Well DU, it's been nice knowing you
Apparently the world is ending tomorrow.
The Hadron super-collider is making anti-matter in Switzerland
The Pope AND the Chinese leader are both in DC which has something to do with a One Global Currency
There is a Blood moon later this week
Yom Kippur and the autumnal equinox are on the same day
And so forth
I might be missing some parts but that is the gist of what a co-worker felt compelled to stop me in the hall, for a good 10 minutes, this morning to explain.
She is extremely devout (but not Evangelical) but she doesn't necessarily believe it..... but friends of hers have been "reading some websites" "not any that I'd go to but they are Christians sites" and all signs point to the end of days.
So this is goodbye, I guess, DU. it's been fun. I hope we made a difference. I am sure we all have learned a lot and had a good time DUing it.
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It has been fun talking to you. I'll miss the conversations...
Or maybe I won't, since none of us will be here to miss them, lol!
Thanks!
for a second there I thought you were really leaving 
HE IS WAY OVERDUE ANYWAY 
Since we all gotta go sometime, why bother?
Glad I read the full post.
OS
Not because of yor post mind you, it might slow down the burn
Frankly, it sounds pretty icky when you describe it.
Oh, and the announcement of the World Matreiya, David Rothschild. And something about demons coming in from CERN and the horrible evil Tomorrowland concert (even though it's not even the first one, go figure!). And an asteroid because during the movie Deep Impact there was a 24 and a 9, and this construction crane passed over it which means the earth will get hit and...
Wow, so many ways to die I can't even choose one! It's been good, take care!
((Tongue planted firmly in cheek for anyone too dense to catch that part!))
lake community, along with the Tennessee River. I don't need a Lambo, Ferrari or Maserati, but I *have* had my eyes on a few nice houses on the lake, along with the boats and jet skis! I'd settle for a nice Honda Accord or Acura, and a truck.
Hell, I found a kit on Ebay today that will change out the doors on my '94 Acura Integra LS so that they open just like Lambo doors. It was *only* $450.00 for the hinges and doors! 
On a brighter note, I *did* find me a window for my driver's side door for $45.00 with free shipping! I have looked all over East Tennessee for the last 3 months trying to find a window, or even a whole door, at a salvage yard with no luck at all. It hasn't been so bad, just can't go anywhere when it's raining... but now it's starting to get colder out. It's not even the end of September yet, and we have had late night/early morning temps in the high 40's and low 50's. We usually don't get that until around November! Now I just have to scratch up the $45 for the window. It's been a rough couple of months here, and my disability only goes so far. I'll have to see if I can sell something right quick, or hope they still have it when I get paid at the beginning of the month. I am counting it as a necessary expense. At least I can install it myself though, so no expense going out for that.
Peace,
Ghost
But that's ok cause well its the end of the world and I feel fine.
the end of my tomato harvest! I finally pulled all of my plants out. Meals just won't be the same until next June!
but what do they know - they're scientists. 
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/nasa-says-the-world-is-not-going-to-end-in-september
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Good news for those with plans for October and beyond: the Earth will still be in existence.
Nasa has confirmed – after rumours swept the internet about an imminent asteroid strike expected between 15 and 28 September – that the two-week period in question will be entirely free of Earth-destroying space attacks.
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i'm sorry, really, i feel your pain, but the stupid is just toooooo funny!!!
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Living in Oklahoma where the uber Conservative Christians I am surprised that I didn't hear anybody telling tales of our impending doom. If it does take place it will make Oklahoma a whole lot nicer.
Who am I kidding? I'll just sit around and wait for the end, I guess. I was hoping to get in another wekend of football, though.
I miss the dancing underpants.
Sid
And the days of matcom.
Hi guy.
Just thought that I would ask.
seems like the appropriate reply
If Yogi had one more day maybe he'd have a pizza sliced into 8 slices instead of 6.
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Response to underpants (Original post)
Have you been reading GD again?
Glad my last ride on my pony was a good one.
Wish I'd known, though. I would have take the pups to the beach one last time instead of hanging out on DU wasting time fretting over an election that apparently will never happen.
Let me guess: Michael Snyder's collapse.net or something to that effect. He's got a hysterical list of reasons the world is ending sometime in Sept. I stumbled into it by accident and remembered it and his name for the unintentional humor.
Hmmm....I was going to steam clean the family room rug tomorrow, but I guess there's no point in prepping for that this evening. Guess I'll hang out with the birds and pups and watch netflix instead.
goodbye, cruel world....ta!ta!
Cake is too much work and I'm not a pie person.
But pancakes are quick and if you drown them in butter and Vermont or Maine maple syrup and they are desert! 
Hmmmmm....hamburgers for the doggies! Peanuts for the birds! Apples for the ponies! No reason to hold back!!!!
I've just added a (senior) aerobics class to my week, in addition to the yoga classes I already go to. And there's the ongoing struggle to keep sugar out of my diet so I will stay healthy......and now you tell me it's the end??? I'm staying in bed tomorrow morning and having donuts for breakfast! 
You can leave everything to me - I'll take good care of it and share it with the unbelievers here at DU. PM me for somewhere to deposit same
I mean, it thinks it's so great and all. Uppity satellite.
Great Post !!!
Must be time to head for the liquor store.
intending to send out Friday ?
In the event of the "End Times":
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When the rapture should take place, resulting in my absence, it will become necessary for tribulation saints to mirror or financially support this site.
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http://www.raptureready.com/index.php
2012 Low 176, High 187
2013 Low 183, High 188
2014 Low 181, High 188
2015 Low 177, High 181
http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html
This group seems to believe that the "End Of Times" was more likely back in 2013...but if it happens this year, don't forget to mirror and financially support that site, so you can be a "tribulation saint."
LOL
According to Bob Altmeyer's book, The Authoritarians, putting RWA's (Right Wing Authoritarians) in power does seem to lead to Armageddon:
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The High RWA Game
The next night 68 high RWAs showed up for their ride, just as ignorant of how they had been funneled into this run of the experiment as the low RWA students had been the night before. The game proceeded as usual. Background material was read, Elites (all males) nominated themselves, and the Elites were briefed. Then the “wedgies” started. As soon as the game began, the Elite from the Middle East announced the price of oil had just doubled. A little later the former Soviet Union (known as the Confederation of Independent States in 1994) bought a lot of armies and invaded North America. The latter had insufficient conventional forces to defend itself, and so retaliated with nuclear weapons. A nuclear holocaust ensued which killed everyone on earth--7.4 billion people--and almost all other forms of life which had the misfortune of co-habitating the same planet as a species with nukes.
pg. 33 (pdf pg. 39)
When this happens in the Global Change Game, the facilitators turn out all the lights and explain what a nuclear war would produce. Then the players are given a second chance to determine the future, turning back the clock to two years before the hounds of war were loosed. The former Soviet Union however rebuilt its armies and invaded China this time, killing 400 million people. The Middle East Elite then called for a “United Nations” meeting to discuss handling future crises, but no agreements were reached.
At this point the ozone-layer crisis occurred but--perhaps because of the recent failure of the United Nations meeting--no one called for a summit. Only Europe took steps to reduce its harmful gas emissions, so the crisis got worse. Poverty was spreading unchecked in the underdeveloped regions, which could not control their population growth. Instead of dealing with the social and economic problems “back home,” Elites began jockeying among themselves for power and protection, forming military alliances to confront other budding alliances. Threats raced around the room and the Confederation of Independent States warned it was ready to start another nuclear war. Partly because their Elites had used their meager resources to buy into alliances, Africa and Asia were on the point of collapse. An Elite called for a United Nations meeting to deal with the crises--take your pick--and nobody came.
By the time forty years had passed the world was divided into armed camps threatening each other with another nuclear destruction. One billion, seven hundred thousand people had died of starvation and disease. Throw in the 400 million who died in the Soviet-China war and casualties reached 2.1 billion. Throw in the 7.4 billion who died in the nuclear holocaust, and the high RWAs managed to kill 9.5 billion people in their world--although we, like some battlefield news releases, are counting some of the corpses twice.
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http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf
See footnote (24) on pg. 51 (pdf pg. 57) for a little more discussion of the Global Change Game.
One might note that a Republican victory in the next election might be the most significant sign of the "End Times" that is possible.
and everyone is acting like nothing important is about to happen. How can that be? 
I'm going to be seriously PO'd if I'm suffering through this pre-op, 800-calorie a day, broth-and-protein-shake-and-jello diet for nothing! I feel like I'm starving and I am seriously cranky. If Jesus is coming, he'd better avoid me. 
And well wishes on your up coming surgery.
Look out for, Jesus, and force yourself to be polite.
Underpants! (are you boxers of briefs?)
And 2011, and 2010, and .... all the other times the world ended.
I believe Murcury is due to go retrograde.
Cue the spooky music. Wooo Ooooo Oooooo
I passed on a piece of cake earlier.
or actually, on the Hellbound Train. See short story by Robert Bloch.
Great thread - thanks!
That reminds me of Twain's Letters from the Earth, in which Satan reports that humans have conjured up a version of Heaven that does little to encourage piety among the living:
It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!
His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values. It consists -- utterly and entirely -- of diversions which he cares next to nothing about, here in the earth, yet is quite sure he will like them in heaven. Isn't it curious? Isn't it interesting? You must not think I am exaggerating, for it is not so. I will give you details.
Most men do not sing, most men cannot sing, most men will not stay when others are singing if it be continued more than two hours. Note that.
Only about two men in a hundred can play upon a musical instrument, and not four in a hundred have any wish to learn how. Set that down.
Many men pray, not many of them like to do it. A few pray long, the others make a short cut.
More men go to church than want to.
To forty-nine men in fifty the Sabbath Day is a dreary, dreary bore.
Of all the men in a church on a Sunday, two-thirds are tired when the service is half over, and the rest before it is finished.
The gladdest moment for all of them is when the preacher uplifts his hands for the benediction. You can hear the soft rustle of relief that sweeps the house, and you recognize that it is eloquent with gratitude.
Thanks for the tip on Shaw -- a reference I wasn't familiar with.
Think I'll keep on being a sinner.
Forgot about this one.
Wow, I might have missed that! Whew!
I'll wait for you at the entrance so that you can help with my heavenly computer issues.
Seriously though....
Doom?
that donald trump is being touted as a serious presidential candidate.
see you on the other side
7:18 a.m. here and so far so good.....
I'm sure all those assertions are based on sound science, after all.
They were seriously freaked out and were convinced civilization was ending at midnight. Looking back on it, they were prepers before it was a thing.
Well on Y2K midnight, a few of us sneaked over and opened their main electrical panel on the side of the house and threw the main breaker. Retreating back to our house, we tossed a bunch of firecrackers over the fence and settled back to watch the show.
My, it was entertaining........and yes, alcohol was involved!
absolutely believed Jade Helm was real. 
Judgement day COULD be this afternoon. Oh, !!!!!!. Forgot that.
Posted way up thread a Mets fan commented that the Mets being up 6 1/2 games was another sign of the end.
As long suffering as many of us Braves fans are we all knew deep in our hearts that sooner or later we were going to have to pay for Sid Bream making it home.
No dice.
And receipts. Attach all receipts. We're serious about the damned receipts too!
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Response to underpants (Original post)
Till tomorrow
Again? Dammit, I never seem to get the memos.
See you next week!
Food over DU? 
Or... CommanDU.
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...oh wait, rides here! Again thanks for all that fish...FAPPY AWWWWWAAAYYY!!
It's the end of the world as we know..........
And here I was all glowing, feeling warm and fuzzy and shit...then BAM...I wake up in my bed with a note that said, 'thanks but no thanks.'
I brushed my teeth and remembered to put deodorant on! Sigh...can't even rapture correctly.
