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Judgement Day and We Can Know: What the hell?
Magic Pink
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What's up with these May 21st Judgement Day people? I know we've had tons of doomsayers all the time FOREVER but this crazies seem to have a huge amount of money dumped into them. Billboards everywhere, some of them LED, fleets of camper vans and semi trailers emblazoned with their particular brand of screwery...
Anyone know the details?
Anyone know the details?
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We've passed the Terminator date as well (the latest revision was April 21, 2011).
Much like other doomsday events, it also keeps getting pushed back.
T2: 8/29/1997
T3: 7/25/2004
SCC: 4/21/2011
It should be noted that May is the beginning of the Rapture, the world actually ends in October.
Because that's definitely the timeline laid out in Revelations or something.
Edit: Stolen from wikipedia;
So that makes the next option April 2028, right?
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
From a wiki on the subject
Here's the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction
I predict it will go just like other doomsday has so far.
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The leaving us secularists here to run things part.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Maybe it's because he's got a Christian Radio Station and isn't standing on a street corner shouting at people that people take him seriously and throw money at him.
Yes, this. The site is www.wecanknow.com and these fruits are EVERYWHERE. CNN even did a report on them and how many people are just dropping everything to help this movement out.
The specific thing thats getting me is the truely heroic amount of fundage they seem to have access to.
Eventually one of them will be right.
So why not believe the guy who has a radio station and has actively been wrong before?
I do like Harold Camping's prediction though, because it means I"ll have five months to do whatever-the-hell before the planet explodes.
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Sadly, I don't think the type of folk who believe in that sort of thing would get the point.
Because we didn't have youtube when this happened in the 1800's, and it would be a rather interesting sociological piece to see this particular group come to terms with their impending non-rapture.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I thought, shit, I'd better get on that.
But with more thought I think this is just one of those negotiation things, like we'll be good and then they'll move it back to December or something
Also if I insinuated that all those who believe in the Rapture also believe in Harold Camping's prediction, I'm sorry, I did not mean to.
(Yesterday my boss pointed me towards the website of an atheist guy who has a network of volunteers who will rescue your pets in case of rapture for the low-low upfront fee of $135, good for ten years).
That is awesome! Capitalism, atheism and caring for pets all in one!
It's written by Jerry Jenkins, the same guy who wrote Left Behind, so it must be true.
What?
Totally, that's like saying the king's court would be so much funnier if all the jesters left.
We had the rapture it was for bees
But for some bizarre reason (can't possibly imagine why) all offers to buy Camping's and Family Radio's property have been met with silence.
Shockingly, they declined.
like Gary Busey
Sounds like a real hell on Earth.
Seriously...I'm not religious, but I also don't buy into the "religion is the root of all evil" arguments. However, I realize that I have a fundamental disconnect with some of my fellow human beings when they present the argument for religion that it is the only thing keeping us from achieving world peace and inventing a machine that sends blowjobs over the Internet.
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I strongly suspect one or more of our erstwhile financial institutions is already holding the long position on this one. A belief that the end of the world is nigh is an excellent reason to buy everything on credit.
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But this thread really isn't about religion and I'd like to make sure it doesn't steer into those waters. It's about rampant, well funded craziness which, yes, is capable of describing some religions but it can also describe NASCAR.
Also, I miss the cute bees.
Agreed - not trying to turn the thread into "lol religion". It's hard to take it completely out of the discussion, though, as Camping's ideas are intimately tied up with some fringe Christian beliefs. There are also some interesting parallels to the Second Great Awakening, the Millerites, and the Great Disappointment.
For those who aren't familiar with it: religiosity in the U.S. has been observed to go through ups and downs over the years. The high points are the "Great Awakenings". These occur in the early 18th century (First GA: 1730-1750), the early 19th (Second GA: 1810-1840), the late 19th/early 20th (Third GA: 1880-1910). Arguably, we are currently in the Fourth, starting with the "Jesus movement" in the 1970s. These periods correspond with a more public and populist religious sentiment, huge religious gatherings, and movement away from traditional or mainstream denominations to new ones. In the Second and Third Great Awakenings, these new movements were often Restorationist in nature, which is to say that they took the position that everyone except the earliest Christians had screwed everything up, and people had to return to the way things were done during earlier times. The Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, etc all come out of these times. The various Tridentine and Secedeventist movements within Catholicism could also, arguably, be understood in this way (these are the people like Mel Gibson's dad, who reject Vatican II, attended Latin masses, and, in extreme cases, argue that the more recent popes are not really popes).
Anyway - the Second Great Awakening basically ended when this guy, William Miller, said that Jesus was going to return in Oct 22nd, 1844. The whole "rapture" concept wasn't really fleshed out at this point, but a lot of the ideas were similar. The Millerites differed from other groups that had predicted the end of the world because they had left the fringe and become a national movement in the U.S. in the 1840s (estimates of up to half a million followers), similar to Camping. People had sold all their property and otherwise given up their day-to-day lives because of these beliefs, just like Camping. And, likely as will be the case with Camping, the world didn't end and Jesus didn't show up (although the leader of the Bahai began teaching in Iran at this time).
In the aftermath, all sorts of things happened. The Millerites were openly mocked in the street by people. Churches were burned, gunfights happened, etc. Some people left their beliefs behind, others doubled down on them (Seventh Day Adventists, for example, can be traced back to this time). In the wider society, religion certainly didn't disappear, but people did start looking at it as more of private, personal matter that was separate from their day-to-day lives and less as a public identity which one assumed all the time.
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The Rapture won't be post-apocalyptic tho. We'll just lose less then 2% of the population. At worst, there'll be a few car accidents but that should be minimized because of that WONDERFUL bumper sticker campaign they did.
Which reminds me of a great sticker I saw: "In the evenrt of the Rapture, I will steal your car."
How can you not be interested by the present? We have literally more knowledge than we have ever had before. I really fail to see how the present is not interesting. I mean if you are into that whole survival thing, just go try to live in the rain forest or the desert for a couple weeks. See how "interesting" it is before you die there. Seriously, if you are bored in this world it is your own damn fault. You can literally go and do anything, see anything and learn anything.
Ugh.
I have a friend who says that she has recently been researching Nibiru and it hurts my head. Between that and the May 21st shit and the Dec 2012 shit I'm beginning to wonder if we won't see a minor but calculable drop in population in the next year and a half... though that might just be Darwin in action.
Which is a rather callous thing to say, but I have a hard time taking people seriously when I read shit like this. A 14 on the Richter scale. So over 1,000 times more powerful than anything recorded in recent history?
Looking at things on the geological and galactic scale, there's a lot of bad shit that can happen to our planet and species, but the statistical likelyhood of another ice age rushing in or a ELE comet slamming into the world during our brief lifespan is pretty low. The effects are immediate for many disasters, but their occurence is so infrequent that we have to use an awful lot of zeros to represent when the last one was.
I guess I'm just venting a bit, but it does make me want to grab people and ask how they're going to spend the last 2 weeks / 20 months in this life. If someone really, truly believed, wouldn't they be making the most of it? And as noted before, I'm sure sadly enough some will take these declarations seriously enough to do possibly rash things, and that's so very sad.
As a topically related aside; I would be greatly amused if "the Rapture" came and South Park style, it wasn't for whom believers thought it was. Like, all Muslims went, or the Aethiests/Agnostics. Because God has a sense of humour, and that would be really, really funny. (and tragic as planes dropped out of the sky and traffic accidents occurred, etc, but hillarious all the same)
Is there an actual downside to the rapture?
Giant scorpion tiger lizards with a thousand mouths that breath fire, or something like that.