The End of the World is Coming

Corduroy

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So now we know it's bullsh*t the next time it's predicted!

It's been predicted before and nothing happened. We should have learned our lesson by now.

Next up is probably the winter solstice in 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar. Though my calendar ends December 31st 2011, so who knows? Maybe the world will end then.
 

JLM

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It's been predicted before and nothing happened. We should have learned our lesson by now.

Next up is probably the winter solstice in 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar. Though my calendar ends December 31st 2011, so who knows? Maybe the world will end then.

It ain't going to happen that way, the world will be here for millions of years, but the human race is probably in it's last 100 years due to greed, sloth and obesity unless they smarten up. There will likely be a "skeleton crew" comprised of folks like the Inuit who will survive longer.
 

JLM

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You're just figuring out now that predictions of the end of the earth are BS?

Yep, leaning in that direction. :smile: Back in the 50s we were told it was supposed to end in 1957, that may have been Nostradamos' prediction.
 

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I can't count the number of ends of the worlds I have survived, including a few of my own. I was supposed to die in 96 and two years ago according to doctors.
 

Dexter Sinister

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Not at all, it'd be the beginning of the New World Order. I'll contact my friends in the Illuminati, nobody else could arrange to have a competent professional hockey team in Toronto... Maybe they could do something about the Argos too, but as a Rider fan I don't really care much about that... :)
 

Unforgiven

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Just because it's a scam doesn't mean the money should stop. lol Suckers never cease to fall for the same thing every time.
 

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US preacher resets Doomsday after failed Rapture


(AFP) – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — The end of the world is still coming, just a little later than originally planned, said a US radio minister after his prediction that Judgment Day would come last weekend flopped. "We are not changing a date at all; we're just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this," Harold Camping, the 89-year-old founder of the global evangelizing Family Radio network said in a 90-minute radio broadcast late Monday.

"But on October 21, the world will be destroyed. It won't be five months of destruction. It will come at once," he said.

Camping had insisted that the so-called "Rapture" -- when good Christians are swept up to heaven and the not-so-good stay behind to suffer until the end of the world -- would begin with powerful earthquakes at 6:00 pm local time on Saturday in each of the world's regions. Those not taken to be with God on Saturday were to suffer hell on earth until October 21, when God would pull the plug on the planet once and for all.

When the Rapture hour came and went with no skyward departures or earthquakes, Camping initially said on CNN that he was confused. It isn't the first time he has miscalculated the end of the world.

Nearly two decades ago, Camping wrote a book entitled "1994" which predicted the world would end then. Following Saturday's failed Rapture, T-shirts were on sale online, including one that said: "I survived the Rapture and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."

AFP: US preacher resets Doomsday after failed Rapture
 

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Judgment day has been put off till Oct. 21, 2011. Hallelujah is was a miricale. We a few more months.

The 89-year-old now says the real Day of Judgment will occur on October 21, and that his claims that the Apocalypse was last Saturday was really just a misunderstanding.

Harold Camping: May 21 was 'invisible Judgment Day,' the REAL Rapture comes on October 21

NO! The Grey Cup isn't until November, the world can't end until I see the Rider's win this year!!! I simply won't go! No way.......... oh wait ... if they get the team, isn't much sense me stickin' around. LOL!
 

Dexter Sinister

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Jeez, how could Camping have been wrong? It's all perfectly simple. In his numerological system, 5 represents atonement, 10 means completeness, and 17 is associated with heaven. 5 times 10 times 17 all squared is 722,500. He pegs the crucifixion at April 1st, 33, and 722,500 days later is May 21st, 2011. It's thus the interval between the time Christ made payment for our sins and the day the reward comes due to those who accept it, and punishment begins to fall on those who don't. Where could he have gone wrong?
 

JLM

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Jeez, how could Camping have been wrong? It's all perfectly simple. In his numerological system, 5 represents atonement, 10 means completeness, and 17 is associated with heaven. 5 times 10 times 17 all squared is 722,500. He pegs the crucifixion at April 1st, 33, and 722,500 days later is May 21st, 2011. It's thus the interval between the time Christ made payment for our sins and the day the reward comes due to those who accept it, and punishment begins to fall on those who don't. Where could he have gone wrong?

About 500 years ago there was a 9 day adjustment in the calendar, hope you took that into account! :lol: P.S. I think it would be in downright bad taste to hold the crucifixion on April Fools Day! :smile:
 

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It wasn't April Fools Day in the year 33, that seems to be a fairly recent accretion to the calendar, though presumably he or his dad must have known what it would become and how it would appear to us in the Latter Days. Maybe they DO have a sense of humour, or irony, or something. And no, I didn't explicitly take any calendar adjustment into account, I merely repeated the gist of Camping's argument, and I presume even a knucklehead like him would get at least that right. You don't think I could make that stuff up, do you? :)
 

JLM

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It wasn't April Fools Day in the year 33, that seems to be a fairly recent accretion to the calendar, though presumably he or his dad must have known what it would become and how it would appear to us in the Latter Days. Maybe they DO have a sense of humour, or irony, or something. And no, I didn't explicitly take any calendar adjustment into account, I merely repeated the gist of Camping's argument, and I presume even a knucklehead like him would get at least that right. You don't think I could make that stuff up, do you? :)

And of course not to forget that Christ was actually (believe it or not) born in 4 B.C. so the year 33 may be in doubt, perhaps more like 29 AD. :lol:
 

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That's too easy for a guy like Camping. He was 37, not 33, at the crucifixion. If you can make up one thing, why not make up everything? Which is exactly what he did. :)
 

JLM

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That's too easy for a guy like Camping. He was 37, not 33, at the crucifixion. If you can make up one thing, why not make up everything? Which is exactly what he did. :)

I've been expecting all the religious fanatics to jump in here and set the record straight. :lol: