Judgment Day - May 21st, 2011 at Participating Universes

[Dantrag]

He already has his excuse written out.

[ronin sparthos]

You mean mathed out cause after all it legitimizes everything.

[Guitarman]

already got this queued up to play on repeat at 6:01pm that day

[Shuichi]

What time is the earthquake? I don't wanna miss this awesome event.

[Dimmauk]

If Judgement day doesnt happen, its Math's fault!

[BadKarma]

If Judgement day doesnt happen, its Math's fault!

BLAME SCIENCE

[*Shinzon*]

already got this queued up to play on repeat at 6:01pm that day

THIS CAKE IS SO DELICIOUS AND MOIST.

[BadKarma]

THIS CAKE IS SO DELICIOUS AND MOIST.

BUT IT WAS A
LIE
Totally sent from a PC. Srsly.

[bigrougabagel]

So the forecast where I am calls for 7 straight days of rain leading up to the 21st.

Pretty much this. We're all fucked.

Sent from my rapture preparation pod.

[Dantrag]

So the forecast where I am calls for 7 straight days of rain leading up to the 21st.

Forecast in my area clears up after Thursday night.

[isladar]

THE WEATHER IS DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT PLACES

NEWS AT ELEVEN

[Jeryhn]

http://babyboomertalkonline.com/wp-c...noahs-ark.jpeg

Oh, is it?

[Arvin]

THE WEATHER IS DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT PLACES

NEWS AT ELEVEN

But have you seen the weather map recently!? IT'S PRECIPITATION EVERYYYYWHEEERREEE

[Myrrh_Quetz]

I have a question.

6pm when? CST, EST? MST?

[Bregor]

I'm not saying the world will end, just potentially D.C.

FML

[ronin sparthos]

I have this guy to blame for the ads all across NYC.

Robert Fitzpatrick is so convinced the end is near he's betting his life savings on it.

The retired MTA employee has pumped $140,000 into a NYC Transit ad campaign to warn everyone the world will end next Saturday.

"Global Earthquake! The Greatest Ever - Judgment Day: May 21," the ad declares above a placid picture of night over Jerusalem with a clock that's about to strike midnight.

"I'm trying to warn people about what's coming," the 60-year-old Staten Island resident said. "People who have an understanding [of end times] have an obligation to warn everyone."

His doomsday warning has appeared on 1,000 placards on subway cars, at a cost of $90,000, and at bus shelters around the city, for $50,000 more.
Fitzpatrick's millenial mania began after he retired in 2006 and began listening to California evangelist Harold Camping's "end of days" predictions.

Using head-spinning numerological calculations, Camping has determined that the world will end on Saturday, May 21. He's used similar biblical math to pinpoint when Abraham was circumcised (2068 B.C.) and when earth was created (11,083 B.C.).

Camping has predicted the end of world once before - on Sept. 6, 1994. When the sun rose on Sept. 7, Camping admitted he might have had that one wrong.

Still, Fitzpatrick remains convinced the beginning of the end is coming next week.

"It'll start just before midnight, Jerusalem time: It'll be instantaneous and global," he said. "There are too many scriptures talking about 'sudden destruction.'"

While Jesus Christ returns to Earth and all non-believers burn in eternal hellfire, Fitzpatrick says he and all those in the know will be saved in the rapture.

Similarly convinced followers around the city have taken it upon themselves to spread Camping's doomsday prediction to anyone who will listen.

"We're just heeding the warning God gives in Ezekiel 33 that God has appointed true believers as watchmen," said Esteban Ramsey, 19, of Harrison, N.J., as he handed out literature with fellow believers in Union Square this week.

Most dismissed the warning as the ranting of lunatics.

"I'm curious to see what they're going to say in a week when nothing happens," said Mollie Kotzen, 23, of Prospect Heights, rolling her eyes as she passed the group in Union Square.

Camping's group bought billboards in other parts of the country around Christmas time, but Fitzgerald is financing the New York ad campaign on his own, saying he wants to take as many people with him as he can.

The MTA says they have no problem with it.

"It's an individual's prerogative to spend their money as they see fit," said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz.

Anti-religion groups say the MTA should never have allowed the ad blitz.

"Doomsday cults are money-making enterprises," said David Silverman, of the American Atheists group, which ran counter-ads to Camping's earlier billboard campaign.

"I wonder what is going to happen on May 22 when people no longer have their possessions or their savings and we are all still here and they don't have their rapture," he said.

Fitzgerald said there's no chance that will happen and he has had no doubt about plunking down his retirement.

"It is the date," he insisted.

Not that he's been able to convince everyone.

"My sister doesn't believe it," he admitted. "I've tried to tell her. But that's pretty much the story with most people."

With Kerry Wills

I giggle at the MTA saying "they have no problem with it".

[BadKarma]

THESE PEOPLE ARE ALL OVER THE FUCKING SUBWAY.

Im out with my girlfriend, we saw Bridesmaids (funny fucking movie), go into subway to get home, the entire strip to the E-Train is fucking filled with these fuckers.

They all look homeless and shit to, (one looked like Ryko actually), no wonder they want the world to end.

[quannum]

I have a question.

6pm when? CST, EST? MST?

it's going to be a rolling rapture, hits japan first, hawaii last. i think that means god is japanese.

[Marootsoobutsu]

No really, could someone actually explain why people are so Hell-bent (lol) on the destruction of other humans and the planet? I grew up in church but that was one of the many things that was just put under, "The Lord works in mysterious ways" slogan. It's been mentioned a times earlier but no answer. Someone get Egon and the other resident (super crazy) Christians.

Essentially, it boils down to this:

What rapturist/apocalyptic Christians say:

The Apocalypse is kind of God's last, "Hey, pay attention numbnuts" events, kind of like the plagues in Egypt. While Pharroah initially hardened his heart, God eventually also hardened it, so that His power/will/etc... could be displayed. What that did to the rest of Egypt, who knows? The Egyptians treated getting rid of the Hebrews (and other Asiatics), as a huge military victory... the Jews, of course, called the Exodus a victory for themselves. (that's really not that uncommon with Egyptian history; they were notorious for spin)

Now... the Rapture itself isn't really mentioned in the Bible. Some folks have extrapolated it, but it's one of the more vague aspects of Revelation, which is (along with Ezekiel and Daniel), a book with much in common with an acid trip (and this coming from a literalist). There is two-part, seven-year tribulation mentioned. Most Rapturists believe the rapture's coming before the Tribulation starts... and most Christians I know of think of it in surprisingly "NYAH NYAH NYAH" terms.


What they mean:

Essentially, for that kind of Christian, it's their "proof". Forget faith-- forget knowing it their heart. They want EVERYONE ELSE to acknowledge they were right, and that's about all there is to it. Sure, they'll be in heaven (if they're right...), or at least Abraham's Bosom (Jewish theme, basically a holding place for God-folk until Heaven's ready), but heck-- all them miserable folks suffering down on Earth are gonna be all, "Man, I wish we'd listened!"

I'm all for preaching. I'm all for ministering. But the Bible itself has some pretty strong words about false prophets, and the Bible itself says, "Hey, if you make a prophecy that's false? You're from the devil, not God." Moreover, this is the kind of blatant contradictory prophecy that the Bible, likewise, says, "Bad juju." (okay, I paraphrased). That this could escape Phelpsian-sized congregations (read: single extreme nutjob and nutjob family), baffles me... it really shouldn't, but it does.

Then again, I graduated from a Christian high school, where only 8% of the graduating class could cite the 10 Commandments generally (not even word for word), without looking things up, so perhaps ignorance of what the Bible says shouldn't be that surprising.

[Pirian]

Hate to break it to you guys, but the rapture already happened.