The Gospel of Peanuts wrote:Linus:
Dear Great Pumpkin,
I am looking forward to your arrival on Halloween night. I hope you will bring me lots of presents. Everyone tells me you are a fake, but I believe in you.
Sincerely, Linus van Pelt.
PS - if you really are a fake, don't tell me. I don't want to know.
A Person wrote:Now we're just going round in circles
A Person wrote:That depends on whether the circles are transcribed widdershins or deiseil.
http://www.cropcirclesdeciphered.com/crop_circles_fact_or_fiction.htmNeil A. D. Olsen, wrote: The biggest, the most prolific and the most complex crop circle pictograms have been Stars of David formations (pages 99, 104 CCD), an appropriate modern symbol for Christ, and, best of all, the ram’s horn/shofar/trumpet formations (page 111 CCD) announcing Christ’s return, both of which are important symbols in the book of Revelation. Several Old Testament prophets predicted the Day of the Lord would be announced with a ram’s horn trumpet (Isaiah 27:13; Joel 2:1, 15; Zeph. 1:16; Zec. 9:14). Likewise, so does Paul in the New Testament (1 Cor. 15:52; Heb. 12:19). Christ told his disciples that His Second Advent would be announced by “He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call” (Matt. 24:31). The most important symbolism in the book of Revelation is the trumpets announcing the middle seven of twenty-one Judgments by Christ (Rev. 8:6-13; 9:1-31; 10:7).
Neil A. D. Olsen, wrote:We always have to be on our guard against the “ …deceiver and an antichrist” (2 John 7) who comes shortly before Christ declaring himself to be God (2 Thess. 2:4) and “…the work of Satan [is] displayed [at Christ’s Second Advent] in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders” (2 Thess. 2:9). Paul, describing Christ’s Second Advent, wrote “…for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14). The word Satan literally means “the accuser” and thus the spirit of Satan is certainly responsible for hoaxing/circle faking, government disinformation and crop circle ridicule by the mainstream press. However, since Satan denies Christ he is very unlikely to use Biblical symbols such as the Star of David and ram’s horn trumpets that point to the Second Advent of Jesus Christ. But even if the devil is behind the entire crop circle phenomenon, then he is shooting himself in the foot by using symbols from the Bible’s book of Revelation because it means that the Second Advent of Jesus Christ can’t be far behind. Either way I believe crop circles are at least part of the fulfillment of the “,,,signs on the earth below” prophesy of Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:19.
A Person wrote:Ain't this one a beaut
The work of God apparently
A Person wrote:You correcting my Gaelic, Honey?Questioner wrote:Perhaps you meant deasil?
Them's fighting words. Do you have your Sail-Éille (Shillelagh to you) handy?
The farmers are usually quite happy if the circle is a good one.Questioner wrote:Boy if I was a farmer and somebody destroyed that much of my crop by knocking down the plants, I'd be one furious cookie. But I be laughing all the way to the bank if I was the farmer who made a lot more money off the photos and National Enquirer reports of the aliens that made crop circles on my land.
Crop circles are treated as legitimate tourist attractions in Wiltshire. One made in 1996 got more visitors than Stonehenge and the farmer grossed about £30,000 in four weeks by charging a pound a person.
Assuming a formation isn't heavily visited, the farmer will be able to lower the blades on his combine and harvest the flattened crop away.
For that amount of money a month (around $60,000 U.S.), I'd take the tractor out there and make the circles myself.A Person wrote:Crop circles are treated as legitimate tourist attractions in Wiltshire. One made in 1996 got more visitors than Stonehenge and the farmer grossed about £30,000 in four weeks by charging a pound a person.
A Person wrote:Assuming a formation isn't heavily visited, the farmer will be able to lower the blades on his combine and harvest the flattened crop away.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2191565.stm](£30,000 = $60,000). Not bad
A tractor doesn't work. The technique is quite simple and requires shoes without treads and a 4' 1" x 8" board on a rope loop.Questioner wrote:I'd take the tractor out there and make the circles myself.
A Person wrote:A tractor doesn't work. The technique is quite simple and requires shoes without treads and a 4' 1" x 8" board on a rope loop.Questioner wrote:I'd take the tractor out there and make the circles myself.
You have to access the circle via a pre-existing equipment track and all the circles have to connect otherwise the tracks give it away and that spoils the value.
If you want to make an 'authentic' (one of the 20% that 'could not have been made by man') circle you take other things like magnetite powder, sulphur or the whites from a dozen eggs and scatter them or place them at strategic places in the circle. That engenders great awe from the cerealologists and increases the value of the circle.