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Commander McLane wrote:
Disembodied wrote:
Or, alternatively, the curtain is coming down on the whole shebang come 21 May.
Sounds like we'll have another religious group with a PR problem starting from May 22nd. :wink: (Although that has never prevented other religious groups in the past to happily outlive their end-of-the-world prediction dates. Some have done it repeatedly. New Apostolic Church, anyone?)
Makes note to visit website on May 22nd assuming I'm still here... Although, if my understanding of Eschatology is correct only the 'saved' will have disappeared by this point and the rest of us have to undergo the 'tribulation'. The end of the world happens on the 21st of October.

Could be worse. I'll have a day to spend my bonus from work on some top quality brown paper bags.

There is also the Rapture Index if you want a little more warning. :wink:

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drew wrote:
Makes note to visit website on May 22nd assuming I'm still here... Although, if my understanding of Eschatology is correct only the 'saved' will have disappeared by this point and the rest of us have to undergo the 'tribulation'. The end of the world happens on the 21st of October.

Could be worse. I'll have a day to spend my bonus from work on some top quality brown paper bags.

Cheers,

Drew.
Of course this is deeply psychologically scarring for those who consider themselves devout but don't end up getting god-hoovered.
Roll on May 23rd that's what I say. There will be a lot of crazy people wearing a "da old dude in da bed sheet say NO!" frown.
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Your chance of survival is directly proportional to the quality of the brown paper bags.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
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Just drink lots of beer and keep a towel handy.
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Don't forget the peanuts!
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Smivs wrote:
Just drink lots of beer and keep a towel handy.
Mauiby de Fug wrote:
Don't forget the peanuts!
I think you're quoting from the wrong book here. At least I'm pretty sure that the rapture-guys don't expect 200 million* people to be taken away by hitchhiking space ships.


*I have no idea how they even get to this number. I'd say the other book is pretty explicit about the number of 144,000. But whatever.
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Whatever :)

Don't Panic! :lol:
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At the end of the day, the really amazing thing is that there is a Wikipedia page about this 21st May-thing.

I can't be bothered to find out whether it has been proposed for deletion yet. But I find the lack of notability really self-evident.
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Smivs wrote:
Whatever :)

Don't Panic! :lol:
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Commander McLane wrote:
*I have no idea how they even get to this number. I'd say the other book is pretty explicit about the number of 144,000. But whatever.
If they were paying attention to what books say, they’d know that the day of the lord comes like a thief in the night without, e.g., making an appointment first…
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It can't hurt to check regularly. :wink:
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Ahruman wrote:
Commander McLane wrote:
*I have no idea how they even get to this number. I'd say the other book is pretty explicit about the number of 144,000. But whatever.
If they were paying attention to what books say, they’d know that the day of the lord comes like a thief in the night without, e.g., making an appointment first…
Well, apparently they think that the verse you're alluding to isn't valid anymore. I really can't be bothered to find out why. It's obvious that even the Wikipedia page is set up and maintained by believers who actually believe in the relevance of what they're doing. It's full of allusions to the world-wide recognition their theory enjoys([citation needed], indeed much needed, because this widespread recognition simply doesn't exist), when in fact Disembodied bringing it up in this thread was the first time ever that I've heard about it, and I believe that I know a little about the "contovers[ies] in the Christian world". But then again, the madness has already started much, much earlier, when these fundamentalist american civil religion followers confused their silly ideologies with christian faith in the first place. :?
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Commander McLane wrote:
But then again, the madness has already started much, much earlier, when these fundamentalist american civil religion followers confused their silly ideologies with christian faith in the first place.
The 'madness', as you so aptly phrase it, started way before that... near 2k years ago.
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Sadly, Ideology and Dogma rarely equate to knowledge and understanding.
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The end of the world is old news ... Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium is an entertaining read. If you like reading about medieval and early modern apocalyptic frenzies.
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