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(News.com.au) Amusing Doomsday cult members find themselves having to take up a new hobby when the world doesn't end   (news.com.au) divider line 80
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strangeguitar 2008-03-30 12:16:53 AM  
Russian cult girls?

Great band name or faptastic pr0n film?
You decide.

 
Dufus [TotalFark] 2008-03-30 12:48:12 AM  
Sheesh, several religious movements started this way.

 
ninjakirby [TotalFark] 2008-03-30 12:52:36 AM  
Mr Kuznetsov, found to be of unsound mind by a psychological evaluation, is facing criminal charges for inciting religious and ethnic hatred, Interfax reported.

He has also been charged under a law which deems it illegal to form a religious group that urges citizens to harm their own health or to ignore their civic responsibilities.


They have laws for that? Thats pretty cool. I'd be interested in hearing about their beliefs. Sounds similar to The Great Disappointment and other doomsday religions which reform after their predictions fail to appear.

 
sublimize [TotalFark] 2008-03-30 01:04:39 AM  
oh boo hoo, you had a 20 to 6 billion shot of being right, what did you expect dipshiats?

 
ulwais [TotalFark] 2008-03-30 01:09:28 AM  
Except they don't expect the world to end til May, some of them just went from waiting in a cave to waiting in a house. Maybe it will be the start of a religious war over the schism between the cavedwellers and houseists.

 
vudukungfu 2008-03-30 02:00:30 AM  
DoomedesDay
?
I thought it said Doonsbury.
/nevermond.

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-03-30 02:00:46 AM  
Hah. At least you can say the Christians never gave up. You can't give up in a Doomsday cult. You gotta drink the Kool-Aid.

 
Chinese_Torture_Socks 2008-03-30 02:18:01 AM  
The Jehovah Witness people got let down again? What is this like the 20th time they were wrong.

 
Abner Doon 2008-03-30 02:24:25 AM  
This is why you don't set a date. You just say "soon" and then pretend that god forgot to set his alarm clock or stayed up all millenia partying.

 
xebeche_tzu 2008-03-30 02:25:36 AM  
Approves

i242.photobucket.com

 
Hector Remarkable 2008-03-30 02:26:13 AM  
Just in case the world does end this May, I think now would be the time to spend the company's pension fund on hookers and blow.

 
farkinuggin 2008-03-30 02:28:13 AM  
HA ha

 
kidsizedcoffin 2008-03-30 02:30:16 AM  
All these doomsday cults are lazy. You can't just wait for the world to end and expect ascension. You have to do your part in ensuring the destruction of the world.

 
AndyMan1 2008-03-30 02:31:53 AM  
Isn't May when the Large Hadron Collider goes online?

Could they save me a seat?

 
aspAddict 2008-03-30 02:32:01 AM  
Would part of their "new hobby" involve taking XBox Live offline?

*grumble*

 
kidsizedcoffin 2008-03-30 02:33:14 AM  
aspAddict: Would part of their "new hobby" involve taking XBox Live offline?

*grumble*


Well we already witnessed the END OF THE WORLD of warcraft.

 
aspAddict 2008-03-30 02:34:54 AM  
kidsizedcoffin:
Well we already witnessed the END OF THE WORLD of warcraft.


All I know is that if they don't get it back online pretty soon, I'm gonna hafta...well...wait some more, I guess. *sigh*

 
primordial_soup_dragon 2008-03-30 02:36:40 AM  
Why did they go in to the cave in the first place? Why not stay at home like the women are now doing? At least then you'd have TV, radio, the internets etc.

Or better yet, sit outside. Just sit there. Waiting. And waiting.

Obviously they're very selfish 'cos wouldn't the decent thing be to try and warn / save others? Can do that sitting in your cave.

And what are they eating? Do they have juniper bushes in there or something?

 
chucknasty 2008-03-30 02:37:02 AM  
list of supplies for cave:
1. food
2. vodak
3. lots of poontang

yeah that should about cover it...

 
Necrosis 2008-03-30 02:39:30 AM  
xebeche_tzu: Approves

FSM?

 
kidsizedcoffin 2008-03-30 02:40:11 AM  
aspAddict: kidsizedcoffin:
Well we already witnessed the END OF THE WORLD of warcraft.

All I know is that if they don't get it back online pretty soon, I'm gonna hafta...well...wait some more, I guess. *sigh*


I just fired up my xbox360, and live seems to be working fairly well. I'm only a few states over, so who knows.

 
Goble_EZ 2008-03-30 02:48:00 AM  
But it DID end. Didn't they get the memo?

 
Crazyhelmet 2008-03-30 02:49:43 AM  
i276.photobucket.com

Not impressed

 
FredGarvin 2008-03-30 02:53:14 AM  
Nice to know that that the end of the world isn't as important as videogames to to some fags. Get out of mom's basement once in a while, boys.

 
kidsizedcoffin 2008-03-30 02:54:55 AM  
Goble_EZ: But it DID end. Didn't they get the memo?

Once in 2000, and then again in 2004?

 
TheMega 2008-03-30 02:55:18 AM  
They should just put off about 500 smoke bombs outside the cave... get a big bass system with a booming voice saying, "It is done my children.. you may now exit out upon eternity.."

Then, when they come out, play Beavis saying "Thank you.. drive through..." and mace em all, toss the cuffs on em, and haul them away!

/subby should have RTFA.. this isn't May.
//Or.. is it?
///Maybe it is over?
////Nope - still showing an Internet connection!!!!

 
strathmeyer 2008-03-30 02:58:00 AM  
Oh, dear, I hope nobody dies for anyones sins.

 
TheMega 2008-03-30 02:58:33 AM  
FredGarvin : Nice to know that that the end of the world isn't as important as videogames to to some fags. Get out of mom's basement once in a while, boys.

If they got out of the basement, they might get on your lawn and we all know how you'd HATE that!!!

 
kidsizedcoffin 2008-03-30 03:02:48 AM  
strathmeyer: Oh, dear, I hope nobody dies for anyones sins.

Necrophilia?

 
FredGarvin 2008-03-30 03:06:40 AM  
TheMega: Hey, they could mow it. It'd look nice for 2 more days.

 
Ed Grubermann [TotalFark] 2008-03-30 03:09:05 AM  
You'd think these morons would get a clue by now. Every single religion/religious leader/prophet/con man/nut job/etc... that has predicted the end of the world has been wrong. Look, it's pretty simple: if your pastor (or whatever your little group calls their leaders) tells you the End Times!11!! are here he either wants your money or has lost his mind.

And just what the hell do they think hiding in a cave is going to do for them? The mutant star goat is going to miss them when he eats the planet?

Here's a some advice to these End Times obsessed dipshiats: (and this goes to all of them, not just this group of whackjobs) Stop obsessing over your death and get back to living your life.

 
RavinDave 2008-03-30 03:10:55 AM  
Boy, there's gonna be a lot of red faces around Fark when the world actually does end in May.

 
Ed Grubermann [TotalFark] 2008-03-30 03:10:59 AM  
FredGarvin: Nice to know that that the end of the world isn't as important as videogames to to some fags. Get out of mom's basement once in a while, boys.

Seeing as the world has anoth five billion years until the sun goes nova, I think we don't need to worry about it too much.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2008-03-30 03:13:32 AM  
Look, everyone knows the world's not due to end till 2012. Just deal with it, okay? We've got four more years, or as the current governor of California would have it, "Fo-ah mo-ah yee-ss."

Sorry, but you gotta learn to cope.

 
FredGarvin 2008-03-30 03:19:21 AM  
Ed Grubermann:"Seeing as the world has anoth five billion years until the sun goes nova, I think we don't need to worry about it too much."

It's gonna end for everybody here a lot sooner than that. You want to spend your last day playing videogames or getting laid?

You don't have to live every day as if it were doomsday, but you might as well get a life before the one you have is over.

 
Ed Grubermann [TotalFark] 2008-03-30 03:22:47 AM  
FredGarvin: You don't have to live every day as if it were doomsday, but you might as well get a life before the one you have is over.

And what makes you think your idea of "a life" is any more valid than anyone else's?

 
angryatgwb 2008-03-30 03:28:07 AM  
Pobre believers, waiting to live until they get to heaven must be difficult, dillusional but difficult.!

 
Oznog 2008-03-30 03:30:14 AM  
Always good to bring up:
The Comprehensive List of All The Doomsdays That Didn't Happen

I ask you this:
Why would God see fit to decide ahead of time that he was going to destroy all of Creation?
Why decide on a specific date far far in advance? See, to me there's only two cases for that: that the date is completely arbitrary and God is only doing it to suit his ego, or that fate will bring about inevitabilities leading to Man destroying himself or God finding Man unworthy to continue. Now the problem there is that to know it centuries in advance when that'll happen would pretty conclusively show that humanity does not have Free Will thus we have no choice whatsoever in how we act. Because if we're free to act on our own then what we do would change the outcome.

But here's the other part- if God really planned to destroy the world, 1) why tell the world, if you're going to do it no matter what people do so there's no changing it, and 2) if you're going to tell people, why not choose a clear, indisputable, significant way to convey the message that doesn't involve a lone man with poor personal hygiene who merely speaks in ambiguous terms using an unconventional sentence structure?

Call me arrogant but I think God would be downright irresponsible picking the odd nut job to be His messenger. See, either way we know there are plenty of genuine nut jobs here that sound just like that. Just how realistic is it to expect people to tell them apart? They all say they've got messages from God for us. If you use one of them to talk for real just once, and let those who don't listen go to hell for not instantly realizing he's a nut job with proper God credentials, then the only logical policy a person should have is to listen to all nut jobs everywhere lest they overlook the one God's actually using. Not a realistic form of life, IMHO.

 
Hector Remarkable 2008-03-30 03:30:38 AM  
I can figure this out - Unto two thousand three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. And then blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. And so if you carry the one, then, yep, it's this May! OMG BBQ

 
Eckyhade 2008-03-30 03:37:13 AM  
If you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're farkin' nuts.

 
4NSpy 2008-03-30 03:52:36 AM  
better push back those car payments to after May, just in case.

 
specialkae 2008-03-30 03:55:28 AM  
I admit, I've always kind of wondered what these doomsday folks did/said/thought after the appointed end date came and went and they weren't taken into Heaven, cast into Hell, devoured by a Beast of some sort, etc., etc. I'm going to my MIL's Kingdom Hall meeting/Bible study to find out just that since they've just wrapped an intensive study on Revelation. It should prove to be interesting, if nothing else.

/the JW's started off with their founder saying something about Jesus coming back in 1917 or some such, too lazy to Wiki ATM

 
0Icky0 2008-03-30 04:01:58 AM  
specialkae: /the JW's started off with their founder saying something about Jesus coming back in 1917 or some such, too lazy to Wiki ATM

No different from Christianity, apart from the date. It's been 1900+ years of hand waving and excuses since then.

/and hot nun on priest action

 
br0g 2008-03-30 04:03:49 AM  
FTFA: water from melting snow caused part of their cave to collapse.

Maybe you guys picked the wrong place to hole up in for the end of the world..

/if your cave can't take a little water, do you really expect it to hold up to Armageddon?
//when judgment day does finally arrive, i'll be in the back with the hookers and blow

 
specialkae 2008-03-30 04:05:40 AM  
0Icky0

No different from Christianity, apart from the date. It's been 1900+ years of hand waving and excuses since then.


So, that makes the Witnesses Modernists or Post-Modernists, eh?

/your comment made me chuckle
//hopes that I can get out from the meeting without being burned at the stake

 
kidsizedcoffin 2008-03-30 04:09:08 AM  
specialkae:
//hopes that I can get out from the meeting without being burned at the stake


They're attaching people to those crosses they're burning?

 
fenian- 2008-03-30 04:22:13 AM  
They're doing it wrong.

X=July 5, 1998. Just like last year. Just like next year.


...until 2012 :)

 
specialkae 2008-03-30 04:23:57 AM  
fenian-: They're doing it wrong.

X=July 5, 1998. Just like last year. Just like next year.


...until 2012 :)


Well, all of us Aztec (or Mayan) calendar adherents will be eating crow on December 22nd of 2012, won't we?

/Terence McKenna, FTW

 
MrPerfectSU 2008-03-30 04:25:09 AM  
Abner Doon: This is why you don't set a date. You just say "soon" and then pretend that god forgot to set his alarm clock or stayed up all millenia partying.

Heh, the Jehovah's Witnesses learned that lesson the hard way when they said that the generation that saw 1914 would live to see the second coming of Christ.

I think they have since moved on to interpreting that particular prophesy in a metaphorical, rather than literal, sense. Dumbasses...

 
Green Bastard 2008-03-30 04:36:12 AM  
Well that does it. Someone's gonna have to go in there and kill them.

\You want the world to end? Well here ya go, your world is OVAH!!!

 
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