So can someone relieve my fear about the 21st?

[PrimoThePro]

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The people who predicted it seem to miss one important part of the Bible. God said he would never kill the people of earth again. They make sure to completely omit anything that doesn't agree with them. Jesus even said that only God knows the true date. They back up their arguments with calculations from the Bible that make no sense. Counting up words and assigning them numbers, then finding out what day that makes "the end times." God loves us too much to destroy us.
EDIT: Seriously, I looked all this stuff up the second I heard about May 21. It's not happening.

 

[Drummie666]

Dude, if you did enough digging, you would probably find that somebody predicted the end of the world on every day in every year.

None of them have happened. Just because one is more popular does not mean it is more credible.

 

[Yoshemo]

The bible says that no one, not even the angels know when the rapture will happen. So this preacher that started this craze is just talking out his ass

 

[No One Jones]

Humanity will more than likely go extinct long before anything of substance(relative) happens to the Earth. And it won't happen quickly, we'll slowly die out, like most of the species on the planet.

 

[SnowyGamester]

Again with these topics...

I'll say to you what I say to the rest of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfulfilled_religious_predictions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulfilled_religious_predictions

That basically covers everything, including 2012. So no need to ask again when that comes around.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I'm not one with a faith. And logic tells me the chance of such a thing happening is the same on any given day, and that it's astronomically low.

Still, everytime I hear one of these doomsday predictions it DOES freak me out to a certain extent. A couple years ago during my senior year of high school it was some twat with a book saying a giant tsunami would hit the east coast, I was freaked out all school day. Hell during the oil spill some half-baked loon came up with a story that a methane bubble would be released from the gulf and wipe out the planet in a giant fireball, that kept me up all night after reading it.

It's silly to worry about such things. True or not. I know this. Anyone wanna take a solid stab at reassuring me the sun will still rise the 22nd? Because I'm sure I'm not the only one with just a tinge of anxiety about doomsday predictions.

The whole point of those doomsday predictions is that they're not falsifiable until the date occurs.

So no, no one can reassure you beyond telling you that you're being silly - which you clearly already know.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Nope can't help you there mate, you dead man, you dead.

Now where is the guy with OMG / ONOZ avatar, we need him to get the full silly freak out package

 

[Torrasque]

As many people have said, the world isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Don't even worry about the 21st because some douchebag said the world is going to end.

HERE IS THE WORD OF THE PROPHET TORRASQUE.
THE WORLD WILL END ON MAY 17TH.

Oh hey, thats tomorrow. Guess the world is going to end on Tuesday!
See how easy that is? Its not fucking rocket science. The world is going to be fine on the 22nd, so stop worrying.
If you are so very worried, call up your parents and tell them you love them, make out with the girl/guy you like, and hold them tight before the clock cycles to the 21st. Also have a beer with your best friend; that is important.

If the world is still around on the 22nd, and you followed all those steps (not sure if you wanna do them on the 20th or the 21st. Better do it on both days just to be safe) then you had a good day(s) and woopdie fucking do.

 

[fdbluth]

The person in charge of this is saying that the world is going to end on May 21st, because of a bogus calculation according to The Bible. In Genesis, God said to Noah (and I'm paraphrasing) that He will begin the flood after a week after warning Noah. Then a passage in the New Testament says (again, paraphrasing) that to The Lord, a day is like a thousand years. So, this guy has gotten the brilliant idea that the week from Genesis actually means 7000 years from the day God warned Noah, which is supposedly the 21st.

Obviously, this makes absolutely no sense. No, not in the conspiracy theory way, but more in the way where the creationists believe the world was created in what? 6000 years ago? So, doesn't add up. It defies logic, EVEN IN THEIR OWN MYTHOLOGY.

Also, to the people who are saying that this is some "crazy right-wing Christian thing" and talking about atheism and things... just because there's one crazy guy, it doesn't mean you can just generalize. This isn't a huge thing, just a bunch of very gullible and worried people taking some insane actions due to outrageously ridiculous logic. Religion and politics don't play a part on this too much (to me, these people seem to be using the system of religion to fulfill their own goals, which is really antithetical to the concept of religion). You can argue about the wrongs about the concept of religion, but let's not get out of hand.

But then again, I'm an agnostic, whose opinions don't matter on either sides, so... Shit.

Hope this helps, OP. Don't worry. The world won't end because of an angry god. It will end when the Andromedan galaxy collides with our own and slowly absorb the matter that makes up our own galaxy, our suns, our planets, our very own selves to fuel its everlasting and lifeless hunger. I...

That didn't help. Sorry.

 

[Vault101]

Alright.

It's a load of shite. People can't predict crap today, let alone in ancient times. We can't even get the weather right. Also, if something were in the works, shouldn't we be seeing the dregs of it right now? As in preludes and so on? Nothing. These things don't just pop in. The world does not work that way.

as much as I agree there does seem to be a shitload of natural disasters

the floods in queensland (some fires in WA but thats expected)

the japan earthquake

the earthquake in New zealand

the current disasters in USA

still Id sya its more this stuff being focused on by the media

 

[Nickompoop]

The world will end if one thing happens, but this one thing is highly unlikely.

Spoiler

Donald Trump is elected President on the 2012 election.

"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."

Dune is awesome. Just puttin' that out there.

 

[ElectroJosh]

Humanity will more than likely go extinct long before anything of substance(relative) happens to the Earth. And it won't happen quickly, we'll slowly die out, like most of the species on the planet.

Pretty much as was said above. Earth will likely still be around when we are as distant a memory as the dinosaurs are to us.

 

[richard misiak]

Its amazing to think how many doomsdays I've been through, I should really write a book or something

 

[mangus]

Hyper-velocity black holes. They're incredibly difficult to spot and they move through space at over 4000KM/s. And you're afraid of Jesus?

 

[Eomega123]

Don't worry about the world ending today, it's already tommorow in Australia.

 

[Sandytimeman]

I'm not one with a faith. And logic tells me the chance of such a thing happening is the same on any given day, and that it's astronomically low.

Still, everytime I hear one of these doomsday predictions it DOES freak me out to a certain extent. A couple years ago during my senior year of high school it was some twat with a book saying a giant tsunami would hit the east coast, I was freaked out all school day. Hell during the oil spill some half-baked loon came up with a story that a methane bubble would be released from the gulf and wipe out the planet in a giant fireball, that kept me up all night after reading it.

It's silly to worry about such things. True or not. I know this. Anyone wanna take a solid stab at reassuring me the sun will still rise the 22nd? Because I'm sure I'm not the only one with just a tinge of anxiety about doomsday predictions.

Alrighty, lets look at this shall we. It's a Christian Group correct? So that just means that the Rapture will START. During the rapture their will be a large disappearance of people overnight, if this happens in conjunture with widespread plauges and two christians getting stoned in the street. THEN you know it happening. But during the christian rapture all the living humans on earth have the chance to repent many many times.

I'm an atheist that was formerly a Christian, if you see the signs, and repent you are okie. Also consider this is the god that was perfectly fine with killing the newborn children of an entire country to stop his favorite group from being held in slavery BY THE LEADER of that nation. But then commanded all his people that murder is wrong, just days later. (also is perfectly fine with priests molesting children in his temples, without taking any action, and continuing to let those same priests preach his word and hurt more children)

 

[Freeze_L]

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Oh I got this one. "The sun goes up and the sun goes down. Don't know why. Up and Down. Just like that! Explain that to me." -Bill O'Reilly

His terrible butchering of a philosophical proof has a use after all. The days go on and we continue living everyday until we stop. No matter what we believe what we say it simply does not change reality. Stop believing in gravity and you still wont fly, live in ignorance of science and the universe does not care. We are wonderfully insignificant in this world, that is beautifully small in this galaxy, which in turn is a spec in the universe. On the 21st the sun will rise because it rose today. My faith is in Science Tells me so.

There is a line in the Bible "No man shall know the time nor day." It has an elegant wisdom to it, that says simply "The sun is coming tomorrow no matter what you think." Smile and use the day as an excuse for a party the earth does not care it is just going to keep spinning.

 

[FalloutJack]

-Snap! Crackle! Pop!-

Not helping, man. Even still, don't try to read in between lines when there ain't nothing written. Unfortunately, this crap will happen. However, to say that earthquakes and crap are the end of the world when they've been happening FOREVER is a little premature. Or, in fact, it's seeing something in nothing. I'M not buying into the world ending until I see something really fricking UNIQUE.

 

[sora91111]

Well I'm sure the 21st is bull crap just like all other doomsday things, and just so you don't worry about this one 2013 isn't the end of the world the mayans just got lazy.

 

[Votix]

"Bah humbug!"