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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AndiC says:
May 20, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Well, it’s fast approaching 5pm here in Godzone (NZ for the masses), and nothing – quite disappointing as my Tax bill is due and it would be the ultimate avoidance strategy.
Do you think they’ll believe me when I tell them I expected the world to end, so spent it !!!!
Andy
Believe you, yes; forgive your debt? uh, no……
12 Noon in Chicago…..if anyone is left to read this, well, then I’ll see you at the party!
It was my son’s 18th yesterday (20th) so I celebrated in grand style knowing the world was about to end. The world hasn’t ended but it does feel like it. Couldn’t even summon the energy to watch the little blighter play cricket looking as fresh as a daisy. Oh, the be 18 again.
This is handy, now I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car or paying my mortgage. I’m mostly ready, I’ve pared down my belongings, sold a bunch of stuff on eBay…… but I really need more time. Could we postpone this to sometime in August, maybe toward the end of the month?
I’m shaking my head at how people believe religious nonsense, and probably will be for many years to come.
Just Gone 6PM here…Nothing happe
This “end of the world” will never happen because God has not performed the proper studies and has gotten the proper permits from the EPA
I hope that someone tomorrow puts an arm around the shoulders of Harold Camping and says “there, there, it’s not the End of the World”
CRS, Dr.P.H. says:
May 21, 2011 at 9:55 am
Ok. Happy Camping!
Reminds me of the 666 crew waking up one day and realizing that their sign had been upside down. Now they’re the 999 crew until somebody finds a missing number.
pwl says:
May 20, 2011 at 9:10 pm
I’m putting a pair of shoes, socks, pants, undies, t-shirt, shirt onto the side walk in front of my place and videoing it. Lots of people walk by. So it’ll be fun to see their reactions. Muh ha ha! ];)]
PWL, be sure to let us see the video or at least tell us what happens.
I am ready for the Vogon Constructor Fleet to complete their work:
http://scifi.wikia.com/wiki/Vogon_Constructor_Fleet
I have my guide, my towel and my thumb. 🙂
Scottish Sceptic says: “…Their Master had told them so. He shared, and indeed created, their delusion. He said in so many words, ‘This generation shall not pass till all these things be done.’ And he was wrong.”
The Bible as we know it wasn’t written down for many years after 35 AD. Some scholars believe (and some don’t) that the original account of Jesus’ life was merely a collection of his sayings, and that all the “Gospels” were rehashings by others, attempts to put those same sayings into some sort of context, either historical or philosophical. If true, this would explain many of the oddities and inconsistencies of the New Testament. It appears that, in the process, two of Jesus’ predictions were conflated in later manuscripts: (1) the end of the world (which can’t be predicted by human agency) and (2) the destruction of Jerusalem (which DID occur before the generation of 35 AD passed away.)
There is much evidence that the early believers DID expect Jesus to return quickly, but whether from wishful thinking or from whatever scripture they possessed is unknown. It is possible that the conflation occurred very early.
An interesting book on scripture (from the viewpoint of an agnostic but well-informed Biblical scholar) is Misquoting Jesus. I don’t recommend it for fundamentalists, anyone of weak faith, or anyone who believes that the King James Version is the infallible Word of God even though it wasn’t cobbled together until 1611.
Wondering where I can get new clothes.
@ur momisugly John A says:
May 21, 2011 at 10:18 am
I hope that someone tomorrow puts an arm around the shoulders of Harold Camping and says “there, there, it’s not the End of the World”
I hope that all those gullible enough to subscribe to his brand of BS to the tune of over 100 million dollars, put a rope around his neck and hang him from the nearest tree. This pos is nothing more than a con artist, no different than Jim Jones.
Jeff Alberts says:
May 21, 2011 at 10:09 am
I’m shaking my head at how people believe religious nonsense, and probably will be for many years to come.
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Why should religious nonsense be any different?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction
Year 1806 The Prophet Hen of Leeds
In Leeds, England in 1806 a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase “Christ is coming” written on the eggs.[3] Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The hoaxster had written on the eggs in a corrosive ink so to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs back into the hen.[4] The Prophet Hen of Leeds
jorgekafkazar says:
May 21, 2011 at 11:19 am
………….. or anyone who believes that the King James Version is the infallible Word of God even though it wasn’t cobbled together until 1611.
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Not to mention the removal of “apocryphal books” from the Bible, of which hebrew manuscripts were later found confirming cannonicity(sp?).
Now, as we all know, the sophisticated media would not fall for a prediction as preposterous as this. Well compare this to the Y2K bug in which all electronics were supposed to fail at midnight January 1, 2000. This was supposed to be TEOTWAWKI or ” The End of the World as We Know It”. The elite media were full of scare stories. Power grids, telephone networks, cash registers and everything else were supposed to fail. . New Zealand is the first large country to greet the new day or new year. People were starting rumours that New Zealand had suddenly vanished from the Internet and all communication networks. Some people believed the rumours
So these people are 11 years late. The world as we know it has already ended.
The clock rollover problem (eg going 98 99 and then back to 00) is a standard issue in operating and other systems. There has to be a clock and it has to have a maximum value. The systems are set up to cope with this and it is not a difficult problem to deal with. All the elite media had to do was to ask somebody and they would have found out but then why waste a good story. A comparison between the followers of Camp and the followers of the elite media would be an interesting sociological story. Faith in authority is a common human trait
If Orson Welles were still alive, he could do a radio play about this. Sophisticated city dwellers would not believe that the world was ending
I’m going to Cleveland because Mark Twain wrote that “When the end of the world comes, I would like to be in Cleveland- everything there happens 10 years later.”
Tom Gray says:
May 21, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Fixed. 😛
DaveE.
Blessed are the cheeze markers for they will be aroumus.
6pm was nearly 2 hours ago. I guess he got it wrong just like AGW doomsayers. Next date May 21st 2012. ;O)
Someone needs to do a head count on Jehovah’s Witness members quick.
From Wiki — the number of Christians going to heaven is limited to exactly 144,000, who will rule with Jesus as kings and priests over earth
I’m getting no reply to any emails… websites I’ve looked at were last updated May 20th – is there anyone out there?? Reply please – someone!
Hey, RealClimate is still active though…