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Title: Is everyone ready
Post by: ducpainter on May 19, 2011, 09:07:14 AM
Elvis Costello Waiting For The End Of The World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Im-kDpw1LE#normal)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 19, 2011, 09:13:02 AM
R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY#normal)


Riiiight....I'll believe it when I see it.


Wait...wasn't Y2K supposed to be the end too?? What about the Myans??  [cheeky]


Oh and while we're on the subject, Steven Hawkings says "there's no such thing as heaven"...

[bang]

If he's right, if it's over...then it's just over. But I've got plans for next month, so I'll place my bets on the future being right where it belongs!!
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Slide Panda on May 19, 2011, 09:21:24 AM
Quote from: Monster Dave on May 19, 2011, 09:13:02 AM
What about the Myans??  [cheeky]

That's in 2012.

So I guess we'll find out soon if god's a big dude with a beard or a feathered serpent.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: ducpainter on May 19, 2011, 09:24:03 AM
Quote from: Sad Panda on May 19, 2011, 09:21:24 AM
That's in 2012.

So I guess we'll find out soon if god's a big dude with a beard or a feathered serpent.
where's your song? ;D
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: causeofkaos on May 19, 2011, 09:24:13 AM
well this is not the first date that the party was set for
1 = 1988
2 = oct 28 1992
3 = may 21 2011
maybe third time is the charm?
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 19, 2011, 09:27:07 AM
Quote from: Sad Panda on May 19, 2011, 09:21:24 AM
That's in 2012.

So I guess we'll find out soon if god's a big dude with a beard or a feathered serpent.

I'm just say'n...the Myans were something like 2000BC...I think they got dibs on 'the end'.  [cheeky]


riiiiiight...
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Speedbag on May 19, 2011, 10:29:52 AM
Good thing I got my damn deck stained yesterday.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: VisceralReaction on May 19, 2011, 10:31:10 AM
I am getting trashed Saturday!  ;D
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: herm on May 19, 2011, 10:35:39 AM
you know, the mayans were off on the extinction thing (for themselves anyway) by about 1212 years...
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 19, 2011, 10:51:20 AM
Quote from: herm on May 19, 2011, 10:35:39 AM
you know, the mayans were off on the extinction thing (for themselves anyway) by about 1212 years...

[laugh]
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: KnightofNi on May 19, 2011, 10:58:51 AM
i keep having to remind everyone that it's the rapture. judgement day and the end of the world will come later

Blondie - Rapture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g#normal)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 19, 2011, 11:05:57 AM
Quote from: KnightofNi on May 19, 2011, 10:58:51 AM
i keep having to remind everyone that it's the rapture. judgement day and the end of the world will come later

Blondie - Rapture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g#normal)

Awwwwwe crap...you mean we got all excited for nothing??!!  [laugh]
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: triangleforge on May 19, 2011, 11:32:05 AM
From the last time the world ended...

1999-1999 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnuijDieOvY#normal)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: speedknot on May 19, 2011, 07:37:49 PM
make the beast with two backs it!  If the world is coming to an end then I'll get an early start and saddle up on the Duc and hit the hwy to hell.  Words out that Satan drives a Diavel anyway. [evil]
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: lethe on May 20, 2011, 05:08:58 AM
Quote from: KnightofNi on May 19, 2011, 10:58:51 AM
i keep having to remind everyone that it's the rapture. judgement day and the end of the world will come later

Blondie - Rapture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g#normal)
yup the end would fittingly be around my birthday in October  [thumbsup]
When I asked for today off yesterday, a couple people asked if it was because this rapture stuff, I just said, "No, I'm just exhausted and need a day off"
Frankly I hope a whole lot of people float away into the sky or something, traffic will be a lot more tolerable on Monday then.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: ungeheuer on May 20, 2011, 06:53:28 AM
I need to get out more apparently  ???.   











Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Johnny OrganDonor on May 20, 2011, 07:00:02 AM
Still plenty of time to squeeze in a few more sins before repenting.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monsterlover on May 20, 2011, 08:39:01 AM
(http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2015432697d48970c-550wi)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Oldfisti on May 20, 2011, 08:40:05 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on May 20, 2011, 08:39:01 AM
(http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2015432697d48970c-550wi)


[laugh] [laugh]

ML   FTW!
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: JEFF_H on May 20, 2011, 08:40:54 AM
Here's my plan

(http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/hilarious-pics-16.jpg?w=500&h=375)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: dolci on May 20, 2011, 08:47:05 AM
www.emergency.cdc.gov (//http://)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: spolic on May 20, 2011, 11:01:18 AM
Does anyone know if this going to happen in the morning or the afternoon?  I don't want to sleep through it.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 20, 2011, 11:05:39 AM
Quote from: dolci on May 20, 2011, 08:47:05 AM
www.emergency.cdc.gov (//http://) (//http://) (//http://)

Here's my second Derby on this!
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 20, 2011, 11:09:25 AM
Quote from: alfisti on May 20, 2011, 08:40:05 AM

[laugh] [laugh]

ML   FTW!

[laugh]  [laugh]


I second that! WIN!!

Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: speedknot on May 20, 2011, 01:26:00 PM
That CDC Zombie warning made national news today. :o
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 20, 2011, 01:27:35 PM
I'm cross posting this so that you all know:

(http://www.snorgtees.com/media/catalog/product/i/m/imtrippingyou_fullpic_1.jpg)

You've been warned.




[cheeky]



Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: zooom on May 20, 2011, 01:32:45 PM
all I can say is...a friend of mine on FB set up an event for the "Post Rapture Looting Party" starting at 6:01pm tommorrow night....
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 20, 2011, 01:53:00 PM
Quote from: zooom on May 20, 2011, 01:32:45 PM
all I can say is...a friend of mine on FB set up an event for the "Post Rapture Looting Party" starting at 6:01pm tommorrow night....


And at 6:02pm people everywhere will be singing:

(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/images/2009/01/26/jackson_thriller.jpg)


'Cause this is thriller, thriller night...'



Man, wouldn't MJ be proud.  [cheeky]
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: speedknot on May 20, 2011, 02:19:08 PM
The bible did say that the dead will walk the earth.  Isaiah 26:19
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: erkishhorde on May 20, 2011, 02:25:13 PM
Quote from: spolic on May 20, 2011, 11:01:18 AM
Does anyone know if this going to happen in the morning or the afternoon?  I don't want to sleep through it.

From what I hear, it's supposed to be at 6pm in every time zone.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: ducpainter on May 20, 2011, 02:48:24 PM
Quote from: erkishhorde on May 20, 2011, 02:25:13 PM
From what I hear, it's supposed to be at 6pm in every time zone.
So sort of a 'Rapture Wave' that spreads across the earth like a tsunami?
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: spolic on May 20, 2011, 02:52:26 PM
AH! so it will be like Dick Clarks Rock'en New Years.  I can catch it being broadcast on the East Coast then decide if I should mow my lawn or not.   [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 20, 2011, 03:11:41 PM
Quote from: erkishhorde on May 20, 2011, 02:25:13 PM
From what I hear, it's supposed to be at 6pm in every time zone.

So if I live in the western US and a friend lives in Sydney, I could wait just over 10 hours and call him to see if it happened because technically, it's already tomorrow for him??!!

[cheeky]

If he answers the phone - we're all good.
If he doesn't - ZOMBIES!!
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: muskrat on May 20, 2011, 04:37:40 PM
 ;D
http://spoonbot.com/wordpress/?p=168 (http://spoonbot.com/wordpress/?p=168)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: AJ on May 20, 2011, 07:02:19 PM
Why didn't *I* think of this?
Taking care of loyal dogs & cats post-rapture, and charging $135 and up to do it...smart! 

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/atheists-offer-pet-help-after-judgment-day/story-e6freonf-1226058626475 (http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/atheists-offer-pet-help-after-judgment-day/story-e6freonf-1226058626475)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: IZ on May 20, 2011, 08:45:36 PM
F*ck..the AC went out!! 

Is this how it begins?! 
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: swampduc on May 20, 2011, 09:45:47 PM
Sounds like hell on earth.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: IZ on May 20, 2011, 10:45:25 PM
In AZ heat, it certainly can be hell on earth!  But it isn't that got here yet. The real hell is not being allowed to turn the channel. Wife is watching one of Steven Segal's new movies on Spike. The end is ever so close!!
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: ducpainter on May 21, 2011, 04:47:39 AM
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XoRX5nAX430/Tdcyti500OI/AAAAAAAAATs/thFfjAcpnb4/s1600/DOOM+2.jpg)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: cokey on May 21, 2011, 05:22:38 AM
So, what's going on with the other time zones?
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Ddan on May 21, 2011, 05:26:38 AM
Quote from: cokey on May 21, 2011, 05:22:38 AM
So, what's going on with the other time zones?

I'd kinda like to know whether to use debit or credit for dinner...
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: mitt on May 21, 2011, 05:30:52 AM
Quote from: spolic on May 20, 2011, 02:52:26 PM
AH! so it will be like Dick Clarks Rock'en New Years.  I can catch it being broadcast on the East Coast then decide if I should mow my lawn or not.   [thumbsup]

Dick Clark's Rapture Eve Party would be tight.

[laugh]  [laugh]
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: TiNi on May 21, 2011, 05:33:43 AM
Quote from: Dan on May 21, 2011, 05:26:38 AM
I'd kinda like to know whether to use debit or credit for dinner...

tonight, mike is taking me to a great new restaurant we've been dying to try...
maybe we should change our plans and go a little early...
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Raux on May 21, 2011, 05:38:01 AM
Quote from: DuCaTiNi on May 21, 2011, 05:33:43 AM
tonight, mike is taking me to a great new restaurant we've been dying to try...
maybe we should change our plans and go a little early...

Just make sure you don't become part of the menu... well dessert doesn't count because that's normal
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: AJ on May 21, 2011, 03:34:02 PM
Folks east of Mississippi - how'd that Judgement thing go? 

Or is it quiet here cause you're all fighting zombies??
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: DRKWNG on May 21, 2011, 03:36:48 PM
BRAINS...........................................................................
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: AJ on May 21, 2011, 03:39:57 PM
 [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monsterlover on May 21, 2011, 03:57:12 PM
Yeah were good. Drinking raspberry Margaritas and eating chilli omelettes

Life's good.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Speedbag on May 21, 2011, 05:38:43 PM
Shit, forgot all about the end of days, was busy grilling up some T-bones and swilling some mighty fine ale.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Speeddog on May 21, 2011, 05:53:08 PM
I don't feel very Rapturous.

But it's 5:53.

BRB.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Drunken Monkey on May 21, 2011, 06:18:07 PM
The Macho Man died to save us from the rapture.

(http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj19/DrunkenMonkey_bucket/229243_10100208525510240_23926757_47943200_6886241_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: DRKWNG on May 21, 2011, 06:44:36 PM
Quote from: Drunken Monkey on May 21, 2011, 06:18:07 PM
The Macho Man died to save us from the rapture.

(http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj19/DrunkenMonkey_bucket/229243_10100208525510240_23926757_47943200_6886241_n.jpg)

Well, there's your ticket.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Speeddog on May 21, 2011, 07:10:25 PM
No Rapture at all.

Not a bit.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Mother on May 21, 2011, 10:33:07 PM
Quote from: Speeddog on May 21, 2011, 07:10:25 PM
No Rapture at all.

Not a bit.

it may very well be that the rapture happened exactly as planned

but

no one was worthy
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Drunken Monkey on May 22, 2011, 12:30:04 AM
That can't possibly be the case.

There are still dogs around.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Mother on May 22, 2011, 01:01:26 AM
Quote from: Drunken Monkey on May 22, 2011, 12:30:04 AM
That can't possibly be the case.

There are still dogs around.

;D

I brought that up to the wife tonight

I was going to be very upset if I woke up and Grace was gone
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 23, 2011, 10:39:09 AM
Quote from: Drunken Monkey on May 21, 2011, 06:18:07 PM
The Macho Man died to save us from the rapture.

(http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj19/DrunkenMonkey_bucket/229243_10100208525510240_23926757_47943200_6886241_n.jpg)

[laugh] [laugh]

OMG - I'm at work and that made me bust out laughing!!
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: sbrguy on May 23, 2011, 11:08:03 AM
"ooohhhh YEAH!!"
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: KnightofNi on May 23, 2011, 11:12:30 AM
took me a while to figure out why you guys were talking about dogs....good one.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: erkishhorde on May 23, 2011, 01:47:35 PM
I thought the idea of rapture was interesting. If you're good, you get to die first. Always a nice reward...
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 23, 2011, 01:53:10 PM
Quote from: erkishhorde on May 23, 2011, 01:47:35 PM
I thought the idea of rapture was interesting. If you're good, you get to die first. Always a nice reward...

Just like drinking the purple Kool-aid.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Jaman on May 24, 2011, 09:34:36 AM
whoops... math never my strong point either...


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_on_re_us/us_apocalypse_saturday (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_on_re_us/us_apocalypse_saturday)

By GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press Garance Burke, Associated Press â€" Tue May 24, 3:56 am ET
OAKLAND, Calif. â€" A California preacher who foretold of the world's end only to see the appointed day pass with no extraordinarily cataclysmic event has revised his apocalyptic prophecy, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.

Harold Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before catastrophe struck the planet, apologized Monday evening for not having the dates "worked out as accurately as I could have."

He spoke to the media at the Oakland headquarters of his Family Radio International, which spent millions of dollars_ some of it from donations made by followers â€" on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.

It was not the first time Camping was forced to explain when his prediction didn't come to pass. The 89-year-old retired civil engineer also prophesied the Apocalypse would come in 1994, but said later that didn't happen then because of a mathematical error.

Through chatting with a friend over what he acknowledged was a very difficult weekend, it dawned on him that instead of the biblical Rapture in which the faithful would be swept up to the heavens, May 21 had instead been a "spiritual" Judgment Day, which places the entire world under Christ's judgment, he said.

The globe will be completely destroyed in five months, he said, when the apocalypse comes. But because God's judgment and salvation were completed on Saturday, there's no point in continuing to warn people about it, so his network will now just play Christian music and programs until the final end on Oct. 21.

"We've always said May 21 was the day, but we didn't understand altogether the spiritual meaning," he said. "The fact is there is only one kind of people who will ascend into heaven ... if God has saved them they're going to be caught up."

Josh Ocasion, who works the teleprompter during Camping's live broadcasts in the group's threadbare studio sandwiched between an auto shop and a palm reader's business, said he enjoyed the production work but never fully believed the May 21 prophecy would come true.

"I thought he would show some more human decency in admitting he made a mistake," he said Monday. "We didn't really see that."

Follower Jeff Hopkins said he spent a good deal of his own retirement savings on gas money to power his car so people would see its ominous lighted sign showcasing Camping's May 21 warning. As the appointed day drew nearer, Hopkins started making the 100-mile round trip from Long Island to New York City twice a day, spending at least $15 on gas each trip.

"I've been mocked and scoffed and cursed at and I've been through a lot with this lighted sign on top of my car," said Hopkins, 52, a former television producer who lives in Great River, NY. "I was doing what I've been instructed to do through the Bible, but now I've been stymied. It's like getting slapped in the face."

Camping's hands shook slightly as he pinned his microphone to his lapel, and as he clutched a worn Bible he spoke in a quivery monotone about some listeners' earthly concerns after giving away possessions in expectation of the Rapture.

Family Radio would never tell anyone what they should do with their belongings, and those who had fewer would cope, Camping said.

"We're not in the business of financial advice," he said. "We're in the business of telling people there's someone who you can maybe talk to, maybe pray to, and that's God."

But he also said that he wouldn't give away all his possessions ahead of Oct 21.

"I still have to live in a house, I still have to drive a car," he said. "What would be the value of that? If it is Judgment Day why would I give it away?"

Apocalyptic thinking has always been part of American religious life and popular culture. Teachings about the end of the world vary dramatically â€" even within faith traditions â€" about how they will occur.

Still, the overwhelming majority of Christians reject the idea that the exact date or time of Jesus' return can be predicted.

Tim LaHaye, co-author of the best-selling "Left Behind" novels about the end times, recently called Camping's prediction "not only bizarre but 100 percent wrong!" He cited the Bible verse Matthew 24:36, "but about that day or hour no one knows" except God.

Camping offered no clues about Family Radio's finances Monday, saying he could not estimate how much had been spent advertising his prediction nor how much money the nonprofit had taken in as a result. In 2009, the nonprofit reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million, including $34 million in stocks or other publicly traded securities.

Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Monster Dave on May 24, 2011, 09:38:21 AM
Quote from: Jaman on May 24, 2011, 09:34:36 AM
he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.

[coffee]

You know, you could argue that if someone says "tomorrow will be the end of the world" for every day of their life, and then is succeeded by someone from the next generation, and so on and so forth that sooner or later someone will be right...but what difference would it make anyway. It's not like we could look back after the world had been obliterated and say "see, I told you so."


Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Drjones on May 24, 2011, 09:43:48 AM
" . . . So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself. . . ."   George Carlin.
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: Speedbag on May 24, 2011, 10:13:30 AM
+1
Title: Re: Is everyone ready
Post by: dolci on May 24, 2011, 12:40:17 PM
and of course, there is always the chance that Camping will be dead by October 21, anyway.