I’m sure glad we got that settled - I’ve been wondering if I should make vacation plans for next summer (I guess not).
I know this is true because a leaflet by Family Radio says it is, and they have calculations to prove it: 4,990 + 2011 + 1 = 7,000!
See, it’s so obvious.
Also, I found this leaflet wedged into a crack on the ATM I was using, so I’m doubly assured.
Well, it’s been a good run.
Where do you get the 4,990 from? The world was created in 4004 B.C., so if it’s going to end after 7,000 years, it will end in the year 2997.
Yawn. How many times has the world ended now?
It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even notice anymore. :rolleyes:
According to these guys, it’s 7,000 years after The Flood, which they say happened in 4,990 BC. Clearly this stuff is not peer-reviewed.
A couple weeks ago, there was a free concert by Boston Pops in honor of their 125th anniversary. I happened to be in Boston that weekend and as I got to Boston Common there was a guy holding up a sign that said the world would end on–I think–May 21, 2011. The guy looked like he was on his last legs, so maybe for him, it’s true. But if not, what is he going to do on May 22?
And they need to explain why they are 2,600 years off from Archbishop Ussher’s calculations, which put the Flood at 2,640 B.C.
Not to mention their math is off. 4990 + 2011 + 1 = 7002. Unless that’s supposed to be a -1. Which obviously represents… um… I got nothin’.
You’re right, it should be a -1 there, to allow for the fact that there was no year 0, and that the day after 31st December in 1 B.C. was 1st January in 1 A.D.* The 2011 A.D. would be right if you started from 4990 B.C. and counted 7,000 years.
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Actually, I have a somewhat unusual book: a Jewish eschatology book, and it claims that 1997 was the end of the world. But then God has to rest for 1000 years.
And, no, I’m not kidding.
Aw bugger. One of the two probable dates for my wedding is in June 2011, and having the Apocalypse happen first would be oh so embarrassing. For starters, the mothers involved have agreed on long dresses, which would be thoroughly uncomfortable after the EOTW event.
Oh my. So many excuses to go burning through the retirement money (yeah, right). All the new agers were telling me it would be December 21, 2012. So I’ve been pacing myself. Now I find out it’s going to be more than a year early.
Now if we assume that the price of coke and hookers will increase as the date approaches . . . carry the 6 . . . . OK, I’m good.
You don’t remember when the world blew up in December 1999? Really? And the Earth was completely destroyed? And we escaped to this planet on the Giant Space Ark? And the government decided not to tell the stupider people because they thought that it might…
Nevermind.
Credit to Steve Martin…
Make a new sign.
So we benefit from God procrastinating? I can live with that.
You of all people… talking Maths.
5/21/11? That’s my youngest son’s 30th birthday. Maybe it’s just the end of his world.
I know we had a thread on this in General Questions, but I can’t find it. Very interesting (read: crazy).
Either way, your world is over.