I KNEW IT... the Japan earthquake is a sign of the "End Times"

[LuckyTheDog]

More here: http://www.raptureready.com/rapnews_db.php

[Teaser]

1. May 21st 2011

huge swath of people think that's the date of the rapture.

I'm sure their salivating right now.

[Javaman]

7. I know, they already have the date set. I hope it's true.

it will be so peaceful and traffic free on the 22nd. :) LOL

[mrcheerful]

23. How is losing 1,000 fundies going to free up traffic? They have been saying that there is a limit

on how many were being taken up in the rapture and they figured out that the number was 1,000. But then you are dealing with the human ego when your dealing with the rapture ready crowd so they all think they are going to be one of the worthy ones based on how many "others" not worthy they screw over to get one of the rapture slots. The number of worthy ones is rather interesting as it clearly shows how fundies think which is reflected in their belief system, remember these are the same people who try to manipulate world events to bring about the end times, ( playing god comes to mind ) yet while they do that they also try to bring the US in line with what their belief of paradise is just in case the rapture doesn't happen, its called hedging their bet after the last 30 time they have declared it was the end times, the first few times they gave away all they had and starved to death, so there deep belief really isn't which means that they know they are repeating BS they really don't believe but hey it makes them better humans then their neighbors.

[Javaman]

24. damn, only 1000?

damn it! that means we have to deal with the fall out of those not getting sucked up.

It will be one annoying phone or appearance after another to every halfwit talk show and radio host. They will be forever complaining of either why they weren't sucked up or pissed off as to why their god didn't sucked them up.

That will almost be worse than they are now.

ugh.

[mrcheerful]

30. That is what drives fundies to try to out god love each other as well as

drives them to bring their morals ( yeah oxymoron ) to others, after all do enough cherry picking of the good book and you can plainly see where their good deeds, wealth and saintliness ensures them a place on the rapture train, unlike the rest of those less saintly humans they step on in their quest for the golden ticket. Like I said fundies are very interesting in a mental health aspect.

[Veruca Salt]

29. I'll have some popcorn ready

because their reaction might be one of the best laughs of the year.

[Kievan Rus]

33. That date is from Harold Camping, a complete hack that even most fundies don't like

And has already made one wrong prediction for the end of the world.

Guess he never read Matthew 24:36 or Mark 13:35.

[Vinee]

38. on my 40th birthday. Go figure.

[get the red out]

2. Damn!

If I had only known! I would have skipped my morning run and eaten cheesecake for breakfast. :crazy: Now I'm stuck sitting here at work munching slightly stale rice cakes.

[liberal N proud]

3. I had better start buying inflatable dolls and helium

Time is running short.

[PATRICK]

10. They won't let you in

with those inflatable dolls.

[nebenaube]

14. um..

I think he was just going to release them and watch the fundies watch them float up...

[liberal N proud]

20. I just want to wait outside a church on Sunday

release the dolls as the sheep come out.

[originalpckelly]

4. Well, what happened there was so dramatic that people will try to rationalize it like this.

Just a bunch of primates fearing the earthquake God.

[jillan]

5. I thought it was God punishing us for electing Republicans in November.

:crazy: :crazy:

[Jamastiene]

6. They don't miss a beat, do they?

:silly:

[truebrit71]

8. Hey I don't buy that superstitious shit either but it appears as though Mother Earth is restless at

..the moment what with the recent huge quake in NZ as well...

[PATRICK]

19. The biblical "World"

meant the faceless behemoth known as human civilization, especially the Roman Empire, in the same way that that "Mammon" is the anomalous signification for the human economic system. The evils dominating those associated terms is what the common men and women of Bible times fought and reviled. I think the glee would disappear if the First creation remained very well in place as the money and power crap of humans went down its own collective fantasy toilet. I think according to revelations that is exactly what would happen to separate those mourning their lost Babylon from actual decent humans. the businesses, the temples, the natural and social calamities in which the proud empires are rooted and improvident about.

People who welcome such human travail with even a small chill of prideful joy for whatever reason should not wish for a hasty judgment day. the first human instinct would be concern and compassion. Next, to help in solidarity. The "end of the world" is truly last on the agenda, but if some want to go there I suppose they are too illogical to consider suicide or selling their goods to give to the poor and living on a mountaintop in expectation. As they forgo charity they want to for ego hope. Their faith is false at least in Jesus' clear terms.

[Akoto]

9. Does this mean I didn't get Raptured?

If so, I guess I can finally do away with that "clothing myself" business. At last!

[Johonny]

21. nope

Just that heaven is exactly like Earth. Bummer huh.

[Loge23]

11. No signifcant increase in activity.

This according to a geologist interviewed earlier today on the CBS Morning Show.
Not that science has anything to do it!!

[WinkyDink]

18. The careful phrasing "significant INCREASE" is quite obviously obfuscatory.

[tjwash]

12. Meh...they sound like a bunch of DUers doing a happy dance yesterday after the dow dropped 200

:shrug:

[JoePhilly]

26. Do you recall last summer, when the DOW dropped to about 9800?

DU exploded with predictions of a total collapse followed be a full depression.

Now, with the DOW at a little over 12,000 ... a 200 point drop leads to similar predictions ... even when 4 days earlier, the DOW moved up by 200 points.

Same old fake outrage.

[RadiationTherapy]

13. Did you see their version of the 'thief in the night'?

It implies that it is possible to know the time of the rapture by 'watching'.

If therefore thou shalt not watch I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee Rev(3:3)

Sneaky! Now I know how they overcome that piece of cognitive dissonance.

[hatrack]

15. And here I thought it was a sign of continental drift . . .

:shrug:

[WinkyDink]

17. In 2011. Right about timed with a polar shift.

[Lynx]

16. The rupture

Aren't they supposed to get raptured up buck nekkid?

[AsahinaKimi]

I have a word for those Right wing fundies...

Urusai!! Aho! Yes, they are all "Heathens" and practice Shinto (and) Buddhism. If you think they deserved it, then take a long walk off a short pier!


:cry:

[AsahinaKimi]

22. duplicate

[FLPanhandle]

25. Let's see so far I've seen it's a sign of "End Times", "Climate Change", "Earth warning us"

Probably should start a list of crackpot ideas.

Strange that plate tectonics isn't getting the same attention.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. Damn and here i thought it was because of the GAY.

reality is, not they get it, tha humanity WILL go extinct some day... we are not that special. We will join 99% of species that have ever lived.

It gets worst. the SUN will go too... and eat the world in FIRE no less.

Of course let's not go into the actual real end of the world, the great unravelling. I don't think there will be any life to watch it, but that is another matter.

[Raksha]

28. There are a hell of lot more people than the "Rapture Ready" crazies calling it the End Times.

I'm one of them and I know quite a few more, including right here on DU. Of course we don't all call it "the End Times" or quote from the book of Revelation. It's also been called the Great Turning, the beginning of the New Age or the Age of Aquarius, etc. More secular-minded people simply call it a paradigm shift.

Can't we all agree at least that *something* is friggin' HAPPENING??? Interesting times indeed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. In geologic times, no not really

unless we are entering another age like the Carboniferous. But we are talking of GEOLOGIC time scales here.

This was a geologic event.

Now you talk about global weather change, yes...

The Holocene Extinction, YES.

But this? No, not really...

[Raksha]

37. Sorry, wrong context. I wasn't speaking in geologic terms only.

I meant the totality of crises that have kept me spending endless hours on DU the past few weeks: First the Egyptian revolution, the union-busting in Wisconsin, then the Libyan revolution, and now this monster earthquake.

I guess when most people talk about "the End Times" they mean the end of all life on earth, so it's proper to speak in geologic terms. My context is mainly historic. I believe we have come to the end of the 5000-year patriarchal cycle, or "End of the Aeon." So I see geologic events like major earthquakes as synchronistic "confirmations" of the end of the Aeon.

An extinction event is always within the realm of possibility, of course. If it happens, it will most likely be due to catastrophic climate change and environmental pollution, including radiation poisoning. I don't worry about events that are totally outside of human control, i.e. catastrophic "acts of God" such as earthquakes or collision with a comet or asteroid. If something can't be changed even by a total transformation in the collective human consciousness (a long shot in itself!) there is no point in obsessing about it. If it happens, it happens.

[NeedleCast]

35. No

Every generation thinks it's the special one living in the end of days.

On a grand scale of geological events this wouldn't even make the honorable mention category.

[mrcheerful]

36. Yeah I hear you, I live in a city that had a record that went back to the start of the white man

keeping records on weather of never having a tornado then in 1980 the city got its first tornado, yes the fundies went nuts declaring it as a sign of the end times. Weather happens, shifts in crust plates happen, volcano's happen and life goes on with no raptures or the earth never ended. Get a clue people, there was a reason Japanese used to build their homes out of bamboo and paper, hint, Japan gets a lot of earth quakes.

[Baclava]

31. I warned all y'all 100 times that 'It's all cracking open!'

Did you listen?

Noooooo

[NeedleCast]

34. Unpossible. Earth was already destroyed on September 10th, 2008

http://qntm.org/board

::Snip::

It is our duty to inform you that as of 7:35:05am UTC on September 10, 2008, the Earth has been destroyed.

The destruction of Earth was first reported by Mr Jonathan Barber of Wisconsin, United States, who spotted that his home-made seismic Earth Detector had ceased to give readings at around 8:00am (2am local time). Several other amateur geocide spotters noticed this at the same time but Mr. Barber was the first to place a telephone call to the IEDAB's Geocide Hotline [phone]Ω 4127, ask for Other Dave) at which point IEDAB officials performed an emergency check of their own instrumentation and verified Mr. Barber's report, as well as fixing the exact time of geocide.

Evidence is still being collated, but preliminary results suggest that the Earth was destroyed pre-emptively by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, before the commencement of their experiments to locate the Higgs Boson, as a precautionary measure to ensure that the experiment itself could not result in the destruction of the Earth.

[Canuckistanian]

39. The End Times should have been in 1960 with the Valdivia earthquake, then

The most powerful earthquake ever recorded. 9.5 on the Richter scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Valdivia_earthquake