Will the World End in 2012?

Hope they have the decency to fill their pockets with rocks and wade into a river on the 22nd.

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening. Are they disappointed? Embarrased? In denial?

the world ended... IN MY MIND

yes,
no,
kinda impossible to be anything else really

man, forks post reminds me of an ex or two tbh ;_;

Oh shit, my jury duty was postponed until the 23rd! There went my last chance to be on a jury.

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening. Are they disappointed? Embarrased? In denial?

I looked at some survivalist/apocalypse-is-nigh usenet stuff in January 2001 or maybe it was early blogs I don't remember, people were coming in to go DON'T YOU FEEL LIKE A BUNCH OF DUMBASSES NOW and there was something sad & moving about how these guys just weren't about to say "yeah I feel a little dumb." They were very, look, I was ready in case something had happened, that's what matters, I feel proud that I was prepared to provide for myself & my family etc etc etc

that will be these dudes' take when nothing goes down

maybe you'll be needed for judgement day, which would be p sweet tbf

boy wouldn't i like to run into aforementioned exes in *those* circumstances

"I provided for my family...by giving away everything."

xxp to aero that's how i feel getting home from ikea ffs

people who think the world will end ----- conceptually ----- when they are alive are really selfish, but then again anyone who think that it matters that something like a world ends is pretty stupid

do you lock your car y/n

what if this shit DOES happen and the only thing we did to prepare was talk about it on an internet messageboard
i mean, i'm gonna feel pretty fucking stupid then

sometimes I forget to lock my car

xp that's p much how i feel abt 'the economy'

I forgot if i had a point abt yr car tbh

yeah I think you could probably get a good post in if you could remember the point

yr encouragement is appreciated

I'm serious though when you posted that I was like oh man I left myself wide open for a post

that's why my response was all jokey like

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening. Are they disappointed? Embarrased? In denial?

i plan on insisting that the world did in fact end, and that everyone is dead

"Sorry boss not coming into work, well I mean yr all dead right, whats the point?"

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening. Are they disappointed? Embarrased? In denial?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NhuEf8s3L._SS500_.jpg

the answer acc to the book btw: they dig in deeper, find explanations for why it didn't come to pass, invent new calculations, and some of them drift off from the cult and never return sometimes finding other things to believe

or they say they made a mathematical error (15)

(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/03/national/main7208264.shtml)

Hah yeah I remember that.

Exley says she hopes more people will check the Bible verses themselves.

She says: "If you still want to say we're crazy, go ahead. But it doesn't hurt to look into it."

So its just sneaky viral marketing for the bibble!

ding a ding ding

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THE MAYAN CALENDAR DOES NOT END IN 2012

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THE MAYAN CALENDAR DOES NOT END IN 2012

is there an image macro to express the tedium of pedantry?

No animated .gif smileys found with that name, unfortunately.

The world seems to have lots of end dates
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm

Matthew 16:28: "...there shall be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

Ew, death by Jesus snu snu!

You couldn't make this shit up...

...oh, erm.

There are no rebirths or do-overs. The world is not going to 'end'. If you are deluded enough to think otherwise, it is because you are fucking stupid enough to think the world revolves around you and others like you, and arrogant enough to believe that there is a supreme being that cares more about you and yours than any other of the 6.5 billion skinbags who also live here.

my world ended when the Psychedelic Furs third album came out and it sucked so bad compared to the first two but it got really successful and then years later people repped for it like it was even fit to lick Talk Talk Talk's boots

that was the end of the world for me

the jaded goatman of the apocalypse

So this guy says The Chosen (3% of the planet) get evacuated on May 21st but the rest of the world is destroyed on Oct 21st. If he is still around post-May 21st doesn't that mean by his own definition he is a tool of Satan?

no, it'll mean God "has a special plan for him" that miraculously doesn't get mentioned in Scripture

he'll be Satan's cock ring

no, even better, God's cock ring

"God says, 'Do you love husband or wife over me? Do you love son or daughter over me?' There is a test. There is a trial here that the believers are going through. It's a fiery trial."

So why on Earth have you not renounced all your worldly possessions in favor of a life of helping the poor and advocating non-violence and Universal Christly Love? You really think renouncing your family and TV set in the final hours is going to fool an omnipresent and omniscient deity?

Some religious folk came to the door last night, i said i was busy and could they come back on the 22nd.

They said sure (without flinching) and walked away writing in a little notebook.

Hmmm.

Those were either Jehovah's Witnesses or LDS, and in either case, they will be back on the 22nd.

We should listen to the guy in the npr link as he's an actuary

I wonder if he has factored the imminent end of the world into his insurance premium tables. (Haven't listened so apologies if this is in fact addressed)

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening.

Was reading somewhere (probably a New Yorker/NYT article linked from ILX but I can't find it now) about end-of-world cults after the non-event, and instead of being embarrassed or disillusioned the members were very happy to go "well, it WOULD have ended, but thanks to the fervent prayers and message-spreading of our little group, God has seen that his chosen ones are active and spared the world for a while longer, so it's all very important we stay in this thing" etc

When July 5, 1998 arrived and no alien fleet appeared in the sky, members of the Church began citing a large number of conspiracy theories to explain why the predicted end of the world did not take place. The manual page of the ddate program claims that the Church "declared that it had got the year upside down" and that X-Day will actually take place in 8661. The most popular explanation for the failure of the prophecy in the Church is usually summarized with the statement, "the calendar is wrong and July 5th, 1998 has not really arrived yet." Because of this, the Church has held annual gatherings around July 5 of each year since 1998 to celebrate X-Day and greet the arrival of the anticipated alien "Sex Goddesses." No flying saucer rendezvous has been confirmed as of 2010, but members of the Church have been undaunted. A more recent theory suggests that the X-ists did indeed come to Earth on July 5, 1998 as foretold by "Bob," but through one of the most pervasive Conspiracy coverups, Earth and Mars were switched, and the "Earth" we know is actually Mars. And thus, as there was nobody on the True Earth at the time of their arrival, there was nobody there to witness the Rupture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Day_%28Church_of_the_SubGenius%29

You really think renouncing your family and TV set in the final hours is going to fool an omnipresent and omniscient deity?

pretty sure this is explicitly confirmed in the catholic tradition at least fyi, what a result.

it's almost like they saw some advantage in getting a lot of wordly goods from old rich dudes.

pretty sure this is explicitly confirmed in the catholic tradition at least fyi, what a result.

Knowing it's your final hour is the trick though innit? I once saw a sign outside a church that said "Those who think they can turn to God at the eleventh hour often die at half past nine"

anyone being able to give you last rites gives you a p good chance tbh

Bit convenient that the world ends on a weekend, hey.

http://rr-bb.com/images/smilies/Rapture%20Smiley.gif

poll: Gog v. Magog

v. OMG

keep thinking this is a thread for The World Ends With You when it bumps my bookmarks

Hi

it did, didn't it?

in december two oh one two
it felt like the world would go foom
with goyte, carly rae, and obama

In retrospective… yeah it did