End of the world 22nd May (Apparently)
 

I heard on the radio today a fanatical Christian announcing that it is STATED in the Bible that the Armeggedon will be this year on 22nd May (surprisingly could not give a time). However the thing that really got me leaking a bit of Urine was the fact she said for 2000 yrs they had it all wrong as they thought it was 2012 but forgot that actually in time scale 0 to 1 is infact 1 year. OK.... I can see her logic :) Thank you for putting us all right..and GOD himself.. So my question: If all these fanatics ACTUALLY believe this ..why would she waste nearly an hour of her last 16 days arguing with a radio DJ about wether he should cancel his June holliday ??? Should she not be out beating herself with Witchazel and covering herself in chicken blood ???:confused:

The Mayans were the ones who originally predicted 2012, but most scholars think that was just because they got tired of charting out their calendar. At the time, they'd looked ahead for eclipses, etc. for several hundred years and it was a waste of resources to go further.

You might find this interesting. 2012 End Of The World - End Of The World 2012 Predictions

i wouldnt take the bible as any sort of authority on numbers. if you google 'numerical errors in the bible' you'll come up with a long long list of pages that show you how the mere copying of information was badly done.

as for the end of the world that this woman is talking about, ill be willing to bet her my house that its not coming. but if im wrong, ill pay her on the 23rd.

From the billboards around LA, it looks like it might just be the Rapture.

If so, I'm heading over to Orange County and stealing a Z4 or two.

Even so, it's not necessarily going to be some overblown "End of the World" scenario like some crappy Hollywood flick staring a guy who was once pretty cool but then started doing lame rom-coms and is now trying to make up for it but is merely overcompensating.

No.

Another way to look at it (if you're into predictions of predictors, etc.) is that it's not merely the end of the world as in the world ends—kaput! But rather it's the end of the world as we know it.

People talk about New World Order or whatever. Well, what if the prediction was that humanity would one day (say, sometime in 2012) reach a pinnacle of communication technology and willingness to the extent that it would mark a turning point in human events across the globe. Yes, we're that close to such an event. Some might argue we're already there technologically and all that's missing is the will.

The Dalai Lama dedicates most of his career to this kind of thing. Other humanists do too. There are many influential people who want to work towards a universal humanism, and maybe, just maybe, this 2012 prediction is just that. The turning point to a better world under a better humanity.

Not some lava-filled, earthshaking, tsunami-crushing, alien-invading nuclear event.

Or maybe it will mark the beginning of a long nuclear winter. Who knows?



Winter is coming.....

See (what I find the most amusing part of all that is) Ok they Mayans had the calender ..Granted ok..lets take that as fact!!! But the Christians ...not only predicted that the weather would get a bit crappy ..but there would be Wars... ok ..no biggy there were wars 2000 yrs ago there have been wars since time began. I am absolutely certain that a couple of T rex's got pissed off with a Tyranasaurus or two and made a somewhat "SOCIAL" divide... BUT to predict RUMOURS of wars ... PMSL I can do that for every local derby football match.IN FACT >>>me being a stand in for god just for the moment.... I THE DUCK with all that is good and holy and do not apease my WRATH on pain of death Predict that if one football team lose against another this weekend there will be WAR!!! >>>or handbags at 10 paces one or the other !

The Bible predicts things much like the writers of horoscopes do.

As an aside... (and I do hope you find this as funny as I did once it is in text rather than verbal) The Pure Genius of the DJ said to the woman (who had ranted and raved at him ..quite aggresively during the interview) "Thank you for your insight, would you be willing to come back on air at sometime so we can continue this discussion?" She replied YES of course I would. When?" "lets say about JULY" ... " Yes no problem" ????"

There is, of course, a lot of disagreement about how to interpret these things. For example, there's this guy, who's built an entire career doing this exact thing (over and over again):

Why is he not out with all the other evangelists GETTING LAID ...hes only got 16 days left !!!

No, no... Jesus is coming.

But, honestly, I'd sooner believe Cizin or Cacoch or Alom or somebody were coming. Maybe all of them and more.

i remember Smeth posting this once.

Funniest shit i have heard in years !!!!!

I will be at Disneyland on May 22nd. I hope Jesus lets me ride Pirates of the Caribbean before He decides to turn the Earth into a raging inferno (or whatever the hell is supposed to happen).

My brothers will still be visiting me on the 22nd for my graduation. Aw-right! Riding out the apocalypse with my broskies :D

Oh, that's the Sunday before I have to go to Arkansas twice in the same week. Huh.

going to arkansas twice in one week is a sign of the apocalypse.

i will probably be golfing in lexington, virginia on the 22nd of may...

deux-deux de mayo?

Thanks, Ned.

You'd think Hay-seuss would give us more of a heads up, eh?

I dunno, like maybe his visage appearing more often in cloud formations, on people's toast, in people's latte foam....

Something! Give us a sign or something!

I'll just duck & cover. My desk will protect me.

There is no desk....

The guy's supposed to rule for 1000 years when he's back.

long enough for you?

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It's aussie humour. Much much funnier than lame english humour.

I'll hopefully be playing on my new iPad2 on May 21st.
It'll give me a day to appreciate it before the end.
Or, if I don't win the raffle, I can smugly laugh at the winner when the 22nd comes.

/come on, apocky-clips

The 22nd, huh? Looks like I better get around to using these Radio Shack coupons...

The billboards here say that Judgment Day is the 21st. The pastors at the church I work at (Methodist) think it's hilarious.

First prize is, all expenses paid, a week in Arkansas.

Second prize is two weeks!

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Hey now. Arkansas isn't that bad. It's MUCH better than Alabama and lightyears ahead of Mississippi. I'll get to stay about 1/4 mile from the Clinton Presidential Library.

Is Arkansas like a Saskatchewan but without all the hockey and curling?

Baraka, everyone except the tin foil hat crowd knows that Saskatchewan isn't any more real than the Yeti, chupracabra or the Pilsbury Doughboy. Arkansas is a real place.

Dude, Saskatchewan is the birthplace of Canadian universal health care. It's the reason I'm alive!

Socialist bastards! No wonder the worlds going to end soon. Every Good US citizen knows universal health care will kill your grandparents.

We abort all fetuses and replace them with non-English-speaking Muslim immigrants as well.

I eat Mexicans when they look at me funny.

Ahhhh, Mexican food...

i hae cousins in toronto

You're welcome any time, despite your command over the English language.

its 4am here dude. gimme a break.

beside. my cousin not bitter spell then me.


i love tacos

There are some great tacos in this city. We've got Mexicans too.

I didnt read all the reply's so I hope I am not repeating old news. Around Dec 21, when the Mayans have "predicted" the end of the world, Jupiter will be in its closest orbit to Earth. Check it out, i have seen some cool animations on the net. I would think that this is more important that another Conspiracy Theory. I would check with NASA to see if they are sending any missions out in the months before. Can you imagine the possibilities of Terraforming Jupiter eventually. Here is where the research starts...

I think he's turning. We'd better lock him up before he starts eating our brains like taco-stuffing.

The Jack Van Impe reference made my day. A former roommate and I used to stay up to catch his program, drink, and bask in the warming glow of his crazy. And he has a hot wife. I would air burst all over her face like the Tunguska Event.

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Doesn't that happen every Dec 21?

can this shit be post-poned.........i'm supposed to be in the studio that day.......

and as a hired gun finally.........

hey,end of the world............Fuck off already,i still have shit to do.

thats no way to speak to the end of the world. she may just kick your ass a day earlier in spite of you and you'll screw kirstangs graduation, grasshoppers disneyland strip and probably unclephils game of golf. i'd mind my language if i were you. if only for their sake.

if she only got her math right in the first place..........

the bitch.


HA!

So let me get this straight....

We can barely predict the weather for this afternoon, but we can predict.....this? To the day? :confused:

/unfaithful

I suppose we should have a little more patience with those who think they can, baraka guru. You know they seem to be prone to violence.

A friend's wedding is on the 21st. If the world ends on that day I'll be dressed in my tuxedo and ready to meet my maker.

On the other hand, if reality comes through (doomsday prophecies are not real and you're an idiot if you believe in them,) I'll be playing a "gentleman's role" and ``dancing with bridesmaids as is appropriate.

The End IS Nigh! MSD just posted "you're an idiot if you believe". Excellent.

On May 21 I will likely be locked in a dark room, staring at a glowing phosphorescent screen with images of cell contents. I don't think that I'll notice anything out of the ordinary. That is, unless I see a chloroplast in the shape of Mary.

Jupiter is a gas giant. Terraforming it would be a waste. Igniting it into a second sun would be more practical. Now, Jupiter does have 63 moons, (some of which are tectonically active!). If Jupiter were successfully ignited into a star, Callisto would be far more practical for terraforming. It already has an atmosphere.

There's a "believer" on reddit right now doing a Q&A about it. Possible he's a troll, though nothing but the topic fires any troll-dar for me, he's not being argumentative or inflammatory, just saying what he believes.

He says it's going to happen at 6am, local time. So starting left of the International Date Line and working its way West. Believers will be taken bodily to heaven and given new, perfect bodies. Nonbelievers will be in massive earthquakes and either die or live a post-apocalyptic hell on earth.

What's interesting to me is the marketing of this thing. It's "guaranteed"--like if it doesn't happen you get your money back or something. There are billboard trucks roaming my small city here proclaiming this thing. I guess if your mission is to save souls, and you've got no use for your money after a "guaranteed" date, why not blow it all now on mass marketing. I can see the logic. Still.

smells like Heavens Gate to me

I noticed there were a few Family Radio folks at Yonge and Dundas in Toronto, the intersection best known for its dense pedestrian traffic.

I really wonder what these folks are going to do on May 22nd when it's just another day. They say this whole May 21st Judgement Day shit is guaranteed by the Bible. Will this invalidate the Bible?

i just wonder who came up with the 6am rule. why 6am? im pretty certain god didnt say it in the bible and its just a made up number. The question i have is, why would god be so cruel that he'd start with the pacific nations and then work his way towards the west. That would give other countries on the opposite side of the timeline up to 24hrs more, and would give the states about an extra 20 hours to repent. Americans always get the better deal.

BG, i presume that they'll blame it on human error. The bible cant be wrong. Me personally, id rather these people make the worlds biggest barbie like that Koresh fella in Waco. Ill bring the pork chops.

For reasons of his own, it seems, God allowed money & interest, full blown, into His book with no explanation of where they came from. Human error is funny.

well actually, if you mean Interest to mean Usury, then it is forbidden under Quranic law.

as far as i recall ( Levite can correct me if im wrong here), jews could charge non-jews interest, but not each other. The christians made interest fair game for all, and the muslims then put a stop to all the fun and banned the whole damn thing.

god/people (whatever) need to make up their minds.

No, dlish, I was merely referring to that very vague text. The end of the world will arrive in an unexpected manner, I assume. The cretinous games we play in the meantime will not hasten the process.

So....what's everyone doing on their final week? Any last-minute repenting before the big day?

I'm repenting to the coffee gods for every minute I wasted drinking Folgers instead of grinding my own beans.

:shakehead: You have a lot to answer for, my child.

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May 21, 2011, prediction off by approximately one trillion eight hundred twenty-five billion days: Dawkins

or

"Science explains the end of the world" – On Faith – The Washington Post

i just signed up for some post-rapture looting.

should be easy pickings.

I'm typing away at my Post-New Testament.

I will find myself unlikely to take the next week off. Geez, I was SO CLOSE to enjoying commonality.

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Shoulda went with this stuff...

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Smithsonian Magazine Article on Apocalypses than didn't come off:
Ten Notable Apocalypses That (Obviously) Didn?t Happen | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine

Good read, Lindy! Thank you for sharing. I'd never heard of several of those - like the black sky over New England.

don't forget england...

Ahh, unc, I love you right down to your white dimpled balls... :thumbsup:

and fre, you're my favorite texan...

The black sky was 231 years ago TODAY.:paranoid:

Well, THAT must mean SOMETHING, as things are counted.

If anyone thinks the world is going to end, I'll gladly buy your house and car tomorrow for $100.

I plan on getting a tattoo tomorrow afternoon, although I might be a little late to the death day party if the world ends exactly at 6am.

I KNOW THAT REFERENCE

YESSS.


zzwwzzwzwzwzwwwz -

- thats the noise of me feeling the inside connection with you:thumbsup:

I don't have much worthwhile to add to the topic at hand, but then I just read Mr. D. Letterman's top ten list on this theme and liked this one enough to repeat it here:

8. All-you-can-eat baby back ribs with Chili's Aporkalypse special.

And now I wonder why no one has yet mentioned "bacon".

I'm willing to take on the property taxes so please, believe the rapture comes tomorrow and deed me your house.
Or car... Boat... Truck... Guns...

I promise not to collect til Sunday!

I personally plan to borrow $100,000 from a fat Russian bookie here in Atlanta and blow it on strippers and Crown Royal....anybody else in?

Don't forget that only 200 million people are leaving us tomorrow, and that the rest of us sinners will have another 5 months of torment before the end end.

C'mon, let's not get too crazy....

Just be ready for that quake. It's going to be a doozy.

Bubbly wine time?

COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE, SOCIAL CHANGE AND CHARISMA: DURKHEIM, WEBER AND 1989

I'll be good & drunk, for sure, wishing I qualified for a new & perfect body. On the bright side, the kids are having a party to celebrate idiocy.

Man, I'm ready if it's for real!! I have two terrifuc dogs waiting for me in Heaven.(Though - I have serious doubts about THIS being THE DATE...LOL) No big deal.

I wish it was a real date...because I have no fear about dying and meanwhile I'm just gonna have as much fun as possible and enjoy everyday!

Why sweat the small stuff?

Disappointment.

Roll call: 22 May, 3:35 AM. London, England.

I'm OK. I just finished some iced buns.
Looked through the window .... no cyber punks in stripped down chassies with over-extended roll cages.
Still some hours to go before May 23rd. I'll have what might be my final cup of tea.

Au contraire, my friend!

"Macho Man" Randy Savage saved us all from the Rapture!

Some say he left us too soon; I say he left at just the right time.

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if none of the 200 million people that were expecting to be beamed up didnt go, you all do realise that this can only mean that there's no true believers left in the world.

whelp, seems like I'm still alive.


for the love of god, when are we going to stop listening to these idiots? How many times can people be wrong about the world ending because of some religion-gone-wrong-soothsayer-bullshit? Why do people constantly cling to the idea that the world is going to go down in flames and some god being is going to finger us with flaming fists? when is the next one? next year, right? 2012? I think I'll cash out all my investments at the end of the year, burn my house down and run through the streets naked. what the hell, right, since we're all going to die when the Mayan calendar ends....or nostradamus claimed....or was it the flying spaghetti monster?

Hmm, maybe I shouldn't have stocked up on closet women...

bummer, it didn't happen...

So, if 200 million people are "beamed up", leaving the earth, that will make the earth "lighter" by how many million pounds? Will we spin out of orbit...hmmm...what then...OH WELL..too much for my simple brain

errr... daka, the earth doesnt float. its spins. there would be little effect caused by the displacement of 200Million humans. Although, i can see your point. If matter can not be created or destroyed, that what is taking the place of the matter that was beamed up.

im assuming it a figurative beaming up, where the souls ascend the bodies stay on earth.

scotty has a lot to do in one day

The party was a lot more fun than I deserve, & we didn't even have to discuss what it was about. Sirens are going off now, though.

Emily Litella says, "Never mind."

another "Final" dissapointment......on to Dec 22 2012.....????


xoxoxoo

I spent the weekend and the Rapture getting, and staying, very drunk on a tropical beach. All I got was a little bit of a sunburn and no appreciable hangover.

i was doing a swimming coaching course at the time. i was kind of hoping rapture would come so that i didnt have to do the poolside assessment.

You would have had the job of cleaning empty suits out of the pool's filter. I'd say it was a toss-up.

No Rapture?

Oh well, it's not the end of the world!

*rimshot*

;)