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I hope it hurries up--- I have a house payment due right after, and I'd love to not hafta make that.  :smartarse:
 
Habberdasher said:
6 pm Saturday = rapture. Book it. Done.

(although the kook purporting that the world will end did not specify which time zone)
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It will start at 6 pm in each time zone, as the rapture itself takes about an hour per time zone to get in full swing.
 
That would suggest that it only takes half hour from Delhi to Islamabad.
 
Maybe its the way the sun shines through the atmosphere at a specific time.  Though, I wonder how that works in places that don't do daylight savings time... Hm. 
 
Of course you wonder. They always said this "god" works in mysterious ways, right? He just makes the sun shine differently for people who don't have daylight savings.

Of course, you'd think that an omnipotent being could just rapture the whole planet at once ... but this is the guy who waited a few thousand years and then required human sacrifice before he gave up his grudge with Adam.
 
Yep, that's why they do that weird wine-to-blood schtick in their rituals. It makes them think they're "saved".

I think the Last Supper was the result of a failed Jedi Mind Trick.

Jesus: This is not bread, it's meat.
Peter: I'm not buying it. That's unleavened bread.
Jesus: I said meat!
Peter: Oh yeah, what kind of meat?
Jesus: Uhhh ... it's me! Eat this, for this is my body!
Peter: Seriously?
 
Ranko said:
It will start at 6 pm in each time zone, as the rapture itself takes about an hour per time zone to get in full swing.
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Good point, we can tune into Australia first, just like New Years Eve
 
bearfan said:
it was a "top story" on news.googe.com
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I haven't checked that for a while, and now I seriously plan to keep it this way. Ridiculous that such nonsense is a top story.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Jesus: Uhhh ... it's me! Eat this, for this is my body!
Peter: Seriously?
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That pretty much summarises my idea of the Last Supper. Even more so, imagine this:

Jesus: My disciples, how do you plan to commemorate me?
Peter: I thought about painted eggs and a chocolate bunny.
 
To be fair, the page has a great layout where they categorize and list the most reported topics (essentially they consolidate the news), for some reason enough of newspapers/online news sites ran this story so it reached the bottom of the most published stories for a portion of a day.

Many of these stories were reporting on billboards that these end of dayers have been putting up on quite a few interstates across the country and reactions to them.  AP ran it and enough papers picked up the story so it was #15 in US news for a few hours before it dropped off.


OVerall it is a great site because you can enter common news search terms (or broad categories of interest to you) and it will put them in a really nice format.  For example, I put in the companies I do work for and a few days ago found out one of them was going public before it was announced to the employees at the company, because some obscure investment site probably put the story up too early and google hit it based on my search criteria.

... anyway, good way to keep up on specific things of interest to me as well as the broader what new people are writing about the most.  
 
Let me put it differently. I agree that it is a handy site. I guess I should have said that I find it ridiculous that so many people are busy with it.
 
Its just the current entertainment fad.  Next year, we'll all be buying generators and canned foods, so we can survive whatever disaster awaits us. 

I've got my tin foil hat, bottled water and twinkies-- I'm ready to go.

PS-- do you wonder how many survivalists have their survival plan on their computers?  :innocent:
 
It's actually quite sad. Many of the "news" stories on this topic are interviewing people who have supposedly quit their jobs and/or cashed in their life's savings to buy ad space. The ads are all over the subways here in NY and I have received several "robot calls" announcing the impending doom.
 
LooseCannon said:
Real wrath of God-type stuff.

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling! 40 years of darkness, earthquake, volcanoes. The dead rising from the grave! Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
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+1 for Ghostbusters reference!
 
So these nutzoids think this "rapture" is some kind of salvation? They're blind. They're not being saved, they're being demoted. They're being pulled back to the kiddie table.

That's right.

Endowed with free will, they chose to manufacture and devote themselves to a deity who demanded a semi-arbitrary code of behavior. If this rapture happens, it means their creation came to life and said: "What a waste. You devoted yourself to someone else's idea of how to live life. Alright, let's get you out of the gene pool and leave the planet for the adults."

I so hope this happens. :bigsmile:
 
Habberdasher said:
It's actually quite sad. Many of the "news" stories on this topic are interviewing people who have supposedly quit their jobs and/or cashed in their life's savings to buy ad space. The ads are all over the subways here in NY and I have received several "robot calls" announcing the impending doom.
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Yeah, I read about a guy in New York who cashes in $141K in retirement/savings, etc to spend while he can.  If I spent $141K in a week and the rapture really was coming, pretty much everything I would have done with that money would have bought me a "go straight to hell card".
 
Offtopic, but here's a really handy Google service. It's called "trends". You type in the search term, and location, and it displays statistics regarding number of registered queries. It's good to display how some media event can trigger people to go searching for a specific term. Good example is Charlie Sheen;

http://www.google.com/trends?q=charlie+sheen

Check the graph, and see the date when he went on those interviews talking about alcohol and drug problems publicly, etc.

Remember when Chuck Norris jokes started? http://www.google.com/trends?q=chuck+no ... all&sort=0 . This will tell you the exact timeframe.
And of course, http://www.google.com/trends?q=iron+mai ... all&sort=0
 
Do you know who are the 3 persons that will for sure survive end of the world?
1. Obama - He will find some highly secured shelter in USA
2. Putin - He will hide in Siberia in some underground hangar
3. Fillipo Inzaghi - He always gets lucky :D
 
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