Was reading the NPR article on the people who think the world will end on May 21st...

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/07/136053462/is-the-end-nigh-well-know-soon-enough

Some of these people have dropped out of school, quit their jobs and plan to spend all their savings before the 21st.

This is not going to end well for these people. Sadly, I predict there may be suicides, kind of like what happened with Jim Jones.

[left coaster]

1. Well, I'm not sure if I want to "cry mightily unto god"..

..as the sign that guy is holding, suggests I do.. or if I should maybe just squat and cop a natural, like the silhouetted fella on the sign is doing.. decisions, decisions.

[Duer 157099]

2. This quote is wrong on so many levels

"People need to know," Brown says, "and God commands us to share the Gospel about the end of the world. He says if we do not share the Gospel then their blood will be on our hands, whether they believe or not. God's been moving me to do this."

First of all, the word "gospel" means Good News, so this sentence is insane: "...God commans us to share the (Good News) about the end of the world..."

Secondly, this nut claims that God will blame him if he doesn't evengelize. God is seriously dysfunctional. I've never met a God who simply never takes responsibility for anything! Sure, he gets all the credit when things go well, but man is He quick to blame! What a dork He is!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. These dates have come and gone before...

And the people who've bought into it have been left high and dry, holding the bag.

It's a shame.

[The Blue Flower]

4. Self-fulfilling prophecy

The world as they know it will certainly end for them.

[mzteris]

5. What I want to know is

WHO IS MAKING MONEY OFF OF THESE POOR SUCKERS??

Because I damn well guarantee you, someone is scamming these mentally ill saps.

[proud patriot]

20. +1

me too

[boppers]

30. "Family Radio"

Worth over 100 million.

Because, you know, they need that money for the 22nd, when they have to set a new date.

[Walk away]

45. The same folks who run the Catholic church....

your local temples, mosques and various crackpot Christian denominations. They are all the same.

[Mz Pip]

52. Billboard companies

There's a big billboard off I-80 in Berkeley, CA (seriously) that is advertizing this. It's an expensive one; one of those fancy high intensity annoying pieces of shit that distracts drivers.

[Duer 157099]

6. "The Bible Guarantees It!" proclaims the sign

:rofl:

[left coaster]

9. Or double your money back?? Them folks is crazy. nt

[The Straight Story]

7. on their site: Gay pride, a sign of the end. Oh, they take donations too...

http://www.familyradio.com/index2.html

[Duer 157099]

8. I'm anxiously awaiting this date. It's like Christmas.

I'm even debating on how best to celebrate the day. I wish there were a "Nut Cam" that shows all of the heads exploding.

[PassingFair]

13. I'm trying to organize a "Left Behind" party.

People won't take me seriously, though.

I told my religious friends at work to
bring their car titles.

[TheMightyFavog]

14. Actually, a number of fundies I know think these people are bonkers, at best..

...and blasphemers, at worst.

[Adsos Letter]

22. Very true; they are a minority of a minority.

[calimary]

48. LOL!

:headbang:

[RagAss]

51. "A Nut Cam"....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SharonAnn]

61. I don't understand why Christians believe in the Mayan calendar? WTF?

[pepperbear]

10. so they should have no problem with reproductive freedom and gay rights then. n/t

[hlthe2b]

11. Why did I think they were planning around May 12?

Was this another significant date for some other bizarre group?

[BlueIris]

12. I worry for them, too. I am extremely concerned about 2012, too.

Far more people believe the world will end in 2012. I think there could be a lot of suicides before or around December of next year, by people trying to "save" themselves from the apocalypse.

[Mz Pip]

56. It's such bullshit

I went on a tour of some Mayan ruins a few weeks ago. The tour guide, who was part Mayan, talked about how nuts this was. Every 52 years they solar and lunar calandars of the Mayans line up. It had nothing to do with the end of the world. It's more like an astrological change, so of like the dawning of the age of Aquarius, only it happens a lot more frequently.

[RagAss]

57. That should help with the Medicare issue.

[Drale]

15. You can not fix stupid

They are making a really really stupid choice and they will have to deal with it for the rest of their lives.

[PeaceNikki]

16. Exactly what time on the 21st are we expecting the rapture?

At the stroke of midnight on the morning of the 21st or 11:59 PM that night or somewhere in between? Is God ever late? I imagine he's a busy guy so I'll bet it happens.

[Sirveri]

26. Do time zones matter? Is it all instant?

What if I'm flying across the time zone and I enter one where they've all been raptured and I'm supposed to be raptured but it hasn't hit my zone yet.

[PeaceNikki]

29. Those are VERY good quesions, Sirveri!

What about the astronauts on the ISS? What timezone are they in? Or will they all be left behind for being too sciencey anyway? :shrug:

[CatholicEdHead]

31. Article says major earthquake 6pm local time each time zone

so 24 major earthquakes one hour apart destroying the world. :crazy:

[RagAss]

55. In that case you get a free coffee.

[boppers]

33. FTA:

----
On May 21, "starting in the Pacific Rim at around the 6 p.m. local time hour, in each time zone, there will be a great earthquake, such as has never been in the history of the Earth," he says. The true Christian believers — he hopes he's one of them — will be "raptured": They'll fly upward to heaven. And for the rest?
----

The international date line is, apparently, something they forgot to consider.

[PeaceNikki]

35. Go peddle your science and facts somewhere else, Learny McBookerton.

We don't need 'em here, and we don't want 'em here, and we ain't gonna have 'em here. So there!

[csziggy]

47. "at around the 6 p.m. local time hour" - better eat dinner early, then! n/t

[Walk away]

49. Should I take the dogs out before six? nt

[csziggy]

62. Well, according to some, dogs aren't going to heaven

So you probably should. :evilgrin:

[chowder66]

17. I want a live, front row seat to watch them as the world ends....

but more for their reactions when it doesn't.... which would be priceless.

[Duer 157099]

18. Oh God, this whole story is just one astounding quote after another

Here's the reason Camping gives for why he got the date (in 1994) wrong before:

"For example, I at that time had not gone through the book of Jeremiah," he explains, "which is a big book in the Bible that has a whole lot to say about the end of the world."

W.T.F.???

The Bible isn't that big, it's just ONE FUCKING BOOK, yet he didn't bother to even read Jeremiah before settling on such an important date as the end of the world???

Maybe this time he didn't read Ruth?

Un fucking believable.

[Duer 157099]

19. "We budgeted everything so that, on May 21, we won't have anything left," Adrienne adds.

No words

[Adsos Letter]

24. That will make for an extremely difficult May 22nd

Financial ruin atop psychological devastation. :(

[sarge43]

36. OK, nitpicking here, but what difference would that make?

If the world is going to come to a screeching halt, no one will have anything left. Either you get a free pass to the eternal Disney World or you face an eternity of tax audits, visiting in-laws and snotty teenagers.

[Zanzoobar]

43. You're right.

But what if the same thing happens in heaven? Somebody's gotta pay for those gold roads, and teach them snot nosed teen angels how to fly.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. Dropped out? Quit a job? Pah. Dillettantes. The Heavens Gate dudes cut their own nuts off.

Now THAT is dedication.

[Frustratedlady]

34. Is that the one who is expecting the 2nd child in June? They didn't

plan everything, I guess.

On May 22nd, they'll be begging for help from one of those blasted socialized programs.

[Adsos Letter]

23. The "Great Disappointment" redux. Link:

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

[RagAss]

60. Great link

[BobbyBoring]

25. My question is

What happens to all the people who lived before JC came along. Are they just in the "Basically Fucked" department or what?

[Motown_Johnny]

40. Purgatory until Jesus died and rose again

then they kinda get the same deal as the rest of us


(12 years of catholic school)

[eallen]

27. You can't cure stupid.

[CatholicEdHead]

28. Thre is a billboard on Westbound I-94 just west of Hudson WI

going to the Twin Cities that mentions this date. It puzzled me alot when I saw it. :crazy:

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. "Knowing the date of the end of the world changes all your future plans," says 27-year-old Adrienne

I'd imagine so!

[JI7]

37. i saw some truck or van or some other vehicle advertising this

[d_r]

38. looking forward to it

I'm going to disney world, hoping it will be low crowds that day for shorter lines.

I'm a little confused by the pregnant couple though. They believe the world is going to end on May 21, and their baby due is June. I've been trying to figure that one out and just don't know how.

[NYC Liberal]

39. Remember: only the "true believers" will be raptured.

Therefore they can still claim it happened (but won't, of course, offer actual evidence of people flying up to heaven).

Of course then that means that everyone left here is NOT a "true believer" and can be called such.

[Zanzoobar]

41. The 21st? I'd better get my garden in! So much to do...

[Motown_Johnny]

42. I was wondering if they financed some of the signs etc.

and will really be screwed when the bills start coming due

[lunasun]

44. big billboard on i-55 goimg into chicago /told the family lets plan summer anyway!

[Snarkoleptic]

46. Plenty of x-tians act display reprehensible behavior every normal day.

"If I'm here on May 22, and I wake up, I'm going to be in hell," says Brown. "And that's where I don't want to be. So there is going to be a May 22, and we don't want to be here."

I hate to see how they behave on the 23rd after they realize they're living a lie.

[RagAss]

50. Christians my Ass...why not give your money to the poor ? !

[BillyJack]

53. I'm "in"......who wants my car? PM me.

:sarcasm:

:eyes:

[JHB]

54. Ask them to meet with a group to explain what will happen...

...and schedule it far the 22nd.

After all, either their calendar will be open, or you won't care.

[Hamlette]

58. it's a con by the radio station "give us all your money so we can get the word out"

religion is a disease to some

[MadHound]

59. The sad thing is, we're going to be bailing these people out starting on the 22nd.

When the 21st comes and goes, and all these people who have given everything away, quite their jobs and liquidated their savings wake up and realize they've been stupid, where are they going to turn to?

Oh, yeah, the government. For food, unemployment checks, welfare, etc. etc. All because of their own stupidity. And we will be bailing them out, with our tax money. We'll be paying the price for their stupidity.