Sat 21 May 2011
The End of All Things
Posted by anaglyph under Idiots, In The News, Insane People, Religion, Skeptical Thinking, Stupidity
[18] Comments
According to Family Radio, the world begins to end today, May 21st at 6pm in each Earth time zone…
Blogging it live:
•6pm: Auckland, New Zealand. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Cloudy, light wind)
•6pm: Honiara, Solomon Islands. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Drizzle)
•6pm: Melbourne, Australia. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Mostly clear, prominent cricket chirping)
•6pm: Tokyo, Japan. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Fair, light breeze. Hmmm, I could do with some sake)
•6pm: Beijing, China. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Fair. Some air pollution)
•6pm: Hanoi, Vietnam. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Business as usual)
Yawn. I’m going to bed. I’ll continue in the morning. If we’re all here. I guess. See you then.
•6pm: Dubai, United Arab Emirates. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Not even a rumble)
•6pm: Moscow, Russia. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Happy-go-lucky)
•6pm: Jerusalem, Israel. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Quiet as a manger)
•6pm: Zurich, Switzerland. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Your money is safe)
•6pm: London, United Kindom. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Buses running)
•6pm: Reyjavik, Iceland. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Wow, this is a really empty time zone… hey what’s this… volcanic activity? That looks promising.)
•6pm: Fernando de Norhona, Brazil. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Even emptier!) ((This is the only major city in the world with this time zone, apparently.))
•6pm: Nuuk, Denmark. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Whistling wind)
•6pm: New York, USA. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Zzzzzzz.)
•6pm: Kansas City, USA. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Slight breeze. Well, OK, tornadoes… but it’s not like that’s unusual or anything for Kansas…)
•6pm: Salt Lake City, USA. TCA Status report: Still standing. (Looks like the Mormons are OK.)
•6pm: Las Vegas, USA. TCA Status report: Still standing. (If ever there was a city that God had his eye on…)
OK, Acowlytes. I think we can call it. The Rapture and the End of Civilization hasn’t happened. Family Radio and Harold Camping have proven themselves (once again) to be completely deluded by their irrational beliefs. Chalk up another one to rationalism.
[img]http://queenwilly.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/queenwillyrapture1.jpg[/img]
Well now that the rapture’s over I can access your blog again. Coincidence? I think not.
Did you think I was taken up, Nurse Myra? I mean, wouldn’t a Reverend get bumped to the front of the queue?
bugger.
I think the atheists were praying more for the Rapture than the loonies.
Well, even if it had removed the relatively small number that they think will get taken up, it might have strengthened the gene pool somewhat.
And it looks like we have a winner if this article is to be believed…
http://badmoonowl.com/2011/05/21/scam-called-doomsdayrapture-2011/
Hmmm, are you feeling any predictions there Rev?
I want one of the T shirts though.
The King
Yeah, that article isn’t really penned by a genius though. They mention the $80mill number a few times but with no attribution. I find it unlikely myself. Any further substantiation of the claim is welcome.
Yep, though I think he has made some money. When questioned about these donations he went for the old classic “These questions are irrelevant as we don’t know what will be going on after the 21st – IT WILL HAPPEN” etc etc.
Classic ‘divert the question, reinforce the message’ stuff. I suppose receiving donations from fools isn’t a crime, but it should be really.
The King
Religion does tend to collect fools.
We can still loot though, yes?
Sure! I guess. What’s stopping us? We’re heathen moralistically barren atheists!
Of course, “We’ve always said May 21 was the day, but we didn’t understand altogether the spiritual meaning,” he said.
He’s shifted it by five months to Oct 21st.
From the near-mummified looks of him, he’s feeling impatient for the End.
Oh right. So now ‘The End is Coming DEFINITELY on xxx date’ could mean the ‘spiritual end’. O-K-A-Y…
So, in October, how do we know it’s the END end? Maybe it’s another spiritual end. Or maybe it’s a ‘just kidding’ end? That God. He’s a card.
Unrelatedly, all your pages seem to be displaying “The Quicktime plugin has crashed.” messages, in FF at least.
I want a copy of whatever you are running, because I despise QuickTime, as I despise all things Apple.
Oooh. Don’t hold back Dewi! But thanks for the headsup. It helps me understand a problem I was having. Will address presently.
I really enjoyed your take on the story. It was definitely different and original and so is your site. Good luck with it.
This is a new breed of spuman – not entirely sure what the point is here. The site that it used to link to is some kind of agglomerate ‘general topic’ thing, obviously a setup of some kind but I’m not sure for what. I wonder if they will leave it intact for a a bit then switch the link to something spammy. Interesting.
Anyway, Michael Scotty is now a new supporter of the JREF. Thanks Michael!