Subject: The Mayans
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Posted on: 2011-05-21 21:30:00 UTC
The Mayan thing is not a joke. They are coming back from their invisible space station next year to rip us all a structurally superfluous new behind. It's true. I saw it. In a vision.
And that's Science. You can't argue with it.
For all our non-Americans, someone named Harold Camping has been declaring that the Rapture will come on May 21, 2011. Normally he would be dismissed by just about everybody, but he set up this massive advertising campaign declaring that it's guaranteed that the end times are nigh.
Well, it's May 21 now and I don't feel particularly doomed. So, does anyone have any stories or opinions on the whole thing? Maybe a comment about how silly America can be sometimes?
Well, "No one knoweth the day or the hour..." and people in the past have stuffed this '20-whatever prediction' up before, so why would we be sucked into this without hard proof ... again?
*Sigh* I do wonder...
One of my brother's friends claims that this guy's predicted the end of the world twice before this, and he was wrong(obviously), so he doesn't seem very credible.
Only a silly person would say such nonsense.
I think the Rapture's nonsense. So is 2012. Whenever someone says "Oh the world is going to end on/in such-and-such," I just say "No man knows the day or the hour" and sleep in peace.
Given that I'm a syncretistic abomination and a heretic to boot, though, I doubt that means much.
:P
That's my opinion, anyway.
Everyone- who doesn't believe in the Rapture, anyway- keeps going on about how the Mayan Calender ends in 2012 and that's when the world will end.
No one seems to realize that, well, the Mayans had to stop their calender SOMETIME, to just keep going on forever would take...well, forever. They probably came to that conclusion and thought, "Screw this, I'm not spending the rest of my life making a calender that will never end."
They couldn't have just kept going, the Mayan Calender isn't like the Gregorian one with specific months and specific days in a month.
Anyway, about the Rapture- Pfft. No offense to any possible religious boarders, but I find this so ridiculous that it's hilarious. The radio station that I listen to cracked a joke on how they were planning to go fishing today, and with their luck, they'd start floating away JUST as they were about to catch a huge fish. On the same station, one caller said "Ooh, we can offer meals! 'Last meal on Earth, you'll never get another chance like it! $100 for a burger and some fries!'"
This is almost so funny that it's sad, though. There was an article in the paper about a nurse who quit her well-paying job and sold her house so that there'd be nothing to chain her down to earth when the Rapture occurred. I mean, you have to feel bad for those people. Come Monday- Sunday, even- they'll look around and say to themselves, "Well, I didn't go to heaven. What the heck do I do now?"
Anyways, I'm going pre-Rapture looting now, anyone want to join me?
Joking, joking. Heh.
You should hope so, anyway. /steals your food
The Mayan Long Count, which is what most of the fruit loops are talking about, "ends" in the same way the odometer in your car "ends". It's a running count of the number of days elapsed since the creation. All that will happen in December 2012 is the start of a new baktun.
Granted, I've known of a few cars that would fall apart when the odometer rolled over, but there's no evidence that the Maya expected the world to do the same.
The Mayan thing is not a joke. They are coming back from their invisible space station next year to rip us all a structurally superfluous new behind. It's true. I saw it. In a vision.
And that's Science. You can't argue with it.
I will not put forth the effort to point out that the Mayan civilization is long-dead; I am purposefully also not remarking that the calendar and the book of Revelations have nothing to do with each other.
Well, at least the posts on the fan community on Livejournal that I tend to visit a good deal. They were posting some stuff with the added "since the world is ending tomorrow". I thought they had just pulled it out of thin air. Now I know they pulled it from Harold Camping. XD
Along with the whole "No one actually knows when it'll happen" I'd like to add that it doesn't say who will be raised into Heaven and who will be left on Earth. For all we know all the evil people could be risen and the rest would be Left Behind (aren't I so clever?). Besides, I don't think being risen up at the beginning has anything to do with the judgement at the end of the world's end, so that could indeed be the case.
Americans can be so silly/easily fooled. Perhaps it's because (in this case at least) they fear not knowing what's going to happen in their futures?
I'm paranoid enough as it is, I DON'T NEED THIS.
Besides, only GOD is supposed to know when the end happens, right? What the hell makes people think they can do His job?!?
(Sorry for ranting, I'm just SO sick and tired of this, I mean, 2012 being referred to as the end is bad enough...)
Though if the day passes and nothing hapens... is it wrong for me to want to point and laugh at the idiots? I sure hope this guy looses all credibility afterwards...
when the big serpent Jörmungandr raises to kill Thor :D. But I think this prophecy was about the beginning of the end, with exactly the same meaning of the white buffalo that was born in 1994, for a tribe in North America which I can't recall the name.
The original prediction was rapture last Saturday, 5 months of literal Hell on Earth for the non-raptured, then destruction of the world.
According to the BBC, Camping is now saying that God's being nice and doing everything on October 21, instead of breaking up Rapture and End Of World into a two-parter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13516796
Personally? Camping's in his mid eighties, it wouldn't surprise me if he's trying to push the date back so he won't be around the next time it fails.
Well, the world will end sometime, but I don't expect it to be now. December 2012 makes much more sense, since the US presidential elections, which is promising to be the craziest in a very long time, if not ever, will just have taken place. What I don't get is why these people think that they're going to be right this time when prophecies like this have such a terrible track record. And no, America isn't to blame, since people have been predicting the end of times just about since the beginning of our existence.
Anyway, in case the Christians get taken to heaven tonight and the rest of us are left on the Earth, immersed in despair, I'll say right now that you guys are awesome, and I'm going to post my first mission today so I can be sure I did it before the end of the world. No use taking chances. ;)
He first predicted the world would end in 1994, but that (obviously) didn't happen, and so here we are again, listening to His Holy Nonsense.
There are plenty of people proclaiming 'the end of the world is nigh' et cetera. It's only because this guy has some money to pay for advertising that we're all subjected to his predictions.
I don't mean to offend anyone, but all the Christians I know share my opinions, as I feel do most!
...is that there are so damn many of them it's almost virtually guaranteed that the next big one isn't actually going to happen. There was a whole Penn and Teller's "Bullshit" episode about end of the world prophecies, and I remember this one part where Teller was tossing all these index cards detailing all the predictions of the end of the world. There were a LOT of 'em, and you'd be shocked how many of them came before this century.
Now, if only I could actually FIND that clip, that would make my life easier.
It's why I really don't buy into the whole "Rapture" thing.
But hey, it's good for people who want to set up ridiculously sappy (and contradictory when you stop to think about it) stuff like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OySl4D7S4U&feature=playerembedded
Also, it's good for the mass media to distract us all from the debt ceiling. Hell, the Boston Phoenix's edition right now is going on and on about Rapture, but from the captions on the cover, I think they're grilling it alive in the actual issue. I wouldn't know because I've never actually read Boston Phoenix, but given their history I wouldn't be surprised if they did grill Rapture and this Harold Camping schmuck alive. (One issue I remember from the mid-term elections had a cover of Tea Party darlings Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell in a soft-core drawing of them engaging in lesbian bondage sex while performing some kind of witchcraft ritual. No, I kid you not.)
So yeah, I don't buy into it.
This what you were looking for?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb3MdXzjs9U (warning bad words ahead)
...I was hoping I could find the clip separated from the rest of the episode. Ah, well, nobody can win at that game, apparently.
and raise Garrison Keilor, 2004.
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2004/05/01/scripts/mystery.shtml
So, as I said on Facebook, if I don't see you guys after tonight, so long and thanks for all the fish. ^_~
~Neshomeh