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Milknut
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May 20 2011, 5:43am
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I guess with the rapture coming we'll never get to see TH
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Dang. 
I'm going to go see if I can find a boat that will float in lava and/or tears.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie___
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macfalk
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May 20 2011, 7:45am
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The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
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Elizabeth
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May 20 2011, 8:08am
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Here's more than you may want to know:
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Rapture is, to some evangelical Christians, the first step in the end of the world, which (according to Harold Camping's calculation) will occur in October 2011. On Saturday (according to Camping), the "faithful" will be snatched up directly to heaven. Between then and October there will be earthquakes, volcanoes, and other catastrophes.
There have been many predictions of a date for this to happen: the Wikipedia article lists 13, starting in 1844. Jesus himself said, "I know not the day nor the hour."
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Ataahua
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May 20 2011, 10:04am
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We really need to get a calendar
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of all the raptures and apocalypses (apocalii?) that are coming or I'm going to start getting confused. I'd hate to turn up for the zombie apocalypse only to find that it's the Mayan end of the world. *So* embarrassing.
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NottaSackville
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May 20 2011, 11:47am
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Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn.
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GAndyalf
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May 20 2011, 12:38pm
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hence, 'apocolypses' not apocolii. 
But yeah. The end of the world has been nigh for nearly all of recorded human history. Ragnarok (Norse) and the Greeks had a rough one planned as well as the Christian stuff. And for what it's worth lots of us will be around after the rapture but if the Evangelicals are right we'll be a tad busy to go to the movies.
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geordie
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May 20 2011, 1:59pm
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-and I've just taken out a year's suscription to the Radio Times, too. Oh, well.
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Patty
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May 20 2011, 2:04pm
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Now, I don't know why you took out the subscription...
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cause if it doesn't end in October 2011 it's for SURE going to end next year on Dec. 21st. The Mayans said so, and how could they be wrong?
Some people just have money to waste.
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Darkstone
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May 20 2011, 2:45pm
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...I'd hire a huge zeppelin, big enough to hold all my friends. (So I guess it really wouldn't need to be that big....)
Anyway, we'd hover just outside the first time zone and watch all the people zip up into the sky when 6pm local hit. As an added fillip we'd make it a drinking game: For every person you saw raptured, you take a drink. Then before the Rapture hit the zone we were in, we'd move on to just inside the next one and watch all the people zip up the next 6pm local, then rinse and repeat, and so on and so forth all around the globe.
By the time we got back around we'd probably be very smashed. Or else very sober, and very mad.
I think the Rapture Watch is hilarious, but Wifey keeps saying it's very, very sad what with all the people quitting their jobs and giving up all their stuff.
What really makes it weird about her concern is that she's a pagan, whereas I as a Christian am much less sympathetic. She's just a better person than me.
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Darkstone
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May 20 2011, 2:51pm
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I thought the plural was "apocalypso"?
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Somehow the association with The Banana Boat Song just seems so right.
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glorinfidell
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May 20 2011, 3:21pm
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Don't be afraid of the world ending today,
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its already tomorrow in Australia!
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Magpie
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May 20 2011, 3:36pm
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An interesting movie I watched a few weeks back
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Last Night - 1998 Canadian drama film by Don McKellar
Set in Toronto at an unknown date, Last Night tells the story of how a variety of intersecting characters spend their final evening on Earth. It seems the world is to end at midnight (Eastern Standard Time) as the result of a calamity that is not explained, but which has been expected for several months. There are several scenes of an ominously glowing sun, which gets progressively larger and brighter even into the night.
This is a really quiet little film with people many of you will recognize: # Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy), Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica), David Cronenberg (filmmaker), Geneviève Bujold,
Although this is not pertinent to the concept of rapture (there is no hint of religion in it), it is comparable in this concept that the end is 'known' and we all can prepare (or not) for it. This is not an action flick. This is just a look at how different people meet their known end in different ways. It's available on streaming Netflix. It's rated R for brief violence and an extended story line of one character involving sex.
As to all these end of the world predictions and, in particular, rapturous endings... well, I'm probably better off not throwing in my 2 cents. :-)
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Wraith Buster
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May 20 2011, 3:37pm
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Present time: 1995 ---In 1997 it's the end of the world, ahhhh!!!
Present time: 1997 -- Oops... 1999 is the end of the world for sure, aahhh!!
Present time: 1999 -- Okay well we won't mess up again its 2000 for sure, Y2K is the end of the world as we know it! ahhh!!!
Present time: 2001 well, the computers didn't malfunction but there was a terrorist threat! It's the end of the world for sure now! Ahhh!!!
Present time: Same thing until now...
Present time: 2011 -- We may have been wrong about the 1995 world ending but, we are sure now. Our calculations are soooo correct it's extreme. Aaaaahhhhh!!!!!
Next they'll use the 2012 farce. And let me guess, your right this time?  I'm sorry but if the world is ending it's going to be a lot worse than this....
Has anyone else seen a repeating pattern in their "calculations"?
Pedich Edhellen? Lau? Hria cuilë.
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Gimli'sBox
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May 20 2011, 3:40pm
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I don't even worry about it. My idea is that
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When it's really the END of the entire world everybody will know. I don't think anybody is going to be telling their buddies "Hey the world is gonna end tomorrow!" no, it will be beyond a shadow of a doubt. Just MHO.  I mean, seriously, we're talking about LIFE AS WE KNOW IT is going to STOP. People aren't going to argue if it's really happening or not.
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Patty
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May 20 2011, 3:40pm
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end of the world--do supervolcanos, solar flares, or that big errant meteor enter into it?
I just watched Dante's Peak again. Okay, I love disaster flicks, but man oh man--that Pierce Bronsnan.
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Gimli'sBox
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May 20 2011, 3:41pm
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Yeah, if it's not this year it'll be two years from now!!! AaaaaHhhhhhh!!//
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing they evidently prefer.
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Gimli'sBox
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May 20 2011, 3:43pm
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I'd bet my bottom dollar you'll be pretty sober! Snert!//
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing they evidently prefer.
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Ainu Laire
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May 20 2011, 3:46pm
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Someone did make a calendar- with hundreds of entries
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Seriously.
Coming up in the next few years (if you don't read all of them, go to the last entry):
May 11, 2011 A Taiwanese prophet calling himself "Professor Wang" predicted that Taiwan would be destroyed in a 14.0 earthquake, triggering a tsunami that would kill millions.
May 21, 2011 Harold Camping, whose rapture predictions failed in 1994 and 1995, decided to jump back in to the date-setting game, predicting this as the day of the Rapture. His prediction attracted major publicity.
Dec 31, 2011 In an interesting parallel to the Harmonic Convergence concept, Solara Antara Amaa-ra, leader of the "11:11 Doorway" movement, claims that there's a "doorway of opportunity" lasting from January 11, 1992 to December 31, 2011 in which humanity is given the final chance to rid itself of evil and attain a higher level of consciousness, or doom will strike. (Wojcik p. 206)
2012 James T. Harmon's Rapture prediction #3. (Oropeza p. 89)
Dec 21, 2012 Terence McKenna combines Mayan chronology with a New Age pseudoscience called Novelty Theory to conclude that the collision of an asteroid or some "trans-dimensional object" with the Earth, or alien contact, or a solar explosion, or the transformation of the Milky Way into a quasar, or some other "ultranovel" event will occur on this day. Anyway, something is supposed to happen, and he has lots of pseudoscientific gobbledygook to back up his thesis.
Dec 23, 2012 The endpoint of the ancient Mayan calendar. Some interpret it to signify the end of the world, though there's no evidence the Maya believed this. (Abanes p. 342)
Early 21st Century Legend has it that, in 1143, St. Malachy prophesied that there would only be 112 more popes left before the end of the world. Pope Benedict is the 111th, which means that the world will end in the early 21st century. According to Malachy, the last pope will be named Peter of Rome. Time will tell. (Skinner p.74-75)
2017 The "Prophet Gabriel" supposedly told the Sword of God Brotherhood that the "dying time" will come in 2017, and only members of the cult will survive. Everyone else will "perish in hellfire."
Sep 28, 2020 George Madray predicts a Yom Kippur Parousia in 2020. (McIver #2854)
2022 James T. Harmon's Rapture prediction #4. (Oropeza p.89)
2023 Ian Gurney predicts in his book The Cassandra Prophecy - Armageddon Approaches that the "final date, Judgement Day, the end of mankind's time on this planet, is less than twenty two years away" from 2001, which means that the world is set to end by 2023 at the very latest.
2025 In this post, Georgann Chenault, a frequent poster on Usenet, wrote "I think the rapture of the church will be before 2025."
Nov 13, 2026 According to an article published in Science magazine in 1960, this was the date that the world's population would reach infinity, a result of the so-called "doomsday equation." (Source: Jacksonville.com)
2033 Believed by many to by the 2000th anniversary of the Crucifixion, this is a date just begging to be targeted by doomsayers whose prophecies for 2000 and 2001 will have failed.
2035 The Raëlians are working hard to establish an embassy in Jerusalem in anticipation of the 2035 arrival of aliens called "elohim", who will usher in a New Age. However, their arrival is contingent on the completion of the embassy. (Robbins p.164)
2037 In her book The Call to Glory, psychic Jeane Dixon wrote, "The years 2020-2037, approximately, hail the true Second Coming of Christ." The Battle of Armageddon is to take place in 2020. (Dixon p.170, 172)
2040 - Pyramidologist Max Toth predicts the physical reincarnation of Jesus Christ occurring in 2040. Like other pyramidologists, he used the dimensions of the Great Pyramid's passageways to predict future events. (Weber p.195)
- Futurist John Smart of Acceleration Watch (formerly Singularity Watch) estimates that a technological singularity will take place around the year 2040, when technological advancement reaches asymptotic levels. After this apocalyptic event, a new era of balance and compassion will begin.
ca. 4,500,000,000 AD The sun will swell into a red giant star, swallowing Mercury, Venus, Earth, and perhaps Mars. This will be the true end of the world!
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Patty
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May 20 2011, 3:49pm
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Hey, I thought the Mayans were predicting December 21st, not 23rd.
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It's so important to get the end date right.
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taekotemple
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May 20 2011, 3:56pm
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I'm glad I'm a Buddhist. As far as I know, we don't have any predicted days of the end of the world. Why do people feel like they have to know when the end of the world is anyway? It's not like anyone could escape it.
At the very least, according to Buddhism, Atheists, and many other religions, we'll all still be able to see The Hobbit, thank goodness!
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Ainu Laire
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May 20 2011, 4:02pm
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The website may have that date wrong. It's difficult to say at this point. It was definitely in December, though, heh.
Though it's rather funny. My brother, born 12/21/1991, is turning 21 on 12/21/2012. What a numerologist nightmare. 
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Kangi Ska
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May 20 2011, 4:08pm
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You might not but I'll be here for it.//
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Kangi Ska
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The party starts the twenty-first.//
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Kangi Ska Resident Trickster & Wicked White Crebain
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