Somehow, standing in line for this just doesn’t do it for me.
So the world ends tomorrow, May 21st, so some people say. What will you do?
Will our east Asia and European readers please let us know how it’s going as the time marches across the face of the earth. Open thread –
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Maybe it only works if you’re in a Daylight SAVINGS Time zone.
If only the Old Testament punishment for false prophets was still used…….. there would be less people claiming to be prophets in God’s name. If a claimed prophecy did not come to pass, then they were stoned to death. Sort of makes you be really, really sure you are correct before opening your trap 🙂
Think I’ll max out my credit cards, fit dolphins with high powered trackers and investigate class action suits for misrepresentation.
Whaaat? You guys still down there? Oh this is so cool. Just a minute . . . what’s that, Lord? He says it’s gonna be ice .. lots and lots of ice .. . Sorry, gotta run . . there’s a briefing for new inductees . . .
I’ve just spoken to my daughter in Australia…only realised afterwards that she wasn’t supposed to be around any more!
Just to be on the safe side I took the family out for lunch at the Sea Vista Cafe at Gerringong NSW, where we sat out on the verandah looking out to sea and had seafood basket, prawns, squid,scallops and fish. A perfect way to go!
I’ll go again next weekend!
@barra
‘Has anyone considered that it may be a clever stunt to get people to consider that from a Christian perspective “any” day could be judgement day. No one knows when but it’s great to see you all thinking about the big question which is…….. Where am I going to spend Eternity………have a great 22nd. :)’
Yep. Thought about your question a lot. Is it a clever stunt etc?….
And after the deepest and most careful consideration the answer is:
Nope,..just another bunch of religious nutters wanting their day of being laughed at.
Sorry.
I’m going to set my computer’s clock ahead by one day. Since this earthquake is smart enough to read time-zone maps, clocks and calendars, it will see that I’m already in May 22, and will skip me.
Religion is a disease. Those infected are mad – they would willingly destroy themselves, their children, and indeed the world. Enlightened societies inoculate susceptible by infecting them with one of the more benign strains.
I have a vibrating device from an old chair bolted the beams in my basement, it is on a timer to start at 6 pm tonite, I intend to play god with my family for exactly 1 minute.
I hope I survive their rapture! “The bible proves it”, if it doesnt happen the bible is wrong, and maybe we can move on. I’ll bet my house stops shaking at 6:01, any takers?
I had a conversation with a ‘doomsday fan’ not too long ago.
I said all the predictions of the end of the world had one important thing in common. She was most interested until I went on. I said this one thing was that they had ALL been wrong.
Her answer? ‘Only about the timing’.
She couldn’t, or wouldn’t, understand that with ‘prediction’ it is ALL about the timing……………….large sigh!
I will be waving good-bye. I will also make sure to notice to whom I am waving.
I have a shooting match that I am really looking forward to. Can you schedule it sometime after 15:00 Central time? (That’s a joke!)
Everyone laughs at those people for talking about the end of the world. It seems to me that we should find equal humor and heap equal scorn and ridicule on the Goracle et al. (That is NOT a joke!)
For those in a classical mood, you might find this album of interest. It is an acapella mass that was written for the end of time; the Year 1000, when all the Illuminati and Glitterati, the Best and the Brightest just KNEW that the world was coming to an end. Just like today. To listen to it is to hear the Angels sing! (All in Latin, but still beautiful.)
http://www.amazon.com/1000-Mass-End-Time-4/dp/B00004UFGW/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1305978554&sr=1-7
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin)
I hope the IRS takes this opportunity to revoke their Non-Prophet status, and throw this fool in the slammer.
While we are on the subject of doomsday scenarios, how come the Mayans – armed with their brilliant astronomical calendar – could not forecast their own sudden demise?
I feel fine.
I woke up this morning and am still here so I must no be one of the “good” people.
Its a good thing today marks the end, because after reading this http://globalsymposium2011.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/The-Stockholm-Memorandum.pdf we never stood a chance anyway. So why prolong it? ” May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the rain fall……OMG it is happening! Earthquake! Hurricane! It is worse than we thought!
@ur momisugly A Lovell says:
May 21, 2011 at 4:42 am
I had a conversation with a ‘doomsday fan’ not too long ago.
I said all the predictions of the end of the world had one important thing in common. She was most interested until I went on. I said this one thing was that they had ALL been wrong.
Her answer? ‘Only about the timing’.
Actually they have 2 things in common. The other being that they are all scams that prey on the innocent and gullible.
She couldn’t, or wouldn’t, understand that with ‘prediction’ it is ALL about the timing……………….large sigh!
Lord Cherwell CSO to Winston Churchill during WW2
“The Germans cannot have developed rockets because the British can’t build them.” As a result, thousands died from the V1s and V2s.
Prof. David King (CSO to Brown PM) , “by 2100 only Antarctica will be habital by humans.”
WWF: ‘by 2012 all the Arctic ice will have gone’
Paul Erlich: “by 2000 all the oil will have run out. By 2015 all species on earth will be extinct.”
“With so many past failures, you might think that environmental predictions would become more cautious. But not if it’s a ‘religion’. Remember, the nut on the sidewalk carrying the placard that predicts the end of the world doesn‘t quit when the world doesn’t end on the day he expects. He just changes his placard, sets a new doomsday date, and goes back to walking the streets. One of the defining features of ‘religion’ is that your beliefs are not troubled by facts, because they have nothing to do with facts.”
Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
‘Remarks to the Commonwealth Club’
San Francisco, September 15, 2003
Even if the rapture did happen today, how would we know? There are so very few people who are truly ‘pure’ enough to qualify.
I think that tomorrow, that we should remind all ‘believers’ in rapture that it happened, and they missed it!
Looting.
Well, it’s 10:30 at night on the 21st here in Japan…there was a lot of screaming outside but it was just the neighbor’s grill flaring up.
I spent the afternoon at Hashirimizu beach digging clams. I kept reciting The Walrus and the Carpenter to myself.
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
Then we had a big fish and clam bake. A good end to a good day; hopefully not my last but living as if it was.
Mount Megiddo the beginning place. All religions need a purpose of finality. Armageddon of sorts.
The Inuit must stop eating meat, vegan more good.
Cooking up some polar bear steaks and Devil’s Food cake. ;->