# Left Behind on Oct 21? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197 "2011-10-10T16:54:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/1 "2011-10-10T16:54:31Z")
Here’s a thought on what to do if the Rapture leaves you behind. A [Seattle atheist group](http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/10/10/seattle-atheists-mock-rapture-prediction-with-left-behind-party/) is having an after the rapture party. [Harold Camping](http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/10/06/harold-camping-predicts-oct-21-rapture-again/) is once again predicting the end of the world for Oct 21th. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/2 "2011-10-11T00:26:11Z")
I will be very pissed off if the world ends on the 21st … we have birthday plans, I turn 50 on the 27th dammit. You only get 1 50th birthday. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/3 "2011-10-11T00:39:51Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I will be very pissed off if the world ends on the 21st … we have birthday plans, I turn 50 on the 27th dammit. You only get 1 50th birthday. :mad: In general you are correct, but actually in your case it would be 0. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/4 "2011-10-11T01:06:44Z")
I am supposed to turn 65 on the 23rd, if I don’t get raptured. Hmm. Medicare or rapture, medicare or rapture. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/5 "2011-10-11T01:23:08Z")
The rapture actually did come on May 21 and we were all left behind–every man and every woman on earth was found wanting. On Oct. 21, the tribulations will end. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/6 "2011-10-11T02:31:16Z")
October 21st? Wouldn’t it be funny if Harold Camping was just trying to drive down the price of Party City common stock just so he could pick up controlling interest for a [del]psalm[/del] song? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/7 "2011-10-11T02:36:59Z")
Wow, I forgot about that. I hope someone in the news media remembers to contact Camping after it doesn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/8 "2011-10-11T03:33:50Z")
I used to think the guy was a wacko, then us East Coaster’s got hit with an earthquake, hurricane, & tropical storm in less than two weeks this summer. Hey, if the _rocket scientist’s_ at NASA can crash a spacecraft cause of a little english/metric conversion issue, maybe he forgot to carry a 1 when calculating his original date??? :smack: Though, FTR, I’d buy green bananas on the 20th. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/9 "2011-10-11T15:36:29Z")
If you’re gonna mock something, get it right. Unless he’s revised his prediction again, Camping predicted the Rapture would happen May 21 with the End coming on October as Earth is destroyed by some cosmic fireball & we’re all sent into our Eternal Destiny. There’s plenty that is mock-worthy about that, but post-Rapture parties are just inaccurate- Revise those invites to Post-Doomsday parties! ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/10 "2011-10-11T17:43:28Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed;14346436 There’s plenty that is mock-worthy about that, but post-Rapture parties are just inaccurate- Revise those invites to Post-Doomsday parties![/QUOTE] Ain’t no party like a post-apocalyptic party! But what does one wear to such an event? ---
**Author:** ![Sacrilegium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@Sacrilegium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sacrilegium)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/11 "2011-10-12T01:47:43Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > predicting the end of the world for Oct 21th. Twenty-oneth? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/12 "2011-10-12T01:52:25Z")
What time is this supposed to be happening? I’ve got tickets to a concert that night. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/13 "2011-10-13T13:49:19Z")
World Closed: Gone Camping. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/14 "2011-10-13T13:56:38Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > Ain’t no party like a post-apocalyptic party! But what does one wear to such an event? Go naked. What’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/15 "2011-10-13T14:21:47Z")
Family Radio: A Non-Prophet Organization ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/16 "2011-10-13T14:22:49Z")
> [@Sacrilegium](#): > > Twenty-oneth? 😃 Yeah, that’s ten days after October eleventy. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/17 "2011-10-13T14:41:40Z")
I’ll be more concerned about these doomsday predictions when they come from someone who has one the lottery - at least twice. ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/18 "2011-10-13T18:15:38Z")
Heh…the video in the second link of Harolds ‘update’ is scarylious. May 21 was the spiritual judgement, not physical judgement.:rolleyes: He says he isn’t a genius and is only teaching the bible, not what he believes. He ‘apologizes’ despite the fact that he doesn’t have anything to apologize for. He then states “ **I don’t have spiritual rule over anybody…_except my wife_.** ” He’ll be talking out of the other side of his hat when the 20th century catches up to him…assuming he’s still here on Oct 22.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/19 "2011-10-13T20:06:49Z")
I’ve got a wedding I’m going to on the 22nd I guess I’ll hold of buying the present, mainly because hauling the dog and girlfriend alog with a present 1100 miles doesn’t sound like a lot of fun but I’m still not spending any money on that wedding until the 22nd. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/20 "2011-10-13T22:52:08Z")
My birthday’s on the 22nd. I want my gifts early, dammit! 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197.md?page=2)