May 21st

[WarxePB]

So while I was driving my dad to work the other day, I saw a billboard saying something to the effect of: "The world's gonna end on May 21st! Repent while you have the chance!"

I looked on Google, and I found this article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-preacher-warns-end-of-the-world-is-nigh-21-may-around-6pm-to-be-precise-2254139.html

TL;DR: Some crazy US preacher somehow got enough money to put a ton of ads on billboards and radio because he thinks the Rapture's gonna happen on Saturday.

Also, the same guy claimed the world would end in 1994. And according to most accounts, it didn't.

Thoughts?

[fruckert]

We'll be fine.

[drenrin2120]

Seems legit to me.

[Prpl_Mage]

Math + bible will never get us the date for the rapture. Especially since that bible doesn't even give accurate numbers. Numbers didn't exist back then.
40 years means "many years" and 1k years means "a whole lot of years"

Anyway, gonna live like normal, if the world ends on saturday I'll write a post here admitting I was wrong.

[fruckert]

His argument is ****ing insane.

1) According to Camping, the number five equals "atonement", the number ten equals "completeness", and the number seventeen equals "heaven".
2) Christ is said to have hung on the cross on April 1, 33 AD. The time between April 1, 33 AD and April 1, 2011 is 1,978 years.
3) If 1,978 is multiplied by 365.2422 days (the number of days in a solar year, not to be confused with the lunar year), the result is 722,449.
4) The time between April 1 and May 21 is 51 days.
5) 51 added to 722,449 is 722,500.
6) (5 × 10 × 17)2 or (atonement × completeness × heaven)2 also equals 722,500.

[MissingName]

It should be interesting to watch the world on the said day.

[WarxePB]

That's some awesome math. Reminds me of End of Days.

[SaiKar]

Man, the world WOULD end on a saturday, wouldn't it. I never get to enjoy my weekends.

[FFL2and3rocks]

"Oops, I forgot to carry the 1! Here's the new date..."

[Zerlina]

We're actually in an M.Knight Shyamalan movie. We've been dead since 1994. The rapture is our continued belief that we still exist.

[WarxePB]

We're actually in an M.Knight Shyamalan movie. We've been dead since 1994. The rapture is our continued belief that we still exist.

In other words... we see dead people?

[zuhane]

Oh no! Superstition with no scientific evidence whatsoever to back it up. We're completely
doomed.

[drenrin2120]

Its amazing how many times in history some jerkwad stood up and said, "we're all gonna die, here's the exact die. *insert obscure reason*"

More amazing is that anyone believed them.

[Natako]

...And after this, he's going to turn to his followers and say, again, "I haven't studied the Bible enough! There must be a factor that I missed in my equation..."

10 years later, the same story will surface again, and somehow even more people will believe him. -.-;;

And we'd better survive past May. I've got some big plans in June, and would be extremely pissed if I never got the chance to act on them. Vacation, baby!

[SaiKar]

And we'd better survive past May. I've got some big plans in June, and would be extremely pissed if I never got the chance to act on them. Vacation, baby!

Same. Long-awaited cruise. So nice.