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Onkel Neal

03-06-11, 12:30 PM

Ok, I am not posting this to elicit general religion bashing, that's pretty boring. I did find the article intersting, how people can adopt a belief about the end of the world and cling to it so fiercely. That's pretty amazing.

I really wish/hope the journalists follow up this article when the day after the end comes, and I hope I can find it. I wonder what these people will think and feel....?

Road trip to the end of the world (http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.caravan/index.html?hpt=C1)

If you thought you had less than three perfectly healthy months to live, what would you do? Would you travel? Spend time with loved ones? Appreciate the joy life has given you? Or would you ditch your kids and grandkids, join strangers in a caravan of RVs and travel the country warning people about the end of the world?

Growler

03-06-11, 12:39 PM

I always kind of thought about it this way:

The end of the world is kinda like death. If it does happen, chances are, you won't care. If it doesn't happen, most people won't change how they are on every other day. Look at the doom n' gloom around Y2K - when nothing happened, nothing else happened, either. We just changed calendar pages and went back to our lives.

That said - I'd rather spend real time with the people I love everyday than try to cram a lifetime's worth of living in the last few hours left. I still grieve my mom these three and a half months on, for all those times I didn't do that.

Takeda Shingen

03-06-11, 12:44 PM

May 21st, huh? Damn, only two weeks into summer break. And I was looking forward to growing some tomatoes.

nikimcbee

03-06-11, 12:44 PM

Well, as long as we're not talking about subsim....:dead:

I got to see some of this my freshmen year in college. When Iraq invaded in 91, I knew some people that were convinced this was it:oops:, the great war with babylon. They were hysterical at times.:haha:

nikimcbee

03-06-11, 12:57 PM

Why couldn't the world end before april 15th:06:, it would save me some money.

Armistead

03-06-11, 01:21 PM

Seems he said it would end in the 90's, but admitted he goofed on dates. I suspect that's what he'll say again and his troops will be marching on.

Having spent years in church when in my 20's and a few years of bible college, although more agnostic now, the prophecy of the end times is fairly amazing. By luck or will, it doe's amaze me how close the bible sets up the end times, the world economy, names the players, etc...

TLAM Strike

03-06-11, 01:28 PM

Their Proof
http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/proof/proof.html

:roll:

:zzz:

TLAM Strike

03-06-11, 01:40 PM

By luck or will, it doe's amaze me how close the bible sets up the end times, the world economy, names the players, etc...

Maybe because nothing has changed. The bible doomsday is like a game of fill in the blanks.

In times of economic strife a leader will rise up that everyone loves and cause a massive war...

...right... how many times has this happened? Napoleon? Hitler? Lenin? Anytime life sucks people tend to listen to the crazies saying they have the sure fire way to fix the world.

In the time of great climatic disruption...

...right... the weather changes sharply some times. El Nino explains some of it, the dynamic nature of the Earth's environment explains a lot too. FCOL we had a partial ice age a few centuries ago. In fact the Earth should be a hotter planet than it is right now.

Seriously people...
:nope:

nikimcbee

03-06-11, 01:41 PM

There is one church (I won't name names):haha: that has projected the end multiple times and... had to adjust the date.:haha: I guess they were all in the meeting hall waiting for it to happen one time...

oops.

krashkart

03-06-11, 02:00 PM

I don't worry much about end-of-world prophecies. It was supposed to end in 1977, one year after I was born. But nothing happened; no comets or asteroids or whatever it was that was supposed to wipe us all out. Which is good. It gave us the chance to watch Airwolf when it debuted on TV a few years later. :p2:

breadcatcher101

03-06-11, 02:11 PM

It depends what you mean when you say "the end of the world". Do you mean the end as we know it or do you mean the total destruction of the planet. To me that would be the true meaning of the end. Should it happen due to a very large impact that reduces the planet to dust or being ripped apart by the slowly expanding sun, that would be the true "end of the world".

A large impact would trigger massive quakes, how much would depend on how large the object is. It has happened before many times, we are already on our 3rd or 5th atmosphere due to massive impacts. There is not too much you can do about such things as that.

With our ever growing population, a shortage of food, the breakdown of the "system" as we know it, to me this is more realistic as to our lifetimes. Even so, nature has a way, sometimes cruel, about sorting everything out. So the "world" would still go on even if we are no longer calling the shots.

I try not to worry about such things that are out of my control but try to strive to live as best I can.

Bubblehead Nuke

03-06-11, 03:30 PM

I enjoy the end of the world crowd.

In NW Florida, they used to have bumper stickers that said: "Come the Rapture, this car will be unoccupied"

I used to troll them by having a bumper sticker that said: "Come the Rapture, can I have your stuff?".

joea

03-06-11, 03:57 PM

Why couldn't the world end before april 15th:06:, it would save me some money.

Cheapskate. :nope: Trying to get out of my birthday gift and the huge party you promised to organise. :woot:

Tribesman

03-06-11, 04:31 PM

Fair play to the Rapture man.
He may not know the day or the hour but he has made a cool $120 million by preaching to mugs and telling them that he does.

nikimcbee

03-06-11, 04:33 PM

Does this mean Neal will be serving kool-aid at the next subsim meet?:dead:

krashkart

03-06-11, 04:36 PM

Does this mean Neal will be serving kool-aid at the next subsim meet?:dead:

I'll bring the LSD! :yeah:

Oh wait... you mean that Kool-Aid. :shifty:

darius359au

03-06-11, 04:40 PM

I enjoy the end of the world crowd.

I used to troll them by having a bumper sticker that said: "Come the Rapture, can I have your stuff?".

I need to get me one of them ,as for the end of the world ,I don't care unless it is a Zombie apocalypse then all my years of study and preparation will be worth it ,I'll be safe while everyone else gets their brains eaten :yeah::D

TorpX

03-06-11, 05:13 PM

I guess I don't have to worry about cleaning out the garage then.

I need to get me one of them ,as for the end of the world ,I don't care unless it is a Zombie apocalypse then all my years of study and preparation will be worth it ,I'll be safe while everyone else gets their brains eaten :yeah::D

mmmmm......braaaaains......:hulk:.......... :haha:

Platapus

03-06-11, 05:20 PM

Well, I sure would not be sweating my Dissertation, that's for sure :D:D

Armistead

03-06-11, 05:41 PM

I need to get me one of them ,as for the end of the world ,I don't care unless it is a Zombie apocalypse then all my years of study and preparation will be worth it ,I'll be safe while everyone else gets their brains eaten :yeah::D

Too much LFD....:D

I played that a few times with my son, addictive weekend, but all that FPS gaming gives me a headache.

Castout

03-06-11, 06:18 PM

That said - I'd rather spend real time with the people I love everyday than try to cram a lifetime's worth of living in the last few hours left. I still grieve my mom these three and a half months on, for all those times I didn't do that.

Same. I grieve my grandmother for a few months too but it now has become better. I'm sure she with or soon will be with God. It helped that God let you know she was going to be taken away months before she even got sick. In that it was time. From my impression she went up but who knows what went up is or where it leads to in the other world.

The only regret is I never bought her anything. But the thoughts that we're going to see each other in the future comforts me nonetheless. To me she isn't gone just went to a permanent vacation, a place where she's or would be much happier and I'll see her again soon enough. Immediately or end time as there's simply no difference to that at least to the dead.

AngusJS

03-06-11, 07:59 PM

Onkel Neal

03-06-11, 09:43 PM

It amazes me that so many peole can be duped into believing this. But then again, it has always amazed me that so many people are duped into smoking cigarettes.... so I guess there must be some common weaknesses in the human psyche that allows them to fall for things like this. Can't help but wonder what their thought process is, as they begin to fully accept the end is really coming...based on some very broad assumptions and a 3000 year old religious text... wow. :timeout:

Rockstar

03-06-11, 10:14 PM

So many stupid, stupid people.

Christians have been prophecising the end of the world since Jesus himself did it in Mark, and every single one has been dead wrong.

Does that fact stop anyone from trying? Nope. :damn:

I'd love to see these people's faces on May 22.

Anyway, I'd live life to the fullest if I knew the world was going to end.

Well I for one don't think it will happen anytime soon. Even so, biblically speaking nobody knows the day or hour it will happen that's for sure. But the topic being what it is I'll add my two cents. One of the things it is said will happen in the time of the end is knowledge will increase. Not the knowledge that sends men to the moon. But rather as world events unfold we compare that with what already written and finally understand.

One of the things that was said to happen is that the Realm of Javan will come against Middle Easteren kings. Then Javan's horn will inexplicably be broken. Biblically a horn represents authority or a kingdom, Javan is those tribes that have populated the Gentile nations.

What I saw is the Realm of Javan came against kings of the middle east and now a shake up and if it goes the direction I think will. Javan's horn will be broken, meaning either by a major catastrophy or simply being weakened to the point of no longer able to maintain any influence in the region.

Like you said I could be amongst those who are wrong maybe not. I'm only a spectator not prophet.

TheSatyr

03-07-11, 09:09 AM

Well,considering that "The End Times" was originally supposed to happen during the lifetimes of the original Apostles,the end of the worlders have no choice but to keep saying "It's going to happen soon".

I have an Aunt and Uncle who are both deacons in the Episcopalian (spelling?) Church. And they both think the end of the worlders are nuts.

nikimcbee

03-07-11, 09:46 AM

I'll bring the LSD! :yeah:

Oh wait... you mean that Kool-Aid. :shifty:

It could be like the SH6/ DC2 death cult. Neal will be serving grape kool-aid at the next meet. Then... SH6- DC2 will be unveiled, only to find out it was wolfpack he was talking about. Then everybody runs over and drinks the kool-aid:haha:.

Growler

03-07-11, 11:20 AM

I have an Aunt and Uncle who are both deacons in the Episcopalian (spelling?) Church. And they both think the end of the worlders are nuts.

That sounds about right for the Episcopal church - at least, it my exposure to it here in the states. Pragmatism is practically a sacrament. :DL

Rebel

03-07-11, 11:21 AM

the world will end as all things that start ,do stop. the part that puts god as the dower ? i my self think god is in all hart. i play this game as i play life ,the next war no one will show up.

Jimbuna

03-07-11, 12:52 PM

As long as I get my little fraudster sorted out beforehand...bring it on.

RickC Sniper

03-07-11, 03:24 PM

If a Christian believes the Bible is the Word of God and the bible predicts the Rapture and the end time, then I guess Christians have to believe it will happen.

However, predicting it's exact time to occur is likely more difficult than predicting the stock market.

TorpX

03-07-11, 08:49 PM

It could be like the SH6/ DC2 death cult. Neal will be serving grape kool-aid at the next meet. Then... SH6- DC2 will be unveiled, only to find out it was wolfpack he was talking about. Then everybody runs over and drinks the kool-aid:haha:.

Infidel! :haha:

Sharkstooth

03-12-11, 01:43 PM

At one point in the lil film, the team leader says if traffic gets tied up, all the better cause it will allow their message to get across.
hmm...

The only message that I would get is: 'Move these idiots off the road' ... not cause of their message--that would be absolutely lost on me, but because of their rudeness of tying up traffic.

yubba

03-12-11, 07:06 PM

HECK, I' d like too see their faces in 2013.:har:

kiwi_2005

03-13-11, 05:15 AM

If she read her bible she would know that no one knows when the end will come not even Jesus knows only the Father (God). So to try and predict the end of the world is silly. An example is the Jehovah Witnesses, they wrongly predicted the end in 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994! I think they have given up now :DL.

Edit: Matthew 24:36 states: "Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father."

Tribesman

03-13-11, 05:41 AM

HECK, I' d like too see their faces in 2013
If you last that long look in a mirror.
After all earhquakey super volcanoes, hidden planets and killer comets are all end of the world nonsense you have posted here.

Onkel Neal

03-13-11, 10:23 AM