Seismic activity as a sign of the last days

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
The scientific data is open for all to examine, the arguments based on it robust, you have failed to assail the logic and refute the arguments with anything resembling reason! I have not only won it, I stand upon this thread like a cockerel in the morning, crowing on the farmyard fence and strutting up and down!

cock-a doodle-doo!
the boofheads know not what to do!

Strutting on a fence is not advisable when you self-admittedly don't 'have a stance.'

These could however be your last days sir,....outside of the asylum. (Where i'm sure you'll find signs of the end of the world in the warm lumpy custard).

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
The scientific data is open for all to examine,

And yet oddly, you have point blank refused to look at it (the scientific data). Instead, you want everyone to look at an anonymous source created by a Christian trying to prove the end times. Its really not surprising what data you will find there.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Strutting on a fence is not advisable when you self-admittedly don't 'have a stance.'

These could however be your last days sir,....outside of the asylum. (Where i'm sure you'll find signs of the end of the world in the warm lumpy custard).

All great chess players eventually end up mental, Steintz, Morphy, Fischer, to name but a few 😛

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
All great chess players eventually end up mental, Steintz, Morphy, Fischer, to name but a few 😛

What a pity you got the order wrong. It should be:
1. Become great chess player.
2. Go mental.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
All great chess players eventually end up mental, Steintz, Morphy, Fischer, to name but a few 😛

Speaking seriously for a moment, the British Journal of Psychiatry contains an interesting article that charted the population percentages of Jehovah's Witnesses in mental health wards. (I believe it was based on data from Australia). It found that JWs were over-represented when it came to admissions, and with certain diagnosis's such as paranoid schizophrenia, almost 4 times that of the general population.

This is not meant as an attack, but am curious why you would think this was the case?

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
The scientific data is open for all to examine, the arguments based on it robust, you have failed to assail the logic and refute the arguments with anything resembling reason! I have not only won it, I stand upon this thread like a cockerel in the morning, crowing on the farmyard fence and strutting up and down!

cock-a doodle-doo!
the boofheads know not what to do!

The scientific data is open for all to examine, the arguments based on it robust ...

The only problem is that it doesn't support your position. On the bright side, as a member of the JW's your position fits their unhappy history of predicting the End of the World like a glove.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
The scientific data is open for all to examine, the arguments based on it robust, you have failed to assail the logic and refute the arguments with anything resembling reason! I have not only won it, I stand upon this thread like a cockerel in the morning, crowing on the farmyard fence and strutting up and down!

cock-a doodle-doo!
the boofheads know not what to do!

And so after the abuse and personal attacks now comes the childish name calling. I remain comfortable and confident in my assertion that the scriptures in Revelation are aimed at Christians, not atheists on an Internet chess site.

Please note that this another thing I have taught you; no thanks is required.

Originally posted by twhitehead
What a pity you got the order wrong. It should be:
1. Become great chess player.
2. Go mental.

That was the fastest five thumbs up I ever got!

Originally posted by twhitehead
That was the fastest five thumbs up I ever got!

In fairness sir, I did set it up for you.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Thankyou for the opinion piece although it does absolutely nothing to refute the findings and instead seeks to negate them away with speculative reasoning and references to the author and their motivations etc Either there has been an increase in the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes in the epoch that Christ was referring to or there has not and references to ancient civilisations are hardly relevant.

It is always vallid to check the source of any claims and all I did was to say that your reference was silent about is authorship. Quite simply, the credibility of any source is a relevant factor and I would have liked more information. The limited information I could find using Google was not encouraging and caused me to suggest that it lacks basic credibility as a source, but I certainly invite you to provide information that changes that perception.

Of course my reasoning was speculative. You asked us to read the reference (which I did) and comment on it, which I did and my comments do indeed constitute an act of speculation. Are you now saying you did not want me to comment on it? A fact is a fact and a piece of data is a specific measurement, but any attempt to comment about what that data means is intrinsically an act of speculation.

What is an epoch?
Epoch (astronomy), a moment in time used as a reference for the orbital elements of a celestial body
Epoch (cosmology) or cosmologic epoch, a phase in the development of the universe since the Big Bang
Epoch (geology) or geologic epoch, a span of time smaller than a period and larger than an age
Epoch (race), racial periods in Blavatsky's esoteric theory of the root races
Epoch (reference date), a moment in time chosen as the origin of a particular era
There are more suggestions but these will suffice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch

On what basis do you determine to which epoch Christ was referring and how does that answer correspond to the dates in the reference under discussion?

Regardless of all that, your reference does not demonstrate anything other than the obvious remark that the frequency of earthquakes is variable. Trying to put a pattern onto that data requires speculation.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Speaking seriously for a moment, the British Journal of Psychiatry contains an interesting article that charted the population percentages of Jehovah's Witnesses in mental health wards. (I believe it was based on data from Australia). It found that JWs were over-represented when it came to admissions, and with certain diagnosis's such as paranoid sch ...[text shortened]... ation.

This is not meant as an attack, but am curious why you would think this was the case?

who can say? paranoid schizophrenia can hardly be attributed to the application of religious principles.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
All great chess players eventually end up mental, Steintz, Morphy, Fischer, to name but a few 😛

Well, you're halfway there. You're mental.

Originally posted by finnegan
It is always vallid to check the source of any claims and all I did was to say that your reference was silent about is authorship. Quite simply, the credibility of any source is a relevant factor and I would have liked more information. The limited information I could find using Google was not encouraging and caused me to suggest that it lacks basic credi ...[text shortened]... quency of earthquakes is variable. Trying to put a pattern onto that data requires speculation.

On what basis do you determine to which epoch Christ was referring and how does that answer correspond to the dates in the reference under discussion?

At last an excellent question. The prophecy clearly is a composite sign. The phrase 'nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom', is part of that composite sign. Now while it is true there have been many wars, the first truly global war began in 1914 when 95 percent of the earths population was engulfed in catastrophic First world war. It makes therefore reasonable sense to understand the prophecy as having a limited fulfilment in the time of Christ but a much greater fulfilment starting from the epoch which heralded a truly global conflict, the first world war, the 'beginning of pangs of distress' when 'nation would rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom'.

Originally posted by Suzianne
Well, you're halfway there. You're mental.

I prefer to think of it as 'inspired'. 😵

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
In view of the tragic recent events in Japan and Ecuador are any of the doubters still insistent that we have not seen a marked increase in the frequency and magnitude of seismic activity as prophesied by the Christ in the book of Matthew, chapter 24.

DATES PERIOD NO. EARTHQUAKES (Mag. > 6.99)
---------- ...[text shortened]... pointers, one of these being natural events – like earthquakes.

http://www.earth.webecs.co.uk

Sorry Robbie - an article titled "EARTHQUAKES - WHAT ARE THE LONG TERM TRENDS?" which does not even mention the concept of a power law is not awfully likely to have any merit.