Rapture is May 21st. Save the date.

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It looks like this is getting some press lately and I'm super curious to see how the rapture folks react when their predictions are once again disappointed. I'm, personally, happy to see them actually put up a falsifiable assertion, but doubt that it will have the effect on them that normal rational individuals would have.

Their argument starts out so persuasively:

The Bible is the Word of God! Everything the Bible declares has the full authority of God Himself.

Well, they got me hook, line and sinker.

I've got the site bookmarked just so I can load it up on 5/22. Something tells me I'm going to be disappointed in their response.

Part of me is hoping for free cars on Sunday. Another bigger part wants to lay out clothes in my cars and leave them in parking lots to make some of the nuts around here think they were left behind.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Part of me is hoping for free cars on Sunday. Another bigger part wants to lay out clothes in my cars and leave them in parking lots to make some of the nuts around here think they were left behind.

Hey, where we're at there could be ALOT of free stuff. Jackpot.

boogle wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Part of me is hoping for free cars on Sunday. Another bigger part wants to lay out clothes in my cars and leave them in parking lots to make some of the nuts around here think they were left behind.

Hey, where we're at there could be ALOT of free stuff. Jackpot.

Hey, I like free crap. Hook me up.

Damn... it's my 40th birthday on the 22nd, and I'm throwing a party on the 21st. Hope Jesus is a little late.

SommerMatt wrote:

Damn... it's my 40th birthday on the 22nd, and I'm throwing a party on the 21st. Hope Jesus is a little late.

Dunno. Could be the best party ever. People would talk about it until the end of days.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
boogle wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Part of me is hoping for free cars on Sunday. Another bigger part wants to lay out clothes in my cars and leave them in parking lots to make some of the nuts around here think they were left behind.

Hey, where we're at there could be ALOT of free stuff. Jackpot.

Hey, I like free crap. Hook me up.

Let the looting continue.

Interesting

God wrote:

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. Matt. 24:36

I guess that doesn't apply to these guys.

If it will stop the current cycle of reopened wounds and work frustrations I find myself trapped in, I welcome the Apocalypse. "Change the parameters of the project now, muthaf*cka!"

Nomad wrote:

Interesting

God wrote:

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. Matt. 24:36

I guess that doesn't apply to these guys.

That's always my objection to apocalyptics. They're quick to see signs, but they don't seem to read their bible.

So wait... Because God told Noah there would be a flood in 7 days, and somewhere else it says that a thousand days is as one day, then the flood that already happened seven days after god talked to Noah is actually going to happen 7000 years from that date, but it's actually going to be a wave of fire in addition to a flood of water, and all of this is validated by a totally different part of the Bible that has something do with the end of the Church age (wherein God leaves the church and is replaced by Satan)?

Religion is fun.

It's been interesting reading Robear's observations about how the early Christian cult was very much a doomsday outfit; they thought the Rapture and the destruction of the Earth would happen within their lifetimes. That core of the religion is still running strong, two thousand years later.

Any minute now.

Malor wrote:

It's been interesting reading Robear's observations about how the early Christian cult was very much a doomsday outfit; they thought the Rapture and the destruction of the Earth would happen within their lifetimes. That core of the religion is still running strong, two thousand years later.

Any minute now.

They only have to be right once.

It's a shame that the people who get caught up in these things don't realise that it's all happened before. It must be incredibly exciting to be building up to a date like this. You'd be feeling that all life's frustrations and disappointments were behind you, that you were going to be proved right and that your faith was soon going to be rewarded by an endless and blissful visit to heaven. The day after, when it's all turned to nothing, must be a killer.

I think the Rapture folks and the "Year of the PS3" folks would have much to discuss.

As I understand it, the Rapture itself, in the Tim LeHaye mode, is a modern interpretation, in it's element of people being lifted bodily up to live in a sky heaven. I think the early Christians thought that Jesus would rule a kingdom on Earth, that the divine presence(s) would set up in Jerusalem. But I could be misremembering.

Hmmm, at church this past Sunday our pastor didn't mention anything about the 21st being the day of rapture. I guess he didn't get the memo that the 15th would be his last sermon on earth.

Higgledy wrote:

It's a shame that the people who get caught up in these things don't realise that it's all happened before. It must be incredibly exciting to be building up to a date like this. You'd be feeling that all life's frustrations and disappointments were behind you, that you were going to be proved right and that your faith was soon going to be rewarded by an endless and blissful visit to heaven. The day after, when it's all turned to nothing, must be a killer.

For some, yes. But for others, it is only the beginning.

Combining a personal system of numerology with a personal interpretation of a repeatedly translated book is always a decent way to predict the future accurately! It's just not as good as Haruspex though and the failure to throw some of that into his process will be his undoing.

The same guy who started the trend this year has made the same claim before, using a different numerology as his basis, and was (clearly) wrong. What irks me is that we keep on giving these people vast media attention which is probably precisely what they're after in the first place.

As an aside I have a feeling that if a Muslim made a similar claim a good portion of the population would be deeming it a threat of some significant terrorist action on the 21st. Why treat it differently when a Christian is making the claim?

Come the Rapture, may I have your car? My birthday's 6 days afterward, and it would make for an awesome present!

sometimesdee wrote:

Come the Rapture, may I have your car? My birthday's 6 days afterward, and it would make for an awesome present!

Yeah, but every time I see one of those bumper stickers, it's invariably on a piece of crap car that is falling apart and smells of cat pee.

krev82 wrote:

The same guy who started the trend this year has made the same claim before, using a different numerology as his basis, and was (clearly) wrong. What irks me is that we keep on giving these people vast media attention which is probably precisely what they're after in the first place.

In his defense (sort've), his last book had a caveat that said "i COULD be wrong, if I am, I'm doubling down on May 21st, 2011." So he wrote himself an out.

He has no such caveats this time.

Oh wow. My sister is graduating from seminary that day.

I promised myself that I'd be good but this is nigh irresistable. Need to go get my jokes out of the way now.. brb

Seth wrote:
krev82 wrote:

The same guy who started the trend this year has made the same claim before, using a different numerology as his basis, and was (clearly) wrong. What irks me is that we keep on giving these people vast media attention which is probably precisely what they're after in the first place.

In his defense (sort've), his last book had a caveat that said "i COULD be wrong, if I am, I'm doubling down on May 21st, 2011." So he wrote himself an out.

He has no such caveats this time.

You don't need caveats when you and 2000 of your bestest friends will be flying up to Jesus on golden T-Rexes while your 1970 lime green gremlin is blown up with the rest of the heathens.

Just once I wish the people who do the overly literal interpretations to support their supposed prophecies would note the part nearby where you're supposed to stone people who make false prophecies. If you take the one part literally, why do you ignore the other part?

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Anticipating the end of the world has been a popular pasttime for a lot longer than two thousand years, and using numerology to predict it is probably as old as Babylon. 2012 is going to be so much fun.

Nomad wrote:

Interesting

God wrote:

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. Matt. 24:36

I guess that doesn't apply to these guys.

Yeah. That's why the vast majority of Christendom isn't exactly holding its breath.

The bible guarantees the McDonald's Judgment Day is coming? I dunno, cheeseburgers raining from the sky could be pretty good...

So Man City win the FA Cup after 35 years without a trophy, and then the world bleeding ends. Well I suppose it was either this or the Large Hadron Collider.

Thanks a lot, Jesus. You do know that it's Man United who have the devil on their badge, right ?

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