Rapture date: May 21, 2011. Exactly 7000 years from the Flood.

[Piscivore]

Someone has paid for a billboard here in town that says:

Save the date:
Return of Christ
May 21, 2001

weCanKNOW.com

Can't wait to see how fast it comes down.

 

[AvalonXQ]

So Christ returned 10 years ago, then?

 

[Piscivore]

So Christ returned 10 years ago, then?

D'oh. I keep doing that at work, too.

 

[Tricky]

Someone has paid for a billboard here in town that says:

Save the date:
Return of Christ
May 21, 2001

weCanKNOW.com

Can't wait to see how fast it comes down.

That site is a hoot! I think I'll try to click "contact us" on March 22.

 

[Ladewig]

That site is a hoot! I think I'll try to click "contact us" on March 22.

The are collecting money. Are they a scam or do they really believe that we are two months away from the end of the world as we know it?

 

[Beerina]

Any believers up to signing over all their money and property, effective May 22, 2011? I'll worry about making sure the taxes get paid.

 

[Dragon]

I read the CNN article this morning and was so angry at the picture and quote of the 7 year old that I nearly lost it.


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I wish there was some sort of child abuse law that these parents could be charged with on May 22.

It makes me angry too. There are children at my work who are sure they are going to die soon. Either this year or next.

Child abuse of this kind is not confined to the Rapture Ready/Born Again strain of Christianity -

In the wake of the current scandal over child abuse by priests , I have had a letter from an American woman in her mid forties who was brought up Roman Catholic. She has two strong recollections from when she was seven. She was sexually abused by her parish priest in his car. And around the same time a little schoolfriend of hers, who had tragically died, went to hell because she was a Protestant. Or so my correspondent was led to believe by the then official doctrine of her church. Her view now is that, of these two examples of Roman Catholic child abuse, the one physical and the other mental, the second was by far the worst. She writes:

"Being fondled by the priest simply left the impression (from the mind of a 7 year old) as 'yuchy' while the memory of my friend going to hell was one of cold, immeasurable fear. I never lost sleep because of the priest ? but I spent many a night being terrified that the people I loved would go to Hell. It gave me nightmares."

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/118-religion-39-s-real-child-abuse

 

[Andrew Wiggin]

My first personal experience with this sort of woo came as a child in one of my mercifully brief public school experiences, when I had a teacher who believed that the end of the world was heralded by the planetary alignment of november 1980, which she told the class would cause the other planets gravity to tear the earth apart and kill everyone. I will admit it looked quite pretty in the sky, but I'm somehow still here, and so is most everyone else. At the time I was quite frightened though, to the extent that some of the parents, including my own had a talk with the teacher, and early in december she did apologize to the class. She literally had reduced some of the more impressionable kids to nonfuntionality and panic.

http://rao.150m.com/AlignmentNov1980.html

Had to go through basically the same damn thing in 1982 too, with the additional postdiction that the disaster had begun in 1980, with the eruption of Mount St. Helens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Effect

 

[Meadmaker]

I've always wondered; does God consider timezone when he does his rapturing?

Santa Claus does, so my guess is that God will, too.

But...all the cool rapture stories all have afternoon or early evening raptures. You never see a good rapture video where people magically disappear, mostly from their beds.

 

[Roadtoad]

Santa Claus does, so my guess is that God will, too.

But...all the cool rapture stories all have afternoon or early evening raptures. You never see a good rapture video where people magically disappear, mostly from their beds.

All the cool rapture stories are written and set up so they can be marketed to the stupid.

On May 22, I'm going to see if I can get out to Harold Camping's place, just to see if I can find the keys to his car. I mean, if he's right, he won't be needing it.

 

[Piscivore]

That site is a hoot! I think I'll try to click "contact us" on March 22.

I just sent them this email through that site:
"If you are sincere about this apocalypse you are preaching, I invite you to put all your cards on the table and draft and sign a legal contract turning over all your worldly assets to me, effective May 22, 2011."

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Time for a new thread bump.

Blow the Trumpet, Warn the People, Rapture is guaranteed by the Bible on May 21, 2011. I don't think this is different from the OP and it's the same site Tricky linked to above..

Rapture battle on billboards hit Bay Area

For those that don't want to review the thread:

the May 21 deadline has been actively publicized by Oakland's Harold Camping, a Bible scholar, former civil engineer and head of Family Radio, a 24-hour nonprofit evangelical broadcasting network he founded in 1959....

Also on May 21 and 22, the American Atheists will hold their regional meeting in Oakland and celebrate the "Rapture that Wasn't." Events include speakers, a post-rapture party, and a performance by a comedian, Mr. Deity. Go to www.atheists.org/oakland for details.

Celebrating 2000 years of "any day now".

And if you prefer the video news version: CNN on the new billboard.

 

[JihadJane]

Not long to go now - I can't wait!

 

[Tricky]

I see they're having an atheist "rapture party" in Houston. I wonder if Geek Goddess is involved?

 

[Geek Goddess]

I see they're having an atheist "rapture party" in Houston. I wonder if Geek Goddess is involved?

In so much that the it is listed on numerous meetup sites, including the Houston Skeptics.

Miss you at the meetings!

 

[Tricky]

In so much that the it is listed on numerous meetup sites, including the Houston Skeptics.

Miss you at the meetings!

I don't get out much these days. Hope that will change once I get my new hip.

 

[patchbunny]

I see they're having an atheist "rapture party" in Houston. I wonder if Geek Goddess is involved?

There's one in Oakland, California as well.

Has anyone ever tried contacting the Harold Camping followers and asking if you could swing by and claim their stuff on May 20?

 

[Roadtoad]

I'm sure people have. I read through their site, and noted the rather bizarre methodology Camping uses to determine the end date. Given far more reputable scholars have called Camping an opportunistic crackpot, or words to that effect, it seems to me there's little point in trying to confront this clown.

Dibs on his Mercedes.

 

[Athyrio]

I just sent them this email through that site:
"If you are sincere about this apocalypse you are preaching, I invite you to put all your cards on the table and draft and sign a legal contract turning over all your worldly assets to me, effective May 22, 2011."

I'm a little happy tonight. I sent them this:

I was just wondering. Since you guys are going to be raptured on May 21 and I'm still going to be left behind here for a few more months until JC comes back and puts us all to the sword, is there any swag you'd like to leave that I can have to kind of make the horrible period of 5 months of torment upon Earth a bit easier on me even though I am an infidel? I am shamelessly appealing to your Christian hearts here, OK? I mean, I would like to keep feeding my dogs well until the utter destruction on Oct. 21. I guess they're going to be wiped out too, but they have been so loyal to me. Please contact me before the ascension.

Thanking you in advance,

Björn

 

[Darth Rotor]

From our numerology discussions of Revelation in my junior high Bible class:

3: God
4: Nature, the natural world, creation
7 (3+4): Perfection, completeness
6 (7-1): Incompleteness, imperfection, flaw, wrongness
10: Worldly power, human authority, those who do not inherit from God
12 (3*4): Heavenly authority, the inheritors of God
Seventeen wasn't on our radar, either.

There is something wrong here, as six is the number of beers in a six pack, and that is a matter of perfection.

I noticed, as some others have, that the 21st is a Saturday.

I think I can guess what the #1 pick-up line will be Friday night on May 20th

"Hey babe, the world is ending tomorrow, wanna' [rule 8]?"

Yep, you can see that one coming like a freight train ...

That explains the hairdoos during the 80'ties. It wasn't bad taste, it was a result of a failed rapture !

Correct.

So Christ returned 10 years ago, then?

Yes, but I regret to report that he dropped in at an alehouse I used to frequent. He asked the landlady for credit, and she answered him nay, so he said

"See you in a few, and be ready next time."

Well, that's what it sounded like, we were well into our cups at the time ...

By the way, I pass two of the "it's gonna happen on 21 May 2011" billboards each day on the way home from work. I am not sure who they are trying to convince, as a good many folk down this away don't read English too good at all.