Why do some people believe May 21st is going to be Judgment Day?
I don’t know about how it is where you live, but this whole ‘the world is ending on May 21’ is kind of a thing here in the Bay Area. There are billboards all over and even Yelp’s newsletter has mentioned it.
So, tell me, a total heathen, what the significance of 5–21-11 is.
I thought we were doomed on 12–12-12, but apparently, we have only mere days to prepare!!!!!!!1
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“but this whole ‘the world is ending on May 21’ is kind of a thing here in the Bay Area. There are billboards all over and even Yelp’s newsletter has mentioned it”
That’s sad.
I think it’s just more rapture crap.
Will this end come timezone by time zone? If so I will watch for the lights going out overseas and whoop it up for the last 12 hours I have.
I’m pretty sure this one guy, Harold Camping, just made the whole thing up and it just took off. It always seems so strange to me that so many people can get caught up in these end of the world things. It’s almost that people are eager to see the world end; I don’t get that.
@Cruiser
Yeah, it’s supposed to start at 6 PM in New Zealand and then at 6 PM in every other time zone around the world. Guess God has something against 6 PM! :>P
The billboards are serious, even though everyone I know makes fun of them. They are all over the place.
The Yelp newsletter, I thought was cute and funny. The edition was titled ‘Yelp’s Pre-Apocalypse Survival Guide’ and included the following:
According to some people out there, on May 21st, the world is packing up its desk and calling it a day. With Judgment Day upon us, we figured what the hey, a bright morning beverage never hurt anyone. So this week, the early bird gets the worm… at the bottom of the bottle.
(and it goes on to review some bars. hahaha)
Judgement Day is actually on [REDACTED].
I don’t know but there is this guy by my dentist who’s been blasting these songs all over and I caught the lyrics of one of them and it’s this really upbeat tune and it goes ‘On the EEEEEVE of destruction! on the EEEEVE of destruction!’ all happy and I just thought ‘I love that, I wonder what’s in his canisters upfront’ ‘cause he’s got these canisters with cardboard tags and some of them have Yankees players’ names and I am convinced, at this point, he’s got their souls. Oh, ‘cause you think I’m joking.
RoFL.
I came back to say that this ^^^ is one of the best, funniest, most bizarre things I have ever read on Fluther. I love it.
I am supposed to be “in” the Christian community and I don’t know what it’s all about…. Unless they kicked me out and I didn’t get the memo. I have been accused of being a liberal sympathizer a time or two.
@crisw Good news then as that will give me time to put on my very best fire-retardant robe to get ready for the big meet and greet!
@Simone_De_Beauvoir, Barry McGuire would like to have a word with you.
@MissAnthrope, I live in the obesity-necessitated extra hole in the Bible belt and I haven’t heard anyone here talking about this. I have heard about it all over the internet, though. No local billboards or anything like that.
I live in the obesity-necessitated extra hole in the Bible belt…
You guys are on fire today!
actually, I lived there, too, for a while.
Ahh, I can’t bing myself to read all of the drivel, but here’s a link.
@syz Good to know, I appreciate clear schedules, putting it into my Google calendar.
I have no idea. It leads me to believe they don’t actually read the Bible.
Matthew 24:36 (Jesus’ words concerning his return) “But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”
It’s pretty clear.
I’m aware that Bible verses mean nothing to some of you, but the people who are saying that they know when Christ will return are Christians, so it should mean something to them.
Whatever happens, I look forward to Fluthering with you guys. I’ll post my last just before the 100 feet tsunami hits! Yeehaa!
@syz, hmm, those calculations in those tracts look vaguely familiar
I guess history really does repeat itself.
Some people will believe anything. There’s really no way to explain it other than people need more excitement in their lives.
Sigh.
It’s Arnold Schwazznegger’s birthday?
Does anyone know exactly what time? KatawaGrey and I are having lunch with MissAusten that day, we could move it up a bit so we can be sated and have had at least some kind of visit before the end comes…Eastern Daylight Time, BTW.
@Simone_De_Beauvoir “Tell me, over and over my friend, that you don’t believe, we’re on the eve of destruction…”
Not sure who sang that, though…
@Dr_Dredd Yeah, maybe it was something like that. It was just that chorus that hit me like a jolly bolt and I was giddy all the way through my painful appointment.
If it happens I will eat my hat!
Because they know it’s my birthday and the celebrations will be SO EPIC that the world just might end.
@crisw Bob Dylan didn’t write Eve of Destruction. It was written by P.F. Sloan, who was 19 at the time. Wiki Link
Well, the first Apple Store opened May 19, 2001. So I think the end of the world is actually tomorrow.
I love this question. I’m glad I got to read it before the world ends.
I’m still alive so the Apple thing wasn’t correct. But on Saturday I will screw with my mom.
@johnpowell that’s really funny, wish I had thought of that.
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