World ends May 21, 2011.

D.B.Cooper

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Thought it might be fun to start the year of with yet another doomsday prediction from yet another religious cult. Here's the story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_on_re/us_rel_apocalypse_soon

And here's their site. Be sure to check back on the 22nd to see what excuse they're going to come up with. I'm guessing: "Whoops, slight miscalculation! It's actually next year! Or ten years from now! Or maybe a hundred! :D

http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/

Well, if this doesn't work there's always 2012 to look forward to!
 
I like PZ Myers' take on this:
If you're disappointed in CNN, you can always turn to MSNBC…ooops, never mind, they're solemnly reporting on the end-of-the-world nonsense from the Harold Camping Cult. They're predicting the Rapture will come on 21 May.

I would like to propose a novel version of Pascal's Wager for the news media. When apocalyptic cults come along and announce disaster and doom, ridicule them. Just rip into them, send your most sarcastic, cynical reporters to cover the story, and just shred all the followers as loons and gullible freaks. There will be two possible outcomes.

One, they're right, and the world ends. Your business has nothing to gain or lose by taking them seriously before the big event — it's going kaput no matter what. So have a grand time before the catastrophe and make money with laughter. It's not as if listening to crazy ol' Harold Camping will make a bit of difference in your fate.

Two, they're wrong, and the world keeps rolling on beyond 21 May. We all win! It means your coverage was spot on perfect, and got all the right answers, while the cultists are going to have to go glumly back to living their miserable little failed lives. Follow up with a feature on all the broken-hearted crazies. Start looking for the next mob of nuts to mock.

See? That's how to handle it. All this sober pandering to derangement gains you nothing.
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If only...
 
D.B.Cooper said:
Thought it might be fun to start the year of with yet another doomsday prediction from yet another religious cult. Here's the story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_on_re/us_rel_apocalypse_soon

And here's their site. Be sure to check back on the 22nd to see what excuse they're going to come up with. I'm guessing: "Whoops, slight miscalculation! It's actually next year! Or ten years from now! Or maybe a hundred! :D

http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/

Well, if this doesn't work there's always 2012 to look forward to!
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The Article said:
For believers like McCann, theirs is actually a message of hope and compassion: God's compassion for people, and the hope that there's still time to be saved.
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Hope and compassion? God is going to destroy anyone who either hasnt heard or doesnt believe? Real compassionate.

Cant wait for May 22nd, when we can tease the loonies.
 
That's my wife's birthday. I think we will still go out to eat though. At least we will have something to watch while eating dinner.
 
When the real accurate "doomsday prophecy that predicts that the event is preventable and describes how" arrives, we'll just ignore it because of all these cry-wolves.

Interesting thought no?
 
davemc said:
I said Preventable.
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Hmm

Edit: I'm sure we'll eventually have something come along capable of being a doomsday event. I don't think we could prevent it, only minimise the damage in some way but yeah, I prefer to place trust in science than religious fanatics.
 
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davemc said:
When the real accurate "doomsday prophecy that predicts that the event is preventable and describes how" arrives, we'll just ignore it because of all these cry-wolves.

Interesting thought no?
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Not really - we can calculate the number of years our star has left before it goes supernova, I think to the nearest million or maybe thousand. Hopefully we'll get a lot more accurate closer to the time, so one day, a long long way from now, we will have a real, substantiated doomsday prediction with evidence. Wouldnt that be nice?
 
Eventually someone is going to be right :-)

Just keep predicting, until it comes true. Its like playing the lotto.
 
Ancalagon said:
Not really - we can calculate the number of years our star has left before it goes supernova, I think to the nearest million or maybe thousand. Hopefully we'll get a lot more accurate closer to the time, so one day, a long long way from now, we will have a real, substantiated doomsday prediction with evidence. Wouldnt that be nice?
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We don't have to worry about the Sun going nova since it doesn't have enough mass. Same goes for it imploding into a black hole. What will happen is that after it has consumed its available hydrogen it will expand and consume Mercury and Venus and probably the Earth. Since this is billions of years into the future I don't think we have to worry about it, just yet. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle
 
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