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Posted: 3/14/2011 7:10:46 AM EDT

What's up with the 5-21-11 end of the world billboards all over??

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:12:48 AM EDT

[#1]

Kook cults.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:13:20 AM EDT

[#2]

The world will end on May 21, 2011.

What did you think it meant?

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:14:14 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
The world will end on May 21, 2011.

What did you think it meant?

I thought the billboards said Jesus was coming...isn't that supposed to be different?

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:14:46 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
The world will end on May 21, 2011.

What did you think it meant?

That doesn't work for me.
We'll have to reschedule.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:16:06 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Quoted:

The world will end on May 21, 2011.

What did you think it meant?

I thought the billboards said Jesus was coming...isn't that supposed to be different?

I heard the guy on Coast to Coast AM. He was talking about the end of the world. He believed Jesus would I guess descend from heaven and the world will experience Armageddon.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:16:36 AM EDT

[#6]

Those billboards are wrong, it's tomorrow.

In before someone who takes this seriously posts.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:19:11 AM EDT

[#7]

Whew.....I see I've still got time to run up my credit cards.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:19:39 AM EDT

[#8]

He should have posted them in Japan. I'm certain thereafter he would fo got quite the following. That way they could raise more money for the end fo the world.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:20:49 AM EDT

[#9]

Haha, I know someone getting married on that exact date.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:21:20 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Those billboards are wrong, it's tomorrow.

In before someone who takes this seriously posts.

Only for Julius Caesar.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:23:47 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Those billboards are wrong, it's tomorrow.

In before someone who takes this seriously posts.

Only for Julius Caesar.

The ides of March. Its fo time.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:33:16 AM EDT

[#12]

I thought this was about a game of billiards I'd never played before.....carry on.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:33:57 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The world will end on May 21, 2011.

What did you think it meant?

I thought the billboards said Jesus was coming...isn't that supposed to be different?

I heard the guy on Coast to Coast AM. He was talking about the end of the world. He believed Jesus would I guess descend from heaven and the world will experience Armageddon.

No one but the father knows, and all that jazz.

Besides, everyone knows the Mayans said the world ends 21 Dec 2012, duh.

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:36:52 AM EDT

[#14]

http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-01/bay-area/17466332_1_east-bay-bay-area-first-time-camping

truth or fiction??

its all about faith anyways........

Posted: 3/14/2011 7:36:56 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

What's up with the 5-21-11 end of the world billboards all over??

www.wecanknow.com

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:26:50 AM EDT

[#16]

What an excellent birthday present!

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:33:30 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
What's up with the 5-21-11 end of the world billboards all over??

Going to need to reschedule that, I'll be Tuna fishing off the Outer Banks of NC that day.

Let's try July 17th, I'm on call that day

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:41:34 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
The world will end on May 21, 2011.

What did you think it meant?

Does this mean I should put off buying a new truck?

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:42:17 AM EDT

[#19]

I've gotta work that day, so I'm okay with it. Wouldn't want the end of the world disrupting any of my off time...

Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:46:07 AM EDT

[#20]

Wife and I were just wondering about it.

Now we know

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:36:16 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The world will end on May 21, 2011.

What did you think it meant?

Does this mean I should put off buying a new truck?

Just for a bit; prices will be at an all-time low on May 20th.

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:38:47 PM EDT

[#22]

Kooky groups is claiming the bible says that that's the day the end of the world starts. They're also saying that the last time they claimed it was the end of the world a few years back was some kind of math screw up on their part and they're totally sure that this time they got it right.

ETA: I'm wonder if on May 22 if they'll go for the "oops, we messed up our math again" route or the whole "our prayers have convinced god to spare you all for another year for a chance to repent" route.

I also believe that they're claiming the whole "only 144,000 people are going to be raptured and saved" thing which I don't understand proselytizing about because if I believed that I'd keep that shit to myself. It's gonna fill up at some point and you'd think you wouldn't want to risk geting bumped.

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:41:51 PM EDT

[#23]

Well it can't be the Rapture. I'm pretty sure that already happened. I think it was just a few dogs and some guy in South Dakota.

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:44:01 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
What an excellent birthday present!

Me too but I was born way before 2011!

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:47:08 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
What's up with the 5-21-11 end of the world billboards all over??

Going to need to reschedule that, I'll be Tuna fishing off the Outer Banks of NC that day.

Let's try July 17th, I'm on call that day

Oh nice, I'm jealous!

Posted: 3/14/2011 8:56:34 PM EDT

[#26]

awesome hope it will be warm enough to ride my motorcycle

I already have my spiked shoulder pads and crossbow ready

Posted: 3/14/2011 9:10:16 PM EDT

[#27]

Awww Suck!!!

I am still on leave. Seriously have to reschedule for April. The 1st might be a good day for it....

Posted: 3/14/2011 9:19:39 PM EDT

[#28]

Posted: 3/14/2011 9:26:36 PM EDT

[#29]

Fuck...I thought it was May 21st 2012?!?!?! You mean to tell me I'm losing a freakin year. I don't have proper ammo reserves yet.

Posted: 3/14/2011 9:30:19 PM EDT

[#30]

Good grief, Harold Camping is at it again

Camping predicted that the world would end back in 1994

IMO he's an old kook

Posted: 3/14/2011 9:35:12 PM EDT

[#31]

When nothing happens that day, they will just say that the world wasnt ready or worthy or something to that effect. Be ready for a mass suicide as well.

Posted: 3/14/2011 9:39:52 PM EDT

[#32]

I hope their right...

But I kinda doubt it.

Posted: 3/14/2011 9:40:52 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Haha, I know someone getting married on that exact date.

For him, his world is ending that day.

Posted: 3/14/2011 9:52:55 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
I also believe that they're claiming the whole "only 144,000 people are going to be raptured and saved" thing which I don't understand proselytizing about because if I believed that I'd keep that shit to myself. It's gonna fill up at some point and you'd think you wouldn't want to risk geting bumped.

You would not believe the complexity of the lunatic mental gymnastics applied to that question by people who are pursuaded that the total number of the saved is 144K, and yet proselytize. Any version of the explanation that I have heard or tried to read sounds like Oliver Stone's Exceedingly Disorderly Comprehensive Analysis of Every Conspiracy Ever.

Of course, there is a very simple answer to the question "Why proselytize if there is a fixed number to be saved?" That is because (if you are a believer) Jesus, already in possession of the information contained in Revelation, instructed us to do so.

Posted: 3/14/2011 9:56:30 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
When nothing happens that day, they will just say that the world wasnt ready or worthy or something to that effect. Be ready for a mass suicide as well.

I am aware of several episodes of acute embarrassment and "Oh shit, I gave my house to my POS son-in-Law" syndrome in the aftermath of erroneous Rapture/EOTW predictions, but I don't recall any mass suicides of Christian end-timers.

Posted: 3/14/2011 10:34:09 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

Quoted:
What an excellent birthday present!

Me too but I was born way before 2011!

+2

Posted: 3/14/2011 10:47:54 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

Quoted:

The world will end on May 21, 2011.

What did you think it meant?

Does this mean I should put off buying a paying for my new truck?

FIFY, It's the American way.

Posted: 3/14/2011 10:53:08 PM EDT

[#38]

It's the date "The Passion of the Christ part 2" comes out.

Posted: 3/14/2011 11:23:04 PM EDT

[#39]

Well the world is pretty fucked up right now. Meh it could happen...

Posted: 3/14/2011 11:28:38 PM EDT

[#40]

Dear Rapture Believers,

Between May 21st and October 21st I am gonna play with your guy's shit. Hope you don't mind.

p.s., It's gonna suck when you go up and your wife ain't there. Sorry.

Regards,

Brown Atheist

Posted: 3/15/2011 5:56:31 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Haha, I know someone getting married on that exact date.

lucky bastard.

Posted: 3/15/2011 5:59:02 PM EDT

[#42]

That's the day after my birthday. Neat.

Posted: 3/15/2011 6:01:37 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I also believe that they're claiming the whole "only 144,000 people are going to be raptured and saved" thing which I don't understand proselytizing about because if I believed that I'd keep that shit to myself. It's gonna fill up at some point and you'd think you wouldn't want to risk geting bumped.

You would not believe the complexity of the lunatic mental gymnastics applied to that question by people who are pursuaded that the total number of the saved is 144K, and yet proselytize. Any version of the explanation that I have heard or tried to read sounds like Oliver Stone's Exceedingly Disorderly Comprehensive Analysis of Every Conspiracy Ever.

Of course, there is a very simple answer to the question "Why proselytize if there is a fixed number to be saved?" That is because (if you are a believer) Jesus, already in possession of the information contained in Revelation, instructed us to do so.

That would seem a bit lame on the Lord's part.

Jesus: "Hey, you guys need to go spread the word."
Rapture people: "Why? Only 144k people are saved and you already know who we are. Isn't that a bit like wanking?"
Jesus: "Well, it'll give you something to do at least besides sit on the couch and eat funions while waiting for the end. A bit of air will do you good."

Posted: 3/15/2011 6:04:15 PM EDT

[#44]

This could be worse than 3/15/11.

Posted: 3/15/2011 6:04:38 PM EDT

[#45]

I saw one of those today... What was the website? www.wecanknow or something like that?

Eta: http://www.wecanknow.com/

Posted: 3/15/2011 6:06:34 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

I saw one of those today... What was the website? www.wecanknow or something like that?

Eta: http://www.wecanknow.com/

Sniffing around the site... Who wants a free bumper sticker?

Posted: 3/15/2011 6:11:59 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

Quoted:
What an excellent birthday present!

Me too but I was born way before 2011!

+2

This might not be a good year to expect Deej's "Happy Birthday" posts.....

EDIT:

Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he'd found: The world will end May 21, 2011.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-01/bay-area/17466332_1_east-bay-bay-area-first-time-camping