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 Alpharius wrote:
I don't think I've ever ready a follow up on people who did this in the past and were, obviously, quite wrong though.

In the early and mid-19th century a doomsday sect formed up around the ideal that biblical prophecy said the world was going to end on Oct 22nd, 1844. The world didn't end, in an event they call 'the Big Disappointment'. Plenty of members wandered off but the rest reformed in to what is now known as the Seventh Day Adventists.

She tried to warn you.

So it turns out this will be the 69th end of the world event in my lifetime. giggity. With all the rapture predictions, it's fun to think, "what if it actually happened, just no one noticed, because they weren't picked"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

You're not serious, are you?

The End of the World happens every moment, since we are constantly being delivered into alternate string realities of varying probablitilies. Therefore, the timelines we are not in are constantly ending.

Therefore, somewhere on Earth 2 the world is ending but here on Earth 1 everything is fine. Blame the Quantums.

To be frank, if the world ends tomorrow, bleh.

Best put this planet out of its misery like a rabid dog.

 Alpharius wrote:

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

You're not serious, are you?

Missing the wildfires that basically leveled Montana.

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

All those events killed a few hundred people in total. I wasn't worried the world was about to end back in 2004 when a Tsunami caused by a magnitude 9+ quake wiped out a quarter of a million.

"I've got it! The world will end on the 30 of June!"

"Isn't your alimony payment due on the 30th?"

"The 29th! The world will definitely end on the 29th!"

Seriously - I never understood playing the numerology game with the bible. You are using a book that calls numerology a failure to base your numerlogical predictions on. At least Nostradamus had a good opinion of numerology and his book has just as many numbers and doomsday stuff in it.

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

Meanwhile, more or less the rest of the world was totally fine in regards to natural disasters.
The end of the world doesn't have to start in North America you know, that's only in the movies.

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

There's been many years in the recent past, even just counting the 21st century, that have seen more disasters than that.

If those worry you you're delusional, young and/or naive.

 MinscS2 wrote:

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

Meanwhile, more or less the rest of the world was totally fine in regards to natural disasters.
The end of the world doesn't have to start in North America you know, that's only in the movies.

Well, except for the crazy floods in India right now that have killed more than all these events combined.

 Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:
I just bought my first house. At least I won't have to make a mortgage payment

Seriously though, if its blatantly written in the bible that only God knows when the world will end, and he isn't saying, why do "Christians" keep coming up with this stuff?

SIDE NOTE: The quotes is not an attack on religion, or Christians. But weirdos keep using it as their platform for acceptance, so it needs to be there.

Christians do a lot of things that are spelled out as no-nos in the Bible. Even ministers.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

There's been many years in the recent past, even just counting the 21st century, that have seen more disasters than that.

If those worry you you're delusional, young and/or naive.

I remember reading something about the the Black Death, and thinking that if there was ever a time when a belief in the imminent end of the world was justified, it was then. The fourteenth century was a really bad time to be European.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
When will you be expecting Doomsday?

The day after orks get a decent codex.

You are waaayyy too optimistic.

The world will end the day before the orks get a decent codex, so they never actually get to use it....

The Auld Grump

Just after plastic sisters! Before anyone has time to assemble, paint, and play them.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
To be frank, if the world ends tomorrow, bleh.

Best put this planet out of its misery like a rabid dog.

Don't insult rabid dogs that way!

Well, it's the 23rd where I'm at, and everything seems fine so far.

 djones520 wrote:
Well, it's the 23rd where I'm at, and everything seems fine so far.

I wonder if there is a certain time. Can we get this guy to clarify? If he got a date, he had to have gotten an exact time down to the second.

I don't think the Big G would be that sloppy.

 Dreadwinter wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
Well, it's the 23rd where I'm at, and everything seems fine so far.

I wonder if there is a certain time. Can we get this guy to clarify? If he got a date, he had to have gotten an exact time down to the second.

I don't think the Big G would be that sloppy.

Actually, it seems he got cold feet.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/09/22/doomsday-is-not-on-saturday-after-all-writer-says-after-predicting-end-world.html

The funniest thing is, it's like, a planet. Those are KINDA hard to miss and can't really sneak up on you. We can see one 588 MILLION kilometers away with the naked eye, much less the with optical devices invented millennia ago, not to mention modern technology.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

There's been many years in the recent past, even just counting the 21st century, that have seen more disasters than that.

If those worry you you're delusional, young and/or naive.

Hey, why be so exclusionary? He can be three things!

 Alpharius wrote:

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

You're not serious, are you?

I was probably exaggerating a bit.

Anyway, I woke up this morning, and saw the sunlight in my window, and thought "We're still alive! It was a hoax!!!"

Of course, I had the suspicion that it was a hoax from the start anyway.

 djones520 wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
Well, it's the 23rd where I'm at, and everything seems fine so far.

I wonder if there is a certain time. Can we get this guy to clarify? If he got a date, he had to have gotten an exact time down to the second.

I don't think the Big G would be that sloppy.

Actually, it seems he got cold feet.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/09/22/doomsday-is-not-on-saturday-after-all-writer-says-after-predicting-end-world.html

Well, I really wanted to get out of work today. I blame this guy.

Guys! I survived the end of the world! Again! With the amount of apocalypses I have lived through, I must be some kind of super survivor...

 Easy E wrote:
The End of the World happens every moment, since we are constantly being delivered into alternate string realities of varying probablitilies. Therefore, the timelines we are not in are constantly ending.

Therefore, somewhere on Earth 2 the world is ending but here on Earth 1 everything is fine. Blame the Quantums.

That's the darkest multiverse interpretation I've ever heard! Exalt.

It's now September 24th and I'm still typing...hello Dakkanauts! Well, another doomsday hypster got his Warholian 15 minutes and I'm off to the neighborhood Farmer's Market to hit up the cheesemonger for some deliciousness.

 Easy E wrote:
The End of the World happens every moment, since we are constantly being delivered into alternate string realities of varying probablitilies. Therefore, the timelines we are not in are constantly ending.

Therefore, somewhere on Earth 2 the world is ending but here on Earth 1 everything is fine. Blame the Quantums.

I think it's become clear by now that this is actually the darkest timeline.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:
Alright, here's my take on this:

It's probably not gonna happen, but I'd be lying if I said i wasn't a bit concerned myself. Here's why I am concerned:

Our 3 Cat 4 Hurricanes making US Landfalls (Harvey, Irma, and Maria)

The recent Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake that hit Mexico.

There's been many years in the recent past, even just counting the 21st century, that have seen more disasters than that.

If those worry you you're delusional, young and/or naive.

Too bad these extreme events are appearing more and more.

I'm less worried about biblical apocalypse prophezised on old fiction and more of humans ensuring themselves lots of humans die.

Your statistical evidence of "more and more" please.