Maybe Yohanan, if we want a critical mass, we should enlist an ultra legalistic priest from the RCC to conduct one for us. I know, "shut up, Dan." :wacko: :mdrmdr: (Forgive me father for I have sinned.) Thank you Tender Reed and Yohanan for your kind words! Blessings to all, and thanks! There are no doubt many sites which are appreciated, but for me I have always felt an anointing here. I believe that this site was inspired and blessed by God. I will not say that I am in love with this site, but rather with the Lord's anointing and it's members! I also believe that what was birthed here will follow enter into eternity with us! TR :mdrmdr: Very funny, Dan. I can’t stop laughing ... I’m visualizing this critical mass conducted by an A.I. robot priest. :dieu: Where is Dan? I need to give him a “DiNozzo thumping”! Lol :stinkerbell: Careful of d'Schnozz, man! An I gotta glass jaw too. Just "Shut up, Dan" should suffice, okay? Please? Have mercy. You're one o' dem Chrischuns, right? I like those "thumps"! Works for me. TR I came to the old RITA after another forum I was a part of declined significantly in activity. I was happy to have found another site that was similar to the other in its devotion of anticipating the Lord's return. I was mostly a lurker but enjoyed reading the conversations and the insights given by some of the more technical Bible scholars like Heather. However, not long after I joined the site decided to go the FB rout. I do have an FB account and did visit the group page fairly frequently but as others have said it just wasn't the same. So, I was extremely excited when I saw that they had restarted this site bur it quickly became evident that the activity was not nearly as robust as the old site and so I don't frequent this forum as much as I thought I would. I too wonder about the decline in activity on prophecy forums and it does seem like there should be more activity not less as we get closer to the Lord's return, but all the so called signs that came and went without anything happening I think has really soured a lot of folks, unfortunately. I pondered some of the theories, but never gave them a whole lot of credence. Maybe the Lord had to take us through all of that to help us realize that at the end of the day "no one knows the day nor hour" and no one is going to figure it out. We just have to occupy until he comes and hope many more through our testimony and witness will come to Christ in these waning hours. Some of us have been watching for decades . . patience in waiting for sure proves a valuable lesson ~ . . . our God wonderfully announced a crown given the watcher . . so not easy these days, and all we want IS to hear His call . . . . ~~ Feeling, too, amidst a season of "when we think not" Jesus shall return . . I do believe we ARE the generation to hear our Lord's rapture call . . :yahoo: :yes: Donna, well said! We are tired, weary, and worn, but the race is truly almost over, the prize is set before us, the signs surround us with glaring reality. We shall not fall asleep as some, but keep the lantern trimmed (keep the sin list very short), keep the light burning (watching), the bridegroom IS COMING— be ready in season. We will reap if we do not quit! :prayer-hands: :flyup:
