Judgment Day - May 21st, 2011 at Participating Universes

[Yabby]

Don't know if anyone else posted this but I will.

Mark 13:32 "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven neither the Son, but the Father."

So.... maybe he missed that part when he "read" the Bible. Jesus doesn't even know.....

Thought son/father was the same person.... so hes keeping secrets from himself?

[BadKarma]

Thought son/father was the same person.... so hes keeping secrets from himself?

Holy Trinity, separation of the powers etc etc.

[SephYuyX]

So if were not dead on the 21st, can we legally arrest all of those people for insanity and inciting panic?

[BadKarma]

So if were not dead on the 21st, can we legally arrest all of those people for insanity and inciting panic?

Its technically not illegal, there arent mass protests, sermons, or anything of that sort. The odd billboard in the bible belt is as far as it goes.

[Melena]

Its technically not illegal, there arent mass protests, sermons, or anything of that sort. The odd billboard in the bible belt is as far as it goes.

Oakland is part of the bible belt?

[Arvin]

Spotted that exact billboard today walking down past Cobo Hall in downtown Detroit today, right next to the hotel. Fucking lol'd hard.

[Eticket]

This shit is everywhere now... caught this on a bus in Honolulu

[bigrougabagel]

This propaganda campaign has to cost a decent amount what with all the billboards, radio programs and ads. Gotta wonder if they're paying for it out of the life savings of the bamboozled. "There won't be any need for money on May 21st, so how about you let us have everything so we can scam a few more dipshits" Will not be shocked when Camping is sitting on a private island on May 21st troll facing his ass off.

[Masenko]

Just remember, it's not fraud if organized religion does it.

[Weederr33]

Well folks, this is the "last" week! We might as well have as much fun as we can before we end! *extreme sarcasm*

[Yugl]

Watch this be propaganda for a movie.

[Blarg]

Watch this be propaganda for a movie.

Sacha Baron Cohen has secretly been the preacher dude the entire time. That, or it's marketing for a J J Abrams movie.

[Harajuku]

Dress up as "Jesus" and pop up outside these peoples windows. For real. It's obviously the best way to spend that day.

[Adajer]

Y2K all over again. Better stock up on some beans.

[foopy]

I also would like to say the Christian Right would disappear and I wouldn't have to worry about winning their votes in 2020, but let's be serious. A lot of the people in that group are about as far away from Jesus as possible.

after the rapture, may 21st, the world will end precisely 5months later, on october 21st.

[Ragnus]

And it will be the best six months of my life. lol

[Dantrag]

Shit needs to hurry up and get here. I can honestly say I hope a few people I work with get rapture'd so I can have a few decent days at work...

[Eliseos]

Someone posted the judgment day bumper sticker on a dumpster outside my apartment. My response:

Spoiler: show

[Shenrien]

Anyone else think the guy on those advertisements that they placed is just someone photoshopped off a toilet?

Judgement Day - Our bowels will explode and shit will hit the fan?

[Acturus]

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05/16/...-judgment-day/

Religion By the Numbers: How May 21, 2011 Was Calculated to Be Judgment Day
By: Nick Carbone

A radical Christian group has determined that the beginning of the end of the world will occur this week. But is its math correct?
Most of us roll our eyes and pass on carefree when we stumble across an apocalypse theory. But Family Radio has been proclaiming May 21, 2011 as the veritable Judgment Day, and it's been getting a lot of attention. How could they come up with such a specific date? NewsFeed crunched the numbers to see if their calculations could indeed signal the second coming of Christ, using passages from the New International Version of the Bible.

The Bible lists very few specific dates for events, so calculating the precise Judgment Day is a daunting task indeed. It takes a healthy leap of faith to take the Family Radio summation as fact, but if indeed their numbers are correct -– and their Biblical evidence stands true -- Judgment Day could indeed be upon us Saturday.

The Great Flood Struck in 4990 B.C.
Family Radio president Howard Camping determined the date of the flood by cobbling together dates and ages from the Bible. Starting with the Exodus of the Jews out of Egypt, commonly thought to have occurred in 1447 B.C., he counted back through each generation to form a timeline, reaching the year 4990 B.C. for the flood.

Accuracy of this date is paramount in his argument, though he seems to be one of the few people to arrive at this exact number. Other Biblical scholars say the Flood happened around 2000 B.C.

Seven Days' Warning of the Great Flood
“Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.” (Genesis 7:4)

The people had seven days to prepare for the Great Flood – an apocalyptic event in that time. This number serves as a benchmark.

Seven Days Equals 7,000 Years
“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” ( 2 Peter 3:8 )

Using the seven-day warning as a benchmark, Camping's calculations take this passage to heart. He added 7,000 years to the Great Flood date of 4990 B.C. (accounting for the fact that Year Zero doesn't officially exist in the Gregorian calendar we use today) to determine the date of the next destruction of humanity. But isn't this number a bit contrived? After all, no other Biblical event used a multiplier of 1,000. So why this one?

Month 2, Day 17
“In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.” (Genesis 7:11)

The Great Flood occurred on 17 Iyyar of the then-standard Hebrew calendar, which 7,000 years later corresponds to May 21 in 2011.

Taking this evidence into account, Camping and his crew predict that earthquakes will shake the world at 6 p.m. on May 21. But many non-believers, particularly religious ones, refute Family Radio's claims using other Biblical evidence. After all, would God truly reveal his plans in a calculated manner? “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Matthew 24:36)

And it appears not even Camping truly knows. After all, he's predicted the same situation before -– in 1994 -- and 17 years later, we're still here. He blamed the failed prediction on a miscalculation. Will he have to draft a similar excuse after Saturday?