interesting stuff about antichrist and a creepy nursery rhyme

i found this article on cracked.com, about five things that have been misconstrued in modern culture about the bible. i knew most of them, i mean, minimum research in anything about history or religion will tell you this stuff. what i didn't know was that the 'antichrist' is just a word for someone who doesn't believe in christ.
i'm gonna go ahead and say this doesn't mean if you're a buddhist or a muslim, you're an antichrist. because buddhism and islam are just another religion, and all religions are the path to god, you're only an antichrist if you're an atheist.
and i think that should suit atheists just fine.
i guess the thing that we all think of when we think of the antichrist is actually the false prophet. he is a person meant to 'look like a lamb and talk like a dragon.' i gotta admit, the idea of a person like that scared the hell out of me.
yes, the sight of a person who literally looks like a lamb, and talks like a dragon, would make me require probably frequent sessions with a counselor, and some sort of antipsychotic.

but of course, it means someone who looks innocent and pure and all that, who can talk as though they had a fire in their belly, with passion, fury and inscrutable logic. you know, you can't, um, scrute it. unscrutable!
but, i find the idea of such a person, ominously named the false prophet, a little scary. i mean, how the hell do you fight that?
maybe this is what people think of when they make those horror movies, where some evil creature has possessed an 8 year old girl who goes around killing and insulting everyone she meets, telling them about eldritch horrors, and nobody tries to stop her, because shes an 8 year old girl, why would she hurt anybody? and when they find out shes fully evil, BAM! dead.


onto other things..... here is nursery rhyme i heard some chick at uni say. its really, really creepy. you can find a wikipedia article on it:

Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,

Had a wife but couldn't keep her;

He put her in a pumpkin shell

And there he kept her very well.

if you don't understand why its creepy, just think about it...

why would peter, the pumpkin eater, put a wife he can't keep in a pumpkin shell?





because hes a pumpkin eater, of course.