In Judaism, the going theory among the people who actually think about it (like the afterlife, it's unimportant background stuff even in the eyes of the ultraorthodox) is that everybody comes back from the dead and, along with the living, eats the corpses of Bar Juchne/Ziz, the Leviathan, and the Behemoth, who killed each other in a great final battle, as well as the salted remains of the Leviathan's mate (yes, out apocalypse myth includes lox, deal with it).
Leviathan and Behemoth are kosher?
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Thinking of throwing a Rapture Party this Saturday. Quick, I need some good Rapture drinks/movies/games.
Listening to some weekend archive stuff that I missed. Mostly it's the same stuff I've mentioned before. It goes like this:
Camping: "Welcome to Family Radio."
Caller: "This is Herp McDerp. I've listened to your show for years and I was wondering if you could read from the Book of Derp, Chapter 5."
Camping: "...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu...And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it." Amen. Now caller, what is your question?"
Caller: "I was wondering if this means [I can be sure of my salvation|the Devil is in all other churches|some question about faith versus works|etc]?"
Camping: "Here's how we can solve your problem with Prime Numbers. Thank you for calling."
Pretty much every show, there's at least one "troll caller" who asks about why Camping hasn't sold everything or what his response will be when he wakes up on May 22. Camping gets a bit louder and defensive, says it's a nonsense question and it doesn't matter, and refuses to elaborate. I haven't yet heard anyone put this in the context of "well, if it doesn't matter, why not follow Luke 12:33 and sell your possessions and give everything to the poor", or otherwise exploiting one of the Biblical injunctions to give away your stuff.
Anyway, the sad part...the show I was listening to today, they had a guy who was (by his account) about to lose his job for giving out Camping tracts at work. Of course, Camping is fine with him continuing to do this.
I really hope someone out there throws the most hedonistic' Rapture Party' humanely possible. Drugs, sex, booze, orgies, worship of graven idols, witchcraft, adultery, money in the temples, the whole nine yards.
Quick, someone find me a rapper and a church for rent.
I really hope someone out there throws the most hedonistic' Rapture Party' humanely possible. Drugs, sex, booze, orgies, worship of graven idols, witchcraft, adultery, money in the temples, the whole nine yards.
Quick, someone find me a rapper and a church for rent.
Serve bacon cheeseburgers and play Led Zeppelin backwards.
Listening to some weekend archive stuff that I missed. Mostly it's the same stuff I've mentioned before. It goes like this:
Camping: "Welcome to Family Radio."
Caller: "This is Herp McDerp. I've listened to your show for years and I was wondering if you could read from the Book of Derp, Chapter 5."
Camping: "...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu...And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it." Amen. Now caller, what is your question?"
Caller: "I was wondering if this means [I can be sure of my salvation|the Devil is in all other churches|some question about faith versus works|etc]?"
Camping: "Here's how we can solve your problem with Prime Numbers. Thank you for calling."
Pretty much every show, there's at least one "troll caller" who asks about why Camping hasn't sold everything or what his response will be when he wakes up on May 22. Camping gets a bit louder and defensive, says it's a nonsense question and it doesn't matter, and refuses to elaborate. I haven't yet heard anyone put this in the context of "well, if it doesn't matter, why not follow Luke 12:33 and sell your possessions and give everything to the poor", or otherwise exploiting one of the Biblical injunctions to give away your stuff.
Anyway, the sad part...the show I was listening to today, they had a guy who was (by his account) about to lose his job for giving out Camping tracts at work. Of course, Camping is fine with him continuing to do this.
:^: for the Monty Python bit.
Noted above, I do worry that someone is going to do something rash (more regretably to their family or others rather than just themselves), but I will admit I am kind of looking forward to hearing what the excuse is on Sunday. It not happening just doesn't fit into their worldview (despite it failing to happen before; you'd think these people would be a bit quicker on the uptake when it comes to pattern recognition; they're busy finding obscure patterns in the Bible every other day of the week) so I can only imagine it'd be like if we suddenly found ourselves on an 8th day of the week, having just passed Saturday but with Sunday still 24 hours away.
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First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
[ ] We are not yet worthy for Jesus to return, so he is punishing us for our sins by not Rapturing yet.
[ ] Satan mislead us, so we got the date wrong. Check back next week for the corrected prediction!
Somehow I don't think the need for massive doublethink is an obstacle for these folks.
The history of apocalyptic predictions and their aftermath is always interesting. There have been hundreds and hundreds over the past few thousand years.
Hell I'm pretty sure there were at least a few in like 2500 BCE about how mankind had become wicked and was going to be purged.
So this whole thing is getting world-wide attention now. Everyone at work had a good laugh about it after seeing it in one of the newspapers...except one guy who actually believes it.
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
So this whole thing is getting world-wide attention now. Everyone at work had a good laugh about it after seeing it in one of the newspapers...except one guy who actually believes it.
I live in the UK.
Obviously may 22 is the resurrection of Sid Vicious.
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edited May 2011
I remember y2k, and I was a wee lass at the time too! Elementary school. I remember thinking it was silly back then. I figured if it was really a big deal we would be getting pamphlets in the mail from the government or something, about what to do. Maybe announcements at school, something official.
But I do remember the brouhaha around it, I absolutely do. So the 2012 stuff is going to be interesting, though all I've met regard it jestingly.
There are going to be some nifty New Years parties.
Due to heavenly server hacks, there is a possibility that the identities of those listed for rapture may have been leaked to the general public. Therefore, the Rapture is being postponed until further notice. For your patience, we will continue to provide you with hell on earth.
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I hate when people pass y2k off as a thing that was all some big scam or something people made up. The reason nothing major happened is because people were working for years beforehand to make sure nothing did!
I mean, I was still in high school at the time, but I'm a programmer now, so I've got some experience with how people see the one bug that gets through and not the hundred that got fixed before they ever ran into them.
My brother installed all these ridiculous "Y2K compliancy cards" into business' computers on behalf of his company, I'm not sure what, if anything, they even did
All I know is they were paid some ungodly sum to do it
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This honestly confuses me. I mean this guy has obviously continued to pay his hosting fees for the last 10 years, and the site isn't ad-supported so its not like he left it active to gather hits from the nostalgia factor. I can only therefore assume that he paid a non-believer some money in advance to keep his vitally important apocalypse survival site online, while he continues to hide in a bunker somewhere to this very day.
These apocalypses are getting to be a real drag. Not only is the world ending on Saturday but then its going to end again in 2012 and my house is completely unsuitable for repelling zombie attacks, let along hell-demons.
I hate when people pass y2k off as a thing that was all some big scam or something people made up. The reason nothing major happened is because people were working for years beforehand to make sure nothing did!
I mean, I was still in high school at the time, but I'm a programmer now, so I've got some experience with how people see the one bug that gets through and not the hundred that got fixed before they ever ran into them.
Agreed on the technical points. Y2K did also figure into premillenialist (the Christians who believe in a literal Second Coming, usually something like "the Rapture", and Jesus reigning for a literal 1000 year period after this occurs) thought, as yet another effectively arbitrary date for the end of the world. That's part of why there was such an exaggerated amount of hooplah over it.
I hate when people pass y2k off as a thing that was all some big scam or something people made up. The reason nothing major happened is because people were working for years beforehand to make sure nothing did!
I mean, I was still in high school at the time, but I'm a programmer now, so I've got some experience with how people see the one bug that gets through and not the hundred that got fixed before they ever ran into them.
Agreed on the technical points. Y2K did also figure into premillenialist (the Christians who believe in a literal Second Coming, usually something like "the Rapture", and Jesus reigning for a literal 1000 year period after this occurs) thought, as yet another effectively arbitrary date for the end of the world. That's part of why there was such an exaggerated amount of hooplah over it.
It was a scam because of the people selling y2k compliance kits that were complete BS. It's kind of like how the Church used to sell Indulgences (sin as much as you want, pay us some $$$ to go to heaven no really).
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The player that reaches the top has to leave the party. Everyone else has a gender-blind orgy.
Then you release the locusts.
But...
Listening to some weekend archive stuff that I missed. Mostly it's the same stuff I've mentioned before. It goes like this:
Camping: "Welcome to Family Radio."
Caller: "This is Herp McDerp. I've listened to your show for years and I was wondering if you could read from the Book of Derp, Chapter 5."
Camping: "...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu...And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it." Amen. Now caller, what is your question?"
Caller: "I was wondering if this means [I can be sure of my salvation|the Devil is in all other churches|some question about faith versus works|etc]?"
Camping: "Here's how we can solve your problem with Prime Numbers. Thank you for calling."
Pretty much every show, there's at least one "troll caller" who asks about why Camping hasn't sold everything or what his response will be when he wakes up on May 22. Camping gets a bit louder and defensive, says it's a nonsense question and it doesn't matter, and refuses to elaborate. I haven't yet heard anyone put this in the context of "well, if it doesn't matter, why not follow Luke 12:33 and sell your possessions and give everything to the poor", or otherwise exploiting one of the Biblical injunctions to give away your stuff.
Anyway, the sad part...the show I was listening to today, they had a guy who was (by his account) about to lose his job for giving out Camping tracts at work. Of course, Camping is fine with him continuing to do this.
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Quick, someone find me a rapper and a church for rent.
Technically, yes. But you're in fabulous company.
Serve bacon cheeseburgers and play Led Zeppelin backwards.
There are some theologians that disagree and will insist that Heaven is a cheesy 2000 era Trance Video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbaWdyDipcw
:^: for the Monty Python bit.
Noted above, I do worry that someone is going to do something rash (more regretably to their family or others rather than just themselves), but I will admit I am kind of looking forward to hearing what the excuse is on Sunday. It not happening just doesn't fit into their worldview (despite it failing to happen before; you'd think these people would be a bit quicker on the uptake when it comes to pattern recognition; they're busy finding obscure patterns in the Bible every other day of the week) so I can only imagine it'd be like if we suddenly found ourselves on an 8th day of the week, having just passed Saturday but with Sunday still 24 hours away.
[ ] We are not yet worthy for Jesus to return, so he is punishing us for our sins by not Rapturing yet.
[ ] Satan mislead us, so we got the date wrong. Check back next week for the corrected prediction!
Somehow I don't think the need for massive doublethink is an obstacle for these folks.
Hell I'm pretty sure there were at least a few in like 2500 BCE about how mankind had become wicked and was going to be purged.
I live in the UK.
The Great Disappointment.
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That said, I also expect it to be a party of truly extraordinary legendaryness. Yeah, you heard me.
I'm expecting absolute debauchery here, people.
Obviously may 22 is the resurrection of Sid Vicious.
you know what that means, ANARCHY IN THE UK
How many were during the age of the internet?
this is peanuts
But I do remember the brouhaha around it, I absolutely do. So the 2012 stuff is going to be interesting, though all I've met regard it jestingly.
There are going to be some nifty New Years parties.
Due to heavenly server hacks, there is a possibility that the identities of those listed for rapture may have been leaked to the general public. Therefore, the Rapture is being postponed until further notice. For your patience, we will continue to provide you with hell on earth.
-God
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I mean, I was still in high school at the time, but I'm a programmer now, so I've got some experience with how people see the one bug that gets through and not the hundred that got fixed before they ever ran into them.
Like, this only seems odd because they tend to fizzle when they're over. Obviously.
All I know is they were paid some ungodly sum to do it
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http://www.countdown.org/y2k/y2K_checklist.htm
This honestly confuses me. I mean this guy has obviously continued to pay his hosting fees for the last 10 years, and the site isn't ad-supported so its not like he left it active to gather hits from the nostalgia factor. I can only therefore assume that he paid a non-believer some money in advance to keep his vitally important apocalypse survival site online, while he continues to hide in a bunker somewhere to this very day.
These apocalypses are getting to be a real drag. Not only is the world ending on Saturday but then its going to end again in 2012 and my house is completely unsuitable for repelling zombie attacks, let along hell-demons.
Agreed on the technical points. Y2K did also figure into premillenialist (the Christians who believe in a literal Second Coming, usually something like "the Rapture", and Jesus reigning for a literal 1000 year period after this occurs) thought, as yet another effectively arbitrary date for the end of the world. That's part of why there was such an exaggerated amount of hooplah over it.
Also on Steam and PSN: twobadcats
It was a scam because of the people selling y2k compliance kits that were complete BS. It's kind of like how the Church used to sell Indulgences (sin as much as you want, pay us some $$$ to go to heaven no really).
I have the obvious R.E.M. and Blondie songs .... any other good ones?
Out of ignorant curiosity, why is this?
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nm, it's y2k.2
It's another Y2K-esque thing, but for UNIX.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem