Repent, the end is near, May 21st to be exact

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Skybird! You're weren't taken up? After all you are the one who soars.

Post of the year!

[Skybird]

Technically, angels differentiate profane soaring from divinely levitating, so: no luck for me!

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Technically, angels differentiate profane soaring from divinely levitating, so: no luck for me!

oh well, better luck next time.

[nikimcbee]

Other great "end o' world" predictions:

1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994, etc. were other dates that the Watchtower Society (WTS) or its members predicted. Since late in the 19th century, they had taught that the "battle of the Great Day of God Almighty" (Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn't. The next major estimate was 1925. Watchtower magazine predicted: "The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during that year." 6The Watchtower Society selected 1975 as its next main prediction. This was based on the estimate "according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." 8 They believed that the year 1975 a promising date for the end of the world, as it was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam's creation. Exactly 1,000 years was to pass for each day of the creation week. This prophecy also failed. The current estimate is that the end of the world as we know it will happen precisely 6000 years after the creation of Eve. 9 There is no way of knowing when this happened.More details on the WTS predictions.

[vienna]

Quote:
Originally Posted by CCIP
So the featured article on Wikipedia's front page for May 22nd is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Hates_Us_All

I get it!

"I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors,
But I think that God's got a sick sense of humor,
And when I die, I expect to find him laughing"

(Blasphemous Rumors, Depeche Mode)


An aquaintance of mine, a product of an old school Jesuit education like myself, once wondered why, in the vast expanse of the universe, we seem to be the only inhabited planet within sight or detection. We discussed this over a few rounds of liquid enlightenment (in the process boring the bejesus out of our then wives) and we came upon a theory: suppose there has already been an apocalypse, we have already been judged and this planet is our afterlife; we have been effectively banished from all contact with the rest of the universe (or creation) and thus we have never had contact with any other life form. It is something to ponder.

[nikimcbee]

[FIREWALL]

By now your butts must be sore.

[Growler]

I was away over the weekend.

Did I miss anything?

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Growler

I was away over the weekend.

Did I miss anything?

apperently not.

[Rockstar]

Well it was the end of days for two wasp nests in the backyard. They suffered great wrath and a flood of liquid pesticide.

[CaptainMattJ.]

i wish there was at least some precision guided rapture to smite those damned Heats.

They sure as hell arent going to see any more NBA playoffs if God has any sense of moral being.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

i wish there was at least some precision guided rapture to smite those damned Heats.

They sure as hell arent going to see any more NBA playoffs if God has any sense of moral being.

We in Utah feel no pity for you at all.

[Torplexed]

I guess the word is that the Harold Camping guy who saw this non-event coming has gone into hiding.

I can't imagine why.

[Blacklight]

Most of these "Fundamentalist doomsday prophets" don't seem to realize that they're trying to read their numbers out of a Bible that has been told through word of mouth, written down, re-written, re-interprested, re-written again, re-interpreted to push someones agenda, re-written again, told through word of mouth, re-written and re-interpreted again, (this list goes on almost endlessly). What a lot of these people call the modern Bible is probably so different from what was written, that it's probably hardly even the same thing it was concieved as.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

Most of these "Fundamentalist doomsday prophets" don't seem to realize that they're trying to read their numbers out of a Bible that has been told through word of mouth, written down, re-written, re-interprested, re-written again, re-interpreted to push someones agenda, re-written again, told through word of mouth, re-written and re-interpreted again, (this list goes on almost endlessly). What a lot of these people call the modern Bible is probably so different from what was written, that it's probably hardly even the same thing it was concieved as.

Yeah, but when you tell a strict fundamentalist that a book they consider the literal and inspired word of God has been through centuries of a historical, philosophic and linguistic cuisinart they tend to get bent out of shape.