The End of the World thread

[Shameless]

This is rollicking good stuff:

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God's decision to call time on the world is hastened by declining social values, Mr Camping argues. The Gay Pride movement was "sent by the Almighty" as a sign of the end. So was "all the stealing, lying, wickedness and sexual perversion"

These reverential people really have a thing for gays!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13468131

An atheist and entrepreneur from North Hampshire, Bart Centre, is enjoying a boost in business for Eternal Earth-bound Pets, which he set up to look after the pets of those who believe they will be raptured.

He has more than 250 clients who are paying up to $135 (£83) to have their pets picked up and cared for after the rapture.

They would be disappointed twice, he told the Wall Street Journal. "Once because they weren't raptured and again because I don't do refunds."

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/end-of-the-world-is-very-nigh-indeed-2287185.html

 

[Sooperhoop]

For two of Birmingham, Blackburn, Blackpool, Wigan or Wolves, the world will end tomorrow...

 

[Otto Flayshow]

I read an interesting book recently that touched on the mentality of these 'the end of the world is nigh' type nutters. After the date passes and nothing happens, a lot of them will realise they've been idiots and return to normality. However, a lot of them buy into the belief even stronger afterwards. They've invested so much of themselves into the myth, often selling off all their worldly possessions, that they can't be seen to be wrong. They have to sub-consciously rationalize their nutty behaviour so that they don't look like idiots to themselves and others. They therefore concoct some fantasy that God's saved them because they believed so strongly, and their delusion lives on despite the facts that proved them so spectacularly wrong.

 

[Shameless]

I read an interesting book recently that touched on the mentality of these 'the end of the world is nigh' type nutters. After the date passes and nothing happens, a lot of them will realise they've been idiots and return to normality. However, a lot of them buy into the belief even stronger afterwards. They've invested so much of themselves into the myth, often selling off all their worldly possessions, that they can't be seen to be wrong. They have to sub-consciously rationalize their nutty behaviour so that they don't look like idiots to themselves and others. They therefore concoct some fantasy that God's saved them because they believed so strongly, and their delusion lives on despite the facts that proved them so spectacularly wrong.

The world possibly will end in environmental collapse one day -albeit not quite so dramatically; ironically, religionists who tell us that only 'we' have a soul, therefore they set the great apes apart from nature, thus placing divinity between cause and consequence.

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[Ron]

Without doubt this planet will cease to be and some poor buggers will be here to witness it. Everything is so finely balanced to Earth revolving at the right speed and at the right distance from the Sun. Similarly the Moon around the Earth. In addition a collision could occur at any time. These finely tuned natural phenomena cannot continue indefinitely and the unpredictable can happen at any time (can't argue with that). I expect technology to improve to the point where space travel will permit the location of a new "paradise" to enable a painless migration. But how can that be achieved? Failure to plan for it will result in panic and horrible deaths for the earth's inhabitants. I suspect those chosen to survive (scientists, doctors, animals, vets etc etc) will be off in their space ships long before the End. Maybe it will be DNA that is taken forward to the next Planet. Now there's an idea; everyone who wants to go gives a sample of their DNA and gets transferred to the new Planet. Freaky.

So some crackpot thinks tonight's the night. See you tomorrow.

 

[mjw6150]

I'm a Christian and these guys are seen as idiots by 99% of Christians.

They claim they read the Bible and got this prediction from there but if you read Matthew 24:35-37 & Mark 13:32, Jesus says that no-one knows the hour that the world will end, except for God.

 

[Ron]

I'm not sure if Messy is signing up or organising it all.

 

[Ron]

I'm a Christian and these guys are seen as idiots by 99% of Christians.

They claim they read the Bible and got this prediction from there but if you read Matthew 24:35-37 & Mark 13:32, Jesus says that no-one knows the hour that the world will end, except for God.

And he's ex directory.

 

[Tina_old]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13489641

"Followers of an evangelical broadcaster who declared that Saturday would be Judgement Day are trying to make sense of the failed prediction.

Some believers expressed bewilderment or said it was a test from God of their faith, after the day passed without event.

Meanwhile, the evangelist at the centre of the claim, Harold Camping, has not been seen since before the deadline."

 

[Shameless]

This post was removed because God didn't like it very much.

 

[Ron]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13489641

"Followers of an evangelical broadcaster who declared that Saturday would be Judgement Day are trying to make sense of the failed prediction.

Some believers expressed bewilderment or said it was a test from God of their faith, after the day passed without event.

Meanwhile, the evangelist at the centre of the claim, Harold Camping, has not been seen since before the deadline."

I understand he was beamed up and we only think we are still here. We are obviously somewhere else but it does seem very much like where we were before.

 

[The Raging Oxter]

Maybe the world did end and this is some sort of Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes "reality" we're all living in.

As long as heaven is a pub I'll die happy

 

[Otto Flayshow]

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