RubiniGab ... Now defunct

[Master Trollda]

Because I think I've copied BellGab enough.

I'm not an all out plagiarist.

Do you think it'd enhance the user experience?

We could take a vote.

I think it was a significant part of Bellgab fun but I also understand why Lee turfed it out to various members. Probably a lot of work.

[AZZERAE]

I think it was a significant part of Bellgab fun but I also understand why Lee turfed it out to various members. Probably a lot of work.

For the sake of tradition I'll look into it.

[Laser]

I'm not an all out plagiarist..

A stickler would beg to differ.

The Antichrist is said to be the polar opposite of Christ and His ultimate enemy. According to Christian tradition, he will reign terribly in the period prior to the Last Judgment.

The Antichrist first appeared in the epistles of St. John, and the fully developed story of the Antichrist's life and reign is found in medieval texts. As applied to various individuals and institutions for nearly two millennia, the Antichrist and his precursor have been, and remain, terms of the most intense opprobrium.

The Christian conception of the Antichrist was derived from Jewish traditions, particularly in The Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible. Written about 167 BCE, it foretold the coming of a final persecutor who would speak great words against the most High and wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws.

Scholars agree that the author of Daniel was alluding to the contemporary Hellenistic ruler of Palestine, Antiochus Epiphanes, who attempted to extirpate Judaism. But because Antiochus was not named, later readers could apply the prediction in Daniel to any persecutor. Early Christians applied it to the Roman emperors who persecuted the church, in particular Nero.

The four books of the New Testament that fueled Christian belief in the Antichrist were the first two epistles of John, the Revelation to John, and the second epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians. The first three of these were written near the end of the 1st century CE. The last was written either by the apostle Paul or by one of Paul's immediate disciples some 20 or 30 years later. Neither II Thessalonians nor Revelation use the term Antichrist, but both works refer to a coming persecutor who is evidently the same person. The first epistle of John introduces an important distinction between "the" Antichrist who will come and the many antichrists who are already active in the world. This distinction not only enabled believers to denigrate contemporaries as "antichrists" without having to label a single individual as "the" Antichrist but also allowed them to identify the "body of the Antichrist" as a collectivity existing in the present but destined to have its day of triumph in the future.

Nevertheless, early Christians tended to emphasize the coming of the one great Antichrist. The Revelation to John refers to this figure as "the Beast from the Abyss" and "the Beast from the Sea". In the most sustained account of his appearance, II Thessalonians 2:1-12, he is called "the man of sin" and the "son of perdition." He will come at a time of a general apostasy, deceive people with signs and wonders, sit in the temple of God, and claim to be God himself. Finally, he will be defeated by Jesus, who will destroy him by "the spirit of his mouth" and "the brightness of his coming."

Because even II Thessalonians is sketchy about the details of Antichrist's person and the nature of his reign, a succession of biblical commentators and pseudonymous apocalyptic writers from the era of the Church Fathers and the early Middle Ages began to provide the missing features. Their work was integrated into a brief treatise in the 10th century by a monk from Lorraine, Adso of Montier-en-Der, in a letter to Queen Gerberga of France.

Adso's letter became the standard medieval reference work on the Antichrist. In the 13th century it was partially supplanted by several chapters on the Antichrist in Hugh Ripelin's extremely popular handbook, Compendium theologicae veritatis entitled the "Compendium of Theological Truth." Although it was more orderly, Ripelin's account differed from Adso's only in minor details.

The medieval view of the Antichrist communicated by Adso, Ripelin, and a host of other writers rested on the principle that the Antichrist is the parodic opposite of Christ in all things. Antichrist literally means "opposed to Christ." Thus, as Christ was born of a virgin by means of conception by the Holy Spirit, so the Antichrist will be born of a whore by means of conception by a diabolical spirit. Although opinions differed as to whether the Antichrist's father will be a man or a demon, in either case the Antichrist will be, as commonly noted in the Middle Ages, "full of the devil" from the time of his conception. Both Christ and the Antichrist are born of the Jews, but the Antichrist will be born of the tribe of Dan, "the viper in the road," rather than the tribe of Judah, and in Babylon, not Bethlehem. Like Christ, the Antichrist will grow up in obscurity and begin his open "ministry" at age 30, gaining followers by giving signs and performing miracles. The signs and miracles once more are polar opposites of Christ’s, because the Antichrist's supposed miracles will be only tricks.

The Antichrist's triumphant reign (never clearly distinguished from the start of his ministry) will last for three and a half years. Like Christ, the qAntichrist will come to Jerusalem, but, as the opposite of Christ, he will be enthusiastically hailed and revered by the Jews. During his reign he will rebuild the Temple and sit on the throne of Solomon in a sacrilegious and hideous inversion of just priesthood and just kingship. He will convert the rulers of the earth to his cause and persecute Christians dreadfully. All those who resist his wiles will be tortured, and - as Jesus prophesied in the book of Matthew. There will be "great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now." The two great prophets Enoch and Elijah, who never died but were spirited away to the earthly paradise, will arrive to preach against the tyrant and comfort the elect, but the Antichrist will slay them. At the end of the allotted three and a half years, however, the Antichrist will be destroyed by the power of Christ, whereupon, after a very brief interval, there will come the Last Judgment and the end of the world.

One important medieval thinker who departed substantially from the received teachings about the Antichrist was the 12th-century Calabrian monk Joachim of Fiore. Joachim formulated a view of successive past and future persecutions of the Christian church that inspired him to propose the appearance of a succession of "antichrists," for example, Nero, Muhammad, and Saladin, before the arrival of the great Antichrist. As for the great Antichrist, according to Joachim, he will not be a Jew from "Babylon" but rather the embodiment of the worst evils arising out of Joachim’s own society, preeminently the crimes of heresy and oppression of the church. Lastly, since Joachim expected the coming of a wondrous millennial era on earth between the death of Antichrist and the Last Judgment, he found himself obliged to foretell the coming of another enemy of God, a "final Antichrist." Although Joachim was vague about the nature of this last antagonist of God, he referred to him as "Gog," implying that the final Antichrist will be allied with, or identical to, the enemy forces of Gog and Magog, which will appear to do final battle with the saints after the millennium and before the Last Judgment.

The expectation of the imminent reign of the Antichrist in the later Middle Ages encouraged the belief among many that his forerunners were already in the ascendant or, indeed, that Antichrist himself had arrived in the person of a given ruler or pope. Such beliefs were attached in particular to the "antipapal" emperor Frederick II and to a persecutor of ecclesiastical dissidents, Pope John XXII. The tendency to identify a hated contemporary ruler as the Antichrist in some cases outlasted the Middle Ages. The Russian tsar Peter the Great, for example, was named the Antichrist by his opponents, the Old Believers. Even in the 20th century some commentators identified Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, as Antichrist because of his attempt to revive the Roman Empire.

Nevertheless, beginning in the 16th century, the fixation on the Antichrist as a coming or present terrible individual gave way to the view of the Antichrist as a collective body of evil. This position had been accepted in the abstract by some medieval theologians, but it was made concrete and popular by Martin Luther, who insisted that the institution of the papacy, rather than any given pope, was the Antichrist. Modern Protestants have characteristically preferred to conceive of the Antichrist as whatever resists or denies the lordship of Christ, and Roman Catholics have become less inclined to identify the Antichrist as a specific coming individual.

Vestiges of the medieval Antichrist tradition can be found in contemporary popular culture, as in Hollywood films such as Rosemary's Baby, The Omen and its sequels. The view of the Antichrist as a diabolical institution is also reflected to some extent in the superstition that credit cards and electronic bar codes mysteriously mark innocent people with the Antichrist's sign, the number 666.

https://web.vizblog.net/topic/Antichrist

Tradition expects al-Dajjal to appear in the East, possibly Khorasan, or in the West. In the meantime, he is said to be somewhere in the East Indies, on an island from which the sounds of dancing and beautiful music emanate, according to sailors' lore. An alternate version is linked with the Greek Prometheus legend. In this account, al-Dajjal is bound to a rock on an island in the sea and is fed by demons.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/al-Dajjal

"Ain't I a stinker stickler?"



#ColourMeOCD

[Laser]

Rubini gets in a little late night trolling

4:09 AM Michael Joe Spence ​#RubiniMAGIC! #LBmagic!

Rubini disavows the intrusion on Miller's broadcast.

I do NOT comment or engage with your kind. Never have, never will.
All Rubini Accounts and Comments you see or have witnessed since August of 2020 are fake and a lot of these "Rubinisims" come from the troubled minds of Spence, Decon, Laird, Cuckzi and Johnson and Zavs Marun.
The Commander has Spoken!
Long Live The Commander!

Much jelly?

[AZZERAE]

hxxps://web.vizblog.net/topic/Antichrist
hxxps://www.britannica.com/topic/al-Dajjal

What? Accounts should be credited in a journal entry?

[AZZERAE]

I do NOT comment or engage with your kind. Never have, never will.

Pussy.

All Rubini Accounts and Comments you see or have witnessed since August of 2020 are fake

Told ya so.

and a lot of these "Rubinisims" come from the troubled minds of Spence, Decon, Laird, Cuckzi and Johnson and Zavs Marun.
The Commander has Spoken!
Long Live The Commander!

Dude puts his own legal name and likeness out there, front and centre, then, bitches about being "doxxed."

[Laser]

What? Accounts should be credited in a journal entry?

It may sound obsessive, but I like to credit everything I can in my own journey.

[AZZERAE]

I'm not an all out plagiarist.

A stickler would beg to differ.

At no point did I claim the copy in question was penned by my own hand.

[AZZERAE]

It may sound obsessive, but I like to credit everything I can in my own journey.

I kinda prefer leaving breadcrumbs - or footprints in the snow - for the reader.

[AZZERAE]

I kinda prefer leaving breadcrumbs - or footprints in the snow - for the reader.

If that makes me a plagiarist: guilty as charged.

[AZZERAE]

At no point did I claim the copy in question was penned by my own hand.

Did I?

[Laser]

Miller is ridiculous. Rubini is just boring. Even Lee thought so.

It's better to be absolutely ridiculous than be absolutely boring.

Yeah, I guess I’m just not hip enough to get repeated attempts at “pro” wrestling.

Wake me up if it ever gets funny.

He tends to delete the funniest stuff as fast as he makes it up.
This seems to be all part of a weird personality disorder.
I shall attempt to be more attentive in tracking the beast.

[WORTHAUGERa]

He tends to delete the funniest stuff as fast as he makes it up.

Nothing is ever deleted.

This seems to be all part of a weird personality disorder.

Is that what we're calling it now?

I shall attempt to be more attentive in tracking the beast.

If it will help, I've gotten out and pushed.

[WORTHAUGERa]

Dude puts his own legal name and likeness out there, front and centre, then, bitches about being "doxxed."

I have no login to RubiniGab;
I have not posted on RubiniGab;
I have not claimed to be posting on RubiniGab;

I WILL CONTINUE TO NOT POST ON RUBINIGAB.


At this point, you may be wondering what difference it makes, and I believe that as someone is pretending to be me and pretending to be me posting there, it's really causing a lot of problems for some people.

That's too bad. I wonder what that's even like?

[Laser]

Nothing is ever deleted.

Yeah right, you haven't seen the pile of shit I have on this guy in a drawer.