may 20th, 2011 CE
i hereby publicly bet any holy roller that the world will not end on 5/21. to put my money where my mouth is, i will pay $1,000,000 if the world actually ends on 5/21. of course, if it doesn't, the loonie will have to pay me $1,000,000.
i made this bet on earlier occasions too when they talked about the end of the world. oddly, nobody came forward to take me up on my bet.
i guess this means the holy roller leaders actually don't believe this hocus-pocus either. ye of little faith! but there are enough dumb yanks who do.
or it could be that they realized if the world actually did end, i wouldn't have to pay up. :-)
*this* is the apex of 'western civilization'? one despairs.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: sri
Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Subject: 21/5 Judgment Day: Amid fears the end is nigh, Americans are ready
To:
Amid fears the end is nigh, Americans are ready Judgment Day: Amid fears the end is nigh, Americans are ready http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Judgment-Day-Amid-fears-the-end-is-nigh-Americans-are-ready/articleshow/8482818.cms AFP | May 21, 2011 WASHINGTON: With an aging fundamentalist Christian preacher warning
that Saturday is Judgment Day, Americans have been getting ready. A handful quit their jobs and were traveling around the United States
to urge others to repent before it's too late. Eighty-nine-year-old Harold Camping's prediction is that at 6:00pm
local time in each of the world's regions -- starting in New Zealand
at 0600 GMT -- the Rapture will happen and good Christians will be
beamed up to heaven, making a tight squeeze for repenting. Gregory LeCorps has been thinking ahead, though. He left his job "in a
medical facility" weeks ago to take his wife and five young children
on the road and warn others that the Rapture is really nigh, the
Journal News in New York wrote. "We're in the final days," he was quoted by the lower Hudson valley
newspaper as saying as he handed out leaflets last week. LeCorps said he hopes to be on a beach in South Carolina by Saturday,
the newspaper said. Those who do not make it to the Pearly Gates on Saturday will suffer
through hell on earth until October 21, when an angry God will pull
the plug on the planet once and for all, destroying everyone and
everything, Camping says. LeCorps believes that. Others are somewhat skeptical, especially as
Camping made a similar prophecy years ago, saying then that the
Rapture would happen in 1994. He wrote an entire book about it, and,
of course, 1994 came and went without Rapture. A group of atheists plans to hold a picnic in their local park
Saturday, thinking that it will be emptied of people on Rapture day. New York City Mayor Bloomberg -- who is Jewish and therefore,
according to Camping's prophecy, unlikely to be beamed up to sit
alongside Jesus and God in heaven -- said on his weekly radio show on
Friday that he would suspend alternate-side parking in New York if the
world ends on Saturday. The much-reviled alternate-side parking rule requires New Yorkers to
move their cars from one side of the street to the other to allow
street cleaning to be carried out. "I think alternate-side parking will take on an entirely different
meaning" after the Rapture, Bloomberg joked. Bars were offering Rapture happy hours -- although why pay at all if
the world's about to end? -- and around the United States, people were
organizing Rapture parties, presumably to wave off those who go to the
other side. On a "rapture" Twitter feed that moved too quickly to keep up, a
skeptic said he didn't think God would consider holding the big day
"on a Saturday in the middle of cricket season." Craigslist has tens of thousands of ads from non-believers offering to
buy the worldly goods of those who think they're going to heaven on
Saturday night, and a group of atheists has sold hundreds of contracts
to rescue people's pets after the Rapture. An idea was gathering steam on Twitter to lay out old clothing and
shoes on pavements and lawns on Saturday to give the impression that
someone had been beamed up. And as of noon on Friday, 11,000 people had RSVPed for some
post-Rapture looting, with one man saying on Twitter he intends to hit
Apple first. Camping worked out the exact day of the Rapture by starting with the
year of the Great Flood, 4990 BC, adding 7,000 years to it because, in
the Bible, God "reminds us that one day is as 1,000 years," and then
subtracting one because of a glitch when passing from the old to the
new testament calendars. "Because the year 2011 AD is exactly 7,000 years after 4990 BC when
the flood began, the Bible has given us absolute proof that the year
2011 is the end of the world during the Day of Judgment," Camping's
Family Radio website says. "Amazingly, May 21, 2011 is the 17th day of the 2nd month of the
Biblical calendar of our day. Remember, the flood waters also began on
the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the year 4990 BC," it says, adding
that there are "several additional astounding proofs" that Saturday
will be Judgment Day. To get those astounding proofs, the curious and fearful need only send
a stamped self-addressed envelope to Family Radio. But with the US Postal Service no longer operating in most places on
Saturdays -- because of the economy, not the end of the world -- the
leaflet with the response won't arrive until after it's all over.
From: sri
Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Subject: 21/5 Judgment Day: Amid fears the end is nigh, Americans are ready
To:
Amid fears the end is nigh, Americans are ready Judgment Day: Amid fears the end is nigh, Americans are ready http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Judgment-Day-Amid-fears-the-end-is-nigh-Americans-are-ready/articleshow/8482818.cms AFP | May 21, 2011 WASHINGTON: With an aging fundamentalist Christian preacher warning
that Saturday is Judgment Day, Americans have been getting ready. A handful quit their jobs and were traveling around the United States
to urge others to repent before it's too late. Eighty-nine-year-old Harold Camping's prediction is that at 6:00pm
local time in each of the world's regions -- starting in New Zealand
at 0600 GMT -- the Rapture will happen and good Christians will be
beamed up to heaven, making a tight squeeze for repenting. Gregory LeCorps has been thinking ahead, though. He left his job "in a
medical facility" weeks ago to take his wife and five young children
on the road and warn others that the Rapture is really nigh, the
Journal News in New York wrote. "We're in the final days," he was quoted by the lower Hudson valley
newspaper as saying as he handed out leaflets last week. LeCorps said he hopes to be on a beach in South Carolina by Saturday,
the newspaper said. Those who do not make it to the Pearly Gates on Saturday will suffer
through hell on earth until October 21, when an angry God will pull
the plug on the planet once and for all, destroying everyone and
everything, Camping says. LeCorps believes that. Others are somewhat skeptical, especially as
Camping made a similar prophecy years ago, saying then that the
Rapture would happen in 1994. He wrote an entire book about it, and,
of course, 1994 came and went without Rapture. A group of atheists plans to hold a picnic in their local park
Saturday, thinking that it will be emptied of people on Rapture day. New York City Mayor Bloomberg -- who is Jewish and therefore,
according to Camping's prophecy, unlikely to be beamed up to sit
alongside Jesus and God in heaven -- said on his weekly radio show on
Friday that he would suspend alternate-side parking in New York if the
world ends on Saturday. The much-reviled alternate-side parking rule requires New Yorkers to
move their cars from one side of the street to the other to allow
street cleaning to be carried out. "I think alternate-side parking will take on an entirely different
meaning" after the Rapture, Bloomberg joked. Bars were offering Rapture happy hours -- although why pay at all if
the world's about to end? -- and around the United States, people were
organizing Rapture parties, presumably to wave off those who go to the
other side. On a "rapture" Twitter feed that moved too quickly to keep up, a
skeptic said he didn't think God would consider holding the big day
"on a Saturday in the middle of cricket season." Craigslist has tens of thousands of ads from non-believers offering to
buy the worldly goods of those who think they're going to heaven on
Saturday night, and a group of atheists has sold hundreds of contracts
to rescue people's pets after the Rapture. An idea was gathering steam on Twitter to lay out old clothing and
shoes on pavements and lawns on Saturday to give the impression that
someone had been beamed up. And as of noon on Friday, 11,000 people had RSVPed for some
post-Rapture looting, with one man saying on Twitter he intends to hit
Apple first. Camping worked out the exact day of the Rapture by starting with the
year of the Great Flood, 4990 BC, adding 7,000 years to it because, in
the Bible, God "reminds us that one day is as 1,000 years," and then
subtracting one because of a glitch when passing from the old to the
new testament calendars. "Because the year 2011 AD is exactly 7,000 years after 4990 BC when
the flood began, the Bible has given us absolute proof that the year
2011 is the end of the world during the Day of Judgment," Camping's
Family Radio website says. "Amazingly, May 21, 2011 is the 17th day of the 2nd month of the
Biblical calendar of our day. Remember, the flood waters also began on
the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the year 4990 BC," it says, adding
that there are "several additional astounding proofs" that Saturday
will be Judgment Day. To get those astounding proofs, the curious and fearful need only send
a stamped self-addressed envelope to Family Radio. But with the US Postal Service no longer operating in most places on
Saturdays -- because of the economy, not the end of the world -- the
leaflet with the response won't arrive until after it's all over.
5 comments:
OT : A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that on May 21, 2010, perhaps Rs 60 or 70 crore were spent by the taxpayer — without his and her consent — on praising Rajiv Gandhi. Since the practice has been in place since 2005, the aggregate expenditure to date on this account is probably in excess of Rs 300 crore.
(... and it happened again this year)
this is like the global warming doomsday cult which keeps prophesying the end of the world by drowning.
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