Judgement Day: May 21, 2011 (Postponed)

[OneWingedBird]

Wouldn't it be terrible irony if the Rapture happens and Mr Camping isn't one of the chosen ones?

it's about 1am on Sunday in New Zealand now, looks like he's going to be waking up to a little disappointment.

 

[OneWingedBird]

Anonymous should have ditched the UFO prank thing and invested in a job lot of cheap inflatable sex dolls and helium instead.

 

[Pietro_Mercurios]

My mistake. Armageddon, time zone, by time zone. A bit like the Y2K bug, anti-climax. Full story at the Guardian website:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/21/apocalypse-not-now-rapture-fails-materialise



Mind you, if God does worry about things like punctuality, perhaps 6pm Greenwich meantime is the one to look out for?

 

[rynner2]

Mind you, if God does worry about things like punctuality, perhaps 6pm Greenwich meantime is the one to look out for?

God's Mean Time! :shock:

(And we know from the Old Testament how mean he can get...)

 

[Mythopoeika]

Mind you, if God does worry about things like punctuality, perhaps 6pm Greenwich meantime is the one to look out for?

If he exists, I should think that God would worry about nothing at all.

 

[OneWingedBird]

Full story at the Guardian website:

Weird, but when did what random people had to say on twitter become news. :?

 

[rynner2]

Full story at the Guardian website:

Weird, but when did what random people had to say on twitter become news. :?

When it shows they haven't been Apocalypsed! 8)

 

[thethingishere]

Goodbye and thank you for all of the fish.

 

[titch]

Finished work just in time for beer and the end of the world.

 

[GNC]

6 o'clock just gone here, and the world does appear to be ending! Oh, wait, it's just more rain.

Someone at BBC1 has a sense of humour, they're showing the film Judgment Night tonight.

 

[Mythopoeika]

6 o'clock just gone here, and the world does appear to be ending! Oh, wait, it's just more rain.

Someone at BBC1 has a sense of humour, they're showing the film Judgment Night tonight.

You must be in a different reality from the rest of us...apparently the film tonight is Deja Vu...

 

[GNC]

6 o'clock just gone here, and the world does appear to be ending! Oh, wait, it's just more rain.

Someone at BBC1 has a sense of humour, they're showing the film Judgment Night tonight.

You must be in a different reality from the rest of us...apparently the film tonight is Deja Vu...

Judgment Night is on afterwards. Either that or it's only on in Scotland.

 

[ramonmercado]

6 o'clock just gone here, and the world does appear to be ending! Oh, wait, it's just more rain.

Someone at BBC1 has a sense of humour, they're showing the film Judgment Night tonight.

You must be in a different reality from the rest of us...apparently the film tonight is Deja Vu...

Judgment Night is on afterwards. Either that or it's only on in Scotland.

A plague of Haggis will descend and deliver the judgement of Glasgow.

 

[los_grandes_lutz]

What I don't understand is who are the idiots who kept donating to this?

Did they send money, "just in case" is was true that the end was coming, and hope that an all seeing and all knowing Supreme Being would overlook their previous sins because they had sent money to someone who was trying to warn the rest of us?

I'm in the wrong business!

 

[Mythopoeika]

6 o'clock just gone here, and the world does appear to be ending! Oh, wait, it's just more rain.

Someone at BBC1 has a sense of humour, they're showing the film Judgment Night tonight.

You must be in a different reality from the rest of us...apparently the film tonight is Deja Vu...

Judgment Night is on afterwards. Either that or it's only on in Scotland.

Agh, you're right - I hang my head in shame. I didn't look that far ahead, because I wasn't going to stay up that late...

 

[Analogue Boy]

I'm hoping this thread will survive in some form as the End of the World Doomwatch.

So far - A landslide in Malaysia has slid onto an orphanage kiiling children and their adult carers.


Nice one God.

 

[GNC]

Has this Camping joker come up with any excuses yet? I want to see him squirm - shame on him for wishing the deaths of billions of people.

 

[titch]

Are we dead yet?

 

[Mythopoeika]

Are we dead yet?

Yes. This is the afterlife. Different, huh?

 

[Pete Younger]

Are we dead yet?

Not until midnight when it will be 6pm over there. :shock:

 

[rynner2]

Rapture: the end was not nigh, after all
The apocalypse did not arrive at 6pm on May 21st, despite the predictions by Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping.
By Laura Donnelly, Bonnie Malkin and David Barrett 7:01PM BST 21 May 2011

Given that the end of the world was supposed to be nigh, it perhaps wasn’t surprising that Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping had shown some reluctance to take advance bookings.

The 89-year-old Californian preacher and radio host had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm May 21st in each of the world’s time zones, with non-believers wiped out by rolling earthquakers, as the saved ascended into heaven.

His refusal to schedule a media interview for the following day - “It is absolutely going to happen. There is no way that I can schedule an interview because I won’t be here.” - was being replayed by media as the world firmly stayed standing. 8)

On the microsite Twitter, groups of atheists and sceptics were last night swapping tales of After Rapture parties, with one group, in Tacoma, Washington, branding their celebration “Countdown to Back-Pedalling”.

Mr Camping’s doomsday prediction wasn’t his first. He blamed an earlier apocalyptic prediction which passed quietly in 1994 on a mathematical error, last month saying: “I’m not embarrassed about it. It was just the fact that it was premature.”

This time would be different, with “no possibility” it would not happen. While across the United States, some devotees reportedly sold all their possessions and took to the streets to warn of the second coming of Jesus, in Britain, sceptical voices were louder.

After 6pm passed without incident in New Zealand and Australia, Stephen Fry tweeted: “Marvellous news! Rapture doesnt mean end of world; apparently all the planet’s imbeciles disappear in one go.”

Amid the sound of ruffled feathers he later added: “Calm down. Never said all Christians are imbeciles. Just those who think they’ll be raised up today. They do the faith a grave disservice.”

Earlier TV scientist Professor Brian Cox had suggested it was a good time for a global practical joke: “I think we should all pretend the rapture is happening so that when Harold Camping gets left behind later today he’ll be livid.”

Some of the first reports that the apocalypse was not keeping to schedule emerged from New Zealand. Kiwis confirmed there were no signs of the dead rising from the grave, nor of the living ascending into the clouds to meet Jesus Christ.

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After the day of reckoning, Mr Camping said non-believers would suffer through hell on earth until October 21, when God would pull the plug on the planet once and for all.

The Rapture - the belief that Christ will bring the faithful into paradise prior to a period of tribulation on Earth that precedes the end of time - is a relatively new notion, rejected by most Christians.

However, the prophecy has led to unrest in Vietnam, where thousands of members of the Hmong ethnic minority gathered near the border with Laos earlier this month to await the world’s end. The government arrested a number of “extremists” and dispersed a crowd of about 5,000. :shock:

Mr Camping came up with his prediction using a calculation that started with the year of the Great Flood, 4990 BC, added 7,000 years because, in the Bible, God “reminds us that one day is as 1,000 years,” and then subtracted one because of a glitch when passing from the old to the new testament calendars.

As May 21 drew nearer, donations grew, allowing Family Radio to spend millions of dollars on more than 5,000 billboards plastered with the doomsday message. In 2009, the non for profit reported that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million.

Yesterday, in California, some believers had shut themselves inside to pray as they wait for the world’s end.
Others were meeting with their children for tearful last lunches, and preparing to leave behind pets and be swept up to heaven.

...

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg - who is Jewish and, according to Mr Camping’s prophecy, therefore unlikely to be beamed up to sit alongside Jesus in heaven - said on his weekly radio show on Friday that he would partially suspend parking restrictions in New York if the world ended.

Seeing the potential to profit from the prediction, one website was selling T-shirts marked: “I survived May 21, 2011. You really thought the world would end? Dumb ass.”

However, it was hedging its bets on delivery times. “If the world doesn’t end, you’ll get your shirt in approximately 10 business days,” it says.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religio ... r-all.html

 

[Mythopoeika]

My sister (who is more than a tad religious) didn't know about all this, because she hasn't been following the news.
Anyway, when I told her, she just laughed and said 'Only God can know the date - even Jesus doesn't know. Where does this man get the date from?'

 

[los_grandes_lutz]

Are we dead yet?

Yes. This is the afterlife. Different, huh?

In that case, where are my 70 virgins?

 

[los_grandes_lutz]

Wait, Harold! We were only kidding! Take us with you!

Iceland's most active volcano, Grimsvotn, has started erupting,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13487858

 

[Mythopoeika]

Are we dead yet?

Yes. This is the afterlife. Different, huh?

In that case, where are my 70 virgins?

To quote Shakespeare, 'get thee to a nunnery'. :lol:

 

[Pietro_Mercurios]

My eyes are getting worse. I read, '70 vegans', first time. I was confused. :lol:

 

[47Forteans]

My eyes are getting worse. I read, '70 vegans', first time. I was confused. :lol:

That's 70 Vegan Virgins!

Personally, I would rather someone who knew what they were doing!

I don't think someone's Imaginary Friend will end the world, when Humans are quite capable of doing that themselves!

 

[McAvennie]

Really some TV news station should have been with him 24/7 on May 21. That is an occasion when I actually would have enjoyed seeing 24hr rolling news coverage of the guy telling his flock, 'Just wait, it will happen soon...' followed by a nervous glance at his watch.

Has he had anything to say about his failure...?

 

[Timble2]

According to the news on R4 for some reason his place doesn't appear to be answering the phone or emails...I wonder why.

 

[Mythopoeika]

According to the news on R4 for some reason his place doesn't appear to be answering the phone or emails...I wonder why.

Well, the old boy is 89...he's probably still in bed.