Topic: New and Improved!! date set for the Rapture :D (Read 3582 times)

imaginary friend · « **on:** January 13, 2011, 09:29:31 AM »

May 21, 2011: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/BA8V1AV589.DTL&feed=rss.news

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The Angel Raliel · « **Reply #1 on:** January 13, 2011, 10:27:47 AM »

I thought everyone should have local Raptures for convenience set at times most appropriate for those wishing to go....

CeeGBee · « **Reply #2 on:** January 13, 2011, 12:39:16 PM »

They keep setting the date, then changing it..... and you saw what they did to that Jesus fellow
when he admitted that there actually would be no warning signs at all....

Blue Canary · « **Reply #3 on:** January 13, 2011, 01:05:47 PM »

Quote from: The Angel Raliel on January 13, 2011, 10:27:47 AM

I thought everyone should have local Raptures for convenience set at times most appropriate for those wishing to go....

Yes. Can't I at least wait until after my birthday?

overratedtoejam · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2011, 02:08:48 PM »

BUT I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

absynth aura · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2011, 02:27:31 PM »

Quote

"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority, It's like a fairy tale."

Hehehehehehe. Sorry if that offends people, but it made me giggle.

Agonistes · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2011, 03:01:41 PM »

someone's doing a cover of blondie's 'rapture?' what?

Breschau · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2011, 03:12:46 PM »

The "Meaning in Numbers" part kinda reminded me of this (rather old) site.

CeeGBee · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2011, 09:19:31 PM »

Quote from: Agonistes on January 14, 2011, 03:01:41 PM

someone's doing a cover of blondie's 'rapture?' what?

I wanna hear the Puppini Sisters tackle that....

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/7NpMR6RiM4k" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/7NpMR6RiM4k</a>

Shock G · « **Reply #9 on:** January 14, 2011, 10:55:29 PM »

(The) Rapture came out a long time ago people

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/WbaWdyDipcw" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/WbaWdyDipcw</a>

Indja · « **Reply #10 on:** January 14, 2011, 11:03:11 PM »

Fuck's sake. This is going to screw monumentally with my degree.

CeeGBee · « **Reply #11 on:** January 14, 2011, 11:30:45 PM »

Quote from: Indja on January 14, 2011, 11:03:11 PM

Fuck's sake. This is going to screw monumentally with my degree.

What will? Recognizing that essentially EVERONE who says "The End is nigh"
(or words to that effect) is pretty much entirely f.o.s.?

caddy · « **Reply #12 on:** January 14, 2011, 11:35:27 PM »

God, this ball of dirt of flesh is growing into a piece of shit. I say wipe the slate clean, and bring'em all back as liberals.

lol

Indja · « **Reply #13 on:** January 15, 2011, 12:01:23 AM »

Quote from: CeeGBee on January 14, 2011, 11:30:45 PM

Quote from: Indja on January 14, 2011, 11:03:11 PM
Fuck's sake. This is going to screw monumentally with my degree.
What will? Recognizing that essentially EVERONE who says "The End is nigh"
(or words to that effect) is pretty much entirely f.o.s.?

No, if this one turns out to be right xD

Captain Oblivious · « **Reply #14 on:** January 15, 2011, 12:11:27 AM »

I really liked that Puppini Sisters cover. And, the one on the far left was pretttty

CeeGBee · « **Reply #15 on:** January 15, 2011, 04:47:43 PM »

Quote from: Captain Awkward on January 15, 2011, 12:11:27 AM

I really liked that Puppini Sisters cover. And, the one on the far left was pretttty

They really are fun (and hot, all three, but as I may have mentioned, ya know, redheads blahblahblah)...
They do a bunch of fun covers, and their original stuff is really good too....

...oh, and their 40s period-tunes (which I guess one could call "covers" as well...)

Tiervexx · « **Reply #16 on:** February 03, 2011, 06:32:29 PM »

The great Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end no earlier than 2060. He did this more to put down annoying predictions about the world ending than make his own.

Newton > other Christian Wackos.

Morpheus Laughing · « **Reply #17 on:** February 03, 2011, 07:48:14 PM »

^
Nonetheless, it’s in the public domain and is therefore the subject of future apocalyptic excitement.

Tiervexx · « **Reply #18 on:** February 06, 2011, 02:39:50 PM »

Quote from: Morpheus Laughing on February 03, 2011, 07:48:14 PM

^
Nonetheless, it’s in the public domain and is therefore the subject of future apocalyptic excitement.

NO!

I say, as an atheist, that God's word is eternal and that only Newton could interpret it correctly, not these wackos!

theseeker · « **Reply #19 on:** February 18, 2011, 03:16:08 PM »

There are actual scientists who this that a giant wave will go all the way around the Earth. Like... what? I'm freaking out for the people who'll try to start the end of the world, though.

N.U. · « **Reply #20 on:** February 18, 2011, 04:24:04 PM »

There is an asteroid that will be passing between the earth and the moon on/around December 21, 2012 (a bullet burn by astronomical standards). Depending upon how the Earth's gravity alters it's trajectory, this same asteroid could nail the Earth on it's return visit in 2029.

imaginary friend · « **Reply #21 on:** February 18, 2011, 08:58:34 PM »

some say a comet will fall from the sky
followed by meteor showers and tidal waves

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imaginary friend · « **Reply #22 on:** May 24, 2011, 12:39:01 AM »

whoops, let's try this again. October 21 - mark your calendars: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43140373/?gt1=43001

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/2ESWRtaHNU8" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/2ESWRtaHNU8</a>

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CeeGBee · « **Reply #23 on:** May 24, 2011, 12:43:22 AM »

So the Bigger, Better, Even More Awesomer "Ridicule the End-Timers" Party will be in October?

Cool, I'll bring some beerz.

imaginary friend · « **Reply #24 on:** May 24, 2011, 12:49:48 AM »

Oktoberfest Rapture - it's on like donkey kong!

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theseeker · « **Reply #25 on:** May 31, 2011, 01:28:38 AM »

Quote from: N.U. on February 18, 2011, 04:24:04 PM

There is an asteroid that will be passing between the earth and the moon on/around December 21, 2012 (a bullet burn by astronomical standards). Depending upon how the Earth's gravity alters it's trajectory, this same asteroid could nail the Earth on it's return visit in 2029.

Nice.

lentower · « **Reply #26 on:** May 31, 2011, 09:01:02 AM »

have any of you considered he was right about the rapture,
BUT
he and his followers didn't make the cut?

; - }

Pandora · « **Reply #27 on:** May 31, 2011, 09:23:16 AM »

If he was right, wouldn't there have been earthquakes and horrible natural disasters and stuff?

Agonistes · « **Reply #28 on:** May 31, 2011, 09:39:43 AM »

...not to mention some righteous people missing somewhere...

N.U. · « **Reply #29 on:** May 31, 2011, 09:57:30 AM »

Randy "Macho Man" Savage single-handedly averted the Rapture. I have proof.

lentower · « **Reply #30 on:** May 31, 2011, 10:13:54 AM »

Quote from: Pandora on May 31, 2011, 09:23:16 AM

If he was right, wouldn't there have been earthquakes and horrible natural disasters and stuff?

pretty sure he said that was going to happen in October ...

Pandora · « **Reply #31 on:** May 31, 2011, 02:11:42 PM »

Quote from: lentower on May 31, 2011, 10:13:54 AM

Quote from: Pandora on May 31, 2011, 09:23:16 AM
If he was right, wouldn't there have been earthquakes and horrible natural disasters and stuff?
pretty sure he said that was going to happen in October ...

I thought it would start with an earthquake on the 21st of May and then there would be 5 months of horrible natural disasters and then the very last people would die on October 21st and everything would end? Well whatever it was, it didn't happen. And if it does happen on October 21st at least it will be quick

N.U. · « **Reply #32 on:** May 31, 2011, 04:01:37 PM »

Quote from: Pandora on May 31, 2011, 02:11:42 PM

Quote from: lentower on May 31, 2011, 10:13:54 AM
Quote from: Pandora on May 31, 2011, 09:23:16 AM
If he was right, wouldn't there have been earthquakes and horrible natural disasters and stuff?
pretty sure he said that was going to happen in October ...
I thought it would start with an earthquake on the 21st of May and then there would be 5 months of horrible natural disasters and then the very last people would die on October 21st and everything would end? Well whatever it was, it didn't happen. And if it does happen on October 21st at least it will be quick

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane...

CeeGBee · « **Reply #33 on:** May 31, 2011, 04:44:27 PM »

Quote from: N.U. on May 31, 2011, 04:01:37 PM

Quote from: Pandora on May 31, 2011, 02:11:42 PM
Quote from: lentower on May 31, 2011, 10:13:54 AM
Quote from: Pandora on May 31, 2011, 09:23:16 AM
If he was right, wouldn't there have been earthquakes and horrible natural disasters and stuff?
pretty sure he said that was going to happen in October ...
I thought it would start with an earthquake on the 21st of May and then there would be 5 months of horrible natural disasters and then the very last people would die on October 21st and everything would end? Well whatever it was, it didn't happen. And if it does happen on October 21st at least it will be quick
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane...

Well Lenny Bruce, for one, is not afraid...

Tiervexx · « **Reply #34 on:** June 04, 2011, 04:56:57 PM »

did the wack jobs who predicted this one come out with an excuse yet?

CeeGBee · « **Reply #35 on:** June 04, 2011, 08:03:12 PM »

Quote from: Tiervexx on June 04, 2011, 04:56:57 PM

did the wack jobs who predicted this one come out with an excuse yet?

Several.

Agonistes · « **Reply #36 on:** June 05, 2011, 01:25:56 AM »

fuckum. they werent drunk enough to go. thats the secret shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Tiervexx · « **Reply #37 on:** June 05, 2011, 01:22:31 PM »

Quote from: CeeGBee on June 04, 2011, 08:03:12 PM

Quote from: Tiervexx on June 04, 2011, 04:56:57 PM
did the wack jobs who predicted this one come out with an excuse yet?
Several.

Do tell/link please.

CeeGBee · « **Reply #38 on:** June 05, 2011, 01:54:37 PM »

Quote from: Tiervexx on June 05, 2011, 01:22:31 PM

Quote from: CeeGBee on June 04, 2011, 08:03:12 PM
Quote from: Tiervexx on June 04, 2011, 04:56:57 PM
did the wack jobs who predicted this one come out with an excuse yet?
Several.

Do tell/link please.

If you dig around enough, you can find pretty much the whole sheet:

....but the official story is (except when he's saying something different) that he got the
end-date right, but that God's being nice and making the space between the beggining-of-
the-end and THE END shorter... Apparently six days is literally six days when one is creating
the world, but five months can be shorter when destroying it...
LINKAGE

Tiervexx · « **Reply #39 on:** June 05, 2011, 03:15:58 PM »

Thank you.

I am just in awe that people fall for stuff like that...

I mean, it would be bad enough if you believed it the very first time some religious nut made such claims but people fall for this shit over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...

EDIT: I want to add that I believe in a much broader definition of mentally disabled than what is standard among medical professionals... It seems that the main stream view is that you are only dumb to the point of being disabled if you are below certain statistical points (often two or three standard deviations below average). But personally I define mental disabilities as being incapable of rationality. Independent of how many people are also that dumb.

For example... I remember in my economics senior seminar the professor challenged the class to distinguish normative from positive statements. Positive statements are testable/objective, while normative are not. For me this was a very obvious, easy task, but one guy in the class really struggled with it... He even tried to say that a statement by Carl Marx had to be normative just because Marx said a lot of other normative things.

In my view, that guy is mentally disabled because I think that is a very, VERY basic reasoning skill. I can think of so many times I was called stupid for expressing a totally subjective opinion. I'm amazed at people who just don't know the difference.

By the same token, I think you are mentally disabled (or insane depending on how it goes on in your head) if you can't distinguish between something that you just think sounds right, and something you actually deduced or observed. People who believed the rapture was going to happen to the point where they made major life decisions on it (like spending their life savings) have this disability.

Agonistes · « **Reply #40 on:** June 05, 2011, 09:04:42 PM »

i think you might be on to something there. willful ignorance is, for all practical purposes, the same as a disability in terms of how it affects a person moving forward in their life, it would seem.

mob mentality is another problem, it would seem. telling a person something is way different than telling a group of people.

CeeGBee · « **Reply #41 on:** June 06, 2011, 12:40:49 AM »

Quote from: Agonistes on June 05, 2011, 09:04:42 PM

i think you might be on to something there. willful ignorance is, for all practical purposes, the same as a disability in terms of how it affects a person moving forward in their life, it would seem.

mob mentality is another problem, it would seem. telling a person something is way different than telling a group of people.

It has never ceased to amaze me, the way you can take 100 intelligent individuals, and
assemble them into a mob of borderline-cretinous intellect... and further, the willingness
of those intelligent people, once separated (physically) from the group, to stick by the
views and opinions of the group in the face of inarguable rational critique.

imaginary friend · « **Reply #42 on:** September 10, 2011, 06:22:07 PM »

http://io9.com/5839013/a-stupid-vhs-to-watch-in-case-you-are-left-behind-during-the-rapture

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Savannah · « **Reply #43 on:** September 10, 2011, 06:31:14 PM »

Quote from: cletus thurston beauregard on September 10, 2011, 06:22:07 PM

http://io9.com/5839013/a-stupid-vhs-to-watch-in-case-you-are-left-behind-during-the-rapture

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WTF?

Don't get me wrong, i don't mean to be judgemental but this Rapture thing is really weird.

Tiervexx · « **Reply #44 on:** September 10, 2011, 09:38:12 PM »

Quote from: cletus thurston beauregard on September 10, 2011, 06:22:07 PM

http://io9.com/5839013/a-stupid-vhs-to-watch-in-case-you-are-left-behind-during-the-rapture

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That video is an excellent example of how some deeply religious people show their faith with extreme arrogance that is masquerading as humility.

That's one of the best examples of unintentional humor I've ever seen in my life. The only thing that rivals it is this (I'm referring to that whole organization and not just this girl's video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1JgfdUWbN4

I've already done it 4 times today!

Astica · « **Reply #45 on:** September 13, 2011, 05:03:29 AM »

Quote from: cletus thurston beauregard on September 10, 2011, 06:22:07 PM

http://io9.com/5839013/a-stupid-vhs-to-watch-in-case-you-are-left-behind-during-the-rapture

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This is fantastic. I love the repeated cuts to the other camera which make him turn around.

85283-071 · « **Reply #46 on:** September 13, 2011, 01:49:04 PM »

But we HAVE had earthquakes and hurricanes and... it's possible that the beginning of the rapture occurred and no one qualified for the cosmic extraction.

Do your living now folks! October 21st is only thirty-eight days away!

Savannah · « **Reply #47 on:** September 13, 2011, 02:11:25 PM »

Dude, as a person who survived many earthquakes(including a destructive one with measuring 7.4 on the richter scale) i guess i'm well-trained. I don't care about being left behind, i like the world i live within. And i don't even believe it will happen, god was making fun of us

Cherry Chesterfield · « **Reply #48 on:** September 30, 2011, 09:28:25 AM »

Get your death-bed conversions in early, all ye bet-hedgers and weak-willed soft atheists.

Only 21 days left.

85283-071 · « **Reply #49 on:** October 02, 2011, 11:14:13 AM »

At least we get to enjoy the fall colors in Massachusetts before the rapture. That's the last day of the predicted color peak.

Tiervexx · « **Reply #50 on:** October 02, 2011, 12:51:54 PM »

Quote from: 85283-071 on September 13, 2011, 01:49:04 PM

But we HAVE had earthquakes and hurricanes and... it's possible that the beginning of the rapture occurred and no one qualified for the cosmic extraction.

Yes!

... in fact... based on that I think the rapture may have happened thousands of years ago!

Agonistes · « **Reply #51 on:** October 02, 2011, 01:29:06 PM »

the only people who got raptured is that lost town in the americas that left the word 'croatoan' or whatever it was on the tree.

Quote from: Tiervexx on September 10, 2011, 09:38:12 PM

That's one of the best examples of unintentional humor I've ever seen in my life. The only thing that rivals it is this (I'm referring to that whole organization and not just this girl's video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1JgfdUWbN4

I've already done it 4 times today!

wow, looks like she traded one obsession for another. i'd be more concerned about treating the need for the symptom of constant masturbation than the fact that i'm taking something so normal to an extreme (like some people do cleaning, or collecting crap).

Pandora · « **Reply #52 on:** October 21, 2011, 01:48:37 PM »

Any of you guys dead yet?

Agonistes · « **Reply #53 on:** October 21, 2011, 01:56:03 PM »

not yet.

The Angel Raliel · « **Reply #54 on:** October 21, 2011, 01:57:37 PM »

I am writing this from a rather boring cloud on the outskirts of some closed down themepark called heaven....some bloke at the gates said that the rapture was cancelled ages ago due to lack of interest and did we not read the last memo?

The Angel Raliel · « **Reply #55 on:** October 21, 2011, 01:58:54 PM »

....on a serious note...our terrible luck with natural disasters of late is nothing compared to many hundreds of points in history

CeeGBee · « **Reply #56 on:** October 21, 2011, 05:55:34 PM »

I've got stuff going on today, can we reschedule?

absynth aura · « **Reply #57 on:** October 21, 2011, 06:01:14 PM »

Yeah, I mean I actually have a full social weekend for once. Can we take a raincheck?

imaginary friend · « **Reply #58 on:** October 21, 2011, 06:57:22 PM »

curses - foiled agin'!

imaginary friend · « **Reply #59 on:** November 03, 2011, 06:48:51 PM »

retirement looming? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/harold-camping-doomsday.html

Tiervexx · « **Reply #60 on:** November 05, 2011, 07:39:33 PM »

I give him some credit admitting his faults though it is sad it took him 3 times...

In a way it is a respectable way to go out because I think some cult leaders are just scam artists. The ones who try to predict such things must at least be honest because they would not put themselves in a falsifiable position if they did not believe their own bullshit.

CeeGBee · « **Reply #61 on:** November 06, 2011, 10:39:18 AM »

He's just taking a little vacay while people forget (again) that he's a complete fraud.

Unless G_d calls him home before then (he is rather elderly after all), he'll be back
in about five years with another doomsday forecast. [/prophesy]

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