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

[Athyrio]

.....I feel especially bad for the kids who are being dragged into it.....

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.

On May 21, the sun will "turn red like blood," the Earth will open up, bodies will be strewn about and "some people will die for eternity," she says.

"It scares me a little bit because some people are going to die, and I think I'm one of them," she adds. "I'm trying to do good things, but I'm afraid I'm doing something bad."

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

 

[Darth Rotor]

I wonder how many total times the second coming has been precisely identified? My guess is about 2008, once a year since his supposed death. Maybe a little less depending on how you define a prediction.

2011-33=1978.

A little arithmetic assist, from Sith Services.

There will be no charge, this was an introductory offer.

You can even go "plus or minus three" as I've seen mentioned in the thread, and still get, to three sig digits, 1980 years.

 

[JudeBrando]

I do not believe them. I would support asking them if they know and accept the standard of the God they proclaim for those who would proclaim such a thing in His Name, and if they approve and accept the consequences for one that does so falsely?

 

[catsmate]

I dropped in to see what this forum thinks of the current Doomsday nut-jobs in Florida,after having checked the latest news on the CNN website.Are large groups of people in the U.S. completely insane? You rarely see this kind of thing in the other first world nations. I am amazed as well that people on this forum would devote so much intellectual talent to debunking mythology. Aren't your elaborate calculations the modern equivalent of counting angels that can dance on the head of a pin? Oh well,everyone needs a hobby,I suppose..

There are a few of these posters in Dublin also. Though not for long I suspect.

 

[tsig]

I have to say, I have a certain amount of respect for these 21st-ers.

For people with eccentric beliefs, including religious and paranormal, it seems much more common for them to find ways to avoid testing their beliefs. To avoid putting anything on the line for their beliefs. To avoid putting themselves in a situation where they might have to admit they were wrong.

These people have done what is usually unthinkable in those circles: they've made a prediction, picked a date, and gone way way out of their way to advertise it. To everyone.

My best hope is that they will recover from this, question their beliefs and actions, and learn from this. I feel especially bad for the kids who are being dragged into it. But again, I hope their life after this is better for it, than their life before.

Experience shows not much hope:

Riecken, & Stanley Schachter, When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the End of the World (University of Minnesota Press; 1956).
Quote: Marian Keech was the leader of a UFO cult in the 1950s. She claimed to get messages from extraterrestrials, known as The Guardians, through automatic writing. Like the Heaven's Gate folks forty years later, Keech and her followers, known as The Seekers or The Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, were waiting to be picked up by flying saucers. In Keech's prophecy, her group of eleven was to be saved just before the earth was to be destroyed by a massive flood on December 21, 1954. When it became evident that there would be no flood and the Guardians weren't stopping by to pick them up, Keech

became elated. She said she'd just received a telepathic message from the Guardians saying that her group of believers had spread so much light with their unflagging faith that God had spared the world from the cataclysm (Levine 2003: 206).

More important, the Seekers didn't abandon her. Most became more devoted after the failed prophecy. (Only two left the cult when the world didn't end.) "Most disciples not only stayed but, having made that decision, were now even more convinced than before that Keech had been right all along....Being wrong turned them into true believers (ibid.)." Some people will go to bizarre lengths to avoid inconsistency between their cherished beliefs and the facts. But why do people interpret the same evidence in contrary ways?

The Seekers would not have waited for the flying saucer if they thought it might not come. So, when it didn't come, one would think that a competent thinker would have seen this as falsifying Keech's claim that it would come. However, the incompetent thinkers were rendered incompetent by their devotion to Keech. Their belief that a flying saucer would pick them up was based on faith, not evidence. Likewise, their belief that the failure of the prophesy shouldn't count against their belief was another act of faith. With this kind of irrational thinking, it may seem pointless to produce evidence to try to persuade people of the error of their ways.

 

[fuelair]

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



Sorry, I have plans on the 20th-23rd. They'll just have to put it off a few days!!

 

[fuelair]

And, hey, those Dec. 2012 nutcases wil be crapping themselves for missing this!!!

 

[Legalduck]

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]?"

 

[Lisa Simpson]

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.

 

[Foster Zygote]

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.

Hopefully, come May 22, the seeds of doubt will be sown.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So if it doesn't happen we may have to wait another thousand years to get rid of the nut-case fundies?

 

[JihadJane]

The end of the recession is nigh!

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The end of the recession is nigh!

So, a precession is predicted?

 

[Robin]

Considering the number of people who are actually righteous rather than self-righteous, I would suspect that it would be days before anyone noticed anything amiss.

Many of the Christians I know, well, I can't see God wanting to put up with them. They'd be preaching to HIM by the seventh day.

Of course, I'd love to be able to tell some of them, "Oh yes, the Rapture happened last week. Didn't you notice?"

I like this idea.

You could go out very early morning in a "rapture ready" area and leave little piles of clothing all over the place.

 

[I Ratant]

Rapture readys shouldn't be allowed to operate moving machinery.
I'd hate to be on the plane when the flight crew gets called!

 

[Ladewig]

Rapture readys shouldn't be allowed to operate moving machinery.
I'd hate to be on the plane when the flight crew gets called!

Snopes says this type of concern dates back to at least 1993.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/pilot.asp

 

[I Ratant]

I've seen a bumper sticker saying that "this car will be unmanned, when the Rapture comes".. or something like that.
The dummies have no concern about what an unguided missile will do to all of us (fortunately) left behind!

 

[The_Fire]

2011-33=1978.

[snip] 1980 years.

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

 

[Hokulele]

Jesus called up their fashion sense and left the rest of their poorly coiffed carcasses behind?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'd rather be left behind than spend eternity with those hypocrites.