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[The Tax-Man]

And they call ME a childish grown-up...

Seriously bro, you should try to get some retirement funds instead of wasting your time and looking bad. I think this might be the twentieth or so zombie apocalypse we made it through in the time that I've been alive.

[Strangelove]

Srsly, i hope this teaches people a lesson. Not to believe all the end time predictions, that man claim that are in the Bible. Oh well, some true believers, sold they're homes, left they're spouses, and spend they're children college funds.



Just found this video...this guy is hilarious.

Edited by Strangelove, 22 May 2011 - 04:22 AM.

[Sakura Blossoms]

Oh well, some true believers, sold they're homes, left they're spouses, and spend they're children college funds.

No...way! Please tell me no one was that STUPID to have done any of that. That would just be beyond sad.

[Strangelove]

No...way! Please tell me no one was that STUPID to have done any of that. That would just be beyond sad.

Well, not on they're spouses...but some did spend they're children's college funds. My bad, they stopped saving.

http://blogs.village...uld_we_feel.php

[Kyuudaime]

No...way! Please tell me no one was that STUPID to have done any of that. That would just be beyond sad.

And I think I read somewhere that others have dropped out of schools, quit jobs, "left loved ones", ect...

[Kamina-Yoshi]

[Insurrection]

http://www.reuters.c...E74I3KS20110521

You know what I need to borrow that horn for a moment.

FFFFAAAAIIIILLLL!!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2...dex.html?hpt=T1

However a volcano did errupt in Iceland, it's most active one.

Edited by Insurrection, 22 May 2011 - 05:25 AM.

[Cloud]

I should worship you, forever.

Bow to your new Lord.

I accept payments in cake and/or pie. Or you can sacrifice your Xbox/PS3/PC to me to live.

Or just bring me a hot girl.

/rapture

[jim1982]

Read an article that the CDC has plans in place for the zombie apocalypse. Sad part was it was realesed friday and was serious...

[Insurrection]

Bow to your new Lord.

I accept payments in cake and/or pie. Or you can sacrifice your Xbox/PS3/PC to me to live.

Or just bring me a hot girl.

/rapture

I don't think Jaime Chung is available Cloud. And the Cake is a Lie!!!

[Kyuudaime]

Bow to your new Lord.

I accept payments in cake and/or pie. Or you can sacrifice your Xbox/PS3/PC to me to live.

Or just bring me a hot girl.

/rapture

For you, my lord.
*Humbly bows*

Gift --Click here to view--

[Cloud]

I don't think Jaime Chung is available Cloud. And the Cake is a Lie!!!

Dammit. How did you know I wanted Jaime Chung?

[sardns]

If everyone thought today lulz-worthy, just wait till next year. I should really try to find someone by then who'll give away their possessions and convince them to give me their car; I desperately need one.

[Insurrection]

Dammit. How did you know I wanted Jaime Chung?

I wanna watch that movie just for Jamie Chung. She's gorgeous.

I have no idea.

Behold my power of memory!!! I am a Prophet!! And Lord of the Pies!!



Maaaybe I took that a little too far, don't want to predict the time of the Foodening. Or Eatpocalypse.

Edited by Insurrection, 22 May 2011 - 07:01 AM.

[dl316bh]

No...way! Please tell me no one was that STUPID to have done any of that. That would just be beyond sad.

This kind of sad behavior seems to crop up whenever one of these idiotic things gains traction, so I'm really not shocked at all.

Man, I bet their faces are so red.

Srsly, i hope this teaches people a lesson.

It won't. They never learn. There's always some excuse for why it never happens.

I'm sure the statements we'll get after 2012 comes and goes without incident will be particularly entertaining.

Edited by dl316bh, 22 May 2011 - 08:06 AM.

[Insurrection]

This kind of sad behavior seems to crop up whenever one of these idiotic things gains traction, so I'm really not shocked at all.

Man, I bet their faces are so red.

The Reuters link I posted above states that the guy who originally said this' radio network has gone strangely quiet. No word, but I'm guessing that getting it wrong twice 1994 or 2011 isn't making them feel well.

[Whirlpool-Maelstrom]

I've seen buses run late, people run late. But an Apocalypse running late? o.O? Seriously!

Edited by Whirlpool-Maelstrom, 22 May 2011 - 11:09 AM.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

Doctor Who's 2nd part of the episode I watched isn't for another two weeks, and they left it at a very good cliffhanger.... IT'S RAPTURE? At least for 2 weeks.

[Sakura Blossoms]

I'm sure the statements we'll get after 2012 comes and goes without incident will be particularly entertaining.

Here's an article on the reactions of the people who dumbly believed in this whole 'Rapture' business, with some who really *did* spend their entire life savings, or quit their jobs because they figured they'd be in Heaven by now

Just...beyond sad...and dumb --Click here to view--

OAKLAND, Calif. – The hour of the apocalypse came quietly and went the same way — leaving those who believed that Saturday evening would mark the world's end confused, or more faithful, or just philosophical.

Believers had spent months warning the world of the pending cataclysm. Some had given away earthly belongings. Others took long journeys to be with loved ones. And there were those who drained their savings accounts.

All were responding to the May 21 doomsday message by Harold Camping, an 89-year-old retired civil engineer who has built a multi-million-dollar Christian media empire that publicizes his apocalyptic prediction.

"I had some skepticism but I was trying to push the skepticism away because I believe in God," said Keith Bauer — who hopped in his minivan in Maryland and drove his family 3,000 miles to California for the Rapture.

He started his day in the bright morning sun outside the gated Camping's Oakland headquarters of Family Radio International.

"I was hoping for it because I think heaven would be a lot better than this earth," said Bauer, a tractor-trailer driver who began the voyage west last week, figuring that if he "worked last week, I wouldn't have gotten paid anyway, if the Rapture did happen."

According to Camping, the destruction was likely to have begun its worldwide march as it became 6 p.m. in the various time zones, although some believers said Saturday the exact timing was never written in stone.

He had been projecting the apocalyptic prediction for years far and wide via broadcasts and websites.

In New York's Times Square, Robert Fitzpatrick, of Staten Island, said he was surprised when the six o'clock hour simply came and went. He had spent his own money to put up advertising about the end of the world.

"I can't tell you what I feel right now," he said, surrounded by tourists. "Obviously, I haven't understood it correctly because we're still here."

Many followers said the delay was a further test from God to persevere in their faith.

"It's still May 21 and God's going to bring it," said Family Radio's special projects coordinator Michael Garcia, who spent Saturday morning praying and drinking two last cups of coffee with his wife at home in Alameda. "When you say something and it doesn't happen, your pride is what's hurt. But who needs pride? God said he resists the proud and gives grace to the humble."

The Internet was alive with discussion, humorous or not, about the end of the world and its apparent failure to occur on cue. Many tweets declared Camping's prediction a dud or shared, tongue-in-cheek, their relief at not having to do weekend chores or take a shower.

The top trends on Twitter at midday included, at No. 1, "endofworldconfessions," followed by "myraptureplaylist."

As 6 p.m. approached in California, some 100 people gathered outside Family Radio International headquarters in Oakland, although it appeared none of the believers of the prophecy were among them. Camping's radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website are controlled from a modest building sandwiched between an auto shop and a palm reader's business.

Christian leaders from across the spectrum widely dismissed the prophecy, and members of a local church concerned followers could slip into a deep depression come Sunday were part of the crowd outside Family Radio International. They held signs declaring Camping a false prophet as motorists drove by.

"The cold, hard reality is going to hit them that they did this, and it was false and they basically emptied out everything to follow a false teacher," the Rev. Jacob Denys, of the Milpitas-based Calvary Bible Church, said earlier. "We're not all about doom and gloom. Our message is a message of salvation and of hope."

About a dozen people in a partying mood were also outside Family Radio International, creating a carnival-like atmosphere as they strolled in a variety costumes that portrayed monks, Jesus Christ and other figures.

"Am I relieved? Yeah. I've got a lot going on," Peter Erwin, a student from Oakland, said, with a hint of sarcasm. "Trying to get specific about the end of the world is crazy."

Revelers counted down the seconds before the anticipated hour, and people began dancing to music as the clock struck 6 p.m. Some released shoe-shaped helium balloons into the sky in an apparent reference to the Rapture.

Camping has preached that some 200 million people would be saved, and that those left behind would die in a series of scourges visiting Earth until the globe is consumed by a fireball on Oct. 21.

Family Radio International's message has been broadcast in 61 languages. He has said that his earlier apocalyptic prediction in 1994 didn't come true because of a mathematical error.

"I'm not embarrassed about it. It was just the fact that it was premature," he told The Associated Press last month. But this time, he said, "there is ... no possibility that it will not happen."

As Saturday drew nearer, followers reported that donations grew, allowing Family Radio to spend millions on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the doomsday message. 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.

Marie Exley, who helped put up apocalypse-themed billboards in Israel, Jordan and Lebanon, said the money allowed the nonprofit to reach as many souls as possible.

She said she and her husband, mother and brother read the Bible and stayed close to the television news on Friday night awaiting word of an earthquake in the southern hemisphere. When that did not happen, she said fellow believers began reaching out to reassure one another of their faith.

"Some people were saying it was going to be an earthquake at that specific time in New Zealand and be a rolling judgment, but God is keeping us in our place and saying you may know the day but you don't know the hour," she said Saturday, speaking from Bozeman, Mont. "The day is not over, it's just the morning, and we have to endure until the end."

Still, the world wasn't without its normal and sometimes dreadful disturbances Saturday. Among them: a tornado killed one person and damaged at least 20 homes in Kansas, a 6.1-magnitude quake stuck 600 miles off New Zealand with no reports of injury, a much smaller quake, 3.6, was felt my many people Saturday evening in the San Francisco Bay area, and Iceland's most active volcano started erupting.

Camping, who lives few miles from his radio station, was not home late morning Saturday, and an additional attempt to seek comment from him late in the evening also was unsuccessful, with no one answering his front door.

Earlier in the day, Sheila Doan, 65, Camping's next-door-neighbor of 40 years, was outside gardening and said the worldwide spotlight on his May 21 forecast has attracted far more attention than the 1994 prediction.

Doan said she is a Christian and while she respects her neighbor, she doesn't share his views.

"I wouldn't consider Mr. Camping a close friend and wouldn't have him over for dinner or anything, but if he needs anything, we are there for him," Doan said.

This part especially got my attention:

As Saturday drew nearer, followers reported that donations grew, allowing Family Radio to spend millions on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the doomsday message. 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.

Perhaps this little, crazy old man isn't so 'crazy' after all...maybe *I* should start up a prophesy and beg for donations. I'd make a killing as well! Then I'd run away to some exotic country and spend the rest of my life laughing at the fools who got suckered in by me

[Insurrection]

http://www.huffingto...2_n_865298.html

Oh Dear Lord.

'Judgment Day' came and went on Saturday, and John Ramsey hasn't been able to sleep.

The 25-year-old Harrison, N.J. resident had rearranged his life in recent months to devote himself to spreading a fringe California preacher's prediction that May 21 would bring worldwide earthquakes and usher in a five-month period of misery before the world's destruction.

Like many of those convinced of the Rapture was pending, Ramsey quit his job, donated "a couple thousand" to Harold Camping's Family Radio network and convinced family members to join him to spread news of the Rapture on Manhattan streets.

His family nervously huddled in their apartment living room Saturday, holding their Bibles open, switching between CNN, Facebook and Google for news of quakes in the Pacific.

They cried. They hugged. They argued. But mostly, they waited. Nothing happened.

On Sunday, a dejected Ramsey said he faces a "mixed bag."

He has to find a new job. So does his mother. His 19-year-old brother, who had quit high school the year prior ("It's pointless to graduate," the brother had said), is thinking of re-enrolling or finding employment.

His wife, Marcia Paladines, had come to accept that she might never meet her unborn baby, whom she and Ramsey had named John Moses. Now, she's praying for a healthy birth. The child is due as early as Friday.

"Life goes on," Ramsey said Sunday. "I get to live. I get to be a dad."

Edited by Insurrection, 22 May 2011 - 11:13 PM.