What's in your Ctrl V?

[isowish]

alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, dairy, wheat, animal meat, fish, and eggs

[nookle]

The Moldy Peaches

[starling]

The Moldy Peaches

They sing that adorable song from Juno!

[*AHIMSA*]

Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin' everywhere!

[Cissy]

^^^ :lol:

http://www.epicfunnypictures.com/animal/i-love-big-dog./

[animallover7249]

syko

[jenna]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

^^^I had forgotten about that site for a while but I'm glad I've remembered as I have lots of stuff saved there.

[Cissy]

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/01/built-in-shoela.html

[*AHIMSA*]

Mediterranean

[nookle]

Play Cafe on Keller

[*AHIMSA*]

University for Humanistic Studies

[nookle]

Big D & the kids table

[*AHIMSA*]

Kissinger Cobalt Crash Lefse Butter

[Scorpius]

rekindling

[kazyeeqen]

Nor have I.

I have never eaten at a Thai restaurant.

[guess what thread I just posted in... I realized that I had said that one before, so saved it and then went back to check.]

[jenna]

Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop

[isowish]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga

[nookle]

Millennialism
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This is an article on sociological Millennialism. You may be looking for the article on Christian Premillennialism.
Millennialism (or chiliasm in Greek), from millennium (which is Latin) means "thousand years", is primarily a belief expressed in some Christian denominations, and literature, that there will be a Golden Age or Paradise on Earth where "Christ will reign" prior to the final judgment and future eternal state, primarily derived from the book of Revelation 20:1-6. Millennialism as such is a specific form of Millenarianism.
Among Christians who hold this belief, this is not the "end of the world", but the penultimate age, prior to when it is believed that the world will end. Some believe that between the millennium and the final end of the world there will be a brief period to allow a final battle with Satan, or a time of the Anti-Christ, followed by the last judgment.
Millennialism is also a doctrine of medieval Zoroastrianism concerning successive thousand-year periods, each of which will end in a cataclysm of heresy and destruction, until the final destruction of evil and of the spirit of evil by a triumphant king of peace at the end of the final millennial age (supposed by some to be the year 2000). "Then Saoshyant makes the creatures again pure, and the resurrection and future existence occur" (Zand-i Vohuman Yasht 3:62).
Various other social and political movements, both religious and secular, have also been linked to millennialist metaphors by scholars.
Contents
* 1 The early church and premillennialism (chiliasm)
* 2 Christian millennialism following the Reformation
* 3 Pre-Christian millennialism
* 4 Transition to the Millennium
* 5 Millennialism and Utopianism
* 6 Millennialism and Nazism
* 7 Millennialism and social movements
* 8 See also
* 9 References
* 10 Further reading
* 11 External links
[edit] The early church and premillennialism (chiliasm)
If millenarian beliefs are ignored, dismissed, or ridiculed in mainstream Christian theology today, this was not the case during the early Christian centuries. At least during the first four centuries, millennialism was normative in both East and West[1]. Tertullian, Commodian, Lactantius, Methodius, and Apollinaris of Laodicea all advocated premillennial doctrine. [1] (PDF file) In addition, according to religious scholar Rev. and Dr. Francis Nigel Lee the following is true, "Justin's 'Occasional Chiliasm' sui generis which was strongly anti-pretribulationistic was followed possibly by Pothinus in A.D. 175 and more probably (around 185) by Irenaeus -- although Justin Martyr, discussing his own premillennial beliefs in his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, Chapter 110, observed that they were not necessary to Christians:
I admitted to you formerly, that I and many others are of this opinion, and [believe] that such will take place, as you assuredly are aware; but, on the other hand, I signified to you that many who belong to the pure and pious faith, and are true Christians, think otherwise.[2]
Melito of Sardis is frequently listed as a second century proponent of premillennialism. [2]. The support usually given for the supposition is that Jerome [Comm. on Ezek. 36 ] and Gennadius [De Dogm. Eccl., Ch. 52] both affirm that he was a decided millenarian.”[3].[3]
In the early third century, Hippolytus of Rome wrote:
And 6, 000 years must needs be accomplished, in order that the Sabbath may come, the rest, the holy day "on which God rested from all His works." For the Sabbath is the type and emblem of the future kingdom of the saints, when they "shall reign with Christ," when He comes from heaven, as John says in his Apocalypse: for "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years."Since, then, in six days God made all things, it follows that 6, 000 years must be fulfilled (Hippolytus. On the HexaËmeron, Or Six Days' Work. From Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture).
Around 220, there were some similar influences on Tertullian though only with very important and extremely optimistic (if not perhaps even postmillennial modifications and implications). On the other hand, 'Christian Chiliastic' ideas were indeed advocated in 240 by Commodian; in 250 by the Egyptian Bishop Nepos in his Refutation of Allegorists; in 260 by the almost unknown Coracion; and in 310 by Lactantius. [4]
Into the late fourth century, the Bishop known as Ambrose of Milan had millennial leanings (Ambrose of Milan. Book II. On the Belief in the Resurrection, verse 108)
The first known opponent of Christian chiliasm was Marcion, in the second century, who most Christians feel was an early heretic (Brown HOJ. Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church. Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody (MA), 1988, p. 65). The Catholic Encyclopedia noted that in the second century proponents of "Gnosticism rejected millenarianism"(Kirsch J.P. Transcribed by Donald J. Boon. Millennium and Millenarianism. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume X. Copyright © 1911 by Robert Appleton Company. Online Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. Knight. Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York).
Chiliasm was, however, according to the interpretation of non-chiliasts, condemned as a heresy in the 4th century by the Church, which included the phrase whose Kingdom shall have no end in the Nicene Creed in order to rule out the idea of a Kingdom of God which would last for only 1000 literal years. Despite some writers' belief in millennialism, it was a decided minority view, as expressed in the nearly universal condemnation of the doctrine over a gradual period of time, beginning with Augustine of Hippo. It is vigorously disputed whether or not caesaropapism had a role in the virtual annihilation of millennialism from the 4th Century onwards.
[edit] Christian millennialism following the Reformation
Comparison of Christian millennial interpretations
Comparison of Christian millennial interpretations
Christian views on the future order of events diversified after the Protestant reformation. In particular, new emphasis was placed on the passages in the Book of Revelation which seemed to say that Satan would be locked away for 1000 years, but then released on the world in a final battle (Rev. 20:1-6). Previous Catholic and Orthodox theologians had no clear or consensus view on what this actually meant (only the concept of an end of the world coming unexpected, "like a thief in a night", and the concept of "the antichrist" were almost universally held). Millennialist theories try to explain what this "1000 years of Satan in chains" would be like.
Various types of millennialism exist with regard to Christian Eschatology, especially within Protestantism, such as Premillennialism, Postmillennialism, and Amillennialism. The first two refer to different views of the relationship between the "millennial Kingdom" and Christ's second coming. Premillennialism sees Christ's second advent as preceding the millennium, thereby separating the second coming from the final judgment. In this view, "Christ's reign" will be physical. Postmillennialism sees Christ's second coming as subsequent to the millennium and consequent with the final judgment. In this view "Christ's reign" (during the millennium) will be spiritual in and through the church. Amillennialism basically denies a future literal 1000 year Kingdom and sees the church age metaphorically described in Rev. 20:1-6. In this view, "Christ's reign" is current in and through the church.
The Catholic Church now strongly condemns millennialism as the following shows:
The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism. (Catechism of the Catholic Church. Imprimatur Potest +Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Doubleday, NY 1995, p. 194).

[Qwerks]

Jeez nookle couldn't you just remember that?

[Cissy]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y159/clockwood/blog/edmbalm.jpg

[Badger_Lady]

we don't cater for the naming convention below (McNair)

[Serenstar]

On May 15th 2008, everybody needs to go out and panic buy CARROTS.

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[*AHIMSA*]

Strumpets, all of you!

[Serenstar]

Goats and monkeys! (Othello, Act IV, Scene I.)

[nookle]

(gluten free, dairy or egg free, etc.)