You haven’t met my lady, have you? 
That would mean the other time zones would have a longer time to repent and convert! The date wouldn’t be the same for them. Just as Dec.21st 2012 will be different in different time zones…New Yorkers will have less time than the people in California. Not fair!!!
Harold Camping claims that May 21, 2011 will be the end of the world as we know it. One of his proofs is the 1 day = 1000 yrs explaination, which is applied to the great flood of Noahs day. According to Mr Camping, God told Noah that in 7 days God would destroy the earth. 7 days later the flood came, so the corellation would be that 7000 yrs from the date of the start of the flood, the end of the world as we know it, will come to pass, which is projected as May 21, 2011. The error here, is that God told Noah 7 days prior to the flood, hence in essence God is saying that the world will end 7000 yrs from “that” particular date that He first said it to Noah , which projected forward is on May 14, 2011. One side note: If the world were to end on any particular day, you have to understand that there is only one split second of time that it is the same date in the entire world, (somewhere in the vicinity of the international date line). So the chances are that if the world suddenly comes to an end , it will most likely be on two different dates, depending on where you’re at.
Larry, this is the first I’ve ever heard of the 1 day = 1000 years as we know “day” and “years” applied to the Noah flood. What are the reasonings leading to that application?
Also, I am at a loss to understand how a specific date in the Gregorian calendar can be derived from a story over 3000 years old when nobody was using a pure solar calendar.
Also also, I would appreciate help understanding how the flood of Noah can be The Determinant Of the End Times ™ and not the flood of Gilgamesh. There are parallels between the stories suggesting that the Noah story is a rework of the Gilgamesh story, so it’s the older Sumerian incident that determines the end times. How much advance notice did the Gilgamesh version give the hero?
The 1 day / 1000 yrs is drawn from 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 8. Specifically as to how Mr. Camping arrived at finding the dates he has said he has figured out, you will have to read all of his literature. Sorry that is all the help I can give you as to your queries.
The End of the World will come as a complete surprise, because God is just not that into numerology.
Dude, what are you thinking??
If the world’s gonna end, I want it to end in time so that I don’t have to go to my damned meetings.
I actually recently found that old book I mentioned. It also talks about the 1000 years equaling one day. That’s why God rests for 1000 years. Though I did get the date wrong: he believed the Messiah would come in 1980, and that the “end of the world” was not literal–just the end of the old ways. The reason God would rest for 1000 years is that the Messiah had finally come.
The book is strange–it has two quotes from the New Testament (at least one of which looks like it was added after the fact), and a mention of some Rabbonic code that says that the Hebrew for “Messiah Jesus” encodes the date of the founding of modern Israel. Yet, at the end, he refers to the Messiah as a newcomer, and otherwise identifies as a Jew.
If any of this interests you enough to check it out, the author is F. Jacob Yacovsky, and is entitled The Missing 200 Years: God’s Timetable. It’s available on Amazon in used form only, for around $5. I’d welcome someone else interpreting it, or any information on the author, or the publisher, Sar Sholem of Jerusalem, which is oddly located in Florida.
I have always had a big problem with stupid ideas that the list of who beget who was a list of people, it is a list of family names which would be tribe names with each lasting maybe many hundred years. Like saying the Tudors beget so and so in England, or even saying the English beget the Americans or that ancient Persians beget Iranians. Further, the time would just go back to the first people with souls, not the Creation at all. Just as we have soul-less beings on the earth right now they may have had life forms much like ours that did not have a soul till that first one, it developed the highest brain and God gave it a soul at that point. It could have just as easily been a dolphin had their brain developed enough first. That explains why we see some evolution but it can’t explain all we are, or why no other animals speak and write, because a step is left out.
Thats the day I re-buy that song from Itunes for just 99 cents. I mean, why not?
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Matthew 25:13 (King James Version)
13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Somebody said it, so the 21st is safe. The 22nd, however…
(No, wait. I just knocked the 22nd out, too.)
It’s time once again to pimp one of my favorite books Questioning the Millennium by Stephen Jay Gould. It’s all there, except for the 5/21/11 or 2012 silliness. Same Silliness, Different Day.
So you’re saying that a 2nd or 3rd century CE work determines the dating system used in literature some 15 or 20 centuries before. Riiiiiiight.
Since we’re in MPSIMS not GD, my reply to Mr Camping’s position (and any position based on it) is: :rolleyes:
Your logical reasoning skills astound me! Explain again how sheep’s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Its an old Irish tradition. If the bladder is full and you abscond with it, then you’re ‘taking the piss’. Much the same logic is employed here; that a poster may be unaware of it
merely adds to its entertainment value. 
“End of the world? I truly hope that there will be luncheon provided, for I must be fed stomach pat or I stay home…”
If a person wants something to be true, it’s very easy to create some kind of code or numbers sequence to make it so. People are more likely to believe in “numbers” theories.
If I believed in any doomsday theories at all, I would more likely accept the possibility that the world will end “as we know it” December 2012. As I recall, the Mayan calendar predicts this time for the end, based on very probable events that the Mayans experienced. At December 21, 11.12 GMT during the December solstice the Sun is at the exact center of the Galaxy. According to the Mayas the center of the Galaxy is the cosmic womb: the place of dead, transformation, regeneration and rebirth. This moment shows the end of their calendar. (The end of a cycle is not the same as the end of time).
Interesting to note, that some have changed the last date of the Mayan Calendar to 28th October 2011 - claims that original calculations were incorrect. Hmmmmm…
No, it doesn’t.
This is nonsense. Here is a map of the galaxy. As you can see, our sun is nowhere near the middle. You might say it’s a small unregarded yellow sun far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy.
And it’s mostly harmless.
Sorry, but most of the previous week is already scheduled with meetings on the post-End of the World Business Continuity Plan. We’d appreciate your attendance, but if nothing else, at least try to sit in on the program rollout webcast on Friday at 2PM. Thanks in advance.
Since modern theory seems to presume that a supermassive black hole is at the center of the galaxy, that might indeed be a problem. Well, except that we’re apparently nowhere near within rock-throwing distance of the center of the galaxy, of course. Aside from that trival detail, I’m right with ya.