(04-04-2024, 06:29 AM)Bally002 Wrote: The enormity of such events nowadays is simply put down to demographics and the expanse of population, coupled with the ability to focus such events across the world now. Communication plays a large part.Yeah, I've heard from others who were around for similar eclipses, they just noted changes in animal behaviour, specifically some weird stuff going on with shadows on the pavement.
Pliny would probably agree with you on all those points you listed. I'd also add that their rarity and relative obscurity contributes to exaggerations.
(04-05-2024, 11:22 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Some points to ponder regarding the doom-porn surrounding this eclipse.Interesting how 13 states are affected, that number is embedded in US founding history. The slight adjustment of its estimated trajectory and the one lucky city it converges at are also interesting to note.
I hadn't heard of the Jonah theory before, but it overlooks that Jesus said Jonah "became" a sign (Luke 11:30), and also that it'd be like the days of Noah, not Jonah's. Jonah 1:15-16 reflects an erroneous belief in propitiation, but it could also be interpreted as expiation; Jonah became a sacrifice.
Pliny has this to say, "It will be useful also to be assured that none of these things is the doing of the gods, and that the moving of heaven or earth is no work of angry deities. Those phenomena have causes of their own."
Something could very well be timed with the eclipse (similar to how something might be timed with a CME), but I think a cover-up of the skies has already been going on for some time, like the closed observatories. Speaking of "heavy cloud cover", I heard during June of 2023, thick clouds were supposedly concealing important events in the sky.
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As for the "three days of darkness" scenario, Nostradamus has a prediction about the earth's gravity being out of whack and earth being plunged into darkness until the return of the spring equinox.
A clairvoyant user shared this message with me, I know not what kind of spirit conveyed it, whether good or bad:
Quote:On the 21st of March a boy with come forth, bringing upon a new age. A solemn time. His name will be war and his word shall be violence. He will be born, bringing with him noise from a world that has which been silenced, hidden. Be wary.
And the user whose mother saw the sky event in her dream shared this with me: "I used to have recurring dreams where Christ's return took place during the early spring. There were still icicles hanging." Wasn't it speculated that Jesus was born in spring?
I've omitted both predictions from my publicized research. I had to be more discreet about these things, Christians would just dismiss it out of hand, citing Matthew 24:36, they might also raise an eyebrow at the mention of "new age", point out that Jesus opposed violence, etc.
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I found that this prediction fits in perfectly like a glove with this user's interpretation: https://old.reddit.com/r/deism/comments/...t/fza7zus/
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
Quote:So, if you bring Truth - it is like bringing a sword, which cuts through the lies. But that also disturbs the peace. Peace itself isn't virtuous if it's built on a lie and someone is actually suffering from that lie.
Lastly, I think such a prolonged period of darkness could be caused by the approach of another planet, I'm surprised by how many dreams identify Saturn as that planet. But it could also be caused by the aforementioned sky event, or the sun simply being blotted by smoke from simultaneous wildfires and eruptions. So there a lot of variables.