The World Didn't End... - by Queue
Queue on 22/5/2011 at 12:51
... damn.
I was fully disappointed, yesterday, when the skies darkened with the promise of a beginning and suitably violent finale, that it began to rain down-- rain. It was a soft rain, sweet smelling, lasting only about an hour, and did little more than encourage the already problematic mosquitos and make further wet an already wet ground.
The garden will be late this year.
Maybe we can look forward to a plague of mosquitoes as being the heralds of doom and destruction, instead of locust? Or maybe the predictions of total annihilation didn't take into consideration the Time Zones. If Armageddon is to begin at 6pm., is that Eastern-Standard time or Mountain? And on this side or that side of the International Date Zone?
And while I was certainly filled with hope that the ultra-religious of my family would be immediately raptured into the Heavens, and can understand their disappointment in that instead of sitting next to their Lord by now they must continue existing in this bleak world of purgatory, I remain giddy with the promise that there is still time; that the end of the world never truly ends.
Melan on 22/5/2011 at 13:00
Or at least you are still here. :sly: In which case the bad news is, so am I. :p
Queue on 22/5/2011 at 13:11
I can't be raptured out of here. I have to be exorcized.
Dia on 22/5/2011 at 13:24
Okay; I guess May 21st was supposed to be only the beginning, the prelude to the actual end of the world which will take place on October 21st of this year. Reprieve!
The 2011 end times prediction made by American Christian radio host Harold Camping stated that the Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011, and that the end of the world would take place five months later on October 21, 2011. The Rapture, in a specific tradition of premillennial theology, is the taking up into heaven of God's elect people. Camping, president of the Family Radio Christian network, claimed the Bible as his source and said May 21 would be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment "beyond the shadow of a doubt". Camping suggested that it would occur at 6 p.m. local time, with the rapture sweeping the globe time zone by time zone, while some of his supporters claimed that around 200 million people (approximately 3% of the world's population) would be 'raptured'.
Most Christian groups did not accept Camping's predictions; some explicitly rejected them. An interview with a group of church leaders noted that all of them had scheduled services as usual for Sunday, May 22. Camping had previously predicted that the Rapture would occur in September 1994.
Following the failure of the prediction, media attention shifted to the response from Camping's followers. Camping's current whereabouts are not known.
Maybe he was Raptured afterall.
:weird:
Koki on 22/5/2011 at 13:33
Dude, the rapture did happen. All people who qualified are now in heaven.
Rest of us are stuck here.
CCCToad on 22/5/2011 at 16:06
Why would they?
They are a lot like your stereotypical gangster or Wall Street banker. No conscience exists in their minds, only a steely-eyed greed for money (or in some cases, fame).
Azaran on 22/5/2011 at 20:18
God appeared to me today. He said the predictions were right, but he changed his mind at the last minute.
