World ends May 21, 2011.

A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car's sunroof during an incident best described as "a mistaken rapture" by dozens of eyewitnesses.

Thirteen other people were injured after a twenty-car pile up resulted from people trying to avoid hitting the woman who was apparently convinced that the rapture was occurring when she saw twelve people floating up into the air, and then passed a man on the side of the road who she claimed was Jesus.

"She started screaming "He's back, He's back" and climbed right out of the sunroof and jumped off the roof of the car," said Everet Williams, husband of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene.

"I was slowing down but she wouldn't wait till I stopped," Williams said. She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna lift her up into the sky," he went on to say.

"This is the strangest thing I've seen since I've been on the force," said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene.

Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus and was on his way to a toga costume party when the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released twelve blow up sex dolls filled with helium which floated up into the air.

Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who's been told by several of his friends that he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in frustration, and said "Come back here," just as the Williams' car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting people up into the sky as they passed by him, according to her husband, who says his wife loved Jesus more than anything else.

When asked for comments about the twelve sex dolls, Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like this to happen."

http://www.ozjokes.com/jokes/20-true-stories/636-the-rapture
 
A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car's sunroof during an incident best described as "a mistaken rapture" by dozens of eyewitnesses.

Thirteen other people were injured after a twenty-car pile up resulted from people trying to avoid hitting the woman who was apparently convinced that the rapture was occurring when she saw twelve people floating up into the air, and then passed a man on the side of the road who she claimed was Jesus.

"She started screaming "He's back, He's back" and climbed right out of the sunroof and jumped off the roof of the car," said Everet Williams, husband of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene.

"I was slowing down but she wouldn't wait till I stopped," Williams said. She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna lift her up into the sky," he went on to say.

"This is the strangest thing I've seen since I've been on the force," said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene.

Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus and was on his way to a toga costume party when the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released twelve blow up sex dolls filled with helium which floated up into the air.

Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who's been told by several of his friends that he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in frustration, and said "Come back here," just as the Williams' car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting people up into the sky as they passed by him, according to her husband, who says his wife loved Jesus more than anything else.

When asked for comments about the twelve sex dolls, Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like this to happen."

http://www.ozjokes.com/jokes/20-true-stories/636-the-rapture

Most funniest true story ever
 
A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car's sunroof during an incident best described as "a mistaken rapture" by dozens of eyewitnesses.

Thirteen other people were injured after a twenty-car pile up resulted from people trying to avoid hitting the woman who was apparently convinced that the rapture was occurring when she saw twelve people floating up into the air, and then passed a man on the side of the road who she claimed was Jesus.

"She started screaming "He's back, He's back" and climbed right out of the sunroof and jumped off the roof of the car," said Everet Williams, husband of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene.

"I was slowing down but she wouldn't wait till I stopped," Williams said. She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna lift her up into the sky," he went on to say.

"This is the strangest thing I've seen since I've been on the force," said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene.

Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus and was on his way to a toga costume party when the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released twelve blow up sex dolls filled with helium which floated up into the air.

Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who's been told by several of his friends that he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in frustration, and said "Come back here," just as the Williams' car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting people up into the sky as they passed by him, according to her husband, who says his wife loved Jesus more than anything else.

When asked for comments about the twelve sex dolls, Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like this to happen."

http://www.ozjokes.com/jokes/20-true-stories/636-the-rapture

Darwinism at its finest. Sad that someone lost their life that way, sucks to be her family but... erm... lol... Couldn't happen to a dafter person.

Although, I see link considers it "maybe true" so I wouldn't put too much faith in this.

hehe... "faith"
 
What REALLY pisses me off is that Camping is not man enough to give an explanation - AND AN APOLOGY - to all the people he misled. As we read, a lot of people spent a lot of money on this, some sold all their belongings, etc.

That idiot also predicted this in 1994 and he really ought to come forward and explain. He needs a few bitchslaps too.
 
What REALLY pisses me off is that Camping is not man enough to give an explanation - AND AN APOLOGY - to all the people he misled. As we read, a lot of people spent a lot of money on this, some sold all their belongings, etc.

That idiot also predicted this in 1994 and he really ought to come forward and explain. He needs a few bitchslaps too.

Nah, that roody-poo candy-ass would never explain, they're still waiting for an explanation of his 1994 predictions..

As for an apology, anyone who is monumentally stupid enough to believe him and act like they did have only themselves to blame. In fact if they were smart they'd learn a lesson or two from this. Hell, they would have learned their lesson the first time he started talking nonsense. But the idiots will probably convince themselves it's "god testing their faith" or some such.
 
The world did end.

However, Ctp Janeway and her heroic crew on the starship voyager triggered a temporal explosion while fighting some baddies in the Delta quadrant. She pranged the Voyager into the bad dudes starship which had a temporal weapon. The resulting explosion reset the time-space continuum across the entire galaxy reaching across time to 21 May 2011. Epic stuff.

I saw this on Sky Atlantic on Saturday, so it must be true. :)
 
I was kinda on a 50/50 re this matter but when the Lions lost again on Saturday I leaned towards us being safe.
 
SA world-enders left with hotel bill: report

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article1081615.ece/SA-world-enders-left-with-hotel-bill--report

South African followers of US evangelist Harold Camping, who predicted the end of the world for this past weekend, have been left to deal with some earthly matters -- a super-high hotel bill

On Monday, Beeld newspaper reported that Johannes Coetzee and 80 of his followers had booked themselves on Friday into the Devonshire hotel in Braamfontein, Johannesburg at R689 per night, excluding meals, for a single room, and R1178 for a double room.

By Sunday afternoon, when there was still no sign of the world ending on Saturday, the group was still at the hotel and refused to speak to Beeld.

Coetzee did not answer his cellphone either.

His Facebook page was littered with comments, including a Jan Viljoen, who posted a message: "Johannes, praat met Facebook. Ons hoor graag van jou. [Johannes, speak to Facebook. We would love to hear from you."

In the United States, Camping has also been keeping a low profile. This was his second end-of-world prediction that has gone wrong, after a similar mishap in 1994.

Bunch of fools.
 
This was his second end-of-world prediction that has gone wrong, after a similar mishap in 1994.

Not to worry, he can try again in 2012. Piggybacking on the Mayans may make it 3rd time lucky!
 
Not to worry, he can try again in 2012. Piggybacking on the Mayans may make it 3rd time lucky!
That's too far, I think he will invoke a day in October 2011. Apparently 21 May was just the start of tribulations that will usher in the end in October. He might also claim the volcanic ash in Europe plus the storms in USA over the weeked as signs.
 
What REALLY pisses me off is that Camping is not man enough to give an explanation - AND AN APOLOGY - to all the people he misled. As we read, a lot of people spent a lot of money on this, some sold all their belongings, etc.

That idiot also predicted this in 1994 and he really ought to come forward and explain. He needs a few bitchslaps too.

Does this not constitute something of a false prophecy? :D I'm sure there are warnings of this sort of thing in the Bible and now apparently this guy has gotten away with it...twice! :p
 
Does this not constitute something of a false prophecy? :D I'm sure there are warnings of this sort of thing in the Bible and now apparently this guy has gotten away with it...twice! :p

The temple of solomon 1st needs to be rebuild before any rapture can happen - so yes this is an false prophecy :D
 
I assume the real 1 - ala revelations. Small problem is the mosque thats currently standing there - then again nothing that a bomb or 2 can't fix. :D
 
I assume the real 1 - ala revelations. Small problem is the mosque thats currently standing there - then again nothing that a bomb or 2 can't fix. :D

It's been discussed a billion times over the last thousand years... since the Al Aqsa mosque was built there.
Archaeological evidence shows that the mosque is not exactly in the same location as where the temple stood.
The actual site of the Holy of Holies is exposed and a temple could quite easily fit right next to the Mosque.
Now, just to get them to actually entertain such an idea.... :rolleyes:
 
The take-away for me: it shows again how easily we as people are taken in by own own favourite biases and prejudices. We hear only what we want to hear, and edit out the rest, and we rush to judgment and call gainsayers idjuts and foolz.

Camping's fundamentalism is deeply anti-rational, ironically blunting the very instrument his Creator gave him to discern reality (the rational mind) - it amounts to throwing God's gift back into His face. His irrational bibliolatry makes him rabidly anti-Catholic, yet he makes himself his own pope, claiming greater infallibility than even the most triumphalist of Roman pontiffs. His followers were taken in by their own credulity. Now they are the laughing stock of billions.

I, too, am beset by my favourite bigotries and knee-jerk judgments, which of course I think comport with reality. For example, on MyBB my hackles are quickly raised by socialists and enviro-loons (there we go again) and crypto-commies and ignorant atheists, and what to me are silly partisan fanbois trashing anyone who doesn't think their own fave brand is the ultimate cool. Mea culpa.

Of course, zealotry needn't be theistic. It can even be anti/pro-theistic, or anti/pro-religious, or anti/pro-anything-you-want. It's just a passionate push of your own party line/agenda in a way that denigrates others and airs your biases, which are often unconscious or at least unexamined. And sometimes that zealotry decays into a vitriol- or scorn-laden crusade that delights in mockery, as if putting others down somehow boosts my own case. This forum has its fair share of zealots ceaslessly pushing their own 'gospel' at every opportunity, from politics to technology to philosophy: Pro-Global-Warmers and Anti-Global-Warmers, Socialists and Anti-Socialists, Pro-Americans and Anti-Americans, Pro-Microsofters and Anti-Microsofters, Pro-Israel and Anti-Isreal, Pro-Muslim and Anti-Muslim (if you're brave), Open-Sourcerers, Googlingas, Androidudes, Apple-atchiks, Conspiracy-Theorists, Theists, Atheists, ... &c, &c.

That's life, I s'pose. And, yes, every idea should be examined, and the wrong ones exposed. And the right ones promoted. But in way we debate this, a little self-examination for all us, whatever our stripes, might well be in order. A little more tolerance, patience, peace. And always an openness to new ideas, and to seeing the truth in things we might not have examined properly. Etcetera.

Mea culpa. I'm gonna try again. (Just don't push your luck, mate!) ;)
 
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