Spaceports cgi-bin linking problems

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Tim and Raffy now have comments, the former through Sensus Plenior, and the latter through Enetation.

Several new links added, including but not limited to: Gary, Peps, SinglePinay, Reybelde, Nheo, and Yoshi. (Yup, lots of Pexers!)

Those last two links were a bit of a problem: you can’t hyperlink to sites hosted on the Spaceports “cgi-bin” server. Clicking this link, for example, will send you to a 404 page, but copying the link text and pasting it into your browser’s address bar will work fine. The limitation also prevents framing and hotlinking resources hosted on the cgi-bin server, and requires the use of a meta-redirect from a “regular” Spaceports page. Annoying, eh? That’s the reason I left Spaceports back in my free webhosting days.

Ruben Ecleo, False Messiah

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As painfully evidenced by Ruben Ecleo and the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, we can see how popular a strategy it is for cultist leaders to claim to be Jesus reincarnated; not just in rural provinces of the Philippines, but elsewhere in the world as well.

Jesus had words for the generations after his ascension, a future world that could be easily deluded by false Messiahs:

“Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect — if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”

Christ is Lord, God come in the flesh for the salvation of all who put their faith in him and him alone. That is a grisly, bloody, yet ultimately glorious mantle that no man can even pretend to take up for his own self-glorification. The Second Coming of Christ at the end of the ages will not be through a reincarnation or rebirth; he ascended bodily, and that is how he will return at the Judgement. Any who claim to be Jesus reborn, no matter their charisma, signs, and wonders, will be proven frauds: vultures gathering at the carcass of false, fleshly doctrine.

But those who through the sacrifice of Jesus have inherited the gift of salvation, who have been cloaked with the righteousness that is by faith, will be raised to a promised resurrection that no mere mortal could ever give — or take. So take careful heed, and make certain the Messiah that you follow is The True One.

(Update: Thank you to all the “Rubenian” cultists who left their angry, rambling, heretical responses. These comments will go a long way around the web to prove the true nature of the PBMA cult to the world.)

He jammed with the “Master”

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Firsthand account of a former PBMA cultist who played heavy metal with their smokin’, boozin’ “Savior.”

We were also made to join group prayers where a chair draped in white cloth would be placed in front of us. I was told that Master (Ruben Ecleo Sr.) would be attending our prayers, at the same time that he goes to other prayer meetings elsewhere. He was omnipresent, or had the ability to be in different places at the same time….

When we were in our quarters in the mansion, I asked the PBMA official who came with us why PBMA members were not allowed to smoke while the master was allowed to.

“Just follow what he says but not what he does,” he replied. Besides, the master was the one absorbing the bad effects of nicotine and alcohol.

I saw how even the master was venerated by PBMA members. Whenever he went out of the mansion with a cigarette between his fingers, PBMA members would be on the lookout where he would throw the butt. Then they would scramble to get it because they believed it could help heal their ailments.

Classic Game Taipan

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Forget Dope Wars; Taipan is where it all started! Anyone remember that classic PC game Taipan, where you play a seafaring trader, navigating the pirate-infested waters of Asia to make a profit on silk and arms and opium? Well, it looks like there’s now a Windows Taipan, with all the fun graphics and flare of the original AppleIIc/MS-BASIC version. (Link via Chris Pirillo.)

Oh, and also a PalmOS Taipan for you mobile types.