Signs of The Times Billboards

[Locke]

I was coming back from Santa Monica yesterday when I saw a billboard with a huge 6-6-06 and underneath it read "Signs of The Times".

I couldent get a picture and I couldent find anything online. Has anyone seen/heard about these?
If its a marketing scheme for a movie then its one heck of a way to get attention.

[Nate]

It's an ad for a movie called "The Beast." From what I can gather, it's about a Catholic reporter who is doing some kind of news story and "finds out a shocking truth the Church has been hiding for years...Jesus never existed!"

So yeah. Just some garbage.

[GrubbTheFragger]

i have heard about theses they are a bit freaky

[Lynx]

no way i havenet heard of them! that is very freaky and weird. i havent heard of the movie either.

[Nate]

I know the name of the movie, since I saw it on another site and clicked the link. I googled the name of the movie. I kinda don't want to post the link, but it's out there. I stomached the forums long enough to find out this bit of info though.

The Beast will not be coming out on 6-6-06.

More details to come next week, probably from Brian himself.

He writes me,

Both the latest 'The Omen' sequel and Ann Coulter's new book 'Godless' have chosen a 6-6-06 release date, so at least people will have plenty of stuff to scare them on that day.



I don't know much more, but I will definitely follow up as soon as I do. Will also get to work on updating the site here....

I do know that this is not a cancellation, just a postponement. Everything about the movie is very much alive.

[inkjet1987]

There will be about 4 billion cd releases on that date as well.

[Locke]

Hmm, it's not even on IMDd... weird.

Ooh, more crazy 666 stuff,

Bad 'Omen'

Crews from Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Fla., recently were called upon to investigate planes flying over the city trailing banners saying, "You have been warned 6/6/06."

According to USA Today, a similar terrorism scare was reported at Arizona's Lake Havasu.

It turns out that the signs were just a publicity stunt -- perhaps ill-advised -- for 20th Century Fox's remake of "The Omen," to be released June 6. The studio told USA Today that more banner tows and billboards are planned to promote the horror film.

[Slater]

one of my friends from highschool plans to get married on that date...

[ChristianKitsune]

I thought it was a movie called THE OMEN a remake aof the original, (I saw it in the previews at my movie ltheatre last night when I went to the movies)

EDIT.. Whoops... sorry, Locke...you already beat me to the title...

[Tarnish]

I known about this movie for a while...it's a little disturbing. Not just in the fact that it openly mocks Christianity, but how BAD it looks, and knowing how many awards it'll get despite of that.
The trailer for it is hilariously amateurish...and most people who believe that Jesus wasn't the son of God at least believe he EXISTED.
Gah...

[ChristianKitsune]

What I find strange about this movie is that it says the kid is the son of the devil...

but if he is the antichrist...I am confused..does the bible say the antichrist is the son of the devil? O_o

[ShiroiHikari]

I'm confused. Is this movie a remake of The Omen or is it a completely different movie?

[PigtailsJazz]

Ah, and what is also quite sad is how easily people believe what they see and hear without any logic behind it whatsoever. Take The Da Vinci Code and its explosion, for example......

But, then again, could we expect anything different from our culture, or from humanity in general?

[Mr. SmartyPants]

There needs to be this massive apologetics convention on the same day or something. Refuting every single claim in that movie.

I'm betting a million dollars the movie is going to be horribly inaccurate, and it's going to incorporate the beliefs of some random left-wing theologians. I wonder if I could even refute the claims the movie makes.

This is just so silly. This amuses me. I wonder if anyone will actually believe what the movie claims, and sadly I think people will.

[Tenshi no Ai]

Ah, and what is also quite sad is how easily people believe what they see and hear without any logic behind it whatsoever. Take The Da Vinci Code and its explosion, for example......

Seems like there's been a sudden trend for these things :/ *sigh* Not that things in the past haven't challanged people's beliefs, but... these aren't helping >_<

[Mr. SmartyPants]

"Oh my! This ancient stone tablet says that Jesus isn't true! Let's not judge if it's inaccurate. Let's just accept it as truth! It's an ancient stone tablet, so it must be true!"

[bigsleepj]

"Oh my! This ancient stone tablet says that Jesus isn't true! Let's not judge if it's inaccurate. Let's just accept it as truth! It's an ancient stone tablet, so it must be true!"

The problem is, fiction have a bizarre way of turning real in a roundabout, perverted way. That is, people tend to believe that which is not true to be true for various reasons and build upon it - like the Rosicrucian occult societies found around the world were inspired by the publication of manifestos in the 1600s which were meant as satire but taken seriously by many, who expanded and associated themselves with this mysterious order that never existed. The same could be said of Plato's tales of Atlantis and the prophecies of Nostradamus, both of which were possibly meant as critique or satire of their contemporary society but are taken as real. It is, in a sense, already happening with the Da Vinci Code and its spiritual parent, Holy Blood, Holy Grail which is a 'non-fiction' book about the same theories as "The Da Vinci Code". Its hard to explain this phenomenon but its definitely a real one.

Also, about this movie, "The Beast"]http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=29216[/url]
(note - the thread in which we discuss it is *not* what began it, but is actually a digression)

[Mr. SmartyPants]

The problem is, fiction have a bizarre way of turning real in a roundabout, perverted way. That is, people tend to believe that which is not true to be true for various reasons and build upon it - like the Rosicrucian occult societies found around the world were inspired by the publication of manifestos in the 1600s which were meant as satire but taken seriously by many, who expanded and associated themselves with this mysterious order that never existed. The same could be said of Plato's tales of Atlantis and the prophecies of Nostradamus, both of which were possibly meant as critique or satire of their contemporary society but are taken as real. It is, in a sense, already happening with the Da Vinci Code and its spiritual parent, Holy Blood, Holy Grail which is a 'non-fiction' book about the same theories as "The Da Vinci Code". Its hard to explain this phenomenon but its definitely a real one.

Also, about this movie, "The Beast"]http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=29216[/url]
(note - the thread in which we discuss it is *not* what began it, but is actually a digression)

Yeah, I know what you mean. Reminds me of the "Jedi Religion". Some people actually think they are Jedis

[bigsleepj]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Reminds me of the "Jedi Religion". Some people actually think they are Jedis

Excatly, though it could be possible that it was all something of a joke (though there were possibly serious people too). Either way, the implications of this is quite scary.

[Tenshi no Ai]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Reminds me of the "Jedi Religion". Some people actually think they are Jedis

Actually... my friend and I found it on a site and she looked into it. (We thought it was too at first!) Apparently it's some branch of Buddhism (just so ya know ) ...COULD have been influenced by the movie though, thinking the whole thing with "the force" in Buddhismy.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

[quote="Tenshi no Ai"]Actually... my friend and I found it on a site and she looked into it. (We thought it was too at first!) Apparently it's some branch of Buddhism (just so ya know ]
Other sources also claim it's some modified "Star Warsy" version of Taoism.

[JadePanther]

Well...one thing I know is that some crazy messed up S*** is going to happen on that day....Just the date itself is kinda creepy...6-6-06

[Tenshi no Ai]

Well...one thing I know is that some crazy messed up S*** is going to happen on that day....Just the date itself is kinda creepy...6-6-06

I'm not worried^^ Ooo big scary numbers! Although I've heard different stories of the "real" mark of the beast, not like anybody even knows when things are going to happen and all^^ Just a movie...

[MPX42]

I was once scared of this,but now I realize I shoulden't be scared of this just because it could come out on June 6.Anyway,how did someone come up with THIS?

[PigtailsJazz]

The problem is, fiction have a bizarre way of turning real in a roundabout, perverted way. That is, people tend to believe that which is not true to be true for various reasons and build upon it - like the Rosicrucian occult societies found around the world were inspired by the publication of manifestos in the 1600s which were meant as satire but taken seriously by many, who expanded and associated themselves with this mysterious order that never existed. The same could be said of Plato's tales of Atlantis and the prophecies of Nostradamus, both of which were possibly meant as critique or satire of their contemporary society but are taken as real. It is, in a sense, already happening with the Da Vinci Code and its spiritual parent, Holy Blood, Holy Grail which is a 'non-fiction' book about the same theories as "The Da Vinci Code". Its hard to explain this phenomenon but its definitely a real one.

Also, about this movie, "The Beast"]http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=29216[/url]
(note - the thread in which we discuss it is *not* what began it, but is actually a digression)

*lowers head and sighs*

Well, indeed, all of this IS proving scripture correct, no? ^_^ That people will go off and believe things like this?

[Nate]

The problem is, fiction have a bizarre way of turning real in a roundabout, perverted way.

Reminds me of how some Christian denominations took the article from "The Onion" (a satirical newspaper) seriously when it said Harry Potter was making kids want to enroll in schools teaching witchcraft. It didn't matter that the article was fictional, it presented what they wanted to hear, and so they made a big deal out of it. I think the same thing is present here, fictional works state Jesus didn't exist (or paint a different picture than the Bible does), and so they make a big deal out of it.

[mitsuki lover]

The only important thing about June 6 this year is that it will be the 61 anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
And to put some sanity in it all as a Preterist I can tell you we have nothing to worry about.The Beast was Nero.The End.Let's get on with our lives and not worry.

[bigsleepj]

Reminds me of how some Christian denominations took the article from "The Onion" (a satirical newspaper) seriously when it said Harry Potter was making kids want to enroll in schools teaching witchcraft. It didn't matter that the article was fictional, it presented what they wanted to hear, and so they made a big deal out of it. I think the same thing is present here, fictional works state Jesus didn't exist (or paint a different picture than the Bible does), and so they make a big deal out of it.

Reminds me of a different website I go to, a forum with both Christians and atheists on it. One 'rabid atheist' posted a link to a newsreport about starving people in Africa being given bibles (when they obviously needed food & education since they can't read). Off course it was the Onion, this reliable news-source. This person was properly embarresed, yet ironically on the same website a Christian posted another link a few days later to an article also believed to be true, also on the Onion. Man, the Onion is too good at what it does.

Also Larknews, an Onion-esque website run by Evangelical Christians, once caused a lot of upset in an article where Bob the Tomato stated that Veggietales were 'bigger than Jesus', an obvious parody of John Lennon's infamous statement. However many took seriously.

[Lanrete]

I find it funny how that date just happens to be my birthday...

[Shao Feng-Li]

I'm more worried about the billboards advertising Sex and the City.