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Why do people keep claiming they know the end of the world...

There is even a passage in the Bible where one of the Apostles asks Jesus 'when the end will come', and he replies, "That is not for you to know."

So....yeah. Sorry Christians.

I hope they televise it when he meets the Phelps.

FITZZ wrote:...Well,this put's a damper on my summer vacation plans..
...At least tell me we're going to get some zombies first.

Did someone say Zombie Games? I'll have to pick up a few cases (of beer and bullets) for the party. If its May 21 then then final events could be over the July 4th weekend if we really stretch this out. Maybe we can shoot some zombies into the sky on really big fireworks?

I believe the founder of the Mormon church said that God told him when the world was going to end, unfortunately that didn't happen.

Also, the passage is 3:8 which means that its going to end May 21st 2011 at exactly 3:08. John starts with a J which is in the first half of the alphabet which means it will occur in the first half of the day. So the Rapture is going to occur May, 21, 2011 at 3:08am. The billboard guarantees it!

Great il be hungover as fakk from my 19th bday on the 20th

Also dont believe in the whole "the end is near" crapola, if were all going to die it wont be some "holy" event (althought a crusade would be bad ass)instead nuclear winter will get us..... that or that scrap yard in the ocean from Japan that i heard some dude on the bus talking about.

Wolfun wrote:I wonder what happens when May 21st comes and goes....

Nothing; actually this group will do the same thing they did last time they were wrong, they'll call it a miscalculation and put another date out.


I predict that the world will end within the next 5.43 billion years by which time the sun will have exhausted all of its available fuel and become a red giant.

Fart jokes, really? Was that worth the time to type out?

Ah good, the 21st of May is a Saturday, so at least I'll be able to sleep in.

Judgement day? I thought that has come and gone already. Skynet failed to prove it's existance with a robot uprising.

Maybe they did, but being robots were just quiet about. I do seem chained to a computer a good portion of the day.

If your crackberry tells you to do things would you do it?

I've had this long running theory that the end of the world already occurred, possibly several times over, and the rest of us are just too dense to notice.

Frazzled wrote:If your crackberry tells you to do things would you do it?

I loled at this

Those people still raving about the Mayan calendar will not be happy about this...

Phototoxin wrote:I'd like to know how they calculated it.

http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/may21/

Seek, and ye shall find.

I think they've got it pretty much sorted out. It's all there, from the creation of earth at 11,000 BC right up until the present day.

Monster Rain wrote:

Phototoxin wrote:the creation of earth at 11,000 BC

Hopefully we won't get suicide cults like the Heaven's Gate wackos. Too many innocent people/kids get forced to drink the kool-aid...

Wolfun wrote:I wonder what happens when May 21st comes and goes....

It'll be a preview for 12/21/2012

Mannahnin wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:When you're out driving around, keep your eyes peeled for this:



Nice of them to let us know, huh? Wouldn't want Judgment Day to creep up on me and not have a present for the wife. I still haven't lived it down from last year.

We have one of these stupid things on Elm Street in Manchester. The other night I was driving past it and it prompted me to guesstimate how many times Judgment Day has been predicted over the past two thousand years.

Didn't Jesus say that some of the people he was talking to in person would still be alive when it came? Wouldn't that tend to indicate that maybe it's not coming?

There is also a group of Christians that believe the entire 'end times' wasn't really the end times in how we think of it and that it has actually already passed.
Preterists I think?

Ah, here we go. I know, i know, its a wiki. Please don't kill me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterism

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with it, but since it was brought up I thought you might be interested in the idea.

I remember watching a documentary about some Seventh Day Adventist splinter group that was out running around in the desert waiting for the end of the world because their Cult Leader (who also, interestingly, had orders from God to "consummate" the marriages of some of the men in the group) had said that the End had arrived.

There was about 15 minutes of tape after that of the people trying to convince themselves that the leader's explanation of why they hadn't been raptured made sense.

Whats up with PEOPLE WHO LACK reading comprehension. ALSO, WHAT'S UP WITH PEOPLE WHO SLAG ENTIRE COUNTRIES? IS IT JUST BAD MANNERS, OR LAZINESS, OR BOTH?
Edit: To guy in Red. Its very common phenomenon for our friends across the pond with regards to failure to understand central and unambiguous religious teachings by religious people of the same faith, and considerably less common elsewhere in the developed world.

If this is taken from a new Testament perspective, which from the 'return of Christ' slogans it clearly is then it helps to read the text.

Matthew 24:42 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
Matthew 24:43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
Matthew 24:44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
Matthew 25:13 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
Mark 13:32 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Jesus also had something to say about those who claimed to know the time of the return:

Mark 13:21-22 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.


Thou hast been pwned.

Yeah, IIRC this guy has predicted the second coming of Christ like 3-4 times now, and has yet to get it right... Im not to concerned.

Also funny little quote...

JUST IN CASE WE ARE WRONG

While this isn't the first time that the end of the world has been predicted, there are many believers that will adhere to the date, even if it passes. "It would be like telling the Wright brothers that every other attempt to fly has failed, so you shouldn't even try," Chris McCann, who works with eBible Fellowship, told the AP.

Yea, verily.

Orlanth wrote:Whats up with Americans and reading comprehension.

If this is taken from a new Testament perspective, which from the 'return of Christ' slogans it clearly is then it helps to read the text.

Matthew 24:42 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
Matthew 24:43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
Matthew 24:44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
Matthew 25:13 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
Mark 13:32 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Jesus also had something to say about those who claimed to know the time of the return:

Mark 13:21-22 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.


Thou hast been pwned.

Its not our reading comprehension, its american ingenuity. Who else has the scientifc prowess to manufacture the date of the rapture? Liechtenstein, Cambodia, China? No, its America and everyone else is just jealous that we beat you to it, kind of like how we went to the moon first and now everyone else is all like "OMG we're jealous!".

halonachos wrote:

Orlanth wrote:Whats up with Americans and reading comprehension.

Thou hast been pwned.

Its not our reading comprehension, its american ingenuity. Who else has the scientifc prowess to manufacture the date of the rapture? Liechtenstein, Cambodia, China? No, its America and everyone else is just jealous that we beat you to it, kind of like how we went to the moon first and now everyone else is all like "OMG we're jealous!".

Good reply. How much $$$ did it take to make the supercomputer capable of calculating raptures. We just don't have that sort of funding base over here.

Orlanth wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Orlanth wrote:Whats up with Americans and reading comprehension.

Thou hast been pwned.

Its not our reading comprehension, its american ingenuity. Who else has the scientifc prowess to manufacture the date of the rapture? Liechtenstein, Cambodia, China? No, its America and everyone else is just jealous that we beat you to it, kind of like how we went to the moon first and now everyone else is all like "OMG we're jealous!".

Good reply. How much $$$ did it take to make the supercomputer capable of calculating raptures. We just don't have that sort of funding base over here.

The Rapturetron 5,000 was built with donations from the faithful.

Monster Rain wrote:

Orlanth wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Orlanth wrote:Whats up with Americans and reading comprehension.

Thou hast been pwned.

Its not our reading comprehension, its american ingenuity. Who else has the scientifc prowess to manufacture the date of the rapture? Liechtenstein, Cambodia, China? No, its America and everyone else is just jealous that we beat you to it, kind of like how we went to the moon first and now everyone else is all like "OMG we're jealous!".

Good reply. How much $$$ did it take to make the supercomputer capable of calculating raptures. We just don't have that sort of funding base over here.

The Rapturetron 5,000 was built with donations from the faithful.

Fine, how many firstborns did it take?

Avatar 720 wrote:[Fine, how many firstborns did it take?

Firstborns? Come on now.

The donations were of macaroni pictures and popcorn necklaces.

You brits really are behind... I had hoped that you guys would at least have something capable of calculating when Hell would freeze over.

Bye bye debt! Bye bye work! Bye bye unpainted models!

That's the spirit!

Who says the Apocalypse has to be a bummer?

There would be, for example, a lot less of this going on after the brimstone stops falling.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/video-man-caught-peeing-on-cough-drops-in-drug-store-ncx-20110425

NEWSCORE - Police are looking for a man who urinated on more than 100 packages of cough drops inside a Walgreens in Florida.

It happened last Thursday around 10:30 p.m. at a Walgreens on S. French Avenue in Sanfiord.

Investigators say the man went to the aisle where the cough drops are kept, looked around, unzipped his pants, and urinated on about 110 packages of cough drops.

Police say he then walked back to the pharmacy and attempted to fill a prescription but didn’t have the proper documents.

The man then left the store

So embarrassing.

As a christian, I hate crap like this. Christians who are weak in their faith stand on soap boxes preaching this "wait till daddy gets home" message because the truth of the matter is, they aren't fully convinced themselves.

halonachos wrote:You brits really are behind... I had hoped that you guys would at least have something capable of calculating when Hell would freeze over.

We are ahead of you on that one, we have sensors to detect when Wales scores the winning goal in the World Cup final.