End of the world?

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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited May 2011
    I think it's officially a bust! Back to your regularly scheduled disaster in progress.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,611
    edited May 2011
    Maybe the rapture happened and he just left us all here.

    ;)
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  • ysss
    ysss Posts: 213
    edited May 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    Where's the predicted torture and catastrophe then?

    ...it's our eternal unquenchable thirst for better gears...
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited May 2011
    I wonder how many times the end of the world had been predicted since in the A.D years.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited May 2011
    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »
    Maybe the rapture happened and he just left us all here.

    ;)

    Again.

    Where's the predicted torture and catastrophe then?
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited May 2011
    ysss wrote: »
    ...it's our eternal unquenchable thirst for better gears...

    I guess I'm odd then 'cause I'm pretty satisfied with what I have.
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  • AudioGenics
    AudioGenics Posts: 2,567
    edited May 2011
    it is only a matter of time....
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited May 2011
    inspiredsports wrote: »
    I wonder how many times the end of the world had been predicted since in the A.D years.

    This guy with all this rapture talk has done it at least twice before and even wrote a book about it called "1994?". The question mark being a critical part of that title.

    He quotes scripture and goes on and on about it and only quotes what is relevant to his ideas. Ignores what contradicts his ideas.
    He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; Acts 1:7

    Pretty critical verse right there is regards to his "predictions".
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited May 2011
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited May 2011
    inspiredsports wrote: »
    I wonder how many times the end of the world had been predicted since in the A.D years.

    Beaucoup. Of course, they are all based on mythology, so they did not occur. Don't worry though. The "Stupid People" will continue to come up with crackpot ideas based on mythology. They will continue to cause death, destruction, and misery around the world based on mythology. So, there is an element of predictability based on mythology.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited May 2011
    The mythological function of the 'mind' is important in many other areas of 'human cognition' besides Religion? Humans are 'meaning-seeking' beings. And everything they propose serves to bring an answer to the questions of their being finite, ephemeral creatures. Even scientific ideas start out as just that, i.e., imaginings, suggestions that have to be tested and verified. Let's not throw out the 'baby' with the bathwater.

    I'm not particularly concerned with doomsday pronouncements because they represent something fundamental about the human psyche, i.e. the realization that all things must come to end, or more specifically each human life ends with the same song.

    The only thing that miffs me is that the 'poor' and the desperate are usually the ones taken advantage of by millionaires like Mr. Camping! But perhaps Harold also took 'advantage' of himself, this time!

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited May 2011
    So they blew the prediction...no big deal...it's not like it's the end of the world or anything...
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,004
    edited May 2011
    Lasareath wrote: »
    A bunch of people are saying that the end of the world is this Saturday.
    treitz3 wrote: »
    ...and on Monday, I'll let you know how it went.
    I guess someone forgot to flip the switch. I blame someone in the government for falling asleep on the job.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited May 2011
    shack wrote: »
    So they blew the prediction...no big deal...it's not like it's the end of the world or anything...

    LOL!!!! Holy crap that was funny.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited May 2011
    shack wrote: »
    So they blew the prediction...no big deal...it's not like it's the end of the world or anything...

    Gotta clean the spewed coffee off of my monitor now...
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited May 2011
    So, what was his excuse this time?
    If...
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited May 2011
    shack wrote: »
    So they blew the prediction...no big deal...it's not like it's the end of the world or anything...

    That line is so good you should be writing fora living :biggrin:
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited May 2011
    If I'm not mistaken, Shack is already in the entertainment business!

    As for Harold Camping--wrong but not for 'long', lol:

    OAKLAND, Calif. – California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on Oct. 21.

    Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed, said he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions — some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.

    But Camping said that he's now realized the apocalypse will come five months after May 21, the original date he predicted. He had earlier said Oct. 21 was when the globe would be consumed by a fireball.

    Saturday was "an invisible judgment day" in which a spiritual judgment took place, he said. But the timing and the structure is the same as it has always been, he said.

    "We've always said May 21 was the day, but we didn't understand altogether the spiritual meaning," he said. "May 21 is the day that Christ came and put the world under judgment."

    I think we may have needed extra 3D glasses to see this INVISIBLE judgment!

    Some people just don't know when to 'quit'!

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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited May 2011
    So, anyone who maxed out credit cards and tried to take advantage of last minute pleasures before leaving Earth on the May 21st will be left on Earth on Oct 21st?

    Anyone who did a good deed on May 21st will be saved on the Oct 21st?

    I should have known better. :biggrin:
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
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    I took advantage of last minute pleasures on May 21 and also did a good deed on that day. I plan to be in that half-way state where I can haunt Russman's house and listen to his gear when he's not home.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited May 2011
    megasat16 wrote:
    So, anyone who maxed out credit cards and tried to take advantage of last minute pleasures before leaving Earth on the May 21st will be left on Earth on Oct 21st?

    Anyone who did a good deed on May 21st will be saved on the Oct 21st?

    I should have known better. :biggrin:
    dkg999 wrote:
    I took advantage of last minute pleasures on May 21 and also did a good deed on that day. I plan to be in that half-way state where I can haunt Russman's house and listen to his gear when he's not home.

    Obviously the two of you are not well versed on fundamentalist Christianity....

    Deeds...good or bad...do not factor into the equation. :wink:

    Either way...the guy is still a sham. He should have just admitted he doesn't have a clue when the world is going to end.

    Looking at him...he may not make it 5 more months. He may kick the bucket beforehand and based on his destination figure out he wouldn't have been one of the raptured anyway (if it had happened). God doesn't take false prophets lightly...

    Maybe the rapture actually happens sometime in the future...and he's "left behind". Now THAT would be cool!
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited May 2011
    The only 'rapture' that might ever happen is when aliens go into low earth orbit, and start beaming up the population. :rolleyes:
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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited May 2011
    shack wrote: »

    Deeds...good or bad...do not factor into the equation. :wink:

    Thanks Shack! So, I don't think I am screwed yet. :wink:

    Either way...the guy is still a sham. He should have just admitted he doesn't have a clue when the world is going to end.

    Looking at him...he may not make it 5 more months. He may kick the bucket beforehand and based on his destination figure out he wouldn't have been one of the raptured anyway (if it had happened). God doesn't take false prophets lightly...

    Maybe the rapture actually happens sometime in the future...and he's "left behind". Now THAT would be cool!

    May be...just may be....he wanted to witness the world end before he kicks the bucket. :biggrin:
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