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Post by onlymark on May 22, 2011 5:23:01 GMT
Due to the end of the world yesterday there might only be a few of us sinners still around.
Can you just call out 'yo' if you're still here?
We'll soon find out how many of us rotten apples are left and how many smarmy goody two shoes have departed.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2011 5:52:57 GMT
I was just about to ask for a roll call myslf.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on May 22, 2011 5:57:56 GMT
Here I am. Can't imagine why I wasn't taken up on high.  |
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Post by bjd on May 22, 2011 6:22:51 GMT
Aha -- I was about to ask who among us had been raptured on the "end of the world is nigh" thread.
I wonder what justification the guy is going to come with this time -- his prediction for the world's ending in 1994 was wrong because of a mistake in calculations. ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on May 22, 2011 6:49:49 GMT
Some time back, I actually knew someone who believed in the rapture. I asked which body was going to be raptured. The believer didn't understand my question, so I explained that as the chosen would be gathered up bodily, they might have bodies that were failing them in some way at the time of the gatehring. Would we have to go out in our arthritic, or out-of-shape, or diseased bods, or could we pick some peak time in our body's lives -- nineteen-year-old athletic, that sort of thing?
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Post by onlymark on May 22, 2011 7:09:24 GMT
I am waiting with bated breath for all the excuses. I'm sure if you're mental enough to come up with the rapture in the first place you'll have had a fall back excuse just in case it didn't happen.
Maybe another mathematical error or something.
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Post by rikita on May 22, 2011 9:25:02 GMT
i wonder how much the guy who calculated it really believed in it himself. like, if there was ever any doubt in his mind. almost feel a bit sorry for him, he might be quite disappointed now.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2011 11:13:10 GMT
Sometimes they just claim that god has decided to give us one last chance since they were so virtuous in alerting the world that we had better repent. So it is thanks to them that we are still alive.
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Post by bjd on May 22, 2011 11:28:48 GMT
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Post by onlymark on May 22, 2011 11:36:37 GMT
One of the comments on the BBC site was one I remembered. And sums up the situation accurately -
Said by Einstein, "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2011 15:14:34 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 22, 2011 15:16:56 GMT
Found this posted on facebook yesterday. ;D  |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 22, 2011 17:18:05 GMT
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Post by onlymark on May 22, 2011 17:41:54 GMT
Funnily enough, the man who started all this has not been seen.
I wonder if it is true then.
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Post by foreverman on May 23, 2011 8:20:38 GMT
I wonder if he believes in Father Christmas or the Easter Bunny as well..?
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Post by onlymark on May 23, 2011 10:18:54 GMT
I know there's no Easter Bunny, but Santa..........?
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Post by hwinpp on May 26, 2011 8:27:47 GMT
He has said he missed the correct date by 6 months.
Does anybody really believe this shit? Boardmembers not included of course. How gullible do you have to be?
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Post by bjd on May 26, 2011 8:31:52 GMT
Only 5 months, HW.
How gullible do you have to be?
How long is a piece of string? I figure if you really want to con people, adding some religion (or money) into your act is the way to go.
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Post by rikita on May 27, 2011 9:44:57 GMT
i guess it has a lot to do with wanting to believe something.
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Post by foreverman on May 27, 2011 11:07:11 GMT
Isnt it wanting to believe in something what Christianity is all about................
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Post by rikita on May 27, 2011 15:57:56 GMT
um, as a Christian i would disagree... but well, you can never know for sure...
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they can both be quite annoying ;D
