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End of World, 21 May 2011

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This could be a developing meme.

I've seen the May date associated with 'rapture' and some 'disclosure' type events involving UFO fly-bys. Maybe the combined forces of internet foolishness are combining for one great pratt-fall in a comedy singularity event?
 
Yes, the world will end in May to many people, as it has ended for other in different years, months and days. For many the world ended in the Indian Ocean tsunami or in the wake of hurricane Katrina. The apocalypse is with us frequently, but not in the worldwide fashion those religious trash people try to sell. It's happening at every minute throughout the continents and it comes from environmental and man-made catastrophes. My fear is that such groups may some day obtain the power to initiate their own version of an apocalypse (I always remember Aum Shinrikyo and their sarin gas attacks). That's a real danger...
 
I saw this article and, of course, have heard all the blithering about 2012 and trying to tie it to every possible seer/prophet/prophecy etc. I did notice that the Scientologists are now putting ads on CSI, the Rose Parade and Goddess knows what else. I think about 1969 when people were freaked out that California was going to fall into the ocean (one ex in law firmly believed that California was hollow underneath and held up by telephone poles). The year 2000 had people I thought were normal stockpiling food and prepping their bomb shelters. There was the Harmonic Convergence. I am sure there have been other events I have forgotten about where people whipped themselves into a frenzy. My thought is we are going to see more and more religious pandering ($$$$$) as we near 12-21-2012. Then it will die down til the next event.
 
I've watched some documentaries and read some articles about the Mayans. Now, contrary to popular belief, the Mayans still exist. They're still alive. And for these documentaries and interviews I've seen and read, the Mayans have no clue where we get this "end of the world" or even a "change in the world" idea from with regard to their calendar. They're just like "umm... It's just the end of our calendar. Then a new one will start." Similar to how our calendars are just 12-month spans and then we post a new one on our wall.

Now, I'm a Christian. And it baffles me every time some fringe-Christian group tries to predict a new "end of the world" date. It's clear these guys don't read the Bible because if they did, then they'd know the Bible clearly says, in no uncertain terms, that no man knows when the Second Coming will arrive. No one. No exceptions. These guys just don't seem to get it. I wish them the best and I hope the kool-aid tastes good. I'm not really into the whole "kool-aid" thing though if you know what I mean.
 
I have a birthday party to go to on the 22nd where I plan on getting very drunk. Sooo..... I guess I'll start a day earlier just in case. :)
 
Sloppy Joe said:
I've watched some documentaries and read some articles about the Mayans. Now, contrary to popular belief, the Mayans still exist. They're still alive. And for these documentaries and interviews I've seen and read, the Mayans have no clue where we get this "end of the world" or even a "change in the world" idea from with regard to their calendar. They're just like "umm... It's just the end of our calendar. Then a new one will start." Similar to how our calendars are just 12-month spans and then we post a new one on our wall.

Now, I'm a Christian. And it baffles me every time some fringe-Christian group tries to predict a new "end of the world" date. It's clear these guys don't read the Bible because if they did, then they'd know the Bible clearly says, in no uncertain terms, that no man knows when the Second Coming will arrive. No one. No exceptions. These guys just don't seem to get it. I wish them the best and I hope the kool-aid tastes good. I'm not really into the whole "kool-aid" thing though if you know what I mean.
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The BIBLE?!? LMAO... good one... want to start quoting scriptures with me?
 
Everytime I notice those kinds of predictions come up, I am reminded of that tragedy from the 1950's, called, 'When Prophecy Fails'. This eccentric NewAgey woman recieved channeled messages from the aliens from "the planet Clarion", that the world would come to an abrupt end on a specific day and date. Wikipedia has an excellently informative write'up on the whole thing. That story always makes me take world-end alarmism with a giiiiiaaaaannnnt bag of salt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
 
HMV are closing 60 stores here in ireland around the 21st of May 2011 , thats the end of the world for me alright, no more cheap DVD's and CD's =(
 
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