FYI: The World Will Still Be Here May 22, 2011

[teleen_fiction]

There will be no earthquake at 6PM on Saturday (is that Eastern or Pacific?), nor will there be a Rapture that leaves the survivors to suffer until October 21, 2011.  

It'll also still be here January 1, 2013. 

This has been a public service announcement from DUH! 

Thank you for your attention.

Over at atheism, there's a cool bingo card for all of we rational people to fill out starting on May 22. 

If I sound pissed off, it's because I am.  I actually had to DEBATE this today (with someone actually telling me I needed to 'get right' - I'm a good and moral person; that's as fucking 'right' as I need to get, thank you very much) and there's a fucking countdown billboard above my JOB, telling me that the end is near, which is EXACTLY what I want to see right before I have to go and deal with the public.

I feel genuinely sorry for anyone who believes this total bullshit.  (To be clear, you are entitled to believe whatever you wish, but if you truly believe that the world is ending on May 21, 2011 (or sometime in 2012) we should probably part ways right now.)

I'd also like to give a big, hearty and utterly sincere FUCK YOU to those who are propagating this fear-mongering, disgusting bag of fail.

Comments

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

Clearly I've been deep under my rock - people believe the world is going to end on the 21st May?

Now as well as your question I'd also like to know what date that is in Australia so I can be prepared /sarcasm.

[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

This crap is just bizarre. And people believe in it....

[girlofavalon.livejournal.com]

I learned about the Rapture on May 21st through my f-list. It's so silly!

No, seriously. I am not an atheist. I don't claim to be Christian either, because there is too much cultural and historical baggage to carry with it. I do believe in God, just not in the exact same way as the "Christians" do - specially if this is the default way.

This is all so utterly ridiculous, specially for those who claim to be Christians :\

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

There will be no earthquake at 6PM on Saturday.

I disagree with this statement There are earthquakes all the time, and there's a reasonable chance that one will occur at that time - but it will be something like a 2.1 that people will mistake for train. = p

But yes, it's total bullshit.

EDIT: And the Mayan calender one is December 21! Because I've been planing that party for YEARS. Not because I think the world will actually end, but I think someone saying the world is about to end is an awesome excuse for a party.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

I seem to have promised to write zero-G sex fic to celebrate. (Some Christians are normal, I promise)

[sylvanwitch]

Lol! When people say to me, "The world is ending [insert date here]," I smile and say, in a very Snape-like, smirking voice, "Oh, honey, don't you know? The world is already ending. Just look around you."

This makes them deeply uncomfortable, and I have to admit, it satisfies the angel of my darker nature. Probably, it means that on some level, I'm a bad person. ;-)

Personally, having read a translation of the Mayan prophecies (those oft-misinterpreted "predictions" that the world will end on 21 December 2012), it pisses me off that a lot of different groups of people are propagating fear for the purpose of conversion. The Mayans are being misused terribly for the power-hunger of many, many people and at the expense of peace of mind.

That doesn't mean I don't think we're in the running for big changes, but when *hasn't* civilization suffered rise and decline, and when hasn't change engendered destruction as well as new growth? It's a law of physics! Unfortunately, the rational approach is pretty soundly drowned out at the moment by hysteria, fear, and mind-control tactics.

*sighs*

[masterde.livejournal.com]

Hey! My birthday is May 22nd and I damned well better be getting presents. None of this, "The world's ending on the 21st so it's useless to buy you a present." If you believe the world will end on the 21st then get shopping now and buy me something for the 20th!

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

funny, I kinda thought we'd NOT get a warning or a specific date... ah well, that puts paid to our churches picnic in June then

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Matthew 24:36 (King James Version)

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Someone on that same thread on Facebook posted this. I could have kissed them, :).

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

Exactly... (though I could of course now tell you why I still think you should believe in Jesus - which I think was what they tried to tell you about 'becoming right' but I happen to enjoy your blog and don't want to part ways - that said, happy to answer any questions you may have about my relationship with him above)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

I know *exactly* what he meant by it. I was raised Presbyterian, was baptized and joined the church when I was 11 & have no interest in anyone else's relationship with Jesus. Your beliefs are your beliefs & I'll do my best to respect them in your spaces if you respect mine in mine, :). I apologize if I sound mean, but I'm very happy with my atheism, :).

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

you don't sound mean at all, I like to know what is okay to share and what's not - because, as I said, I think a relationship is more important than a belief system

[girlofavalon.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

Well, but since a lot of people seem to only read Leviticus. And just one verse out of it... [/sarcasm]

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

How do you really feel? ;-)

Seriously, the only time I ever felt the end date was appropriate was when it happened to fall on my birthday.

[meshell-mybell.livejournal.com]

This guy is a tool. He got it wrong in 94 and we aren't to know when it is to happen for real, even Christ doesn't know until he knows.

People keep spewing this end of the world crap, either this Saturday or Dec 2012, and suicide rates will begin to skyrocket. If I believed the world was to end I wouldn't get out of bed. What would be the friggin point of continuing if it was going to end? Douches like Harold Camping need to shut the hell up and leave the world alone. If he wishes to sit and wait for the Rapture on his own, fine, but he shouldn't be trying to drag everyone else into his own madness.

He'd better pray that a random earthquake doesn't happen and leaves people to panic and go all Jim Jones. I wonder if his concience could hold the weight of what he could possibly cause.

At 2am EST, when it is 6pm in New Zealand and nothing is happening, everyone should shoot him an email giving him a huge FUCK YOU!

/rant

[star54kar.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Those billboards have been pissing me the fuck off!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Wait, shouldn't there be an all-out war in my end of the world before the Rapture or something? I was under the impression that's some of the motivation of the weird evangelists that keep on interfering here....

*confused*

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

According to today's newspaper the guy who said this now claims that October 21, 2011 is the date when all the "good people" get Raptured.

And it cleared up the earthquake time thing by saying that every timezone gets their own 6PM earthquake, we don't have to share

yeah I giggled a bit and moved on, but thought I'd share.

rant about Christian does not automatically mean good person (and vice versa) goes here.