The End Is Nigh!

I predict the world shall end, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but perhaps someday. You may or may not get warning. It is possible it will be quick, but it could be prolonged. Do not make plans, unless you feel a need to be prepared.

EDIT: http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/proof/proof.html

The link is the long version, I've just took some of his calculations and put them into a tl;dr form.

EDIT 2: Screwed up his math. Fixed it.

I've decided to write down his "mathematical proof":

Jesus died on the cross on April 3, 33 A.D.

The number of days between 4/3/33 and 5/21/2011 is exactly 722,500.

Then there is the fact an earth year is 365.2422 days.

Multiply the number of years between the two dates by the number of days in a year:

2011-33=1978. 1978*365.2422=722449.07. 722,449.07+51=722500.07.

He then goes into some of God's numbers:

3 is God's purpose. 5 is atonement or redemption. 10^nth power (or at least when n=1,2,or3)is completeness. 17 is Heaven. 23 is destruction.

722500=5*10*17*5*10*17.

Here is his big sentence:

Make what you will.

Personally, I'm going to get a large payday loan the day before and go to a strip club and get laid by a hot stripper or something and then go about my day as normal on the day itself.

edited 10th May '11 8:24:29 PM by tclittle

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

Fairly dull as numerology goes.

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.

Agreed. He's got a degree in civil engineering according to The Other Wiki, so I personally thought there would be more math involved.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

Is it wrong that I would like to see the entire planet burst into flame and cease to be?

The finality of humanity reaching its end sounds kind of... awesome to me - and that's ignoring any religious context and having earth just explode. Add in the religious stuff, and I can totally look forward to this.

But alas, there is no way that this prediction is true. Or the 2012 one for that matter.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD

I find it darkly amusing that a self-proclaimed Christian leader uses numerology.

"Wait, it's IV. Of course they are. They'd make IV for Dreamcast." - Enlong, on yet another FFIV remake

Well, to be fair, the Bible does that too — mostly as a way of carrying around semi-forgotten in-jokes about the meanings associated to numbers, of course, but still.

But yes, that's just not complicated enough to be interesting — or, to quote Niels Bohr,

I predict that the world will end precisely five minutes before the Singularity occurs. Just to mess with transhumanists

edited 10th May '11 9:23:00 PM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

I once connected the ISBN on a box of Life cereal to the Life board game with fake-o numerology. Something about Milton Bradley's birthday and copyright durations.

I love how they are so damn certain of this even though the Bible says only God knows, and yet they have an issue with other people not treating the Bible literally.

A brighter future for a darker age.

Many thanks, blueharp, you've cleared everything up and I no longer feel confused or uncertain about our future.

kinkajou, numerology is largely based on the Qabballah and Jewish mysticism. It's probably one of the few forms of prognostication the Christians are actually allowed to use. If he'd broken out the Tarot Deck, OTOH, he'd be on shakier grounds (the Qabballistic stuff is more diluted in the Tarot...)

So, uh, God? Now that it does appear, against all odds, that you do in fact exist, and that that particular interpretation of you somehow turned out to be right... you think you could maybe set aside the whole agnosticism thing?

...no? Ok, I'll be hanging around in Limbo with Aristotle if you change your mind.

The term "Great Man" is disturbingly interchangeable with "mass murderer" in history books.

I wondered once if some people would be determined to create an apocalypse on these dates and so fulfill them

Huh, he's done this before- 9/6/1994 >.>

[1] - fast foreword to about 3:20 for facts.

edited 11th May '11 10:21:22 PM by Vyctorian

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Aww... That's 3 days before my birthday...

Don't Stop Me Now...

Well, this explains why there have been so many "repent, sinners!" types around campus lately.

Panhandling sign glued to hands. Need $5 for solvent.

Again?

Wake me up when it actually rains hellfire and the four horsemen actually pay us puny mortals a visit.

I think the Four Horsemen already arrived; they have a few albums out already.

But regardless I don't think screaming the End is nigh is productive.

"Wait, it's IV. Of course they are. They'd make IV for Dreamcast." - Enlong, on yet another FFIV remake

Wait, if all that happens on this "end" is "the true believers are raptured into heaven", all I have to say is "Good riddance"! Let this happen, and the world will be free of fundies at last.

Of course, I think it's false anyway. With the current population of the Internet, the End is bound to happen in exactly one month.

edited 12th May '11 5:10:21 AM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

And then there's the thorny issue of what constitutes a true believer...

No wonder John Calvin is controversial.

"Wait, it's IV. Of course they are. They'd make IV for Dreamcast." - Enlong, on yet another FFIV remake

It would be a really nice troll, however, for all atheists, "unrighteous" Christians*

and generally unholy people to make themselves scarce the 21th for a while.

Just to see what happens when the doom-sayers do when it seems that everyone except them has been raptured (is that even a verb? )

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

Well, I'd probably join in that since I'm the "wrong" kind of Christian.

"Wait, it's IV. Of course they are. They'd make IV for Dreamcast." - Enlong, on yet another FFIV remake

I'm in for that.

"Oh, fuck, even the pagans have been taken!"

Well, this is just silly. The world can't end this year or next. It already ended in 2000 when the Y2K bug destroyed civilization as we knew it.

Honestly, these doomsday conspiracy theorists need to get on the same page. They just end up looking silly when they can't agree.

Well, at least I won't have to do that frightful Rights and Accountability exam. On the other hand, if it's to happen on Saturday, I shall miss Doctor Who.

In all seriousness, didn't Pat Robertson have allegedly concrete proof that the world was going to end back in 1982 at one point?

edited 12th May '11 5:59:32 AM by TheGloomer