Date: 04 November 2009
With the upcoming disaster film "2012"

It's a time traveling link.

My money is on Skynet or the T-Virus.

Et tu, Leonard Nimoy?

I saw a car around here that was completely wrapped in advertisements for a website that says the end is coming in May. I wish I could remember the website. It was hilarious.

Aha! Just found the address: http://www.wecanknow.com (new window)

May 21st is apparently the day all the fundy idjits disappear

Ant: May 21st is apparently the day all the fundy idjits disappear

We can have their cars!

FTA:
The world did indeed end for 39 of the cult members, who committed suicide on March 26, 1997.

And 39 pairs of Nike^TM tennis shoes.

Ant: I saw a car around here that was completely wrapped in advertisements for a website that says the end is coming in May. I wish I could remember the website. It was hilarious.

Aha! Just found the address: http://www.wecanknow.com (new window)

May 21st is apparently the day all the fundy idjits disappear

If you're going to know when something is going to go down then why wouldn't you go that extra mile and put up a countdown clock on your website to make a point of it?

Man...I am disappoint.

May 21st. Sounds like a good time for another Armageddon Party!!!

No Jehovah's Witnesses? The world ended in 1978 and they still come around on Saturdays.

Ant: I saw a car around here that was completely wrapped in advertisements for a website that says the end is coming in May. I wish I could remember the website. It was hilarious.

Aha! Just found the address: http://www.wecanknow.com (new window)

May 21st is apparently the day all the fundy idjits disappear

So you posted in real time? Can't find address... searching.... searching... Exclamations! I have found it while you waited!

Go with the funamentalists.

Only 10? They must not be familiar with the Jehovah's Witnesses.

List fails without perpetual alarmist Paul Ehrlich's list of epic failure.

* "The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines . . . [AND] hundreds of millions of people [including Americans] are going to starve to death." (1968)
* "Smog disasters" in 1973 might kill 200,000 people in New York and Los Angeles. (1969)
* "I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." (1969)
* "Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion." (1976)

Citrate1007: My money is on Skynet or the T-Virus.

I'm gonna have to go with the Grey Goo scenario (new window)

macadamnut: No Jehovah's Witnesses? The world ended in 1978 and they still come around on Saturdays.


*shakes angry fist*

Last I heard, the day of reckoning will be 12/21/2012. Is it just coincidence that is the first day of winter?

The Y2K bug is out of place in that list. Y2K was a very real problem. As it happens, it was addressed in advance at great expense. That is why issues were minimal - not because it was overblown or not a problem in the first place.

The end has or has not yet come and it either was covered up or someone switched the calendar, and we know all of this for certain.

God's Church Ministry, Fall 2008 :

"there will be a maximum time of two years remaining before the world will be plunged into the worst time of all human history. By the fall of 2008, the United States will have collapsed as a world power, and no longer exist as an independent nation."

Sounds like Reverend Ronnie was a Republican.

i bet my uncle $1 million that the world would not end in 2012.

his response, i shiat you not, "you don't have $1 million!"

let that marinate for a minute.

Citrate1007: My money is on Skynet or the T-Virus.

I'm gonna go with Kim Jung Il for $500 Alex.

/crazy sawed-off bastard

nburghmatt: i bet my uncle $1 million that the world would not end in 2012.

his response, i shiat you not, "you don't have $1 million!"

let that marinate for a minute.

That's gold Jerry, gold!

nburghmatt: i bet my uncle $1 million that the world would not end in 2012.

his response, i shiat you not, "you don't have $1 million!"

let that marinate for a minute.

It actually took me a whole minute.

Big_Fat_Liar: The Y2K bug is out of place in that list. Y2K was a very real problem. As it happens, it was addressed in advance at great expense. That is why issues were minimal - not because it was overblown or not a problem in the first place.

Yeah, I love that. Typical of how IT people are treated when they do their job correctly.

/no, I'm not bitter. It's just kinda frustrating when the ultimate measure of success is that nobody knows you're there.

Sarcastica75: The end is nigh.

I thought that was the Sheriff.

Blocked at work...

Ant: I saw a car around here that was completely wrapped in advertisements for a website that says the end is coming in May. I wish I could remember the website. It was hilarious.

Aha! Just found the address: http://www.wecanknow.com (new window)

May 21st is apparently the day all the fundy idjits disappear

Is there any kind of math to support their "theory?" Some kind of planetary alignment or the like? Or was this just pulled out of someone's arse for kicks and giggles/is just generic religious fearmongering? :-\

/honest question
//thinks that it's effing silly, though

Ant: Big_Fat_Liar: The Y2K bug is out of place in that list. Y2K was a very real problem. As it happens, it was addressed in advance at great expense. That is why issues were minimal - not because it was overblown or not a problem in the first place.

Yeah, I love that. Typical of how IT people are treated when they do their job correctly.

/no, I'm not bitter. It's just kinda frustrating when the ultimate measure of success is that nobody knows you're there.

Story of my life
/sysadmin

nburghmatt: i bet my uncle $1 million that the world would not end in 2012.

his response, i shiat you not, "you don't have $1 million!"

let that marinate for a minute.

The derp is strong with this one.

If you have an hour to kill, Daniel's timeline isn't bad.. He put some effort into it... Seems like a humble enough guy who says WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE. Link (new window)

A Brief History of the Apocalypse, from 2800 BCE to 2005. (new window)

nostratic: List fails without perpetual alarmist Paul Ehrlich's list of epic failure.

* "The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines . . . [AND] hundreds of millions of people [including Americans] are going to starve to death." (1968)
* "Smog disasters" in 1973 might kill 200,000 people in New York and Los Angeles. (1969)
* "I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." (1969)
* "Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion." (1976)

Came in to ask "where's Paul?"... good to see it's been well taken care of.

'The end of the world occurred on Jan. 1, 2000, but everyone was too hung over to notice'

/not obscure at all

Besides, everyone knows that an alien in a room at the Holiday Inn in Paramus said that the world would end on February 14, 2016.

L33t Squirrel: Ant: I saw a car around here that was completely wrapped in advertisements for a website that says the end is coming in May. I wish I could remember the website. It was hilarious.

Aha! Just found the address: http://www.wecanknow.com (new window)

May 21st is apparently the day all the fundy idjits disappear

Is there any kind of math to support their "theory?" Some kind of planetary alignment or the like? Or was this just pulled out of someone's arse for kicks and giggles/is just generic religious fearmongering? :-\

/honest question
//thinks that it's effing silly, though

My aunt sent me a very odd letter a couple weeks ago, and I've been consumed with this ever since. She says there's "biblical evidence" to support it, followed by scriptures. A whole mess of 'em, too. I sent her back a very well-thought out letter in response stating my scientific analysis. Haven't heard back.

Link (new window)

Gotta love good research. Who greenlights this stuff anyway?

ImRonBurgundy: nburghmatt: i bet my uncle $1 million that the world would not end in 2012.

his response, i shiat you not, "you don't have $1 million!"

let that marinate for a minute.

The derp is strong with this one.

i set the trap. lol

John Titor unavailable for comment?

James F. Campbell: Besides, everyone knows that an alien in a room at the Holiday Inn in Paramus said that the world would end on February 14, 2016.

"Valentine's Day. Bummer."

nburghmatt: i bet my uncle $1 million that the world would not end in 2012.

his response, i shiat you not, "you don't have $1 million!"

let that marinate for a minute.

He had two options, point out that he either did or didn't believe it, or that you are poor and make bets you cannot keep. He decided to point out that you were a liar.

I'll always remember "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Happen in 1988."

EddieMoscone: My aunt sent me a very odd letter a couple weeks ago, and I've been consumed with this ever since. She says there's "biblical evidence" to support it, followed by scriptures. A whole mess of 'em, too. I sent her back a very well-thought out letter in response stating my scientific analysis. Haven't heard back.

Lulz. I guess what I'm trying to say, now that I've had a bit more caffiene, is why the religious nuts who go nuts over this actually care? I mean, I'm just a dirty heathen, but IIRC, the belief seems to be that once you die, if you've been a good little -insert religious follower here-, you get to go to go chat with your chosen deity once you shuffle off this mortal coil. Thusly, I wonder why they should give a rat's ass whether the "End of the World" happens tomorrow or a thousand years from now. Is there some kid of merit badge for experiencing it that everyone else who died earlier misses out on, like some kind of effed-up Xbox achievement? Do you get some kind of celestial street cred for seeing the world go asplodey and stuff?

/pardon the snark
//again, genuinely curious

Jehovah Witnesses- Armageddon any second now.

not now..... now? Soon?

Praise Bob!

The really scary thing, though, is that some Christians are so far gone that they're actually trying to force the end of the world to happen. (new window)

And now the Millerites go on to drink some shiatty beer.