Who believes the grim reaper exists

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TX_Made713
TX_Made713 Members Posts: 3,954 ✭✭
edited October 2011 in R & R (Religion and Race)
You know, the black skeleton in a long hood walking around with the blade on a stick...
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  • fiat_money
    fiat_money Members Posts: 16,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    He used to, until he died of colon cancer.

    RIP
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  • b*braze
    b*braze Members Posts: 8,968 ✭✭✭
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    he will forever have the voice of norm macdonald to me
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  • HafBayked
    HafBayked Members Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    seen that ? downtown yesterday up to no good...
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  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    According to hundreds of people during the Bubonic Plague rage of the 1300s, he and several others wearing the same clothing were walking around gassing people using long instruments (the famous rapier we associate with the Grim Reaper).

    Supposedly the grim reapers than disappeared into UFO ships, all this was on the History Channel not too long ago. Not sure what to believe, but the Grim Reaper supposedly is just an alien.
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  • chilly
    chilly Members Posts: 1,206 ✭✭
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    kingblaze84 wrote: »
    According to hundreds of people during the Bubonic Plague rage of the 1300s, he and several others wearing the same clothing were walking around gassing people using long instruments (the famous rapier we associate with the Grim Reaper).

    Supposedly the grim reapers than disappeared into UFO ships, all this was on the History Channel not too long ago. Not sure what to believe, but the Grim Reaper supposedly is just an alien.

    That's interesting. Got any good links? If not im just gon google all this.
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  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    chilly wrote: »
    That's interesting. Got any good links? If not im just gon google all this.

    Yeah, here's one.......

    http://www.squidoo.com/origin_of_the_grim_reaper

    Scholars trace the origin of the Grim Reaper to ancient times where he was known as Cronus to the Greeks and Saturn to the Romans, but the Grim Reaper as he is depicted today comes directly to us from the Middle Ages and the Black Death.

    According to William Bramley, author of Gods of Eden: "In Brandenburg, Germany, there appeared fifteen men with "fearful faces and long scythes, with which they cut the oats, so that the swish could be heard at great distance, but the oats remained standing. The visit of these men was followed immediately by a severe outbreak of plague in Brandenburg. Were the 'scythes' long instruments designed to spray poison or germ-laden gases?

    "Strange men in black, demons, and other terrifying figures were observed in other European communities carrying 'brooms' or 'scythes' or 'swords' that were used to sweep or knock at people's doors. The inhabitants of these houses fell ill with plague afterwards. It is from these reports that people created the popular image of death as a skeleton, a demon, a man in a black robe carrying a scythe."

    Many people in stricken areas reported that outbreaks of the plague were caused by evil-smelling mists. Bright lights and unusual activity in the skies frequently accompanied these mists. And sometimes, a mist was seen to be coming from rocket-like airships. Not only did these mists ? people; they killed trees and destroyed the fertility of the land.
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