May 21 is Judgment Day: Christian group

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Janet Davison, CBC News


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If the signs are to be believed, the end of the world as we know it starts on May 21.

Billboards are popping up around the globe, including in major Canadian cities, proclaiming May 21 as Judgment Day. "Cry mightily unto GOD for HIS mercy," says one of the mounted signs from Family Radio, a California-based sectarian Christian group that is sending one if its four travelling caravans of believers into Vancouver and Calgary within the next 10 days.

Family Radio's website is blunt in its prediction of Judgment Day and the rolling earthquake that will mark the beginning of the end. "The Bible guarantees it!" the site proclaims, under a passage from the book of Ezekiel, which says "blow the trumpet … warn the people."

Richard Ascough, a professor in the School of Religion at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., has been watching Family Radio's campaign, and fully expects life as we know it to continue on May 22.

He has seen other apocalyptic predictions come and go, but Family Radio's differs in a notable way: it isn't accompanied by a bold, up-front request for money. And that's worrisome, in his mind.

"I think they really believe it's going to happen," Ascough said in an interview Tuesday.

What if Judgment Day doesn't come?

When groups such as this ask for a lot of money up front, it's possible to think they're "charlatans," Ascough said.

"When they're not doing that so blatantly, it worries me more, because I think they really do believe it and they can convince people who may end up in fact doing things like … quitting their jobs, selling their house, not necessarily to give the money to this group, but simply to divest themselves in light of Judgment Day."

And then that predicted Judgment Day doesn't come.

"We've seen that happen in groups before, and then people are just wiped out, not just emotionally because it didn't happen, but financially," said Ascough. "Some people, it's led to them taking their own lives when they realize what they have done."

Family Radio identifies itself on its website as a "non-profit, non-commercial, Christian radio network" set up in 1958 with one FM station in the San Francisco Bay area. From that station bought by Harold Camping and two others "with the sole intent of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ," it has grown to a network of 66 stations through the U.S. It also broadcasts its programming internationally.

Some published estimates have put its net worth at $120 million or more.

"To have that kind of revenue base, if that's correct, suggests there must be quite a few listeners," said Ascough.

He said it is "hard to get a read" on the sectarian Christian group.

"Their theology is fundamentalist and yet still generally within the bounds of Christianity, until one gets to this date-setting business."

'Evidence found in the Bible'

On its website, Family Radio says May 21 as Judgment Day is "derived solely from evidence found in the Bible."

"Mr. Camping saw God had placed, in scripture, many important signs and proofs. These proofs alert believers that May 21st of 2011 is the date Christ will return for His people and begin a period of the final destruction of the world." All will be over on Oct. 21, "when God will completely destroy this earth and its surviving inhabitants," the website says.

The isn't the first time Camping has predicted the end of the world. He also targeted 1994 as a probable time, but on the website, Family Radio says, "important subsequent Biblical information was not yet known."

Ascough said he thinks Camping's way of reading scripture is "irresponsible."

"It's not the way these Biblical texts were meant to be read, even by their original writers."

And even if they were, scholars can find mistakes in the mathematics and historical assumptions put forward in the Judgment Day predictions, he said. "It's all very slippery."

Ascough hasn't seen such visible activities like billboards from Family Radio in Canada before. He credits technology with allowing the group to reach more broadly into Canada and worldwide.

"They're savvy enough to have figured out how to market themselves well."

Cultural fascination

Family Radio is hardly the first group to predict the end. Movies, literature and television have told tales of a coming apocalypse, in many forms.

"Once it gets mocked on The Simpsons, you know it's taken hold," said Ascough.

Ascough sees both a cultural fascination with end-of-the-world scenarios and a fascination with the Bible behind the appeal that religious groups such as Family Radio can hold for followers.

"Quite a few people are attracted to fundamentalist groups of all stripes because many people don't like to live with ambiguity."

While Ascough predicts the world will survive any suggestions of its demise on May 21, he fully expects such ideas will be revived from time to time.

"Almost every generation has this kind of group, so I don't think they're going to go away."


Doomsday predictions

End-of-the-world predictions — or suggestions of other calamities — have been made for centuries. Here's a look at some of them:

Dec. 12, 2012. The Mayan calendar is widely misinterpreted as ending on that date. Many have predicted that cataclysmic events will take place.

Jan. 1, 2000. Otherwise known as Y2K, it was a widespread prediction that computers wouldn't be able to handle the arrival of 01/01/2000. They did.

Aug. 18, 1999. Charles Criswell King, an American psychic, said the world would end that day. His other predictions ranged from Denver being struck by a ray from space to saying in March 1963 that something would happen to U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 that would mean he wouldn't run for re-election in 1964.

Dec. 17, 1919. Meteorologist Albert Porta said that six planets would come together that day, with the resulting magnetic current causing the Earth to be engulfed by the exploding sun.

1914: Based on the Bible's book of Daniel, the Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society) estimated the beginning of the war of Armageddon. It was one of several similar predictions.

Oct. 22, 1844. Followers of American Baptist preacher William Miller, founder of the Millerite movement, considered it the Great Disappointment when the second coming of Jesus, which he had predicted, did not occur on that date.

[DemonGeminiX]

:shock:

You mean we only have 10 days left!!!



But that's going to interrupt baseball season.

:no:

[FBD]

screw baseball, are they going to finish the hockey season?

[DemonGeminiX]

:dunno:

I know. We're in the middle of the Stanley Cup playoffs!!!




:hand:

They're just gonna have to wait until the playoffs are over.

[-(

[Noilly Pratt]

Nero fiddled while Rome burned...I'll listen to REM and U2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyFiClAzq8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI6sBdA99c8
I've always loved the lyrics of this U2 song...


10 days...:-k what to do...time to buy that Mustang with zero down and no payments 'til next month!

http://www.gotbroken.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2006-ford-mustang-fr500-gt-front-side-view-588x441.jpg

[FBD]

wow, I wish I had the time to finish watching the detroit game last night...I thought they were done for when I left! nuttin like playoff hockey, everyone's rabid and hellbent to win at all costs. *that* is fkn sport right there.

[RBP]

Beam me up Scotty

[Godfather]

So so sorry JC,
but this week don't work for me,
girlfriends' got her period this week you see,
Can't end the world before a little skeet skeet

[RBP]

The world's going to end and you're still faithful?

[Godfather]

I'm getting too old for this shit... found a big 'ol pair of titties I like that are disease free and make lots of money so I'm locking them down

On the veeeeery off chance this prediction isn't correct I'd be very disappointed if I ran off and got herpes :-k

[Teh One Who Knocks]

You doubt the prophecy? :shock:

[Acid Trip]

Bring on the Rapture!

Edit: I just started reading the "Left Behind" series which is about the Rapture. If you are interested in that kind of stuff it's a good read (totally Fiction of course).

[Hal-9000]

these type of predictions scare the hell outta me...

"Aug. 18, 1999. Charles Criswell King, an American psychic, said the world would end that day. His other predictions ranged from Denver being struck by a ray from space to saying in March 1963 that something would happen to U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 that would mean he wouldn't run for re-election in 1964."

[Hal-9000]

They're coming to MY city??? :shock:








Oh good, now I don't have to quit smoking :cheerlead:

[Godfather]

These predictions make me roll my eyes big time.

Individuals like Nostradamus wrote poems misinterpreted as prophecy. Of the tens of thousands of predictions made by hundreds of 'prophets' over centuries.... the overwhelming majority don't come true.

In fact, the majority are so vague that what 'true' is, is mostly dependant on who is reading it. Nostradamus' work in modern media is the greatest example of that.

But... you can surf through predictions for a few that are close, narrow them down to a couple accurate enough to be startling if viewed alone, and leave the last one post-dated and you have a very haunting article :roll: Nobody writing this nonsense mentions it still leaves the batting average around .000002

Charles Criswell King filled tomes with his dribble. He is famous for one sentence. Boourns.

[Hal-9000]

You don't think the Kennedy prediction was eerily close and he nailed the exact month...before it happened?

What drew me to that one is that he just didn't say - Something is going to happen to him during this particular year

He noted that it would happen in November '63 and prevent him from running for office the next year.Remember that Kennedy was popular enough to likely get in the next term..

[Godfather]

You don't think the Kennedy prediction was eerily close and he nailed the exact month...before it happened?

What drew me to that one is that he just didn't say - Something is going to happen to him during this particular year

He noted that it would happen in November '63 and prevent him from running for office the next year.Remember that Kennedy was popular enough to likely get in the next term..

He also said Mae West would be President and said her, himself and a few others would ride a rocketship to the moon together;

IMO, the dude got filthy rich filling books upon books and doing TV appearances spewing nonsense.

I bet I could find predictions of every president since Garfield or Lincoln being assassinated :lol:

[deebakes]

shit, i got a lot to get done and not much time to do it :shock:

[Loser]

:wank:....





What?! If the worlds gonna end in ten days, I'm checkin' out with my penis in my hand..

:naughty:

[samarchepas]

The Apocalypse on my birthday! :woot:....:lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

IMO, the dude got filthy rich filling books upon books and doing TV appearances spewing nonsense.

:-k

*Reconsiders career path*

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:wank:....





What?! If the worlds gonna end in ten days, I'm checkin' out with my penis in my hand..

:naughty:

:tmi:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

He also said Mae West would be President and said her, himself and a few others would ride a rocketship to the moon together;

IMO, the dude got filthy rich filling books upon books and doing TV appearances spewing nonsense.

I bet I could find predictions of every president since Garfield or Lincoln being assassinated :lol:

Yeah, but I think the part about Denver being hit by a 'space ray' is his best one :lol:

[Deepsepia]

What?! If the worlds gonna end in ten days, I'm checkin' out with my penis in my hand..

:naughty:

So that's what they mean by "The Rapture"

[DemonGeminiX]

Yeah, but I think the part about Denver being hit by a 'space ray' is his best one :lol:

:nono:

Don't laugh. Me and Stewie Griffin are working on that space ray. Denver's as good as gone.

[-(

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:nono:

Don't laugh. Me and Stewie Griffin are working on that space ray. Denver's as good as gone.

[-(

:tapfoot:

[DemonGeminiX]

3 days!!!

:cheerlead:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

And the space ray? :-s

[DemonGeminiX]

It's coming.

[-(

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The world will have ended before you get it done :rolleyes:

[DemonGeminiX]

:lol:

Good one.

[Hal-9000]

The world will have ended before you get it done :rolleyes:

if it's anything like his last pc build, you got generations to kick back and relax :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

if it's anything like his last pc build, you got generations to kick back and relax :lol:

:burn:

[Hal-9000]

WAIT! :shock:






It's our May 24th long weekend.....the world can't end on Saturday :(

[Pony]

It won't. It's just the beginning of the end. We won't be finished until Oct.

[DemonGeminiX]

if it's anything like his last pc build, you got generations to kick back and relax :lol:

:suspect:

[deebakes]

72 hour bender! :dance:

[Hal-9000]

:suspect:


oh sure, Lance burns you and you laugh....I burn you and get the stink-eye :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

oh sure, Lance burns you and you laugh....I burn you and get the stink-eye :lol:

His burn was subtle and clever.

[-(

[Teh One Who Knocks]

8-)

[Hal-9000]

oh...that's how it is :(






wish I had a sense of humor

:coat:

[Hal-9000]

kudos Lance :(



http://i.imgur.com/DYnMA.gif

[DemonGeminiX]

2 Days!!!

:dance:

[Acid Trip]

If you REALLY want to be freaked out by future predictions you need to read about Mother Shipton. Here is a site with some of her predictions from back in 1488 - 1561.

http://www.2012supplies.com/what_is_2012/mother_shipton_prophecy_2012.html

[Acid Trip]

Check these out (for those too lazy to follow the link)

The signs will be there for all to read;
when man shall do most heinous
deed man will ruin kinder lives;
by taking them as to their wives.
And murder foul and brutal deed:
when man will only think of greed.
and man shall walk as if asleep;
he does not look - he may not peep
And iron men the tail shall do;
and iron cart and carriage too.


Tony Blair and George W. Bush have been
rumored to have planned the "war on terror"
long before the 9/11 attacks.

The king shall false promise make;
and talk just for talking's sake.
And nations plan horrific war;
the like as never seen before.
and taxes rise and lively down;
and nations wear perpetual frown.

The Pakistan, India, Afghanistan
earthquake killed more than 75,000 in
2005 after Afghanistan had been
obliterated by the "war on terror"

yet greater sign there be to see;
as man nears latter century.
three sleeping mountains gather
breath,
and spew out mud, ice and death.
an earthquake swallow town and
town;

China, the emerging superpower, has been
said to be eying Russian (mighty bear)
land as overpopulation persists.

In lands as yet to me unknown
And Christian one fights Christian two
and nations sigh, yet nothing do.
And yellow men great power gain;
from mighty bear with whom they've
lain.

These mightly tyrants will fail to do,
they fail to split the world in two.
But from their acts a danger bred;
an ague, leaving many dead.

And physics find no remedy;
for this is worse than lepresy.
Oh many signs for all to see;
the truth of this true prophecy.

Horseless carriages, aka cars, transporting
mankind about.

A carriage without horse will go,
disaster fill the world with woe.
In London, Primrose Hill shall be
in center hold a bishops sea.

The Internet has transformed global
consciousness.

Around the world men's thoughts will fly,
quick as the twinkling of an eye.
And water shall great wonders do,
How strange, and yet it shall come true.

Through towering hills proud men shall
ride,
no horse or ass move by his side.
Beneath the water, men shall walk,
shall ride, shall sleep, shall even talk.
And in the air men shall be seen,
In white and black and even green.
A great man, shall come and go
for prophecy declares it so.

Any modern ship is made of metal and no
longer wood.

In water, iron then shall float
as easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be seen in stream and stone,
In land that is yet unknown.

And England shall admit a Jew,
Do you think this strange, but it is true.
The Jew that once was led in scorn,
shall of a Christian then be born.

A house of glass shall come to pass,
In England. But alas, alas,
a war will follow with the work
where dwells the pagan and the turk.

These states will lock in fiercest strife,
and seek to take each other's life.
When north shall thus divide the south
an eagle build in lion's mouth
then tax and blood and cruel war
shall come to every humble door.

Three times shall lovely sunny France
be led to play a bloody dance.
Before the people shall be free
three tyrant rulers shall she see.

Three rulers in succession be
each springs from different dynasty.
Then when the fiercest strife is done.
England and France shall be as one.

The British olive shall next then twine,
in marriage with a German vine.
Men walk beneath and over streams
fulfilled shall be their wondrous dreams.

Compared to the days of Mother Shipton,
women do indeed dress like men.

For in those wondrous far off days,
the women shall adopt a craze
to dress like men, and trousers wear
and to cut off their locks of hair.

They'll ride astride with brazen brow,
as witches do on broomsticks now.

Harvesting corn in a roaring combine.
And roaring monsters with men atop,
does seem to eat the verdent crop.
And men shall fly as birds do now,
and give away the horse and plow.


Divorce rates have skyrocketed and fertility
rates have plunged in the last century.

They'll be a sign for all to see
be sure that it will certain be.
Then love shall die and marriage cease
and nations wane as babes decrease.
And wives shall fondle cats and dogs
and men live much the same as hogs.

I know I go, I know I'm free,
I know that this will come to be,
Secreted this, for this will be
found by later dynasty.

A dairy maid, a bonnie lass,
shall kick this tome as she does pass
And five generations she shall breed
before one male child does learn to
read.

This is then held year by year,
till an iron monster trembling fear,
eats parchment, words and quill and ink,
and mankind is given time to think.

And only when this comes to be
will mankind read this prophecy.
But one man sweets another's bain
so I shall not have burned in vein.

Japan has been said to have planned the war
against the US as early as 1926.

In nineteen hundred and twenty-six
build houses light of straw and sticks.
For then shall mighty wars be planned
and fire and swords shall sweep the
land.

Television, submarines, and aircraft certainly
fit this prophecy.

When pictures seem alive with
movements free,
when boats like fishes swim beneath
the sea.
When men like birds shall scour the sky.
Then half the world, deep drenched in
blood shall die.

For those who live the century through
in fear and trembling this shall do.
Flee to the mountains and the dens
to bog and forest and wild fens.

For storms will rage and oceans roar
when Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
and as he blows his wondrous horn
old worlds die and new be born.

A celestial body, such as an asteroid entering
Earth's atmosphere may certainly appear to
be a fiery dragon. Extinction due to
extraterrestrial impacts have occurred several
times on this planet

A fiery dragon will cross the sky
six times before the earth shall die.
Mankind will tremble and frightened be
for the six heralds in this prophecy.

For seven days and seven nights
man will watch this awesome sight.
The tides will rise beyond their ken.
To bite away the shores and then
the mountains will begin to roar
and earthquakes split the plain to shore.

And flooding waters rushing in,
will flood the lands with such a din
that mankind cowers in muddy fen
and snarls about his fellow men.

Cheyenne Mountain's northern entrance to the
home of NORAD, among other top
government programs. This facility holds food
and water for the worst of possible times.

He bares his teeth and fights and kills
and secrets food in secret hill
and ugly in his fear, he lies
to kill marauders, thieves and spies.

Man flees in terror from the floods
and kills, and rapes and lies in blood
and spilling blood by mankind's hand
will stain and bitter many lands.

And when the dragon's tail is gone
man forgets and smiles and carries on.
To apply himself - too late, too late
for mankind has earned deserved fate.

His masked smile, his false grandeur,
will serve the gods their anger stir
and they will send the dragon back
to light the sky - his tail will crack.
Upon the earth and rend the earth
and man shall flee, king, lord and serf.

Africa is being torn apart due to continental
drift. Eventually the sea will fill the void,
creating two new continents.

But slowly they are routed out
to seek diminishing water spout
and men will die of thirst before
the oceans rise to mount to the shore.
And lands will crack and rend anew
do you think it strange, it will come true.

And in some far - off distant land
some men - oh such a tiny band
will have to leave their solid mount
and span the earth, those few to count.

Who survives this (unreadable) and
then
begin the human race again.
But not on land already there,
but on ocean beds, stark, dry and bare.

Not every soul on earth will die,
as the dragon's tail goes sweeping by,
not every land on earth will sink,
but these will wallow in stench and stink,
of rotting bodies of beast and man,
of vegetation crisped on land.

But the land that rises from the sea
will be dry and clean and soft and free.
Of mankinds dirt and therefore be,
the source of man's new dynasty.
and those that live will ever fear
the dragon's tail for many year
but time erases memory
You think it strange. but it will be.

A typical UFO looks like a silver serpent. Does
Mother Shipton predict intervention from alien
beings in 2012?

And before the race is built anew,
a silver serpent comes to view
and spew out men of like unknown
to mingle with the earth now grown
cold from its heat and these men can
enlighten the minds of future man
to intermingle and show them how
to live and love and thus endow.
the children with the second sight.
a natural thing so that they might
grow graceful, humble and when they do
the golden age will start anew.

The dragon's tail is but a sign
for mankind's fall and man's decline.
and before this prophecy is done
I shall be burned at the stake, at l
My body cinged and my soul set free
You think I utter blastphemy
your wrong. These things have come to
me
this prophecy will come to be.

[Hal-9000]

the ones about the net, lesbians, submarines and the 'fiery dragon' or 'dragon's tail' (sure sounds like nuclear destruction to me) are very eerie considering the time they were written


her stuff even rhymes :shock:

[RBP]

I only take Haiku form prognostications as legit :hand:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Oh please, if anyone believe that stuff I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale too :rolleyes:

[DemonGeminiX]

Oh please, if anyone believe that stuff I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale too :rolleyes:

Hey! I'm selling that!

[-(

[RBP]

Wait, so all the religious zealots will be leaving and the rest of us staying?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Hey! I'm selling that!

[-(

I didn't see your name on it :hand:


Wait, so all the religious zealots will be leaving and the rest of us staying?

Yup, but we have to deal with hell on earth :(

[RBP]

Yup, but we have to deal with hell on earth :(

as opposed to... ?

[Hal-9000]

I only take Haiku form prognostications as legit :hand:

Fiery rain from sky
North Korea hates us lots
We are fuck-ed


:face:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

as opposed to... ?

You do realize that hell on earth is being forced to watch Rosie O'Donnell 24/7 until you die? :-s

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Wait, so all the religious zealots will be leaving and the rest of us staying?


WIN!!

[RBP]

Fiery rain from sky
North Korea hates us lots
We are fuck-ed


:face:

last line has 4 :hand:

[RBP]

You do realize that hell on earth is being forced to watch Rosie O'Donnell 24/7 until you die? :-s

do we get pizza and ice cream?

[DemonGeminiX]

Wait, so all the religious zealots will be leaving and the rest of us staying?

Well, hang on a second now. Do all religious zealots believe in the same thing? No. Unfortunately, only one group of religious zealots will be right... so the rest of them would be left here with the rest of us.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

do we get pizza and ice cream?

No....and in fact you have to sit close to her while she talks so you can smell her as well as hear her :|

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Well, hang on a second now. Do all religious zealots believe in the same thing? No. Unfortunately, only one group of religious zealots will be right... so the rest of them would be left here with the rest of us.

FAIL!

[Hal-9000]

last line has 4 :hand:

you try composing and posting a haiku on the forklift!!!



:coat:

[RBP]

you try composing
and posting a haiku while
driving a forklift

[Hal-9000]

I feel like I'm being judged :(


get it? thread title tie-in?







:coat:

[Hal-9000]

you try composing
and posting a haiku while
driving a forklift

ok....that was good :lol:

[Hal-9000]

hey....these guys are in my city for the next couple of days...

I should dress up real creepy-like and make a sign that says -YOUR world will end on the 21st
and then go hang out with them for a bit

[DemonGeminiX]

One day left!

:dance:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Space ray? :-s

[Pony]

Today at 5PM EST.

[DemonGeminiX]

Space ray? :-s

:-s

Are you still going to be alive after the asteroid hits your apartment complex while you're sitting on the toilet doing a number 2 tomorrow?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Today at 5PM EST.

It starts tomorrow, not this evening :nono:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:-s

Are you still going to be alive after the asteroid hits your apartment complex while you're sitting on the toilet doing a number 2 tomorrow?

So you're saying that you lied and failed? :-k

[Pony]

:-s

Are you still going to be alive after the asteroid hits your apartment complex while you're sitting on the toilet doing a number 2 tomorrow?

*explosions* *building shakes*

Damn Lance, what are you doing in there?

[DemonGeminiX]

So you're saying that you lied and failed? :-k

:hand:

I never put a target date on that space ray. But if you're alive after tomorrow, you can expect it sometime in the future. Don't be surprised if I wait until you're sitting on the toilet doing a number 2 to do it.

[-(

[Teh One Who Knocks]

*explosions* *building shakes*

Damn Lance, what are you doing in there?

Jalapeno brats for dinner last night :oops:


:hand:

I never put a target date on that space ray. But if you're alive after tomorrow, you can expect it sometime in the future. Don't be surprised if I wait until you're sitting on the toilet doing a number 2 to do it.

[-(

:waiting:

[Softdreamer]

Holy shit!

Why wasnt this thread a sticky??
I only just found out and its happening tomorrow.

[DemonGeminiX]

Lance is gonna be checking out the window before he goes to the bathroom from now on.

[Softdreamer]

Lance is potty trained??

[Pony]

It starts tomorrow, not this evening :nono:

Midnight in Jerusalem is 5PM this evening. Better get your affairs in order. :nana:

[Muddy]

It's gonna be a beautiful weekend, so I don't have time for this shit...:beerchug:

[DemonGeminiX]

Midnight in Jerusalem is 5PM this evening. Better get your affairs in order. :nana:

And don't forget to flush.

:mrgreen:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Midnight in Jerusalem is 5PM this evening. Better get your affairs in order. :nana:

Who says it starts on Jerusalem time? :-s

[Hal-9000]

If it ends tomorrow...that means I get next week off of work :cheerlead:

[DemonGeminiX]

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine...

:dance:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

If it ends tomorrow...that means I get next week off of work :cheerlead:

That reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons...Homer calls in sick and then the plant calls back and Marge answers the phone...she tells Homer, it's the plant, they said if you don't come in today (Friday) then don't bother coming in on Monday. And Homer was all WOOHOO! 4 day weekend!

:lol:

[Hal-9000]

That reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons...Homer calls in sick and then the plant calls back and Marge answers the phone...she tells Homer, it's the plant, they said if you don't come in today (Friday) then don't bother coming in on Monday. And Homer was all WOOHOO! 4 day weekend!

:lol:

I often take my lead from cultural icons that are more intelligent than me :thumbsup:

[Pony]

Who says it starts on Jerusalem time? :-s

Jesus.

:slap:

[Pony]

Well it's 5:10 and I'm still h

[RBP]

Well it's 5:10 and I'm still h

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:16 PM :hand:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Jesus.

:slap:

The dude that does the yard work at my apartment complex? :-s

How would he know? [-(

[Pony]

http://i.imgur.com/dN2ZP.jpg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:shock:

[DemonGeminiX]

:-k

I suppose we have until the end of the day.

[DemonGeminiX]

Oh wait, it's supposed to begin at suppertime with a huge earthquake.


:-k

Suppertime by who's standards?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:tapfoot:

[DemonGeminiX]

They said it will happen at 6pm.

:nono:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

May 21 Judgment Day Fails to Produce, as Christmas Island, New Zealand Still Stand
Christmas Island and New Zealand have yet to experience the wave of destruction on that should have befallen them by now on May 21 Judgment Day, as predicted by an Oakland, CA radio evangelist.
Huliq News


The New Zealand area, including the slightly ahead (in terms of time) Christmas Island haven't been flattened by the 6 p.m. local time earthquake that was predicted by Harold Camping. He predicted a wave of destruction around the globe, starting at 6 p.m. in each local time zone, with an earthquake the likes of which would make the Japan Earthquake of March 2011 look like nothing. However, the first areas to be hit have not seen any earthquake.

The true believers would be whisked away by the Rapture, said Harold Camping while the remaining people would suffer through five months of tribulation after the initial wave of destruction.

Harold Camping uses bible-based numerology to make his predictions. Earlier, he predicted that the world would end in September of 1994. When his prediction turned out false, he said he made a mathematical error. Earlier this year, he added that he had not completed his study of the Bible and that signs had also pointed to 2011 as a possible timeframe for the Rapture.

The radio host defended his prediction in his book "Time Has an End." He calculated May 21 as being exactly 7,000 years from the date of Noah's Ark flood. "The year 391 B.C. is the year when the Old Testament was finished, and 2,011 + 391 - 1 = 2,401, or 7 x 7 x 7 x 7," he said.

If that is not confusing enough, on his website, the calculations are as follows: "Seven thousand years after 4990 B.C. (the year of the Flood) is the year 2011 A.D. (our calendar). 4990 + 2011 – 1 = 7,000. One year must be subtracted in going from an Old Testament B.C. calendar date to a New Testament A.D. calendar date because the calendar does not have a year zero.

"Amazingly, May 21, 2011 is the 17th day of the 2nd month of the Biblical calendar of our day. Remember, the flood waters also began on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the year 4990 B.C."

There has to be a missing carried one in there someplace, or as Ricky Ricardo of "I Love Lucy" might say, "Harold, you got some 'splainin' to do."

A number of his followers have spent all their money as this day approached. It's going to be interested to see how they react to the fact that Christmas Island hasn't been flattened.

In fact, as noted previously, since the world was supposed to end in stages, time zone by time zone, it meant that those in America would have plenty of warning. That means that perhaps this family can stop arguing. now.

The New York Times covered the story of the Carson family. Here's what they said:

The three teenagers [the children] have been struggling to make sense of their shifting world, which started changing nearly two years ago when their mother, Abby Haddad Carson, left her job as a nurse to “sound the trumpet” on mission trips with her husband, Robert, handing out tracts. They stopped working on their house and saving for college.

Last weekend, the family traveled to New York, the parents dragging their reluctant children through a Manhattan street fair in a final effort to spread the word.

Robert Carson still works as an engineer for the federal Energy Department, but since they stopped saving for college, the children (Joseph, Grace and Faith) worry that there may not be enough money for college. [The significance of their names should not be lost on anyone.] In addition, like many teens, they are embarrassed by their parents, only moreso.

Joseph, 14, said, “People look at my family and think I’m like that. I keep my friends as far away from them as possible. I don’t really have any motivation to try to figure out what I want to do anymore, because my main support line, my parents, don’t care.”

In this time of technology, the first to report a lack of shaking were on Twitter. #RaptureFail became a trending hashtag.

EbonyMcKenna Tweeted 5pm Melbourne and latest results from exit polls show huge swings to #RaptureFail It's a landslide, but no earthquake.
davidould Tweeted The Rapture seems to have passed New Zealand by, but then a lot of things do.... #rapturefail

and on and on.

Life as we know it has not ended. Camping, 89, will probably do some more recalculations in the morning, PST. As in how to explain this to his followers.

[RBP]

:idk:

[DemonGeminiX]

Maybe he meant 6pm eastern standard time?

:-k

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The story says he said it would happen 6 PM local time in every time zone :nono:

[DemonGeminiX]

:-s

How could he be wrong?

[DemonGeminiX]

Did he forget to carry a one?

[-(

[RBP]

God's time has no relation to ours.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

God's time has no relation to ours.

God isn't exempt from the laws of physics :hand:

[RBP]

God isn't exempt from the laws of physics :hand:

:lol:

I don't even know what that means. :-k

[Softdreamer]

Dammit, I already drank my Kool-Aid

[DemonGeminiX]

God isn't exempt from the laws of physics :hand:

:-s

Yes he is.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:-s

Yes he is.

No he isn't :-s

[DemonGeminiX]

No he isn't :-s

:hand:

Wrong.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:hand:

Wrong.

Prove it :-s

I'll wait :bored:

[DemonGeminiX]

Prove it :-s

I'll wait :bored:

:|

I can't. I have to run.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

That's what I thought [-(

[DemonGeminiX]

You can't prove the existence God, let alone his attributes. You have to take it on faith. But suffice it to say that since he created time and space, then he existed before time and space and the laws that govern them. Since he existed before the laws that govern time and space, he's not sunject to them. And since he can be anywhere and everwhere at any point in time he chooses instantaneously, then I'm pretty sure that also implies that the laws of physics don't really apply to him.

You can choose not to believe that if you wish.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

That's not proof :hand:

[DemonGeminiX]

It can't be proven. You have to take it on faith. It all boils down to what you believe in your heart.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Doomsday Prediction Fizzles Out
Associated Press


http://i.imgur.com/tMEiO.jpg

As the deadline for the Apocalpyse passed in the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia, it seems the end of the world prediction is fizzling.

Twitter users around the world expressed their mock disappointment to the "non-rapture."

Daniel Boerman tweeted: "I'm from New Zealand, it is 6:06PM, the world has NOT ended. No earthquakes here, all waiting for the rapture can relax for now. #Rapture"

In Australia, Jon Gall tweeted: "#Rapture time here in Melbourne. A rather quiet sort of rapture if you ask me." Also writing, "Well we have had the #Rapture going for 50 minutes now. So far it hasn't interrupted my fish & chips and glass of stout."

Similarly disappointed KillaJeules wrote, "So it's 6:37pm here in Brisbane, Australia. No earthquakes. No beaming up of Christians. No zombie apocalypse. No surprises haha."

Some had shut themselves inside to pray for mercy as they waited for the world's end.

Others met for tearful last lunches with their children, and prepared to leave behind homes and pets as they were swept up to heaven.

And across the globe, followers of a California preacher's long-publicized message that Judgment Day would arrive Saturday turned to the Bible, the book they believe predicts Earth's destruction on May 21.

The doomsday message has been sent far and wide via broadcasts and web sites by Harold Camping, an 89-year-old retired civil engineer who has built a multi-million-dollar nonprofit ministry based on his apocalyptic prediction.

After spending months traveling the country to put up Judgment Day billboards and hand out Bible tracts, Camping follower Michael Garcia planned to spend Friday evening with his family at home in Alameda, near the Christian media empire's Oakland headquarters.

They believe it will likely start as it becomes 6 p.m. in the world's various time zones.

"We know the end will begin in New Zealand and will follow the sun and roll on from there," said Garcia, a 39-year-old father of six. "That's why God raised up all the technology and the satellites so everyone can see it happen at the same time."

The Internet was alive with reaction in the hours past 6 p.m. Saturday in New Zealand.

"Harold Camping's 21st May Doomsday prediction fails; No earthquake in New Zealand," read one posting on Twitter.

"If this whole end-of-the-world thingy is still going on ... it's already past 6.00 in New Zealand and the world hasn't ended," said another.

Camping's radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website are controlled from a humble building on the road to the Oakland International Airport, sandwiched between an auto shop and a palm reader. Family Radio International's message has been broadcast in 61 languages.

Camping, however, will be awaiting Jesus Christ's return for the second time. He said his earlier apocalyptic prediction in 1994 didn't come true because of a mathematical error.

"I'm not embarrassed about it. It was just the fact that it was premature," he told The Associated Press last month. But this time, he said, "there is...no possibility that it will not happen."

Skeptics are planning Rapture-themed parties to celebrate what hosts expect will be the failure of the world to come to an end.

Bars and restaurants from Melbourne, Australia to the Florida Keys advertised bashes.

In Oakland, atheists planned a gathering at a local Masonic temple to include group discussions on "The Great Success of Past Apocalypses," followed by dinner and music.

Camping and his followers believe the beginning of the end will come on May 21, exactly 7,000 years since the flood in the biblical story of Noah's Ark.

Some 200 million people will be saved, Camping preaches, and those left behind will die in earthquakes, plagues, and other calamities until Earth is consumed by a fireball on October 21.

In the Philippines, a big billboard of Family Radio ministry in Manila warned of Judgment Day. Earlier this month, group members they distributed leaflets to motorists and carried placards warning of the end of the world.

Christian leaders from across the spectrum have widely dismissed the prophecy, but one local church is concerned that Camping's followers could slip into a deep depression come Sunday.

Pastor Jacob Denys of Milpitas-based Calvary Bible Church plans to wait outside the nonprofit's headquarters on Saturday afternoon, hoping to counsel believers who may be disillusioned if the Rapture does not occur.

"The cold, hard reality is going to hit them that they did this, and it was false and they basically emptied out everything to follow a false teacher," he said. "We're not all about doom and gloom. Our message is a message of salvation and of hope."

On Friday afternoon, a small group of eccentrics, gawkers and media opportunists convened outside Family Radio's closed office building. A sign posted on the front door said "SORRY WE MISSED YOU!"

As May 21 drew nearer, followers say donations grew, allowing Family Radio to spend millions of dollars on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the doomsday message. In 2009, the nonprofit reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million, including $34 million in stocks or other publicly traded securities.

Marie Exley, who helped put up apocalypse-themed billboards in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, said the money helped the nonprofit save as many souls as possible. She said she and her husband, mother and brother planned to stay glued to the television Friday night in Bozeman, Montana for news of an earthquake in New Zealand.

Camping recommended this week that followers surround themselves by their loved ones and not meet publicly, Exley said.

"It's an emotional time and we're kind of nervous and scared about how things will pan out as to who will be here and who will go to heaven," she said. "I'll probably be scared in the fog of it, and crying, because we don't know who is saved and who is not."

Some people wanted to make sure their pets receive good treatment, no matter what happens.

Sharon Moss, who founded AfterTheRapturePetCare.com to provide post-apocalypse animal care, said a new wave of customers has paid $10 to sign up in the last few weeks.

"A lot of people have said you should be out there saving souls not saving pets but my heart says `why can't you do both?"' said Moss, who identifies herself as Protestant.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It can't be proven. You have to take it on faith. It all boils down to what you believe in your heart.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTahrYXCChI

[Godfather]

And for the first overall draft pick of the 2011 Rapture, God selects: Macho Man Randy Savage

Ohhhhh yeaaaaahhhh

[Noilly Pratt]

You mean, God respects international date lines and time zones? Omnipotent my ass!!! God is on the clock like the rest of us.

If I were an all knowing being, just to mess with everyone, I'd make it 6:32 and 33.24532 seconds because I can. :D

Is there music when the rapture happens? Probably some Kenny G crap...Just for fun maybe He'd pick AC/DC's Highway to Hell, just to mess with the Christians.

Just kidding, big guy! ;) You know you're still my homeboy, right J.C.? :huh:

*Watches for lightning bolts* Not that smart to taunt Him on rapture day.

October 22nd, 1844, October 28, 1992 and now today...

http://underthemountainbunker.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/332.jpg?w=412&h=377
http://www.atcartlidge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Blondie_-_Rapture_UK1.jpg

[AntZ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g

[DemonGeminiX]

Debbie Harry was uber-hot back in the day.

[Pony]

I think Blondie was sent by the almighty. If you take the seconds in that song, subtract the bitrate, multiply the number of words and divide by the amount of letters in "Rapture" you get the exact date of the true apocalypse. 12/21/12

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:shock:

[Hal-9000]

8-[
















:-k


















:cheerlead:




















No rapture for YOU! :x

[Hal-9000]

I almost slept through the rapture :oops:






:lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Maybe it's just running late :-k

[Hal-9000]

the rapture could have been pre-empted by hockey :-k

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Maybe God got a better offer? :-k

[Hal-9000]

God gets tired too....could be having a nap

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Maybe he can't afford to destroy the earth....I'm sure the prices are way up since when he planned it :-k

[Hal-9000]

He's signed an agreement with Obama, it's part of the economic restructuring plan

God is waiting like everyone else ..

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It could be delayed years then :doh:

[Hal-9000]

In that case...

*puts on Jim Jones sunglasses*

While we wait ayone want kool-aid?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/qlHBy.jpg

[Hal-9000]

:lol: that's bad

[Hal-9000]

I've never posted this until today..




http://i.imgur.com/SlZ00.gif

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:lol: that's bad

:dance:


I've never posted this until today..




http://i.imgur.com/SlZ00.gif

:lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

I've never posted this until today..




http://i.imgur.com/SlZ00.gif

That's so wrong. :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/FgccP.jpg

[Hal-9000]

That's so wrong. :lol:


whaaa? it's a good message with a teensy bit of humor :thumbsup:







*Meanwhile...up in heaven on God's scorecard*




FFS.....hal again, -1 :facepalm:

[Pony]

Hahaha! Sulu is hilarious, If I ever decide to twitter I'm definitely adding him.

[Pony]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tjjkk4n0o4k

[DemonGeminiX]

:-s

Was that Michael Jackson and Hitler on the cloud?