I've stopped listening to doomsday predictions. Man's fascination with his own demise seems to be something that gets a lot of unwarranted publicity.
So can someone relieve my fear about the 21st?
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Its happen more then a few times before that I'm not stopping my life over it, nor do I outwardly expect something to happen, but I'd be straight up lying if I said it didn't give me just a touch of fear.JUMBO PALACE said:
I don't fear death. I don't fear the end of the world. I'm just afraid of dying from the inevitable Tsunami that would hit my little island post-earthquake. Drowning and Falling are the two ways I don't want to go out. Don't wanna seem prideful and say I don't fear God's judgement, but it is afterall His call not mine.
Maybe you guys are right and I should just do my best to find faith in my logic, that the guy is a fool because he's looking for patterns, and not only that is doing so in an english translation of the orignal text. That this stuff has happened millions of times before and it won't ever end. Play some video games and try to ignore my rampant imagination.
Nostradamus was not actually a profit, and he was not actually making prophecies.
He was making unflattering political commentaries about the church. That would usually result in having your head cut off in those days... unless of coarse you were considered a profit.
He was making unflattering political commentaries about the church. That would usually result in having your head cut off in those days... unless of coarse you were considered a profit.
Oh, the sun will rise on May 22nd because the Rapture only applies to the creme de la creme of Christians. Armageddon comes later.
I kid, I kid. Or do I? Srsly, though- it's comforting to me that you brought this up, as my fiance and I were discussing it just today. As an atheist, I base what I take as fact on the observable/testable/repeatable/objectively confirm-able and all theories have to go through that process. Obviously, religion fails rather spectacularly, and that statement alone earns me the "closed minded" label from believers. What I just realized today is that the same fairness that makes others cry "heretic!" but has given me such a sane outlook on existence is a double-edged sword because, since so much of religion gains its strength from being fundamentally untestable, there truly is no way to be certain that it's wrong. If you take the Chariots Of The Gods approach, what our ancestors viewed as deities were just beings with a higher level of technology. That type of reasoning, while removing the superstition, doesn't actually change anything because we're still dealing with significantly greater power than we possess. All that's required to push any crackpot's claim into the realm of possibility and allow you to scare yourself (and those around you) silly is a little imagination.
So, the point here is that you're letting your imagination and fear go skipping down the same path as these May 21 idiots. From my point of view, their religion is complete nonsense to begin with, so it's not worth thinking about. My fiance, having been a VERY serious Christian who has read the entire Bible and studied it for the better part of two decades before realizing that it's nonsense, can see the problems with the Rapture claim from within the religion. She's aware of the guy from Family Radio who's responsible for a vast portion of this particular round of "The End Is Near" which, incidentally, is not the first time he's sounded the Rapture-alarm (obviously, mistakenly). She's also aware that there are several other things that, according to the Bible, are supposed to happen before the end-times begin... and they haven't. Finally, as stated in another post, the Bible clearly says that no one will know the hour... so, if you feel so inclined, that these hilariously misguided people for guaranteeing that Jesus won't be making a cameo next week. Maybe you can find someone who's giving away all of his possessions in preparation for Judgement Day and make a make a tidy profit on eBay. Hallelujah!
I kid, I kid. Or do I? Srsly, though- it's comforting to me that you brought this up, as my fiance and I were discussing it just today. As an atheist, I base what I take as fact on the observable/testable/repeatable/objectively confirm-able and all theories have to go through that process. Obviously, religion fails rather spectacularly, and that statement alone earns me the "closed minded" label from believers. What I just realized today is that the same fairness that makes others cry "heretic!" but has given me such a sane outlook on existence is a double-edged sword because, since so much of religion gains its strength from being fundamentally untestable, there truly is no way to be certain that it's wrong. If you take the Chariots Of The Gods approach, what our ancestors viewed as deities were just beings with a higher level of technology. That type of reasoning, while removing the superstition, doesn't actually change anything because we're still dealing with significantly greater power than we possess. All that's required to push any crackpot's claim into the realm of possibility and allow you to scare yourself (and those around you) silly is a little imagination.
So, the point here is that you're letting your imagination and fear go skipping down the same path as these May 21 idiots. From my point of view, their religion is complete nonsense to begin with, so it's not worth thinking about. My fiance, having been a VERY serious Christian who has read the entire Bible and studied it for the better part of two decades before realizing that it's nonsense, can see the problems with the Rapture claim from within the religion. She's aware of the guy from Family Radio who's responsible for a vast portion of this particular round of "The End Is Near" which, incidentally, is not the first time he's sounded the Rapture-alarm (obviously, mistakenly). She's also aware that there are several other things that, according to the Bible, are supposed to happen before the end-times begin... and they haven't. Finally, as stated in another post, the Bible clearly says that no one will know the hour... so, if you feel so inclined, that these hilariously misguided people for guaranteeing that Jesus won't be making a cameo next week. Maybe you can find someone who's giving away all of his possessions in preparation for Judgement Day and make a make a tidy profit on eBay. Hallelujah!
This. The same source material that the lune recons he got the date from via some crazy arse math also says that its impossible to know when.Singularly Datarific said:
I would just remind yourself that if the predictions of the past were right, the world would have ended a thousand times already, and it has not nor will it for a few hundred thousand more.
If you want to hear paranoia based on predictions, I refuse to wear all white because I had a dream that I was sitting against the wall of my bedroom crying, wearing all white and watching the world burn. I think you're ok.
If you want to hear paranoia based on predictions, I refuse to wear all white because I had a dream that I was sitting against the wall of my bedroom crying, wearing all white and watching the world burn. I think you're ok.
Check if the guy who predicted it isn't a right wing Christian, bets are he's trying to "earn" some caash, and I'm almost certain that he's made some kind of political contribution to his favorite 2012 candidate, this is usally the case with these opportunistic assholes.
It annoys me because they practically scare people, in order to get money from them, and that's not an honest way to make money.
It annoys me because they practically scare people, in order to get money from them, and that's not an honest way to make money.
So people above have showed you why the world won't end on the 21st
For all future end of the world predictions, here's some advice: If the world is going to end, there's nothing you can do to stop it, so worrying about it is entirely futile. Just live your life happily, and don't let anyone get you down.
So when the world finally ends, and people are freaking out, you can calmly accept your fate and die content
For all future end of the world predictions, here's some advice: If the world is going to end, there's nothing you can do to stop it, so worrying about it is entirely futile. Just live your life happily, and don't let anyone get you down.
So when the world finally ends, and people are freaking out, you can calmly accept your fate and die content
I know plenty of people have already stated facts to ease your nerves, but think for a second man. Human beings are cockroaches, it would pretty much take the Universe ending to eliminate us. So stop worrying, the only thing to fear is fear itself.SaneAmongInsane said:
[sub]And for the love of god please don't drink any Cool Aid.[/sub]
If I recall correctly, the guy got the idea from the bible. Doesn't the bible also say that the end will have heralds, AKA horsemen? You know: death, war, famine, pestilence.
I figure the pestilence one would be easy to spot. You see a swarm of locusts, it may be time to panic, but until then, not a big deal.
I figure the pestilence one would be easy to spot. You see a swarm of locusts, it may be time to panic, but until then, not a big deal.
What? That doesn't sound right. I'd expect there to be at least twenty 'official' ends since the start of this year by now.Phlakes said:
Because swarms of locusts are not a common occurrence?Koshok said:
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing......Only I will remain."
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing......Only I will remain."
...what does this even mean.GrimTuesday said:
Seriously:
The world will end.
???
It's not like the planet is going anywhere. Even a solar flare of astronomical proportions, or a massive planetoid impact won't: make the world end. So what does this mean? I can only think that it's a bygone eras notion of how the world is not the one we know of today.
Let me know of a way the world could end on that date, and I will disprove it (Or do my best to anyway). The only plausible way it could happen on the 21st, or in 2012, is if some idiot decides to start a nuclear war. Not entirely out of the question, but you'd have to hope that no-one is that stupid (In government anyway. Oh, wait...)
So the moral of the story is:LobsterFeng said:
FREAK THE FUCK OUT ALL OF THE TIME BECAUSE EXISTENCE COULD CEASE AS YOU FINISH THIS SENTENCE.
the whole 21st doomsday thing is from some combination of numbers from the bible isn't it? if im confusing that with another coming doomsday ignore this post.
To take anything literally from the bible is stupid. It is just a book written by people, im not saying that nothing in it is true and the religion is stupid, in fact if i were to pick an established organized religion id go with some form of Christianity, but the bible, even if it is the direct word of god, was written by humans so there would be mistakes in writing it down, then on top of that it has been translated to how many languages, if i remember correctly, it was originally written in latin and no translation from latin is perfect so there are more errors there, things are added and removed based on the specific sub group of the religion so its never the same bible. All layed out anything calculated from a book that has so many errors and variations doesn't have a chance in hell of being anywhere near correct.
To take anything literally from the bible is stupid. It is just a book written by people, im not saying that nothing in it is true and the religion is stupid, in fact if i were to pick an established organized religion id go with some form of Christianity, but the bible, even if it is the direct word of god, was written by humans so there would be mistakes in writing it down, then on top of that it has been translated to how many languages, if i remember correctly, it was originally written in latin and no translation from latin is perfect so there are more errors there, things are added and removed based on the specific sub group of the religion so its never the same bible. All layed out anything calculated from a book that has so many errors and variations doesn't have a chance in hell of being anywhere near correct.