# Admit it, you're a little disappointed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785 "2011-05-22T17:09:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/1 "2011-05-22T17:09:33Z")
We’ve had some fun here, enthusiastically mocking the Doomsday people. But how many of you are big enough to admit you woke up this morning just a _little_ disappointed that everything’s exactly the way it was yesterday? No matter how snide you were in making fun of the May 21sters, wasn’t some small part of you secretly hoping for something… interesting to happen? Maybe you won’t cop to it on this forum. Maybe you won’t even admit it to yourself. But deep, deep down inside, you’re crushed that the world is still here, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/2 "2011-05-22T17:13:27Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/3 "2011-05-22T17:15:21Z")
Something interesting did happen: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13827620&postcount=1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13827620&postcount=1) ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/4 "2011-05-22T17:21:45Z")
Not really. It was never realistic. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/5 "2011-05-22T17:24:30Z")
Not in the least. How can you be disappointed by something you always saw as utterly impossible? ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/6 "2011-05-22T17:26:19Z")
No. I _like_ this planet and the people on it. I don’t _want_ anything to happen to either. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/7 "2011-05-22T17:38:35Z")
Yes. I wake up every mourning disappointed that **I’m** still here. There was a small earthquake just east of me last night that I’m sure gave some people a moment to wonder if that crackpot was right. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/8 "2011-05-22T17:41:31Z")
No. This has happened so many times it’s been a long standing [cultural cliché](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QbKWf22mG4I/TbxzymewkGI/AAAAAAAAAus/yN351PJtY3A/s1600/end-is-near.jpg&imgrefurl=http://charltoncasual.blogspot.com/2011/04/and-now-end-is-near.html&h=300&w=400&sz=20&tbnid=QVAjvbUJMcXnIM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522the%2Bend%2Bis%2Bnear%2522%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=%22the+end+is+near%22&usg=__9VhOqFdJ1Wzv6JdVTTt_-O-1fN8=&sa=X&ei=fErZTd_xBIfb0QGBts37Aw&ved=0CEIQ9QEwBA&biw=1503&bih=627). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/9 "2011-05-22T17:42:42Z")
I’m disappointed because the Rapture didn’t happen. It means all the fundies are still here. ---
**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/10 "2011-05-22T18:56:35Z")
Sure, I’ll admit it. I was a committed Christian for many years, and believed that, some day, Jesus Christ would return. I KNEW it would NOT happen when this yahoo (or any other yahoo) predicted it Matthew 24 verse 36 " But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my Father only" Verse 42 “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come” (to mention just a few verses on the subject) But my life right now is not even close to what I wish/need/want it to be. And I cannot figure out what I can do to make my life better. The options I do see require more energy than I can muster. My optimism about life is gone. I’m trying to get it back, but that also takes a lot of energy. So, yeah, I’m ready to “blow this pop-stand”, “play like a tree and leave”, “play like a cow-patty and hit the trail”. I’m not going to do it on my own, but if Jesus Christ did come back right now, I wouldn’t mind at all. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/11 "2011-05-22T20:18:18Z")
> [@pudytat72](#): > > Sure, I’ll admit it. > > I was a committed Christian for many years, and believed that, some day, Jesus Christ would return. I KNEW it would NOT happen when this yahoo (or any other yahoo) predicted it > > Matthew 24 verse 36 " But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my Father only" Verse 42 “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come” (to mention just a few verses on the subject) > > But my life right now is not even close to what I wish/need/want it to be. And I cannot figure out what I can do to make my life better. The options I do see require more energy than I can muster. My optimism about life is gone. I’m trying to get it back, but that also takes a lot of energy. > > So, yeah, I’m ready to “blow this pop-stand”, “play like a tree and leave”, “play like a cow-patty and hit the trail”. I’m not going to do it on my own, but if Jesus Christ did come back right now, I wouldn’t mind at all. You’re one of the voices in my head, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/12 "2011-05-22T20:26:54Z")
I’m sure sorry my credit card debt is still here. But, I suppose it would be either way, wouldn’t it? No reason \*those \*guys would be taken up… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Al\_Bundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@Al\_Bundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al_Bundy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/13 "2011-05-22T21:17:45Z")
I was only disappointing in lack of backlash toward the perpetrators of this hoax. It received too much play in the news. If the ground had started shaking and the sky opened up with a hydrogen flame ball, I and many people would have been on our knees or running on our knees or something. Alas, nothing happened and I miss my revenge. ---
**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/14 "2011-05-22T21:23:04Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > You’re one of the voices in my head, aren’t you? Oh, I hope not. I’m busy enough as it is with the voices in my own head. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/15 "2011-05-22T21:38:46Z")
> [@pudytat72](#): > > I was a committed Christian for many years, and believed that, some day, Jesus Christ would return. I KNEW it would NOT happen when this yahoo (or any other yahoo) predicted it > > Matthew 24 verse 36 " But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven, but my Father only" Verse 42 “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come” (to mention just a few verses on the subject) Isn’t this the classic Hangman’s Paradox? When some random yahoo says the Rapture will occur on May 21st, obviously it won’t happen on that day. The next guy says it will happen on June 12th, so it can’t happen then either. Same goes for Dec. 21st 2012, April 13th 2037, and every date in between. There’s millions of idiots who believe the Rapture will take place “within our lifetime,” which essentially rules out the next 100 years – and the next 100 years, and the next, since future fundy generations will likely believe the same stupid fantasy. Therefore, God ain’t coming back any time soon. Sorry fundys, you blew it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/16 "2011-05-22T21:51:06Z")
> [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](#): > > I’m disappointed because the Rapture didn’t happen. It means all the fundies are still here. This. Now if they would all get a clue that they are nothing special, their specific brand of flavorade isn’t universal, and they need to stop trying to legislate their morality into my government we would be one step closer to the future. Sorry religious people of the dope, religion is not universal, should not be applied universally and has no place in government at all. People are moral or they aren’t, it is something that cannot and should not be legislated. ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Eel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/977dab/32.png) [@Old\_Eel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Eel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/17 "2011-05-22T22:16:53Z")
Since my religion isn’t Christian, no, I wasn’t disappointed. I wasn’t anything, other than concerned about how credulous people can be in the face of a billboard. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/18 "2011-05-22T22:44:18Z")
That fundies believe in a pending rapture does not bother me. That they have the vote and thereby can affect the laws that govern me, does bother me. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/19 "2011-05-22T22:48:50Z")
> [@Old\_Eel](#): > > Since my religion isn’t Christian, no, I wasn’t disappointed. I wasn’t anything, other than concerned about how credulous people can be in the face of a billboard. They buy beer and chips, don’t they? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785/20 "2011-05-22T22:49:08Z")
Didn’t believe it or expect it or even want it for a second. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it-youre-a-little-disappointed/582785.md?page=2)