Originally Posted By fkurucz " I don't understand How evangelical's keep forgetting that passage since they say they study the Bible so much." It's triumphalism. They believe that they are a special elite, and thus have access to priviledged information. And when you remind them that Jesus said that not even the angels or the son of man know when the end will come, they will retort: that doesn't apply to us. I don't even know why the media even gives these people the time of day. Oh wait, I do: It's good for business.
Originally Posted By BPSJP >>It's triumphalism. They believe that they are a special elite, and thus have access to priviledged information. << That is a very good point you make here. It's the feeling of being special that makes them act so silly I guess.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I hope these folks have scheduled a press conference for Sunday the 22nd. They'll have some `splainin' to do. At the bay bridge toll plaza is one of those big electronic billboards. They've been featuring a daily countdown for about a week now. The suspense is building . . .
Originally Posted By Labuda ^^^ They can afford a fancy billboard like that. They won't have to pay the bill since it's due next week.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan ^^^They charged it on the credit card...<< But if they turn out to be right, talk about your reward points!
Originally Posted By gadzuux So now we've got competing billboards at the toll plaza. Turns out some local atheist group is sponsoring a rapture "after-party" for the 22nd, and they've got their own billboard to announce it. As a clarification, this billboard is a giant digital screen - kinda like Bladerunner or a jumbotron - and it can flash multiple ads. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43066376" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43066376</a> One evangelist's doomsday prediction has the world ending on Saturday, May 21. His followers and his radio network are running hundreds of billboards across the country, extolling that the apocalypse is nigh. If it doesn't happen, though, there's an Oakland-based atheist's group ready to help disappointed/unfulfilled believers with a party on Sunday. They've also raised their own counter-billboards to point at what they see as "nonsense." The American Atheists' 68-foot billboard near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco reads: The Rapture: You Know It's Nonsense: 2000 Years of "Any Day Now!" Similar signs are in Houston, Wichita, Kan., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>The Rapture: You Know It's Nonsense: 2000 Years of "Any Day Now!"<< To be accurate, the "Rapture" is a recent Protestant Fundamentalist innovation. Catholic, Orthodox and Mainline Protestant Christians do not subscribe to the concept of the "Rapture".
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne Given I'm a good 14 hours ahead of most of you... I'm interested to see if I make it to my Sunday... Or will the universe time itself so we are all on the same date before it ends?
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Or will the universe time itself so we are all on the same date before it ends?< The end of days actually works on American Central Time.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Did they specify a certain time of day that this is supposed to happen? I have plans for Saturday, so I will need to know what time the rapture is supposed happen before I can decide if I will have time to participate in mass hysteria.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I read that it is supposed to happen at 6pm everywhere. Some huge event that will travel along I guess with the earth's rotation, so that as each part of the globe enters the 6:00 hour -- kablooey. Although, I think it's supposed to be more like this is the start of the end -- Judgement Day, with the actual destruction of the planet not happening until October 22.
Originally Posted By BPSJP Sorry, but I cannot get myself to act like this is funny. I think a lot of good hearted people have been fooled because they think they are following real biblical scholars. I think before we laugh at people, we should look in the mirror, and see our faults, and how people may look at what we believe.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I think a lot of good hearted people have been fooled because they think they are following real biblical scholars. >>> Over the course of history, untold tens of millions of people have been killed for exactly that reason. I think that some of us hope that with enough effort, study, and illumination of the issue, humanity might someday be able to put a stop to it.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I read that it is supposed to happen at 6pm everywhere. Some huge event that will travel along I guess with the earth's rotation, so that as each part of the globe enters the 6:00 hour -- kablooey. Although, I think it's supposed to be more like this is the start of the end*** Well, since America is near the end of the time-zone spectrum, I'm sure the U.S. military will have plenty of time to send up all their secret orbiters and relocate the important people to mars.
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne Well it's 6PM according to a man based in California... <a href="http://picayuneitem.com/opinion/x2069371885/Get-ready-World-ends-May-21-according-to-radio-preacher" target="_blank">http://picayuneitem.com/opinio...preacher</a> So I'm pretty safe until Sunday morning.. which is actualy a bit depressing.. because I don't have any Saturday night plans!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 "I read that it is supposed to happen at 6pm everywhere. Some huge event that will travel along I guess with the earth's rotation, so that as each part of the globe enters the 6:00 hour -- kablooey." Oh, so kinda like Y2k, then. Like when you heard on New Year's Eve that the computers didn't go nuts and shut everything down in Asia and Australia, and you thought "cool, life goes on. And that money my company spent on y2k patches was well spent, huh?". I'm planning on winning the lottery Saturday, so it'll be nice to see Japan still standing, knowing I'll make it till they pull them ping pong balls.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>Sorry, but I cannot get myself to act like this is funny. I think a lot of good hearted people have been fooled because they think they are following real biblical scholars. I think before we laugh at people, we should look in the mirror, and see our faults, and how people may look at what we believe.<<< Sorry, but it is funny when one of the worlds best educated nations can unequivocally fall for someone that preys on their fears and worries. Just a small modicum of common sense would tell you to be skeptical of such a claim. Just for the record though, and I am glad about this, very many have mentioned it and very few have fallen behind the prediction. So that's a good thing. Disclaimer: If by some chance I was wrong and Judgement day does come on Saturday, I was just kidding...I believed it all along! Don't burn me, bro!
