Judgement day is nigh, motherfuckers.

[Rusty Shackleford]

So, i dont know if anyone has noticed these. so far, ive only noticed them being put up in lower class areas but then again i dont go to upper class areas very much:lol:

i checked it out online and its like some giant crazy.... crazinesss thing.

predictions for what radical Christians will do?

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i think i meant to post this in chit-chat.

[bailey_187]

gonna be alot of dissapointed people on 22nd of May

[Red Commissar]

It's good to see a church spending money on important things like this.

[Sensible Socialist]

It will be even funnier on the 22nd of May.

[brigadista]

Its the "Rapture"!! and not the Anita Baker kind...

went to the link on your pictures and its here

http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/may21/index.html

but trust me its full of revelations bible quotes etc etc scrolled through most of it ....medieval and tedious

when I was in the USA in 2009 there seemed to be churches everywhere in the poorest areas- Houses were falling down but every church had a big neon cross and was in very good repair - paid for from the congregations tithes perhaps??? The same here to a lesser extent but the same...

this religious stuff seems to be more of a fear lockdown...

[The Vegan Marxist]

I'd love to see Richard Dawkins and the Atheist Foundations design another billboard countering this hilarious b.s. :D

[DecDoom]

Anyone else notice that the Spanish billboard says October 21st?

Looks like it'll take a full 5 months for the apocalypse to reach the Spanish speaking areas. :laugh:

EDIT: Wait, one part of the Spanish billboard says May 21st, the other says October 21st. Must be a rain date, just in case.

[Raúl Duke]

I've seen these in Puerto Rico, although by a different organization and perhaps with a different date (I don't remember but it was some month in the summer I think or maybe even February).

They're from Jehovah's Witnesses or Adventists, most likely.


Anyone else notice that the Spanish billboard says October 21st?Actually, the Spanish one is more detailed.
It says that on May there begins the judgment day and, I assume, a series of Revelation-like events will occur between May 'till October when the world will be destroyed.

Also, all these come from the same guy, some dude called "Harold Camping" who has his own weird Christian beliefs...look him up. He doesn't believe in hell, for instance (something about your soul ceasing to exist).

[FreeFocus]

:lol::lol::lol:

Should be fun! I'll make sure to stock up on food and beverages to see the reaction in the streets when nothing happens.

[PilesOfDeadNazis]

predictions for what radical Christians will do?
In a few months it will be a different date. Probably a different year. Same idea. Same call to repentance or whatever. Same motives.

The radical Christians won't do anything because the "date of the rapture" will keep changing and desperate people will keep falling for it.

Hal Lindsey said humanity probably wouldn't make it through the 1980s. He's still considered a great "End Times" theologian by most Christian sects(especially Southern Baptists) and keeps writing books about it. All saying the same thing, but with different political figures to add in to the mix.

Did you ever see the documentary on Nat. Geo. about the cult in Strong City? I know most Christians aren't batshit crazy as that, but it still showed the same kind of "End Times"/divinely hopeful attitude which accompanies all these claims. When the leader of the cult was supposed to become a "new man" or something, nothing happened. Yet his followers did not turn away or even question why he was still the same old, pervy fuck. The feeling of euphoria which comes from these kinds of religious experiances/beliefs is sometimes too strong for people to turn away from no matter the evidence in front of their faces.:(

[Pretty Flaco]

Oh shit!
I better stack up on gold, guns, and GOD'S GRACE!

[malthusela]

Man, at least the crazed conspiracy theorists who promote 2012 being the end of the world bother to make some pseudo scientific reason. God is so blasé.

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

Something tells me that a lot of people are going to get hurt because of this constant, bombardment of apocalyptic outcomes...

[Ostrinski]

It's good to see a church spending money on important things like this.I concur.

If the past 30 years has their panties in a bunch, I can't wait to see them in the hora de la revolucion.

[Sasha]

repent you sinner, i have returned, judgementday is here, and i bannish thee, i trow thee in the fiery pits.


sorry, i mean shall i move this to chitchat or religion?
lets give religion first an try, if it stays silly we can always move it further to chitchat.

moved

[Sasha]

and yes, most will just find an new judgement day come may 22th but you might have a few of the loonies who top themselfs and even worse might take their kids with them

[The Vegan Marxist]

So, anyone else ready to hear on the news about another mass cult suicide? ^_^ Hell, who's ready for the hilarious events of 2012? :laugh:

[Ele'ill]

Winter is coming

[Lobotomy]

That's my 19th birthday :lol:

[Sasha]

^ antichrist

[Che a chara]

These false prophets, familyradio will burn in a hail of brimstone and fire !!!

the bible says re: Judgement day:

Mt 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Mr 13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father

[Rusty Shackleford]

you know whats funny, the fascist movements and all that are currently on the uptick, well once they become dissilusioned with right wing bullshit, they will switch to the real revolutionaries:cool:

(im playing off the idea of the working class being exhausted and the petit-bourgeoisie still desiring change leading to fascism in germany after the failures of the KPD and so on, so it will be opposite here)


EDIT: also, it looks like the first pictured has a "2010" with a circle crossed out. looks like the radical xtians and 2012 theorists are in a deadly battle over who gets the most gullible people.

[ComradeGrant]

So now Gay pride was planned by god to signal the end? I'd be laughing if I wasn't so filled with rage.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Knowing our luck, the international socialist revolution will happen on May 20, 2011.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I'd never heard of this before now. I doubt that anyone really buys into it except a few wingnuts.

I still have my fingers crossed for 2012. Quetzalcoatl is way cooler than the Judeo-Christian god anyway.

[Demogorgon]

I know these nutters probably genuinely believe this, but I always think prophets of armageddon would be better served being a little vaguer on the dates. That way they can fudge it and keep things perpetually delayed rather than looking like idiots when the appointed day comes and goes.

[Ravachol]

Dude don't they know the social rupture (http://socialrupture.tumblr.com/) is scheduled for the 21st as well? Seems like our bro Jesus is hella insurrecto.

[ComradeMan]

Perhaps people are in danger of taking nutcase fringe groups a little too seriously? I mean does anyone actually take these people seriously at all?

Living in probably one of the most Catholic countries in the world, and certainly very high on religious belief whatever I must admit I never really see any of this "end of the world" stuff going on at all...

:rolleyes:

[Sasha]

Dude don't they know the social rupture (http://socialrupture.tumblr.com/) is scheduled for the 21st as well? Seems like our bro Jesus is hella insurrecto.

do us an analysis of "revelations" from an inseructionary viewpoint pretty please :lol:

at last i present you the members of the invisible comite; conquest, war, famine and death!

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Perhaps people are in danger of taking nutcase fringe groups a little too seriously? I mean does anyone actually take these people seriously at all?

Living in probably one of the most Catholic countries in the world, and certainly very high on religious belief whatever I must admit I never really see any of this "end of the world" stuff going on at all...

:rolleyes:

That's because the Catholic Church don't want to spoil their racket.

[Ravachol]

do us an analysis of "revelations" from an inseructionary viewpoint pretty please :lol:

at last i present you the members of the invisible comite; conquest, war, famine and death!

There is actually a long tradition of 'Millenarian' Anarchism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pursuit_of_the_Millennium) in the late middle-ages. Also, if we are serious about this thing one could say that the Bergsonian idea of myth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson) that inspired revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Sorel) could be seen as Millenarian in it's own right. The idea that myth propels masses forward, grasping and reaching for something behind the horizon, propelling struggle to ever greater heights is a kind of millenarian self-fullfilling prophecy.

Similarly, proto-insurrectionalists like Renzo Novatore proclaimed



revolution is the fire of our will and a need of our solitary minds; it is an obligation of the libertarian aristocracy. To create new ethical values. To create new aesthetic values. To communalize material wealth. To individualize spiritual wealth. Because we-violent celebralists and passional sentimentalists at the same time-understand and know that revolution is a necessity of the silent sorrow that suffers at the bottom and a need of the free spirits who suffer in the heights.


The idea that the act of reaching for something, whether millenarian myth or reality, is in fact the very motor behind revolution is pretty wide-spread in some milieus.

[ComradeMan]

do us an analysis of "revelations" from an inseructionary viewpoint pretty please :lol:

at last i present you the members of the invisible comite; conquest, war, famine and death!

The book of Revelations does not contain the words of Jesus but was probably a codified polemic against Roman Imperialism,

[Sasha]

Yes i know, you know, but its obvious plenty of folk didn't get that memo.

[ComradeMan]

Yes i know, you know, but its obvious plenty of folk didn't get that memo.

That's my objection to "religionists" as opposed to spiritual people. If you get me?

[Rafiq]

Well, besides the humor in this, has anyone here actually viewed on text any of the reasons people would decide to predict this specific date?

[x371322]

You guys think you've got it all figured out. This it totally for realz. Repent now you bastards.

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

Hmm... I'm curious as what these idiots will say after their dooms day when they're questioned about why they wrong and whether or not they feel responsible for any injuries or suicides that may have happened because of their "predictions."

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

This thread is full of win. :laugh:

[Raúl Duke]

Perhaps people are in danger of taking nutcase fringe groups a little too seriously? I mean does anyone actually take these people seriously at all?

Living in probably one of the most Catholic countries in the world, and certainly very high on religious belief whatever I must admit I never really see any of this "end of the world" stuff going on at all...

:rolleyes:

That's because the catholic church doesn't have much history of such stuff as protestantism and its millenarian sects and I'm guessing protestantism is very weak to non-existent in Italy. The US on the other-hand always had a fertile environment for weird cults (from Mormons, Scientologists, and a whole bunch of smaller ones) and weird beliefs, fundamentalists, etc.

Puerto Rico is a religious country (and a backward country, according to some survey/research study, but I guess all the backward people are outside of the metropolitan area and I barely now much about what's out there), majority catholic, and you do still see stuff like that but mostly peddled by protestants (who are sizable community, there's even a few mega-churches but way less than the US and a lot of shanty looking protestant churches).

[DDR]

Seriously guys what's up with milenarism and protestantism. At least the catholic church here is only concern whit the destruction of Spain and the family, not the whole world :P

BTW: Google translate and the bible = epic fail. I cannot undertand the bible quote, it's a really crappy spanish, confusing más with mas, weirdo verb forms, lousy grammar, etc. If you're addvertising doomsday dude make it right :P

[brigadista]

the words snakeoil and salesmen come to mind.....

[Princess Luna]

come may 21 it will be declared that "god in his infinite mercy" has decided to spare us all..........just like he has 2689234 times before but don't worry! the end is coming November 9th 2013 for sure! :laugh: