and he did, eventually, perform them all), and 80 years before the Jews were taken into exile.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 15th power.)"

P.S. - Zombie - there is one unfulfilled O.T. prophecy regarding Damascus - will you check these things out if in the future you see it come to pass?

We can kill two birds with one stone here, lets take all the fatty pig fatties and jam them into all active fault lines near major cities, that will cushion the quakes when they happen and make life a bit more pleasant for those of us who have a bit of self discipline and respect.

After only a week, island fever has set in. I'm ready to leave. Hawaii is pretty (but has gone downhill a lot since I was here last in 1976, unfortunately) but it's too fucking small and the traffic is horrid almost everywhere on the island. And unlike the mainland, there is no escaping it.

Some people only see what is 6 inches in front of their nose. Waikiki, Honolulu and Oahu is the gathering place and the only big city of the whole state. The Island of Oahu is smaller then Maui and a fraction of the size of the Big Island of Hawaii. Why anyone would come to visit the real Hawaii in Waikiki is beyond me. That's like visiting NY city and thinking the whole state is like that. Where I live there is not a building taller then three stories, the lots are all a minimum of one acre and I have walked three miles in my community without seeing a single car drive by.

Ka'alualu basin, my favorite beach here, rarely has more then a handful of people camping and fishing on any given day and it's longer then the beach in Waikiki.

With a population density of 37 per square mile and 80% of those in two small towns, Hilo and Kailua-Kona, the rest of the island is about as unpopulated as the Arizona dessert.

The view of the coastline from my house stretches about 20 miles and there is not even a paved road on the coastline, much less a building.

It all depends where you go in Hawaii. Every town is different and the Big Island is 62% of the land mass of the entire state.

Nance, this world will ultimately end. You should know that.

Also, it is interesting that you are using Hugh Ross for your backup, I figured that you would not agree with his cosmology.

Nanc, the thing that bugs me about end-times prophecies coming from the Bible is that many of the things cited have happened before, and often on larger scales, than what we see now. You list earthquake data from the last 30 years. It's been nearly 2000 years since Christ's death -- how many large-scale earthquakes could have occurred in that time without being recorded? With the exception of two World Wars in the last 100 years, I see nothing that is worse now than it would have been at some other point in the last 2000 years. I tend to think more that the second coming will be like the thief in the night -- no man will know the date. I feel prepared if that day were to come now. I don't think it's right to have to feel "more prepared" because there are events occurring around the globe that have been happening since the dawn of civilization.

#57 - I believe the "age" will end, dispensationally speaking.

#59 - I agree with the "thief in the night" scenario, but also remember the words of Jesus, himself, "So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand." Luke 21:31 - He gave us signs, much the same as he gave the people of Noah's day - 6:3 "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."

They did not believe, even when given a specific amount of time - we are on notice. No, I do not claim to know the hour or the day, but believe it will be in my lifetime.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 15th power.)

Probability of exaggeration, revisionism, and outright bullshit: 1 - 10^-15

No, I do not claim to know the hour or the day, but believe it will be in my lifetime

Live your life how you want, nanc. It might be prudent to keep your superstition to yourself, though. You've twisted reality pretty extensively to get to the point where you see "prophecies" being fulfilled at every turn and are waiting for an imminent apocalypse. People are going to continue to point that out to you.

They did not believe, even when given a specific amount of time - we are on notice. No, I do not claim to know the hour or the day, but believe it will be in my lifetime.

#60 | Posted by nanc at 2010-03-03 09:10 AM

Nanc you are a moron. The end times will come not because of your imaginary buddy in the sky but because people destroy the environment. That won't be until long after we are dead though.

"I do not claim to know the hour or the day, but believe it will be in my lifetime."

So has every dead fundie since the time of Christ.

"(5) The prophet Isaiah foretold that a conqueror named Cyrus would destroy seemingly impregnable Babylon and subdue Egypt along with most of the rest of the known world. This same man, said Isaiah, would decide to let the Jewish exiles in his territory go free without any payment of ransom (Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; and 45:13). Isaiah made this prophecy 150 years before Cyrus was born, 180 years before Cyrus performed any of these feats (and he did, eventually, perform them all), and 80 years before the Jews were taken into exile.

Except Cyrus didn't destroy Babylon, not even close, he made it more grand than ever. It remained the central hub of Mesopotamia throughout the rule of Cambyses, Barzia, Nebuchadrezzar III, Darius I, Xerxes, Artaxerxes I, Xerxes II, Darius II, Artaxerxes II, Artaxerxes III (Ochos), Arses, and Darius III. It remained for at least 200 years after the lord had commanded all her sons slain and walls raised. It is still visited by people, her bricks were/are used in the construction of other cities and buildings, the Marduk Gate has been completely restored in a German museum, no "dragons" ever took refuge there, and most importantly, Cyrus isn't mentioned in Isaiah 45. The Hebrew version says, "him". Cyrus wasn't used as the 'translation' until 1973! Most biblical scholars --for many well-documented reasons-- believe only 1-39 were written by Isaiah, 40-55 by a poet at the end of the Babylonian captivity, and 56-66 by a third party.

Some Prophesy!

"(6) Mighty Babylon, 196 miles square, was enclosed not only by a moat, but also by a double wall 330 feet high, each part 90 feet thick. It was said by unanimous popular opinion to be indestructible, yet two Bible prophets declared its doom. These prophets further claimed that the ruins would be avoided by travelers, that the city would never again be inhabited, and that its stones would not even be moved for use as building material (Isaiah 13:17-22 and Jeremiah 51:26, 43). Their description is, in fact, the well-documented history of the famous citadel.

That isn't so much a prophecy as a description of a place. Furthermore it is a very inaccurate description of both the city structures and its slow puttering out after Alexander the Great, a person the bible doesn't mention a single time.

So, how could anyone possibly make a prophesy about Babylon's demise and not mention Alexander? It is like predicting WWII and forgetting to mention the Americans.

#65 - no, he was not mentioned by name, but described in detail in Daniel's vision and none of it has ever been disputed. Specifically Daniel 11:2-4.

Search the scriptures.

"none of it has ever been disputed."

At least not in Nanc's household.

"Search the scriptures."

But avoid the history books.

Wrong, again, Danforth.

"Wrong, again, Danforth."

Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Because you've read everything ever written on the subject, which allows you to state "none of it has ever been disputed", and you completely missed how Blusky debunked your ludicrous claims about Cyrus.

Search the scriptures.

I did. No mention of Alexander the Great, the true fall of Babylon, or the dozens of rulers and MILLIONS of people who lived there long, long, long after Cyrus.

no, he was not mentioned by name

Then why did you claim he was mentioned by name above?

Don't answer, we know why.

none of it has ever been disputed.

I just did. I dispute Cyrus sacked Babylon. I dispute Babylon was abandoned after the Jews were (sorta) freed. I dispute that Isaiah or Daniel ever mentioned Cyrus by name or the bible ever claimed they did until 1973. I dispute "dragons" moved into Babylon. I dispute the walls were 300 ft tall and 90 ft thick. And I dispute that no one ever goes (or went) there after the fictional sacking by Cyrus.

"...I will add your scientific evidence to my nearly 2000 year old information predicting these days. Simple really.#39 | Posted by nanc...

Predicting "these days?" YOU SIR ARE A MORON:

Where in the bible does it say "In Chile, 2010, There will be an earthquake that sets the earth off it's axis AND shorten the day."

Where?

If it doesn't say that EXACTLY, then it is NOT a prophecy. Not Even Close.

When you point to GOD's word in the Bible that shows clearly a date, place and time, then you'll have something REAL. Otherwise it's crap.

And don't give us your "No Man Knows The Time..." excuse. That's just your typical Christian evasion.

But you christians spend your time INTERPRETTING the spots of a bluebird's egg or the Claws of the GREAT BEAR and EAGLE to come up with your bullshit anyway.

You tell us GOD has provided everything in the Bible as written. It's literal. Yet you have NOTHING but bullshit to serve up to us as proof.

We, the sensible people of Earth, who base our information on Reality and Science say unto you:

"Bullshit, Moron"

There is no need to 'Hide' prophecies in symbolic biblical language. If God is all seeing, all knowing, then he can stop bullshitting too and speak the FACTS.

But He doesn't. You people are so desperate to find 'God's Real Truth' that you'll even count every fifth (or sixth or seventh or whatever) syllable of Genesis until you FIND any kind of Bible Code connection to support your argument.

It's as if even YOU PEOPLE are disappointed that God forgot to add the ACTUAL TRUTH, so you spin your wheels on symbollic images to find real truth.

Uh. Life doesn't work that way.

#70

That being said, the idea that this or any other particular earthquake "fulfills prophecy", is ludicrous on it's face.

Apparently, for every earthquake that slowed down the Earth, there was one that sped it up or we would have stopped spinning eons ago.

#74 - Corky - I never said it fulfilled a particular prophecy. Jesus said WHEN YOU SEE THESE THINGS HAPPENING! I believe they are happening.

Blusky - here is a good account of Babylon, which BTW aligns with scripture:

#74 - "earthquakes in divers places..."

Major earthquakes have been happening for billions of years. According to the story, no one knows the day or hour (though the time of year is pretty obvious) and every generation since has thought it was going to happen before they passed..... very unsurprisingly.

which BTW aligns with scripture

Actually, even your own "christian" link disputes the prophesy.
Notice:
"The Iraqi leader, Sadam Hussein, has rebuilt parts of the city."

That would seem to directly overturn Isaiah 20 that says no Arab will ever inhabit Babylon again.

Hell, the prophesy itself is contradictory as it calls for all the buildings to be raised to the ground, yet also occupied by jackals and dragons who will live in "her luxurious palaces".

You can't have it both ways. You can't claim Isaiah made an accurate --and very descriptive-- prediction them claim (as Cork's source attempts) that the whole thing was just a historical metaphor for 500 years of boom and bust cycles. The prophesy is specific. It says Babylon would fall to the lord like Sodom and Gomorrah. So you must either admit those two cities slowly died out like Babylon or that Isaiah's prediction of Babylon was laughably incorrect.

The term "Babylon" is often used interchangeably in the texts to mean the city and/or the empire.

The comparison to S&G requires destruction, not necessarily immediate, but over time as the prophecy indicates.

I was just posting some info for you, as you appear interested in the subject matter. There is a lot of debate on the details, but some of the texts seem rather prescient on the basics of what happened.

Luke 21:25 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

#15 | Posted by nanc at 2010-03-02 10:36 AM

Sheeeit, that is deep!

Well, that describes the past 10,000 years at least. Any day now I guess.

By the end of President George W Bush's 2nd term:

1) Iraq will be well on the way to being a peaceful Christian country. Once Iraq has gone Christian, the Gospel of Jesus will spread throughout the Middle East. The region will be at peace and millions of Arab souls will be saved through the grace of Jesus Christ.

2) Bush will have appointed at least three or four USSC Justices and the baby slaughterhouses will finally be closed down forever.

3) Gays will be put back in the closet for good. The sodomy and decency laws will be reinstated and their disgusting disease spreading activities will be outlawed again. Maybe we can't get rid of them, but we can get them out our children's view.

4) School vouchers will allow parents to send their kids to decent Christian schools instead of the NEA-infested cesspools that exist now.

5) Worthless liberal social welfare programs will be dismantled and replaced by Christian faith-based government funded programs. People will finally get REAL help through Jesus Christ.

6) Filthy shows like Howard Stern, Will & Grace and Desperate Housewives will be off the air and replaced with decent Christian family programming. Families will once again be able to turn on the radio or television and not be embarrassed to listen or watch together.

7) The abominable scourge of Internet pornography will end with the introduction and ENFORCEMENT of the Online Decency Act. Pornographers who expose the public to this sickening material will be behind bars where they belong.

No wonder I've felt so rushed the past week...

I'll bet zat is dancing in the street mow that he has proof of global warming because our cows farted and there was a big earth quake that changed the day. Damn, I wonder if it got longer somewhere else? I guess not, that quake changed the sun.

After this earthquake shifted the earth's axis Global Warmers may start to realize that man has little control over the forces of the universae...oh wait....maybe Al Gore and those phony scientists at East Anglia have a theory that earthquakes are man-made and we will have to pay more taxes, drive golf carts and live in caves...oh shit here we go again!!

Was it a cow that farted, or was it Al Whore blowing it out his ass again?

The term "Babylon" is often used interchangeably in the texts to mean the city and/or the empire.

We're leavin' babylon... goin to the promised land...

That song makes me want to spark up every time I hear it.

Al Bore has a theory that earthquakes are caused by whale shit hitting the bottom. This 8.8 must have been a blue whale.

Don't forget "Earth Farts" aka Methane Bubbles, that are a hydrate at depth.

You know there's a chance this little bump might fix global warming.

Apparently, for every earthquake that slowed down the Earth, there was one that sped it up or we would have stopped spinning eons ago.

#75 | Posted by RingMaster

You mean sort of like the glaciation of the Earth. How the glaciers expand and contract, over and over again?

Makes sense.

So, when are they going to establish that new scientific group and begin some funding to study the effects this is going to have on our country?