http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_y45TKsGw&feature=feedu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_y45TKsGw&feature=feedu)
http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/ (http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/)
PARTY TIME! :yeah: :punk:
https://rt.com/usa/news/atheists-party-rapture/
QuoteAtheists across America are planning post-rapture parties in response to predictions by a fundamentalist Christian pastor who has predicted judgment day and the rapture will take place on May 21.
Evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping is convinces Jesus Christ will return on May 21 and the rapture will take all Christian home to heaven – leaving behind all non-believers. Not long after, he predicts, the world will end on October 21. The apocalypse is near!
"We learn from the Bible that Holy God plans to rescue about 200 million people," says Camping's Family Radio Worldwide network website. "On the first day of the Day of Judgment [May 21, 2011] they will be caught up [raptured] into Heaven because God had great mercy for them."
Those who are left behind by the rapture might have little to do, with the end of the world looming and all. So, they plan to party. Party hard!
In North Carolina atheists are planning a The Rapture After Party, already dubbed "the best damned party in NC."
A group of atheists plan to party of multiple days in the event the rapture takes place. If it does not, they will still party anyway.
"Though the absurdity of this claim is obvious to the majority of the world, it's a great opportunity to highlight some of the most bizarre beliefs often put forth by religious fundamentalists and raise awareness of the need for reason," said a statement on the website promoting the party.
Similar parties are popping up across the United States.
In Washington State atheists are planning a party called "countdown to back-pedaling." Other events are set for California, Texas, Florida and other regions.
aaah...so the world isn't going to end tomorrow after all; it's just the rapture tomorrow.
Who is the chick in the youtube vid? She is kinda cute.
Quote from: Josephus on May 20, 2011, 11:54:51 AM
aaah...so the world isn't going to end tomorrow after all; it's just the rapture tomorrow.
For a double bonus, it's going to be a rolling rapture starting at 6pm in each time zone...
QuoteThe Rapture is at 6 p.m. on May 21, 2011, where ever it's 6 p.m. first, with the "fantastically big" world-ending event taking place on a time zone by time zone basis.
That means we can expect the Rapture to start when it hits 6 p.m. at the International Dateline at 180 Longitude -- roughly the between Pago Pago, American Samoa, and Nuku'alofa, Tonga. We'll know it's Judgment Day because there will be an earthquake of previously unprecedented magnitude, Camping predicts.
So, according to these calculations, the Rapture will actually begin like a rolling brown out across the globe at 11 p.m. PST on Friday, May 20th. "Everyone will be weeping and wailing because they'll know in a few hours it'll come to their city," said Camping.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/the-rapture-is-not-saturday-its-tonight/239177/
No more exams! :w00t:
Quote from: DGuller on May 20, 2011, 12:08:44 PM
No more exams! :w00t:
:huh: You're going to Hell.
Damn it, I was going to finish the witcher 2 this weekend. :mad:
Quote from: Legbiter on May 20, 2011, 01:49:47 PM
Damn it, I was going to finish the witcher 2 this weekend. :mad:
Don't worry you have until 6PM on Saturday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13468131
QuoteAn atheist and entrepreneur from North Hampshire, Bart Centre, is enjoying a boost in business for Eternal Earth-bound Pets, which he set up to look after the pets of those who believe they will be raptured.
He has more than 250 clients who are paying up to $135 (£83) to have their pets picked up and cared for after the rapture.
They would be disappointed twice, he told the Wall Street Journal. "Once because they weren't raptured and again because I don't do refunds."
:lol:
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
Besides the horrible earth shattering earthquake and rain of fire and all that we won't notice a thing.
Quote from: Valmy on May 20, 2011, 01:57:53 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
Besides the horrible earth shattering earthquake and rain of fire and all that we won't notice a thing.
:o I hope this would fall under the Act of God clause, or it's going to be a bad day to be in insurance industry.
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
I thought the rapture idea as described in the bible was 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of israel. Meaning this will be jews only, and limited to 144,000 people.
I may be wrong on that though.
Quote from: DGuller on May 20, 2011, 02:01:06 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 20, 2011, 01:57:53 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
Besides the horrible earth shattering earthquake and rain of fire and all that we won't notice a thing.
:o I hope this would fall under the Act of God clause, or it's going to be a bad day to be in insurance industry.
Heh, I wonder if insurance companies hire Calvinist theologians to argue that, in fact, *everything* is an "Act of God" ... :D
We can get rid of 200 million fundies?
Suh-weeeet!
Quote from: alfred russel on May 20, 2011, 02:06:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
I thought the rapture idea as described in the bible was 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of israel. Meaning this will be jews only, and limited to 144,000 people.
I may be wrong on that though.
Due to a translation error, it is in fact limited to 144,000 Jewish *lawyers*. :D
Well, since something that was once so highly unlikely as the NHL returning to Winnipeg is coming true, maybe we are in the End Times... :unsure:
Quote from: DGuller on May 20, 2011, 02:01:06 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 20, 2011, 01:57:53 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
Besides the horrible earth shattering earthquake and rain of fire and all that we won't notice a thing.
:o I hope this would fall under the Act of God clause, or it's going to be a bad day to be in insurance industry.
Not if you are in the business of adjusting claims. :)
But for the insurance companies, they are doubly screwed. It will be a bad year for bonuses due to massive losses, but the existence of the christian god and impending judgment is probably worse news for the industry.
Quote from: Malthus on May 20, 2011, 02:08:38 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on May 20, 2011, 02:06:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
I thought the rapture idea as described in the bible was 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of israel. Meaning this will be jews only, and limited to 144,000 people.
I may be wrong on that though.
Due to a translation error, it is in fact limited to 144,000 Jewish *lawyers*. :D
Don't get cocky on us yet. You are still a longshot.
Every time the neo-millerites rear their ugly heads we get more atheists. It's good that this is being properly publicized.
Quote from: alfred russel on May 20, 2011, 02:28:49 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 20, 2011, 02:08:38 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on May 20, 2011, 02:06:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
I thought the rapture idea as described in the bible was 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of israel. Meaning this will be jews only, and limited to 144,000 people.
I may be wrong on that though.
Due to a translation error, it is in fact limited to 144,000 Jewish *lawyers*. :D
Don't get cocky on us yet. You are still a longshot.
Frankly, I can't imagine an afterlife composed of nothing but lawyers would be all that much fun, anyway.
Quote from: Malthus on May 20, 2011, 02:41:40 PMFrankly, I can't imagine an afterlife composed of nothing but lawyers would be all that much fun, anyway.
I think that's generally called "hell".
Meh. It says it'll happen at 6 o'clock everywhere. If the morning news speaks of people vanishing over in Australia then that gives me all day to get down to the church and confess my sins.
God its great to be a catholic. Do whatever the hell you want and as long as you say sorry you're golden.
Quote from: Tyr on May 20, 2011, 07:21:15 PM
Meh. It says it'll happen at 6 o'clock everywhere. If the morning news speaks of people vanishing over in Australia then that gives me all day to get down to the church and confess my sins.
God its great to be a catholic. Do whatever the hell you want and as long as you say sorry you're golden.
But...the people making the predictions aren't catholic. If it turns out they have they have the correct religion, you are probably toast.
Quote from: alfred russel on May 20, 2011, 02:06:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
I thought the rapture idea as described in the bible was 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of israel. Meaning this will be jews only, and limited to 144,000 people.
I may be wrong on that though.
That's the JW version of the deal. Apparently, the Rapture was cooked up by some teenaged Scottish bint in the 1830s; presumably, like most Gaels, she didn't like Jews, so they don't get raptured.
Quote from: Scipio on May 20, 2011, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on May 20, 2011, 02:06:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
I thought the rapture idea as described in the bible was 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of israel. Meaning this will be jews only, and limited to 144,000 people.
I may be wrong on that though.
That's the JW version of the deal. Apparently, the Rapture was cooked up by some teenaged Scottish bint in the 1830s; presumably, like most Gaels, she didn't like Jews, so they don't get raptured.
What does JW mean?
Isn't the rapture from the Revelations? Not sure who wrote that, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Scots.
Matthew
7:15 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."
24:11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
24:26 So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the wilderness,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it
24:36 "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father"
Quote from: Josephus on May 20, 2011, 07:45:24 PM
Isn't the rapture from the Revelations? Not sure who wrote that, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Scots.
Some guy named John. And I don't think it is.
Quote from: alfred russel on May 20, 2011, 07:41:06 PM
Quote from: Scipio on May 20, 2011, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on May 20, 2011, 02:06:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 20, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
200 millions? So we won't barely notice anyone is gone?
I thought the rapture idea as described in the bible was 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of israel. Meaning this will be jews only, and limited to 144,000 people.
I may be wrong on that though.
That's the JW version of the deal. Apparently, the Rapture was cooked up by some teenaged Scottish bint in the 1830s; presumably, like most Gaels, she didn't like Jews, so they don't get raptured.
What does JW mean?
Jehovah's Witnesses.
Quote from: Josephus on May 20, 2011, 07:45:24 PM
Isn't the rapture from the Revelations? Not sure who wrote that, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Scots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_McDonald_(visionary)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture
Did they say anything about what time, this thing would happen?. I mean, I have a work day this Saturday, so should I go to work or just stay home drinking coffee?...
Quote from: Josephus on May 20, 2011, 07:45:24 PM
Isn't the rapture from the Revelations? Not sure who wrote that, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Scots.
No it is from one of the Letters of Paul and you have to interpret it in a really retarded way.
There is alot of bizarre shit in the Revelations but not the Rapture.
So is anyone experiencing the rapture today?
Silly question, I know.
God turned his back on this place a long, long time ago.
Edit: I'm sorry. That's Blasphemy. :blush: God doesn't turn his back on anyone. He may smite you with righteous anger, but turn his back? No.
Quote from: Slargos on May 21, 2011, 02:18:52 AM
God doesn't turn his back on anyone. He may smite you with righteous anger, but turn his back? No.
With all the gays on the forum he wouldn't dare. :P
Quote from: Slargos on May 21, 2011, 02:18:52 AM
So is anyone experiencing the rapture today?
Silly question, I know.
God turned his back on this place a long, long time ago.
Edit: I'm sorry. That's Blasphemy. :blush: God doesn't turn his back on anyone. He may smite you with righteous anger, but turn his back? No.
God is like a toxic, overly-protecting parent.
Has it ended yet? :hmm:
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Apart from Randy "The Machoman" Savage, who else has been raptured.
bye all, gtg
...so either there's nobody devout east of India or its all rubbish.
I like the prank idea. Shame very few people around here would get it. Is it big news in the US- what with the people selling up and going mad and all that?
dude, that's like 50 people.
Quote from: Tyr on May 21, 2011, 06:54:23 AM
...so either there's nobody devout east of India or its all rubbish.
I like the prank idea. Shame very few people around here would get it. Is it big news in the US- what with the people selling up and going mad and all that?
Lol, no.
I'm sure every other preacher in America quoted Matthew 24:36 last Sunday.
That sucks, turns out I'm not on the list. :cry:
Actually, it was pretty widely talked about around here, but mostly we've all been cracking jokes about it.
Sorry guys, it's 6pm here and no rapture.
Quote from: Solmyr on May 21, 2011, 10:06:01 AM
Sorry guys, it's 6pm here and no rapture.
They really should have put a time zone in that.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 21, 2011, 08:03:32 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 21, 2011, 06:54:23 AM
...so either there's nobody devout east of India or its all rubbish.
I like the prank idea. Shame very few people around here would get it. Is it big news in the US- what with the people selling up and going mad and all that?
Lol, no.
I'm sure every other preacher in America quoted Matthew 24:36 last Sunday.
If every other preacher is talking about it then that would make it big news...
6 pm here and no rapture. I blame the Jews.
Quote from: Solmyr on May 21, 2011, 10:06:01 AM
Sorry guys, it's 6pm here and no rapture.
Just cause there's no righteous in your part of the world don't mean there's no rapture. I'm still 5 hours away from mine and I'm all set and ready to go. Packed sandwiches and everything, cause you never know if they'll feed you when you get there.
Quote from: Martinus on May 21, 2011, 11:26:54 AM
6 pm here and no rapture. I blame the Jews.
Are there any left in Poland?
Quote from: Josephus on May 21, 2011, 11:51:09 AM
Quote from: Martinus on May 21, 2011, 11:26:54 AM
6 pm here and no rapture. I blame the Jews.
Are there any left in Poland?
No, they were Polish Raptured.
Quote from: Martinus on May 21, 2011, 11:26:54 AM
6 pm here and no rapture. I blame the Jews.
Yes, but it's still not 2011 in Poland.
:(
I woke up this morning to a really loud and shrieking alarm, like the kind I never heard. :o It was what I imagine an air raid alarm would sound like if Russia sent ICBMs our way. That was really scary, the thought of the end of the world crossed my mind.
Then I really woke up, and it turns that it was just my fire alarm acting up.
Volcano erupting on Iceland, surely it's a sign of the coming doom!
There's rapture in my pants.
I'm beginning to wonder which is worse, the suckers who believed this shit and spent their life savings or the utter doucheiness of the atheists on the internet.
So far, the atheists are winning.
Quote from: Liep on May 21, 2011, 03:55:48 PM
Volcano erupting on Iceland, surely it's a sign of the coming doom!
And it's a biggun... Grímsvötn is the volcano that caused the flooding in 1996
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fresources1.news.com.au%2Fimages%2F2010%2F04%2F15%2F1225854%2F273809-volcano-in-iceland.jpg&hash=e1d711c3ad12deec74a28a3af9d71a053f3c2212)
But, fortunately for travellers, it is under 1000 meters of ice. Expect only steam followed by a massive flood once the meltwater reaches the southern end of the glacier.. hopefully it won't, we'll have to rebuild that damn bridge again...
Quote from: Norgy on May 21, 2011, 03:58:46 PM
There's rapture in my pants.
Your dick vanished? :(
You well know I never had balls. Nor a swinging dick.
Quote from: Viking on May 21, 2011, 04:08:53 PM
But, fortunately for travellers, it is under 1000 meters of ice. Expect only steam followed by a massive flood once the meltwater reaches the southern end of the glacier.. hopefully it won't, we'll have to rebuild that damn bridge again...
Yeah, it's unlikely to cause the same kind of flight disruptions unless it's a huge one which it dosen't look like right now.
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Who owns Iceland these days btw?
Quote from: The Brain on May 21, 2011, 05:17:13 PM
Who owns Iceland these days btw?
The rebels.
It may declare independence soon.
Quote from: The Brain on May 21, 2011, 05:17:13 PM
Who owns Iceland these days btw?
What are you willing to bid?
Quote from: Liep on May 21, 2011, 03:55:48 PM
Volcano erupting on Iceland, surely it's a sign of the coming doom!
If you own an airline, perhaps.
edit: I guess not. Never mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tjjkk4n0o4k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tjjkk4n0o4k)
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 21, 2011, 04:06:07 PM
I'm beginning to wonder which is worse, the suckers who believed this shit and spent their life savings or the utter doucheiness of the atheists on the internet.
So far, the atheists are winning.
Are the atheists: worse than Hitler?
Quote from: Valmy on May 21, 2011, 07:01:43 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 21, 2011, 04:06:07 PM
I'm beginning to wonder which is worse, the suckers who believed this shit and spent their life savings or the utter doucheiness of the atheists on the internet.
So far, the atheists are winning.
Are the atheists: worse than Hitler?
Frankly, Hitler is less tedious. Hitler is at least entertaining.
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 21, 2011, 07:03:50 PM
Frankly, Hitler is less tedious. Hitler is at least entertaining.
Ah so more like Stalin.
Quote from: Valmy on May 21, 2011, 07:12:22 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 21, 2011, 07:03:50 PM
Frankly, Hitler is less tedious. Hitler is at least entertaining.
Ah so more like Stalin.
Or Beria.
Quote from: Valmy on May 21, 2011, 07:01:43 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 21, 2011, 04:06:07 PM
I'm beginning to wonder which is worse, the suckers who believed this shit and spent their life savings or the utter doucheiness of the atheists on the internet.
So far, the atheists are winning.
Are the atheists: worse than Hitler?
That depends, worse at what?
Dear Christians; WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW?!!?!???!!!?!!??!!??1111!!1!!?!!?!?!?!?!
It happened.
There just wasn't anyone devout enough. We haven't stumbled on exactly the right sort of christianity yet. But don't worry, the prods will be hard at work in the coming decades creating ever newer and crazier sects!
I wonder if the rapture could have really happened, but it only affected a small town in Ozarks, where people have been making human sacrifices to the True God (tm) for generations, and noone else noticed. :unsure:
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu ftagn! :cthulu:
Quote from: Norgy on May 21, 2011, 03:58:46 PM
There's rapture in my pants.
Were the righteous taken up?
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2011, 06:41:22 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tjjkk4n0o4k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tjjkk4n0o4k)
Like most Japanese stuff, that was weird.
Quote from: Martinus on May 22, 2011, 04:59:55 AM
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2011, 06:41:22 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tjjkk4n0o4k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tjjkk4n0o4k)
Like most Japanese stuff, that was weird.
It's Chinese.
Quote'Rapture': Believers perplexed after prediction fails
Harold Camping has not been sighted since his failed prediction
Followers of an evangelical broadcaster who declared that Saturday would be Judgement Day are trying to make sense of the failed prediction.
Some believers expressed bewilderment or said it was a test from God of their faith, after the day passed without event.
Meanwhile, the evangelist at the centre of the claim, Harold Camping, has not been seen since before the deadline.
He had predicted that Jesus Christ would return to earth on Saturday.
True believers would then be swept up, or "raptured", to heaven, he had pronounced.
The 89-year-old has used broadcasts on a Christian network and billboards to publicise his ideas as part of a campaign that went global.
He said biblical texts indicated that a giant earthquake on Saturday - which he said would begin at 1800 at various time zones around the world - would mark the start of the world's destruction, and that by 21 October all non-believers will be dead.
'Some scepticism'
Robert Fitzpatrick, a retired transportation agency worker in New York, said he had spent more than $140,000 (£86,000) of his savings on advertisements in the run-up to 21 May to publicise the prediction.
After 1800 passed and nothing had happened, he said: "I do not understand why... I do not understand why nothing has happened."
"I can't tell you what I feel right now. Obviously, I haven't understood it correctly because we're still here."
Other followers said they had had their doubts about the prediction.
"I had some scepticism but I was trying to push the scepticism away because I believe in God," said Keith Bauer, who travelled 4,830km (3,000 miles), from Maryland to California, where Mr Camping's Family Radio is based, for the Rapture.
"I was hoping for it because I think heaven would be a lot better than this Earth," said Mr Bauer, a tractor-trailer driver, who took the week off work for the voyage.
Other followers said the delay was a further test from God to persevere in their faith.
'No Plan B'
US media reported that there has been no sign of Mr Camping since the prediction turned out to be false, while calls and e-mails to Mr Camping's Family Radio went unanswered on Saturday.
The Washington Post reported that suicide prevention hotlines were set up in case believers fell into depression after the apocalypse failed to happen.
A group from the Calvary Bible Church in Milpitas, California, organised a Sunday morning service to comfort believers in Mr Camping's preaching, the New York Times reported.
"We are here because we care about these people," the newspaper quoted James Bynum, a church deacon, as saying. "It's easy to mock them. But you can go kick puppies, too. But why?"
Many Christian groups however dismissed Mr Camping's ideas, with some describing him as a "false prophet".
US atheists held parties to celebrate the failed prediction, while a group of non-believers gathered outside Mr Camping's Family Radio International headquarters in Oakland, California, as the deadline passed.
"It was probably one of the saddest things that I'd ever read, the idea that there's kids out there whose parents spent their college savings funds, who sold their homes," one woman told the BBC.
Earlier, Mr Camping has said he knew "without any shadow of a doubt" that "judgement day" was arriving, and said there was no "Plan B".
He has predicted an apocalypse once before, in 1994, though followers now say that only referred to an intermediary stage.
Quote from: Caliga on May 22, 2011, 05:59:42 AM
'Rapture': Believers perplexed after prediction fails
That sounds like a random title from a newspaper from a Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett book.
The Beast (DSK) has been released from his confinement. The Apocalypse is nigh.
Quote from: Viking on May 22, 2011, 06:03:35 AM
Quote from: Caliga on May 22, 2011, 05:59:42 AM
'Rapture': Believers perplexed after prediction fails
That sounds like a random title from a newspaper from a Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett book.
No kidding. The religious are the dumbest people. :lol:
QuoteUS media reported that there has been no sign of Mr Camping since the prediction turned out to be false, while calls and e-mails to Mr Camping's Family Radio went unanswered on Saturday.
Well, seems pretty obvious to me that Mr. Camping has been raptured.
I actually was talking to Princesca about this over breakfast and speculated the guy may go into hiding in order to trick his followers into thinking he'd actually ben raptured. LOL YOU ALL AER = INADEQUATE!
Quote from: Caliga on May 22, 2011, 08:14:10 AM
I actually was talking to Princesca about this over breakfast and speculated the guy may go into hiding in order to trick his followers into thinking he'd actually ben raptured. LOL YOU ALL AER = INADEQUATE!
The dude is 89. He may be having an epic bowel movement.
Quote"We are here because we care about these people," the newspaper quoted James Bynum, a church deacon, as saying. "It's easy to mock them. But you can go kick puppies, too. But why?"
Except that these people aren't like puppies. They are adult afforded a lot of rights included the right to vote for hateful legislation and to raise children.
I saw an interview earlier with the guy who paid $140,000 for all of the advertisements in NYC. He's not a rich guy, just some fool who blew his entire life's savings on those billboards... and he's seriously creepy--like child-molester levels of creepy. :yuk:
Quote"I was hoping for it because I think heaven would be a lot better than this Earth," said Mr Bauer, a tractor-trailer driver, who took the week off work for the voyage.
:D
Quote from: Caliga on May 22, 2011, 04:33:03 PM
I saw an interview earlier with the guy who paid $140,000 for all of the advertisements in NYC. He's not a rich guy, just some fool who blew his entire life's savings on those billboards... and he's seriously creepy--like child-molester levels of creepy. :yuk:
Evolution in action.
Quote from: garbon on May 22, 2011, 10:59:53 AM
Quote"We are here because we care about these people," the newspaper quoted James Bynum, a church deacon, as saying. "It's easy to mock them. But you can go kick puppies, too. But why?"
Except that these people aren't like puppies. They are adult afforded a lot of rights included the right to vote for hateful legislation and to raise children.
They are like human eating puppies with rabies.
Quote from: Martinus on May 22, 2011, 04:41:43 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 22, 2011, 10:59:53 AM
Quote"We are here because we care about these people," the newspaper quoted James Bynum, a church deacon, as saying. "It's easy to mock them. But you can go kick puppies, too. But why?"
Except that these people aren't like puppies. They are adult afforded a lot of rights included the right to vote for hateful legislation and to raise children.
They are like human eating puppies with rabies.
Or gay Poles trying to start a relationship with people with AIDs.
Quote from: Razgovory on May 22, 2011, 07:00:22 PM
Quote from: Martinus on May 22, 2011, 04:41:43 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 22, 2011, 10:59:53 AM
Quote"We are here because we care about these people," the newspaper quoted James Bynum, a church deacon, as saying. "It's easy to mock them. But you can go kick puppies, too. But why?"
Except that these people aren't like puppies. They are adult afforded a lot of rights included the right to vote for hateful legislation and to raise children.
They are like human eating puppies with rabies.
Or gay Poles trying to start a relationship with people with AIDs.
Ouf, even for me that one was cold Raz. Damn boy.
Ah ok, that makes sense... and I think takes care of a couple of squares on Syt's bingo chart at once. :)
QuoteRadio host says Rapture actually coming in October
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — 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."
It's not the first time the independent Christian radio host has been forced to explain when his prediction didn't come to pass. He also predicted the Apocalypse would come in 1994, but said it didn't happen then because of a mathematical error.
Rather than give his normal daily broadcast on Monday, Camping made a special statement before the press at the Oakland headquarters of the media empire that has broadcast his message. His show, "Open Forum," has for months headlined his doomsday message via the group's radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website.
When the Rapture didn't arrive Saturday, crestfallen followers began turning their attention to more earthly concerns.
Jeff Hopkins had figured the gas money he spent driving back and forth from Long Island to New York City would be worth it, as long as people could see the ominous sign atop his car warning that the End of the World was nigh.
"I've been mocked and scoffed and cursed at and I've been through a lot with this lighted sign on top of my car," said Hopkins, 52, a former television producer who lives in Great River, NY. "I was doing what I've been instructed to do through the Bible, but now I've been stymied. It's like getting slapped in the face."
Camping said Family Radio would never tell anyone what they should do with their possessions.
"That is between them and God," he said.
But he said he wouldn't give away all his possessions ahead of Oct 21.
"I still have to live in a house, I still have to drive a car," he said. "What would be the value of that? If it is Judgment Day why would I give it away?"
Apocalyptic thinking has always been part of American religious life and popular culture. Teachings about the end of the world vary dramatically — even within faith traditions — about how they will occur.
Still, the overwhelming majority of Christians reject the idea that the exact date or time of Jesus' return can be predicted.
Tim LaHaye, co-author of the best-selling "Left Behind" novels about the end times, recently called Camping's prediction "not only bizarre but 100 percent wrong!" He cited the Bible verse Matthew 24:36, "but about that day or hour no one knows" except God.
"While it may be in the near future, many signs of our times certainly indicate so, but anyone who thinks they 'know' the day and the hour is flat out wrong," LaHaye wrote on his website, leftbehind.com.
In 2009, the nonprofit Family Radio reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million, including $34 million in stocks or other publicly traded securities.
Quote from: Zoupa on May 22, 2011, 08:21:32 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 22, 2011, 07:00:22 PM
Quote from: Martinus on May 22, 2011, 04:41:43 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 22, 2011, 10:59:53 AM
Quote"We are here because we care about these people," the newspaper quoted James Bynum, a church deacon, as saying. "It's easy to mock them. But you can go kick puppies, too. But why?"
Except that these people aren't like puppies. They are adult afforded a lot of rights included the right to vote for hateful legislation and to raise children.
They are like human eating puppies with rabies.
Or gay Poles trying to start a relationship with people with AIDs.
Ouf, even for me that one was cold Raz. Damn boy.
Not really. I've had relationships with people who have HIV.
Btw, what a cool response. Didn't expect him to make another prediction for this year.
For people who take the Bible literally they sure see lots of stuff that is not literally in the text.
Quote from: Valmy on May 24, 2011, 11:36:10 AM
For people who take the Bible literally they sure see lots of stuff that is not literally in the text.
It seems to me like most people who "take the Bible literally" rely on someone else to interpret it for them, rather than reading and comprehending it on their own.
Quote from: garbon on May 24, 2011, 11:32:29 AM
Btw, what a cool response. Didn't expect him to make another prediction for this year.
Maybe he's hoping that he'll die before October? That was probably his thinking before he threw the first 2011 date out there... then when he found himself still alive as it approached he was like OH SHI
Suicide by Rapture?
Quote from: Caliga on May 24, 2011, 11:50:39 AM
Quote from: Valmy on May 24, 2011, 11:36:10 AM
For people who take the Bible literally they sure see lots of stuff that is not literally in the text.
It seems to me like most people who "take the Bible literally" rely on someone else to interpret it for them, rather than reading and comprehending it on their own.
I think it's rather that people who take the Bible literally are almost always too stupid to actually be literate.
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 21, 2011, 04:06:07 PM
I'm beginning to wonder which is worse, the suckers who believed this shit and spent their life savings or the utter doucheiness of the atheists on the internet.
So far, the atheists are winning.
:yes:
Quote from: Valmy on May 24, 2011, 11:36:10 AM
For people who take the Bible literally they sure see lots of stuff that is not literally in the text.
lol
Quote from: Matthew 24:36
No one knows when that day or hour will come - not the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father...
Quote from: Octavian on May 24, 2011, 12:49:32 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 21, 2011, 04:06:07 PM
I'm beginning to wonder which is worse, the suckers who believed this shit and spent their life savings or the utter doucheiness of the atheists on the internet.
So far, the atheists are winning.
:yes:
Amazing that people on the internet would say more douchey things than people quoted in news articles.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 24, 2011, 01:21:47 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 24, 2011, 11:36:10 AM
For people who take the Bible literally they sure see lots of stuff that is not literally in the text.
lolQuote from: Matthew 24:36
No one knows when that day or hour will come - not the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father...
Yep.
Quote from: Caliga 1:1
There will never be a rapture.
Quote from: Caliga on May 24, 2011, 02:37:10 PM
Quote from: Caliga 1:1
There will never be a rapture.
:worthy:
Quote from: Caliga on May 24, 2011, 02:37:10 PM
Quote from: Caliga 1:1
Bigger boobs = better boobs.
FYP
Quote from: Caliga on May 24, 2011, 02:37:10 PM
Quote from: Caliga 1:1
There will never be a rapture.
There already was one. :contract:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g)
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on May 24, 2011, 02:59:32 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 24, 2011, 02:37:10 PM
Quote from: Caliga 1:1
Bigger boobs = better boobs.
FYP
I was going to follow my first post up with one about boobs, but I got pulled into a meeting at work. FUCKING WORK, CRAMPING MY STYLE. :mad:
It's reported for October 21st. Don't plan anything for this week-end.
Last week-end was just the spiritual end of the world. God has made his choice, who will be saved, who will be left to die an horrible death wandering the earth for 6 months until it's completely destroyed.
On October 21st, the just will rise. So say we all!
http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/151332/20110525/new-doomsday-prediction-harold-camping-maya.htm
Can I be a cowboy?
Quote from: Siege on May 24, 2011, 06:32:26 PM
Can I be a cowboy?
Depends. Your faith seems awfully restrictive. Are you sure you're allowed to be a cowboy? I think you should ask a Rabbi if you can be a cowboy on October 21st, when Judgement Day comes, if that's allowed by God.
Quote from: Caliga on May 24, 2011, 02:37:10 PM
Quote from: Caliga 1:1
There will never be a rapture.
I disagree. Or at least, wikipedia disagrees :contract:
QuoteThe Sun does not have enough mass to explode as a supernova. Instead, in about 5 billion years, it will enter a red giant phase, its outer layers expanding as the hydrogen fuel in the core is consumed and the core contracts and heats up. Helium fusion will begin when the core temperature reaches around 100 million K and will produce carbon, entering the asymptotic giant branch phase.[29]
Life-cycle of the Sun; sizes are not drawn to scale.Earth's fate is precarious. As a red giant, the Sun will have a maximum radius beyond the Earth's current orbit, 1 AU (1.5×1011 m), 250 times the present radius of the Sun.[93] However, by the time it is an asymptotic giant branch star, the Sun will have lost roughly 30% of its present mass due to a stellar wind, so the orbits of the planets will move outward. If it were only for this, Earth would probably be spared, but new research suggests that Earth will be swallowed by the Sun owing to tidal interactions.[93] Even if Earth would escape incineration in the Sun, still all its water will be boiled away and most of its atmosphere would escape into space. Even during its current life in the main sequence, the Sun is gradually becoming more luminous (about 10% every 1 billion years), and its surface temperature is slowly rising. The Sun used to be fainter in the past, which is possibly the reason life on Earth has only existed for about 1 billion years on land. The increase in solar temperatures is such that in about another billion years the surface of the Earth will likely become too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life.[93][94]
Following the red giant phase, intense thermal pulsations will cause the Sun to throw off its outer layers, forming a planetary nebula. The only object that will remain after the outer layers are ejected is the extremely hot stellar core, which will slowly cool and fade as a white dwarf over many billions of years. This stellar evolution scenario is typical of low- to medium-mass stars.[95][96]
I don't think Mono understand what the word "Rapture" means in Dispensationalist religious doctrines.
Yeah, that's not a rapture, Mono. A rapture is when God decides to bring all the good people to heaven, and they sort of all magically disappear at once. The people left on earth following this get their asses kicked mercilessly until the Earth is destroyed. Oh btw don't forget that God is a loving and merciful being. :)
Quote from: Monoriu on May 24, 2011, 10:35:08 PM
I disagree. Or at least, wikipedia disagrees :contract:
Despite the title of this thread the Rapture is not simply just the world ending. It is a specific interpretation of 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17
QuoteFor the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
So all the believers who are dead and those still alive will meet God somewhere in the Troposphere and live with God forever. It does not really say what happens to all you heathens but people seem pretty sure it will be really bad shit man.
Quote from: viper37 on May 24, 2011, 06:24:33 PM
It's reported for October 21st. Don't plan anything for this week-end.
Last week-end was just the spiritual end of the world.
Which is inconsistent with the eternity of God.
Preachers tend to be weak on theology . . .
Quote from: Valmy on May 25, 2011, 07:55:21 AM
It does not really say what happens to all you heathens but people seem pretty sure it will be really bad shit man.
There will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on May 25, 2011, 09:45:46 AM
Quote from: viper37 on May 24, 2011, 06:24:33 PM
It's reported for October 21st. Don't plan anything for this week-end.
Last week-end was just the spiritual end of the world.
Which is inconsistent with the eternity of God.
Preachers tend to be weak on theology . . .
Of course. They're protestant. This is why interpretation of the bible should be left to priests.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 25, 2011, 02:39:13 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 25, 2011, 07:55:21 AM
It does not really say what happens to all you heathens but people seem pretty sure it will be really bad shit man.
There will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
So a combo Kleenex salesman and dentist would clean up? Cool!
Quote from: Valmy on May 25, 2011, 07:55:21 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on May 24, 2011, 10:35:08 PM
I disagree. Or at least, wikipedia disagrees :contract:
Despite the title of this thread the Rapture is not simply just the world ending. It is a specific interpretation of 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17
QuoteFor the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
So all the believers who are dead and those still alive will meet God somewhere in the Troposphere and live with God forever. It does not really say what happens to all you heathens but people seem pretty sure it will be really bad shit man.
I am sorry that I underestimated their craziness :weep:
I shall built an awesome army and conquer the hole wold!!!
So what are you all planning to do now that the real apocalypse is coming tomorrow?
Eat twinkies and oatmeal cakes and die.
Quote from: garbon on October 20, 2011, 11:41:21 AM
So what are you all planning to do now that the real apocalypse is coming tomorrow?
Liquorish, PepsiMaX and the FM2012 demo.
Quote from: garbon on October 20, 2011, 11:41:21 AM
So what are you all planning to do now that the real apocalypse is coming tomorrow?
Smile.
You don't get out of this world alive. :glare:
I look forward to another zany explanation from Camping about why the apocalypse didn't happen. :)
Quote from: Caliga on October 20, 2011, 09:13:36 PM
I look forward to another zany explanation from Camping about why the apocalypse didn't happen. :)
The guy had a heart attack or stroke or something like that the last time. So, it may end for him soon.
Anyway, I thought that no man could know the hour etc. Or is that not in the Protestant Bibles?
So what time are we all going to die again?
Not today, unfortunately.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 21, 2011, 11:11:55 AM
Not today, unfortunately.
It is only noon. The West Coast only just got up.
Quote from: Razgovory on October 20, 2011, 09:22:01 PM
Anyway, I thought that no man could know the hour etc. Or is that not in the Protestant Bibles?
Apparently he avoids that problem by not predicting an hour - just the day and then another day etc etc etc.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/harold-camping-says-end-of-the-world-is-probably-today-oct-21-2011/2011/10/21/gIQAW83R3L_blog.html
QuoteAs for the earthquakes he predicted, he says they came in the form of "man-quakes," since mankind shook with fear from the Rapture and the book of Genesis describes man as made from dirt.
:D
Quote from: Siege on May 25, 2011, 09:11:34 PM
I shall built an awesome army and conquer the hole wold!!!
How aptly named.
Is this the real thing now? Tired of waiting. <_<
G.
is it over yet? wake me up when all the Christians have been taken up to heaven and disposed of.
There was a big earthquake near Fiji. Maybe Cthulhu is waking.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 21, 2011, 01:30:50 PM
There was a big earthquake near Fiji. Maybe Cthulhu is waking.
I've experience a man-quake. :ph34r:
Its the End of the World as we know it.
Quote from: garbon on October 21, 2011, 11:24:39 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/harold-camping-says-end-of-the-world-is-probably-today-oct-21-2011/2011/10/21/gIQAW83R3L_blog.html
QuoteAs for the earthquakes he predicted, he says they came in the form of "man-quakes," since mankind shook with fear from the Rapture and the book of Genesis describes man as made from dirt.
:D
God DAMN you Katmai :mad:
I appear to still be alive. :hmm:
Quote from: Caliga on October 23, 2011, 09:34:04 AM
I appear to still be alive. :hmm:
Yeah, me too. What gives?
Quote from: Caliga on October 23, 2011, 09:34:04 AM
I appear to still be alive. :hmm:
OK, but you're not known for being particularly observant. :hmm:
Quote from: Caliga on October 23, 2011, 09:34:04 AM
I appear to still be alive. :hmm:
Are you a doctor? No? Then STFU.
My hedonism this weekend pleased Zeus and the Olympians spared the earth.
You can always wait for December 2012 and the Mayan end of the world/alien invasion/continental shift.
So, what did he say this time?
What was his excuse?
Quote from: Siege on October 23, 2011, 04:04:53 PM
So, what did he say this time?
What was his excuse?
Why does he need an excuse? He was right this time.
R.I.P. Harold Camping. I guess the world finally ended... for you. :sleep: