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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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 Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:14 pm Post subject: Beware of Peppero Day |
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This is from the Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel
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The end is really near, local man contends
By INA HUGHS, hughs@ knews.com
November 8, 2005
The Book of Revelation is not pleasant reading. It describes Armageddon, the Day of Judgment in which, after a series of catastrophes, God chooses those who will be taken up into glory and those to be left behind to burn in
eternal fire. The litmus test is whether or not a person has confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
"It is as simple as that," says John Gilmore, general manager of Knology of Knoxville.
He and I met for a heart-attack-on-a-plate breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and as the waitress kept us plied with coffee long after we finished eating,
Gilmore explained his theory that the End of Time is near. There is nothing
we can do to stop it, and the only hope for anyone is that he or she confess his or her sins and acknowledge that salvation only comes through the blood of Jesus.
There's a lot of eschatology going around these days, and if what some
modern-day prophets are telling us is true, things don't look good. Signs of
the end are all around: the threat of a world flu epidemic; the changing
climate; the series of disastrous hurricanes; earthquakes and tidal waves;
and war and carnage on every front.
For Gilmore, it is the threat of an Antichrist, the move toward
globalization and a New World Order that woke him up to what is really
happening and what he is supposed to do about it.
In two letters to the News Sentinel within the past month, Gilmore lists a
glut of reasons that an ancient and powerful secret organization is,
essentially, making all the calls as to what happens politically and
militarily. So much so, they actually control who gets elected as world
leaders. They are called the Illuminati, and their agenda is to secure from
within their ranks power over politics, economics and the social order of
the day.
Their agenda is "the new world order" referred to in the Book of Revelation.
Both of Gilmore's letters can be read in full on the News Sentinel Web site,
knoxnews.com.
Gilmore, 34, is well aware that people find his words and his beliefs
threatening and are apt to dismiss them as being hokey.
"I certainly don't have the answers and am no great theologian, but I am
convinced that the Antichrist is walking the earth somewhere today, that we are in the End Times, that the Illuminati is gaining control and moving us toward globalization, and that our only hope of getting into heaven when the time comes, and that time is near, is to accept Jesus Christ."
The Illuminati, he explains, is a secret organization composed of rich,
powerful individuals acting in tandem to gain control of the world. Every
president, he says, with the exception of Lincoln, Kennedy and Reagan (who were, by the way, all shot) was part of the Illuminati, and that is how and why they rose to such positions of power. The two Bush presidents, both members of Yale University's Skull & Bones secret organization, are members of the Illuminati as well, he says.
He says the Illuminati find special significance in the number 11. He calls
it their code number.
Here, Gilmore offers a bit of spooky new math.
It was on Sept. 11, 1990, that the senior George Bush mentioned before
Congress the phrase "A New World Order" for the first time. Eleven years
later to the day, the World Trade Center was destroyed. The Madrid bombings were on March 11, 2004 - 911 days after Sept. 11, 2001.
And, says Gilmore, something very big is going to happen on Nov. 11, 2005 - three days from today.
"Look at that date: 11-11-2005. Add 1+1+1+1+2+0+0+5, and what do you get?"
Eleven.
There's no bravado about Gilmore, and he's at a loss as to why he was
chosen, but he feels God is using him to spread a warning, to encourage
people to wake up and see what is happening to our country, to recognize
that God is withdrawing His protection as the Illuminati tightens its grip
on history and the Antichrist waits in the wings.
"I don't know why God revealed all these things to me," says Gilmore. "I
just know what I have to do about it."
Not only is Gilmore spreading the word through letters to newspapers and the business world, he also is preparing materially for the coming disaster on Friday. He is storing up materially for the continuing hard, testing times
between now and the Rapture, when it will be only the "true Christians" who will be accepted into heaven, while everyone else will perish.
He has sold his stock. His house is on the market. He is stockpiling
nonperishable food, water, gas and other necessities.
His research into the unexplained events of 9/11 convinces him of an inside conspiracy: the fact that there are no photos of the plane that hit the Pentagon (he says there wasn't one); the ultimate and complete destruction of both towers (it had to have been more than airplanes, he says); and the fact that Bush seemed, by his behavior when told, to have been expecting it.
In fact, says Gilmore, it was Illuminati involvement that got us into
previous wars: the sinking of the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of
Tonquin - there being at least some evidence that United States leaders knew head of time about them all.
"I don't know whether the Illuminati orchestrated these events, but they
knew how to use them to their favor," Gilmore argues.
The mess that the world, the United States in particular, bears witness to
God's displeasure: our national debt, the decline of our auto industry, and
the push toward globalization - Revelation's New World Order - as evidenced by organizations like the World Bank and the United Nations.
"The Illuminati is trying to destroy national sovereignty," says Gilmore.
"They are moving us toward a time when power will only be at the top.
Everything will be in their control."
Gilmore, who is a Methodist, says he grew up in the church and has always
believed in God but that until recently, "Jesus was not that high on my
list."
Within the past year, however, things have changed, as he says God revealed to him that the end is near and compelled him to tell as many people as he can:
"The main thing I have to say, and this is what God is saying through me, is that God does love us, that God is with us. We just need to repent, ask to be saved, ask that His will be done in our lives - and then we have nothing to worry about when the time comes."
I stayed behind a while after Gilmore left the Cracker Barrel. I looked
around at the people nonchalantly eating biscuits and gravy, laughing. Kids
played checkers on a nearby bench. A man and his wife across the way were bowing their heads in a blessing before their meal.
According to Gilmore, three days from now, everything is to change. Our
world will be blown apart by another, more-serious terror attack. Should I
say something to them? Tap them on the shoulder and tell them to get on
their knees? To go home and start loading up on canned goods and getting
their money out of everything except, maybe, gold?
I admire Gilmore for doing what he's doing, because if I believed what he
believes, that would be the right thing to do.
Instead, I pay my bill and stop by the post office on the way to work to
mail my granddaughter her birthday present.
She will be three on Friday. 11/11.
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For any newcomers who don't already know, 11/11 is Peppero Day, in which friends exchange chocolate sticks which resemble the number one.
Judgment Day is no time for silly visual puns.
Last edited by tomato on Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:01 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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And, says Gilmore, something very big is going to happen on Nov. 11, 2005 - three days from today.
"Look at that date: 11-11-2005. Add 1+1+1+1+2+0+0+5, and what do you get?"
Eleven. |
I expect the mods will delete this thread now since it mentions Kwangju Chicken's real name. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| I went to this website and I couldn't find this article. What is it under? Thanks. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:12 am Post subject: |
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No, the Websites are in my signature.
I got that column from a mailing list which I belong to. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| I got my first box of peperos today. I figure I'm okay for emergency rations. |
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livinginkorea
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
Location: Korea, South of the border
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| I got my first box of peperos today. I figure I'm okay for emergency rations. |
I got mine last Friday. Either the student was pretty stupid or else they want to remind me that the day was coming up. They are probably hoping that I will return the favour. That's not going to happen. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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After I read this, I told my gf not to go to her job in Yeouido on Friday because it's not that far from the yuk-sam (63) building.
6 + 3 + 1 +1 = ELEVEN
After posting this satirically, I'm going to feel REALLY dumb if anything bad DOES happen ...
And how terrible will I feel if I give a single Peppero stick to each of my kindy students on the very day that yuk-sam falls into the Han? Just too big a risk - instead, I will place strategic little hints that it is their job to bestow a bit of Peppero on me ... call me evil, I prefer they live the rest of their lives with guilt on their shoulders for contributing to the '05 Event rather than just me.
By the way, when the gf asked me if she should stay home from her job, I said it's probably best if we sell everything and leave the country.
Her eyes lit up ... a vacation? |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Saturday, November 12.... we're waiting..... 
Ken:> |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:15 am Post subject: |
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I am, too, Ken.
But there has still been no word from Brother Gilmore.
Usually when a prophesy fails, there follows an event which skeptics call retrofitting, or a shoe horn operation in which the prophesy is reconciled with its unfulfillment.
Philadelphia cult leader Father Divine said that he would not die, but he died anyway. His followers rationalized that his spirit continued to live on.
Indian guru Meher Baba refused to speak for the last few years of his life, but expressed all his messages by pointing to letters on an alphabet board. He made numerous predictions of "breaking the silence," but he died before that happened. His followers rationalize that his death was itself the breach of silence.
The Jehovah's Witnesses predicted that Jesus and the 11 Disciples (12 minus Judas) would return in 1914. They bought a lot and built a house for their 12 happy newcomers. They tried to register the property in the names of their Biblical heroes, but the registrar would not accept the deed that way.
1914 came and passed, alas, with no supernatural event. The disappointed JW's had to sell their property at an auction. But did that stop the believers from listening to all this foolish prophesying? Not at all! Rather, they said that their 12 comrades returned in the spiritual sense.
Luckily for them, a major event took place that year, and that was the start of World War I. The JW's designated that event as a reaction from Satan.
What event could Brother Gilmore latch onto? The election in Dover, Pennsylvania, maybe? |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 4:52 am Post subject: |
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The latest news is that the fellow got fired from his job.
I haven't heard his explanation of why everything is as it was before. |
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