End of the World in May

[billw]

By TOM BREEN
The Associated Press
Monday, January 3, 2011; 10:01 AM

RALEIGH, N.C. -- If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she'll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.


Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin May 21, 2011.



To get the word out, they're using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners. Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling through Latin America and Africa to spread the news outside the U.S.
"A lot of people might think, 'The end's coming, let's go party,'" said Exley, a veteran of two deployments in Iraq. "But we're commanded by God to warn people. I wish I could just be like everybody else, but it's so much better to know that when the end comes, you'll be safe."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/03/AR2011010300453.html

 

[Soapy Sam]

Which end? Front? Rear? Bottom?

 

[BenBurch]

You know, the larcenous part of me thinks one ought to be able to make a fortune trading woo-believer's worldly goods for a ticket to a Mayan temple in central america to see the world end up close and personal...

 

[Agatha]

Weird. I don't really understand people who believe stuff like this, so I have no further comment at the moment.

 

[marksman]

My birthday's on May 20, so at least I get to squeak another one in under the wire!

 

[Beady]

Doomsday here, Judgement Day there, it all adds up. Before long, you could be talking about some major destruction

 

[Stray Cat]

I'll cancel my summer holiday

 

[Tiktaalik]

If it's Judgment Day, it's not the end of the world, just the Rapture, right? (not super clear on this). So the rest of us will be left alone, finally...

 

[NotJesus]

Not again!

 

[John Jones]

It's planet X again, isn't it?

 

[Zanders]

It will be fun to get a chuckle out of another failed prophecy.

 

[catsmate]

It's planet X again, isn't it?

Since Pluto's demotion, shouldn't it be Planet IX now?

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

the end of the world will begin May 21, 2011.

This is their out. When you ask on May 22nd why we're still here, they explain that the process only started May 21st.

Technically, the end of the world began on the day it was formed. Which I think was a Thursday.

 

[marksman]

It was a Wednesday, you heretic!

 

[Babbylonian]

I'm going to be really upset if a lake of fire opens up next door. Property values are already on the iffy side in this market.

 

[INRM]

I wonder how long it will be before a conspiracy theory starts about May 21, 2011 being the date that the elites activate Project Bluebeam...

INRM
"In closing, I want to remind you all that no matter how I die, it was murder."
SNL Parody of Julian Assange
December 4, 2010

 

[Childlike Empress]

Those dolts. End of the world is of course on May 30! Hardly news:

 

[Uncayimmy]

How do you feel about the end of the world as we know it? I feel fine.

 

[JoeyDonuts]

How do you feel about the end of the world as we know it? I feel fine.

That video always did have a weird post-apocalyptic vibe to it.

I mean, where were the kid's parents for chrissakes?

 

[Skip_H]

The odd thing is, the next day after nothing 'ends', they will generate a new storyline and go "Yeh" "That was a test, and we passed". "We are still right".