Judgement Day May 21st 2011

What I've read is that this particular preacher, who has previously (incorrectly) predicted the end of the world, chose 3 numbers that he (maybe others?) felt were significant/holy, multiplied them together, then together again, and came up with the supposed number of days since Jesus' crucifixion or resurrection. Perhaps there was also a vague bible passage that could be interpreted many ways, and from this "irrefutable" evidence, he can guarantee the end of the world. Wow.
 
Make it Stawberries with Irish Cream. Pour it on and...

Oh It's the end of the World,
It's the end of the World, and I feel fine...
 
Kohoutek meant the end of the World in '73. Halley's before that.

sad part- some people believe it, and go nuts.

Anybody up for a no-gear talk Sunday?
 
Brian Sweeney said:
Kohoutek meant the end of the World in '73. Halley's before that.

sad part- some people believe it, and go nuts.

Anybody up for a no-gear talk Sunday?
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Any one remember Y2K? All the computers were to crash at 1 AM midnight Jan 1 2000.

Some folks cancelled their flights. There was a bus to take the believers out to the outskirts of town so they could watch the destruction as all the computers crashed and the city blew up.
 
Here we are doubting that this momentous event may actually happen on the 21st ... while we rabidly protect a technology that got over run by the SLR eons ago, at the same time jealously guarding our film stocks in an ultimatley digital world!

But we do it in our own little corner of the internet ... so it must be right?

:D
 
Now see what happens when some fools get their FSU gear out for a competition and disturb the gods. We all have to suffer.

ron
 
acheyj said:
Now see what happens when some fools get their FSU gear out for a competition and disturb the gods. We all have to suffer.

ron
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I'm not going anywhere on the 21st ... I'm locking myself in the shed with my Kiev ll. (if it hasn't snapped a shutter ribbon by then)

:D
 
Roger: That's why I carry a camera with me everywhere I go...really! It's to record, among other things,

1.) First Contact,:eek: or

2.) The Second Coming.:angel:

With best regards.

Pfreddee(Stephen)
 
I'm glad I live in a country where defamation of religion is legal, cause stuff like this needs calling out. Hate speech laws my arse.
 
To all New Yorkers, Mayor Bloomberg has said there will be NO alternate side parking in effect if the world comes to an end. I might have to go into the city tomorrow if street parking will be that easy. Yippee. Bring on the ravishing rapture. Or is it the rapturous ravishment? I'm ready now. Bring on the strawberries!
 
I assume the Rapture meant finding a Summarex with all caps, hoods, and case in perfect condition for $35.
 
FrankS said:
What I've read is that this particular preacher, who has previously (incorrectly) predicted the end of the world, chose 3 numbers that he (maybe others?) felt were significant/holy, multiplied them together, then together again, and came up with the supposed number of days since Jesus' crucifixion or resurrection.
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Oh, it's so much more complicated than that...

First, you have to accept that 5 means "atonement," 10 means "completeness" and 17 is "heaven."

So you take the number of years since Christ died, which is supposedly 1,978. You multiply that by the number of days in the solar calendar, 365.2422, to get 722,449. Then you add the number of days between April 1st and May 21, which is 51, to get 722,500.

...get it? ...No?

Obviously, if you take 5, multiply it by 10, multiply that by 17, and then square the whole thing, you also get 722,500. I guess this makes multiplication and exponentiation somehow holy?
 
Did they remember to account for the 10 days skipped in 1582 when we converted from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar? People went to sleep on October 4th and woke up on the 15th. I wonder what they did for Birthdays and anniversaries. We could never get away with that now. We get to skip on occasional second.

Or is this thing going to linger on for a few more days.

If they did forget, don't tell them.
 
Oh the Rapture.

From Wikipedia.


Some notable rapture predictions include the following:
1844 - William Miller predicted Christ would return between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, then revised his prediction, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture, to October 22, 1844. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in a Great Disappointment. Miller's theology gave rise to the Advent movement. The Baha'is believe that Christ did return as Miller predicted in 1844, with the advent of The Báb, and numerous Miller-like prophetic predictions from many religions are given in William Sears book, Thief in The Night.
1914, 1918, 1925, 1942 - Dates set for the end by the Jehovah's Witnesses
1981 - Chuck Smith predicted that Jesus would probably return by 1981.
1988 - Publication of 88 Reasons why the Rapture is in 1988, by Edgar C. Whisenant.
1989 - Publication of The final shout: Rapture report 1989, by Edgar Whisenant. More predictions by this author appeared for 1992, 1995, and other years.
1992 - Korean group "Mission for the Coming Days" predicted October 28, 1992 as the date for the rapture.
1993 - Seven years before the year 2000. The rapture would have to start to allow for seven years of the Tribulation before the Return in 2000. Multiple predictions.
1994 - Pastor John Hinkle of Christ Church in Los Angeles predicted June 9, 1994. Radio evangelist Harold Camping predicted September 6, 1994.
2011 - Harold Camping's revised prediction has May 21, 2011 as the date of the rapture.
2060 - Sir Isaac Newton proposed, based upon his calculations using figures from the book of Daniel, that the Apocalypse could happen no earlier than 2060.
 
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