I can’t believe that 17 people answered “yes” in the poll. Unless they’re just kidding…
Of course not, everyone knows Jesus sleeps in on Saturdays.
Well, the prediction is pretty unequivocal:
It’s 57 minutes until May 21 in western Kiribati. What time zone does the Rapture operate on, BTW?
I’d also heard it thrown around that only 144,000 would be saved…all of them virgins. There’s several ways there, I’m screwed.
** Holly:** Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it’s black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
** Rimmer: But five of them? . How can you manage to miss five black holes?
** Holly: It’s always the way, innit? You hang around for three million years in deep space and there hasn’t been one, then all of a sudden five turn up at once.
And suddenly, Star Trek and Star Wars conventions were silenced.
Good question. Any earth-shaking news, yet?
Nonsense, he converted to Christianity when he got his American citizenship.
I am a practicing Christian, and love the Bible. Nothing about this prediction relates in any way to my biblical understanding.
What though, if May 21 really IS the rapture and no one is “taken up” because no one meets whatever the standard is?
I’m also anxious to see what happens to all the billboards on May 22.
I am curious to know if the billboard companies required payment in advance.
According to whoever edited this on Wikipedia, the Rapture will happen at 6:00 pm as the sun advances around the world. As it turns 6:00 there will be an earthquake marking the beginning of the five month rapture. The world actually ends on October 21st. :rolleyes:
Also, here’s how Harold Camping predicted this specific date -
According to Camping, the number five equals “atonement”, the number ten equals “completeness”, and the number seventeen equals “heaven” (Why? Your guess is as good as mine).
Christ is said to have hung on the cross on April 1, 33 AD. The time between April 1, 33 AD and April 1, 2011 is 1,978 years.
If 1,978 is multiplied by 365.2422 days (the number of days in a solar year, not to be confused with the lunar year), the result is 722,449.
The time between April 1 and May 21 is 51 days.
51 added to 722,449 is 722,500.
(5 × 10 × 17)2 or (atonement × completeness × heaven)2 also equals 722,500.
Thus, Camping concludes that 5 × 10 × 17 is telling us a “story from the time Christ made payment for our sins until we’re completely saved.”
(http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-01/bay-area/17466332_1_east-bay-bay-area-first-time-camping/2)
Might I also point out that he also predicted the End Times would come in September 1994. When it didn’t come as predicted he said that he had made a mathematical error. Does it matter that I found a mathematical error in these calculations? Or at least he rounded at one point. I would think that with the end of the world at stake rounding would make a bit of a deal.
This is just a good opportunity to have a laugh at gullible people. And it’ll happen all over again towards the end of this year.
Of course Tom Lehrer said it first:
For me, I almost hope it happens, because I’d love to see the look on their faces when the Moslems start rising with them.
Wow, that’s a complicated calculation. I’ve heard in several places that it’s just exactly 7,000 years from the flood. I’m not sure how you could calculate that to a day though, and even getting the year right would rely on inferring from all the begats.
In any case, Camping, whom I’m positive is a huckster rather than a believer, has succeeded beyond imagination. If not many people really believe his prediction, still millions know about it and are at least discussing it.
Seeing as I’m still short on June’s rent, I hope so 
Well, the time is drawing nigh. It is now 1:30 pm on May 21st. in Kiritimati. Wonder if there are any news crews there to record the event/non-event?
In Australia its 9:30 am on 21st and I can hear a lot of jackhammers outside.
Should I be worried?
Otara
Actually, it will happen on July 5.
Waitaminit…your quote says
So (according to the loon making this prediction) all that talk that happens when someone dies and they are in a better place and with god now etc etc is a lie? For the entirety of the human race - or at least since Jesus allowed people to qualify as believers - the dead have merely been waiting in their graves, waiting for the end of the world to finally meet their god?
Whichever god this is is an asshole. I get mad when I have to wait for a doctor, and I actually get something in return for that!
I’m going to play paintball tomorrow. One of the scenarios is Apocalypse Now. Just might choose that one!