On Topix, on a thread entitled, "The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster / Faith with a side of Parmesan", there is a poster calling himself "As God intended" that has announced several times that God has informed him that Wednesday will be the last day of Earth. So...You have been warned!!!
:smite:
You can see his posts here...
http://www.topix.net/forum/news/evolution/TULM91K0RGQ4I9S1V/p40#lastPost
I don't like to be picky, but is that earth that's going, or merely homo sapiens ? I couldn't be bothered to read it in depth.
He may be muddling things up with the TV show tonight about Life on Earth After Humans Go.
Anyway, I think it's more likely to be the 31st not the 28th. Though it may begin to disintegrate on 28th and take 3 days. Depends on how long it took to create it in the first place.
Good, I have to get up early on Thursday to catch a flight & will be away from home for a few days. Better to have it happen Wednesday.
EDIT: Read the posts pointed to by the link and I'm not sure the world is going to end... rather, it appears that God is just going to look away for the day and one should have a free pass to sin. :devil2:
I spent a week in Manchester once. The end of the World can start to seem surprisingly attractive.
Quote from: Aphos on May 26, 2008, 09:00:25 PM
On Topix, on a thread entitled, "The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster / Faith with a side of Parmesan", there is a poster calling himself "As God intended" that has announced several times that God has informed him that Wednesday will be the last day of Earth. So...You have been warned!!!
:smite:
You can see his posts here...
http://www.topix.net/forum/news/evolution/TULM91K0RGQ4I9S1V/p40#lastPost
There sure are some 'unique' people in topix land. Sheesh, I can't get my best dress out of the cleaners on time. Thanks for the warning so I can go to plan B on my End of Daze dress.
Love Light and Laughter to all
Quote from: Griffin NoName on May 26, 2008, 09:11:59 PM
I don't like to be picky, but is that earth that's going, or merely homo sapiens ? I couldn't be bothered to read it in depth.
He may be muddling things up with the TV show tonight about Life on Earth After Humans Go.
Anyway, I think it's more likely to be the 31st not the 28th. Though it may begin to disintegrate on 28th and take 3 days. Depends on how long it took to create it in the first place.
Half-life of creation is 3 days. Guess that is about right for the end.
I may have time to get my dress from the cleaners after all.
Love Light and Laughter to all
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 12:35:13 AM
Half-life of creation is 3 days.
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Ohh, but the last installment of Half-Life took almost 3 years! ;)
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Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on May 27, 2008, 04:21:29 AM
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 12:35:13 AM
Half-life of creation is 3 days.
:offtopic:
Ohh, but the last installment of Half-Life took almost 3 years! ;)
:offtopic:
I love you, Zono, I really do.
Oooh, I'm looking forward to Wednesday, then, either way. It'll either be faaar too much fun, or pretty.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on May 27, 2008, 04:21:29 AM
Quote from: water nymph on May 27, 2008, 12:35:13 AM
Half-life of creation is 3 days.
:offtopic:
Ohh, but the last installment of Half-Life took almost 3 years! ;)
/ :offtopic:
In that case, I think I'll go shopping.
I'm going to go out in style in a limo. ;D
Dang. Now I'm conflicted. We were gonna put tires on Dan's car...should we?
All I know is, if it gets me out of taking Mom to the doctor on Thursday, it MIGHT be worth it!!!
:ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:
Foo. I should have read this thread earlier. Now I find that all that deadline catching-up I did this morning was for nothing.
Eh well... looks like I might as well set up the Pseudo-Bar for Water Nymph. Drinks will be on the house.
well, it's already Wednesday over here. Nothing much happening, although it is raining little.
Whose Wednesday is it, anyway?
Rain is good. Unless this is another one of those ark situations. Drat. I suppose we should have gotten the Toadfish yacht ready by now, but we were too busy partying. Repent! No, too late for that. Party some more!
We still have time for the half hour argument as to whether we should have a Toadfish Yacht or a Toadfish Ark.
What with Beagle, Goat, and Pachy, I vote for the Ark. does a yacht have a poop deck?
Quote from: Griffin NoName on May 28, 2008, 02:08:58 AM
We still have time for the half hour argument as to whether we should have a Toadfish Yacht or a Toadfish Ark.
What with Beagle, Goat, and Pachy, I vote for the Ark. does a yacht have a poop deck?
Poop deck? I thought you sorta used the railing-like. What? Thas' not what she meant?
Why call it a poop deck, then? At least it outa have a kitty litter box or sumpin'
Why not an Ark, then....would be simpler. But, I'm NOT going to clean below deck. Unless the animals are litter-trained, that is.
I say we invade Sealand, overthrow their government and declare war on somebody.
Hey, why not? Then we can go on holidays and let them try to find us.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 27, 2008, 07:09:45 PM
Foo. I should have read this thread earlier. Now I find that all that deadline catching-up I did this morning was for nothing.
Eh well... looks like I might as well set up the Pseudo-Bar for Water Nymph. Drinks will be on the house.
Weeehooo. Good Morning and thanks.
I think I'm gonna like this place.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on May 28, 2008, 02:08:58 AM
We still have time for the half hour argument as to whether we should have a Toadfish Yacht or a Toadfish Ark.
What with Beagle, Goat, and Pachy, I vote for the Ark. does a yacht have a poop deck?
I think we can just use the pontoon. It's Wednesday here, and I'm picking my grandson up from school as soon as he finishes finals today.
Ya'll are welcome to come on out here and tour the lake with us.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on May 28, 2008, 07:25:06 AM
I say we invade Sealand, overthrow their government and declare war on somebody.
Hey, why not? Then we can go on holidays and let them try to find us.
Personally, I'd rather invade, declare peace on them and get back on the pontoon boat and continue the lake tour.
War is so much trouble. And not neat, either. I like neat.
Well, Wednesday's just about had it over here, so if there's going to be an apocalypse it better hurry up. I'm beginning to think perhaps the warning was just possibly in error. Who'd have thought?
Quote from: water nymph on May 28, 2008, 10:37:49 AM
Personally, I'd rather invade, declare peace on them and get back on the pontoon boat and continue the lake tour.
War is so much trouble. And not neat, either. I like neat.
We could just declare victory and have a parade. I'll notify the media. :mrgreen:
Quote from: MentalBlock996 on May 28, 2008, 04:33:42 PM
Quote from: water nymph on May 28, 2008, 10:37:49 AM
Personally, I'd rather invade, declare peace on them and get back on the pontoon boat and continue the lake tour.
War is so much trouble. And not neat, either. I like neat.
We could just declare victory and have a parade. I'll notify the media. :mrgreen:
When you notify the media, be sure to tell them we came, we saw, we declared peace, and then victory.
It will be novel to say the least.
Parade? Awwright! May I ride the pony, huh. Huh, may I puleeeze?
Okay. But I want to ride in a Big Daddy Roth crazy car. A Toadfishmobile. With fins!
There've been some spronky things going on, but so far we're still here.
Quote from: Bluenose on May 28, 2008, 02:50:22 PM
Well, Wednesday's just about had it over here, so if there's going to be an apocalypse it better hurry up. I'm beginning to think perhaps the warning was just possibly in error. Who'd have thought?
Over on the thread he backtracked and said it wasn't supposed to be a warning - lol. Well his/her record is still better than the Millerites.
Indeed.
Perhaps God decided to bother someplace else for today, hmm?
Damn, wasted today then. ;)
Well, it's almost Wednesday evening here, and still no sign of the apocalypse. There WAS a big ball of fire up in the sky all day, but I seem to recall seeing it before.
Perhaps Betelgeuse went nova, in which case we will notice in 427 years... ::) ;)
I think the only major thing that happened is major embarrassment when the "prophecy" didn't pan out.
You would think so, but I rather suspect that this unfortunate person is in real need of professional help. Doubt that he will seek it, however. The first step on the way to healing that sort of thing is to be able to admit to less than personal perfection, I saw little of that with this bloke.
Does this mean we didn't make The Rapture?
Carp!
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 29, 2008, 03:21:48 PM
Does this mean we didn't make The Rapture?
Carp!
Revelation 14.1 thru 14.4 (snipped):
"The hundred and forty and four thousand ... which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins."
Only 144,000 celibate men will be saved. (Those who were not "defiled with women.")
Well, the 28th is past everywhere in the world now, and we're still here.
Quote from: The Meromorph on May 29, 2008, 05:21:51 PM
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 29, 2008, 03:21:48 PM
Does this mean we didn't make The Rapture?
Carp!
Revelation 14.1 thru 14.4 (snipped):
"The hundred and forty and four thousand ... which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins."
Only 144,000 celibate men will be saved. (Those who were not "defiled with women.")
Cool, didn't want to spend eternity with the Christian crowd anyways. I hear that they were given Ward 6 of Heaven...Need a special pass to get in and there is not getting out.
Can they really only round up 144,000 celibate Christians in over two millenia?
Suggests:
1 Women are quite popular.
2 Not all Catholic priests have been following the rules.
Or there's a problem in the celestial HR department with de filing. (Sorry...).
Wait, how can you be 'fruitful and multiply' if you're supposed to be celibate to get in the VIP?
Oh, I get it! The rapture comes when finally everybody is celibate!
So we missed having to spend eternity with thousands of guys carping about not getting laid?
*Whew!*
Oh yeah! You get to spend the rest of your life with billions of guys carping about getting laid once. :D
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on May 29, 2008, 09:53:21 PM
Wait, how can you be 'fruitful and multiply' if you're supposed to be celibate to get in the VIP?
Oh, I get it! The rapture comes when finally everybody is celibate!
So not within the forseeable future then?
Quote from: The Meromorph on May 29, 2008, 05:21:51 PM
Revelation 14.1 thru 14.4 (snipped):
"The hundred and forty and four thousand ... which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins."
Only 144,000 celibate men will be saved. (Those who were not "defiled with women.")
See, that's what happens with all that indiscriminate snippin' goin' on!!
The world's definitely not ended, I am stiil around.
Maybe we have it wrong. We don't die. The world ends.
And since we only have subjective perception, everyone else thinks the world still exists.
Ok, maybe I'll just get back to reading my book on deconstructing psychopathology ;D
Of course, it could be that, as Usual, the world ended right On Time.
That would be EVERY Wednesday, at precisely 3:00 PM Mountain Time. (Why Mountain Time? Because of Judge Wampner, who comes on in the mornings, on God's cable channel. God does not like to miss Judge Wampner.)
Of course, a New-York Second later, the world is RE-Created exactly as it Was Before-- with everyone's memories intact, except without the destruction-bits. Those get left out. God is merciful, after all.
Now, there are some Heretics, who maintain that the world is re-created Last Tuesday. These are known as Last Tuesdayinians. But, as Everyone Knows, these people are just plain Nuts. For, it's a well known fact that God also likes My Name Is Earl (which comes on on Tuesday---duuh)
Maybe the world ends and is re-created all the Time. Maybe that's why Time is so important.
Brahma wakes and sleeps, wakes and sleeps, wakes and sleeps...
Am I hanging in with the theology OK here? Brahma becomes Iswara each Tuesday in order to watch My Name Is Earl?
Ok it is now Friday here in the USA and allowing for the fact that the entire earth isn't always on the same day anyway (they never seem to get that fact in their day of doom predictions) Wednesday had most definately passed
so one of two things has happened
1: the person is a nutter
2: the rapture occured and we are all actually in either heaven or hell
as I don't see Ghandi anywhere (speak to various people and as he is non-christian he would be in hell-speak to others and an exception would have been made and he would be in heaven) so how would we know anyway, plus I haven't had to show anyone a gate pass either, so I have no way of knowing where I am so I'll have another beer thank you--
also no sightings of virgins en mass
I suppose it is possible that the Rapture has come and the only person that passed muster was a nun in Lithuania. All the rest of us have been Left Behind.
:puke:
(Sorry...any mention of those horrid books does that to me.)
Well, who can blame you?
They say "in heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here", so if A'babe is having a beer and we're still reading her posts, we must not be in heaven with the Lithuanian nun and the carping virgins. Hope they're having fun.
He was man enough to show up afterwards. That gets points from me.
Many would have left and never come back out of shame.
He said he would think more about any other revelations he has before posting them. So he learned something in the process.
That's what we're here for, huh?
Ooh, almost humble enough for Toadfish.
:bees:
The thing I wanted to tell him, but never got the energy to...that Bible which he claims to believe SAYS that 'no man knoweth the time' of the end, and that those that prophesy it are...not speaking from divine inspiration. (Liberal paraphrase, it's been mumblesomething years since I've read the exact translation from the earliest source.)
Yes, it's possible that he indeed had an' inspired' look forward, but to a God who says that a day shall be as a thousand years and a thousand years shall be as a day...you don't pin that Deity of Choice down to YOUR timetable. (Especially on a Wednesday, when the Southern Baptists are already heavily invested in the Wednesday night supper preparations so that they can have the kids groups meetings, prayer meetin' and choir practice without having folks starve.)
Besides, you get more positive results with positive statements. Prophecies of doom, gloom and destruction just bring derision. Within 100 miles of where I went to college in the early 70's, there were THREE different groups sitting on "mountaintops" waiting for the end. One group was sure the end was coming because the Assembly of God Church Camps started allowing 'mixed bathing' (boys and girls swimming in the SAME LAKE!!) in 1972. Their leader had a small heart attack when they allowed mixed bathing in swimming pools 2 years later. (Just to prove how progressive the Baptists were,my Baptist college allowed co-ed pool use as early as 1971!!)
These folks have something they want to say. They don't know how to say it without the 'preachiness' (and the superioristic attitude). That he had the guts to come back does speak well of his ability to THINK about the effects his words have.
I still say it's on the cards what with the half-life 3 day decay; I'm sticking with the 31st. That's three minutes in here where I am now.... nothing so far, but I do have this Impending Doomy Feeling.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty
The thing I wanted to tell him, but never got the energy to...that Bible which he claims to believe SAYS that 'no man knoweth the time' of the end, and that those that prophesy it are...not speaking from divine inspiration. (Liberal paraphrase, it's been mumblesomething years since I've read the exact translation from the earliest source.)
A-
MEN! Can I get a
HALLELUJAH from the choir! Praise!
Preach it, Sister Chatty!
When one of those types (or thee wuns harassin' me on wether oi be sertin oi'm !SAVED! an all) gets awl up in me grill (in a manner ov speekin') I like to give them the smile that all the VirginAndMartyr saints wore on the Holy Cards of my youth and remind them that Not Even Our Lord And Saviour Knows The Appointed Time, according to Hisownself, and that it is a rare privelege to meet someone who is better informed than God...
They seldom press me to join their
cult church after that evidence of FNKS. :halo:
*
Female Not Keeping Silent
That FNKS does upset them doesn't it??
And they do so hate it when you correct their homebrewed pseudo-theology.
I got called an uppity woman a couple years ago...to which I replied "Damn Skippy I am, Bubba, and do NOT forget it." Right up until he went to pastor a church in another town, that guy avoided me. I don't know why--I didn't correct him in front of his congregation, just in front of a Methodist minister, a Baptist minister and a Catholic deacon, one of whom pulled out a Bible and read that I was right about the quote and he had it wrong...in 4 parallel versions.
The one I use, in my most folksy Texas manner is "Honey, God done got the job of God. He thinks He's doin' it real good, too, so if'n I'ze you?? I wouldn't be tryin' to change the meanin' of His words, or to do HIS job, or to take over and Rule His World...much less messin' with people that may not even believe in what you do." I usually follow that with a "So set yer mangy ass down before I sit you down with mah chainsaw...'cause The Book sez that he's a Jealous God, and your takin' over for Him might have blow-back, and I DO NOT wanna be in the pathway."
They're usually so stunned they don't respond at all... :mrgreen:
I am beginning to get worried about the Lithuanian nun. Did she get carried off in the Rapture, or was she kidnapped by the Russian Mafia?
That AGI guy wasn't too bad . At least he only wanted to wipe out all life just once in God's name , the Jahova's have tried it four times that I can recall .
I think they are fudging the math again and should have a more definitive date soon .
Well, it's June first here, and I haven't seen any Lithuanian nuns all day, so I can only assume that it's come and gone and we can just go along as before.
Maybe it was rescheduled for Friday the 13th? Along with a slew of cheap horror movies.
Quote from: Aphos on June 01, 2008, 05:33:51 AM
I am beginning to get worried about the Lithuanian nun. Did she get carried off in the Rapture, or was she kidnapped by the Russian Mafia?
If she was beamed up with the 144000 qualifying men she's probably completed two fast laps of infinity by now.