# Did the world end yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652 "2011-05-21T04:14:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/41 "2011-05-21T15:40:18Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > No, as your google search confirms, it’s 6pm \*local \*time - so the Rapture is slowly creeping across the globe, 1/24th at a time. It’s just good people management skills - no one wants a huge rush at the Pearly Gates. It’s kind of a mess, the early ones are all standing on their heads and St. Peter is spending more time figuring out who is a natural blond than who is a true Christian. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/42 "2011-05-21T15:56:02Z")
I’m guessing the cop-out will be that the rapture _did_ happen. What, nobody you know ascended? Well, there you go, they’re all sinners! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/43 "2011-05-21T16:05:25Z")
Whelp, I’m back, it’s 6:05 and no Rapture here, I don’t think. Then again, this \*is \*godless secular humanist Yurop. I don’t know what I was expecting, really. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/44 "2011-05-21T16:05:59Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I’m guessing the cop-out will be that the rapture _did_ happen. What, nobody you know ascended? Well, there you go, they’re all sinners! Well, he also predicted global earthquakes, so somehow I doubt that cop-out would work. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/45 "2011-05-21T16:22:06Z")
I live about an hour and a half out of Armageddon. You guys want me to drive over there, see if anything’s going on? They have a MacDonads, so I could also grab something to eat. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/46 "2011-05-21T16:36:00Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > The rapture happened all right. > > Problem is, there were no true Christians. Just Randy “Macho Man” Savage. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/47 "2011-05-21T16:37:15Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I’m guessing the cop-out will be that the rapture _did_ happen. What, nobody you know ascended? Well, there you go, they’re all sinners! What happened to the earthquakes and zombie apocalypse? > [@Harold Camping](#): > > On Judgment Day, May 21st, 2011, this 5-month period of horrible torment will begin for all the inhabitants of the earth. It will be on May 21st that God will raise up all the dead that have ever died from their graves. Earthquakes will ravage the whole world as the earth will no longer conceal its dead (Isaiah 26:21). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/48 "2011-05-21T16:54:09Z")
If God is merciful, it won’t happen until at least 6:30 p.m. today. I want to see the Preakness. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/49 "2011-05-21T16:54:51Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > What happened to the earthquakes and zombie apocalypse? Sounds like a typical weekend around here. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/50 "2011-05-21T17:13:22Z")
It can’t be this year. The playoffs have started and Toronto isn’t in them. As everyone knows, the final portent of the Apocalypse is the Maple Leafs winning the Stanley cup. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/51 "2011-05-21T18:04:34Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > What happened to the earthquakes and zombie apocalypse? Zombies? Like, dishonored Viking rising from Hel? Sounds more like Ragnarok to me. Time for my Heathen ass to grasp the sword! DEATH! RUIN! DOOM! VALHALLA IS CALLING! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/52 "2011-05-21T18:13:55Z")
Don’t know about you guys, but I’m tired of the radio news breaks every hour reporting this non-event’s non-progress. Bonus annoyance points to the producers who underlay the pieces with Michael Stipe blatting “it’s the end of the world as we know it…” or Debra Harry doing what white people understood to be rap circa 1980. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/53 "2011-05-21T20:16:31Z")
is anybody traveling westward to have 6PM in more than one time zone just in case? ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/54 "2011-05-21T20:26:39Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Apologies, however, to those of you who gave away all your worldly possessions in anticipation of Armageddon. Spare a moment for the poor SOBs who believed this tripe, even if they did not in fact give away their possessions. I trust they will have a rough weekend, alas. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/55 "2011-05-21T21:53:28Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Just Randy “Macho Man” Savage. If you’ve ever bitten into a Slim Jim, it _is_ pretty rapturous. Looks like he, you know, bit the big one. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/56 "2011-05-21T22:05:10Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I don’t think the show is due to open until 6:00pm … that’s US Eastern, because we’re so cool. > > So, don’t worry, everyone has about another 12 hour or so to get good and drunk before kick-off. Heeey everynody!!! I lo ve you guyes. Youre the best. I don’t say that enough. Whos with me/? Whatt a you mean everyaone’ss still heer//? Tomoeorrow is not goinnnng t o be fun. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/57 "2011-05-21T22:38:51Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I live about an hour and a half out of Armageddon. You guys want me to drive over there, see if anything’s going on? They have a MacDonads, so I could also grab something to eat. That there is a MacDonalds at Armageddon is possibly the most surreal and wonderful bit of information I’ve heard in years. Someone needs to write a book or a song about it. BTW, the nutzos web page hasn’t changed, and the paper this morning had them saying that we don’t know the hour, so if it happens at 11:59 pm at the International date line it will count. But we’ll see what they say tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/58 "2011-05-21T23:24:57Z")
God damn it all to hell, the rapture didn’t happen. I really wanted to loot myself a 2011 Audi R8 GT in white. A free R8 GT would totally KICK ASS! This rapture dude needs to get his predictions right. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/59 "2011-05-21T23:45:18Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > … and zombie apocalypse? You should be here during morning commute to work. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-world-end-yet/582652/60 "2011-05-22T00:05:38Z")
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