On May 21, I’ll be on a plane coming back from St. Louis. It’d kind of suck if my pilot was suddenly raptured.
I wasn’t going to post in any of the End of the World/May 21/Rapture threads, but I admit I’ve been caught up in the hilarity of it all. The biblical foretelling of the end of the world is ridiculous in and of itself, but that supposedly functional people who have jobs and can feed and clothe themselves believe it will happen makes me wonder if there’s something in the water supply. I would love to be at a gathering of some of these kooks when May 22 comes and they’re all still here.
Please, please, please let someone record the reactions of some of these people and post them on YouTube. Better yet, Pay Per View. Yes, I would absolutely pay to see blank stares of confusion and disillusionment.
I can’t wait to see where Harold Camping moves the goal posts to next. I didn’t hear about his 1994 prediction at the time, but I’m here now, so pass the popcorn. I want a front-row seat.
What I’d like to do is spread vague internet rumors about various people mysteriously disappearing that day. People who the doomsday believers would never expect to be raptured. “Huh, I read on TMZ that Lady Gaga boarded a plane to NYC, but when it got there, nobody could find her.” "Chris Matthews had a guest host tonight, funny, he didn’t mention taking a vacation. “Joe Lieberman didn’t vote on that bill for aid to Israel this morning, that’s REALLY surprising, he’d been advocating it for months.” Etc.
I’m in a show that night- if someone misses their entrance, I’m going to assume they’ve been raptured. They better hope they are, otherwise the stage manager will rapture their ass for them.
I’ll be sitting around with a gin and tonic thinking that I’d rather it didn’t happen, but if it does, at least I’ll get out of that client safety/quality audit planned for the end of the month.
I gotta work, but luckily I’ve got the early shift, so I’ll be off about 2 PM Eastern. That’ll give me a few hours to whoop it up before the end. Except if this guy is wrong, I’ll be in no shape to go to work at 6 on Sunday. What to do, what to do??
Okay, a silly question, but does anyone here think this guy Camping actually, really, truly BELIEVES his story?
He says on 5/21 there will be the biggest earthquake ever, and then sometime in October the Earth will be completely obliterated, as if it had never been.
Given that he’s been wrong once already, how can he claim he’s right with a straight face? What’s his angle? Is he milking any followers for money, or something like that?
If I was this guy, I’d be spending my 30,000 on something fun.
If it doesn’t happen, I’m going to start praying for the stars to be right, because I really don’t want to have bunion surgery. Please, Elder Gods eat me now and make it good!
