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May 21, 2011...well, fits with the date that was set forth in Baroque (PS2 / Nintendo Wii), eh? So much for "No man knows the hour," huh?

And I work this coming Saturday, too...whether or not it's actually goin' down, I'm sure there might be people set on looting, pillaging, raping, killing, burning, so I'm debating whether I should just stay home that day...anybody else the least bit worried?

Has anybody else here been hearing this news coverage?

Because one just isn't enough:

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w00t! That's my new desktop image!

Heh, a lot of anime there and I have no idea where it's from... but I got a kick out of the van Gogh

Let's see...Homer Simpson and Edna Crabbapple from The Simpsons, Holland and Dominique from Eureka Seven, Kyon from Haruhi Suzumiya, Gundam...Transformers...Zelda from the Zelda CD-i games...some character from the Tales series, Kratos maybe?...Hank from...that Texas-themed animated sitcomedy...the captain from Star Trek who isn't James Kirk...Silver Surfer...one of the kids from the kids baseball tournament from South Park...ooh! Grendel from Kyo Kara Maoh! The kid from Case Closed/Detective Conan...Wolfwood from Trigun...Space Ghost...got a Dragon Ball character in there...the Silver Surfer, if I haven't said that one, already...

Man, is it completely nerdy how many characters I recognize from that?

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I'm still praying to God tonight...

Death comes to us all...

Anybody who buys into this nonsense is certified retarded.

It would absolutely rock if the rapture thing happened this weekend.

Everyone gets to experience the end of the world (their consciousness). Death is very fair, making sure to give everyone a thorough experience.

Not really. Sitting on a ventilator for six months and having your organs fail one by one doesn't quite compare with a full-on biblical apocalypse.

Kanpai! \(^_^)/

If only because it would mean you wouldn't hear me talking anymore, m i rite?!

S'what I said before, amigo: Death comes to us all!...no matter how it happens.

*sigh*

Pretty much knew everyone's response before I even posted, but I wanted to see if anyone would actually crack some decent jokes, or what-have-you.

Think I'll stop pestering you guys for awhile, and go read something productive. The New Yorker, anyone?

Clearly this is somekind of vague omen that I'm gonna win at the lottery on saturday.

Bring it on. Hey it's been grand, but let's get this thing over and done with.

Do we at least get to choose the way we'll all die? For the bad guys, I vote for rabid dogs to chomp down on their testicles, which get fatally infected. For people who are actually decent, death by orgasm is the way to go.

What entity issues the certification, and what are their accreditations?

How can anyone not love "The Prophet Hen of Leeds"?

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Damn it, everyone is still here.

If these prophets keep up their teases, it'll make even weathermen look like they have great percentage records for accuracy.

These prophets have been claiming the end of the world for thousands of years. Which makes them 0 for ... well, I'm guessing thousands. Maybe hundreds, I'm not sure how often someone can claim the world is going to end. Anyway, here's my prophecy:

Expect more end of the world prophecies for thousands of more years.

You know what would have been awesome? A bunch of gay people going into hiding on Rapture Day.

They're gonna be right at some point!

Except for the whole Biblical aspect obviously.

The next big one coming up is December 21, 2012 obviously, this time courtesy of our ancient friends, the Mayans. This one's got a LOT more people believing in it, so it'll be nice to see what happens next year.

I don't know for certain, but I doubt. How exactly do you define "end of the world"? Are you talking about no life on Earth? In which case that is likely to occur in a few billion years once the Sun starts fusing He into heavier elements and thus it's surface will expand. Between now and then humanity may actually leave the Earth and explore new worlds. In which case expect a group of space-faring people proclaiming that "the end of the Universe is coming"...

Well, if anything did happen, I certainly didn't notice it. Granted, if I was super-omnipotent being that wanted to rapture a few thousand people without being noticed, I certainly wouldn't have them sublimate out of their clothing, leaving their clothing behind...

Remember that 2004 re-imagining of War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise? The people that got vaporized, why were their clothes being left behind? Whether your clothes are synthetic material, or organic (cotton), I should think they'd be vaporized, anyway. Seeing all those clothes floating around on the wind was both surreal, but also kind of comedic...about the only comedic thing about the movie.

Don't count on it; we could have super-sonic jets, but environmentalists are opposing that technology...

It's amazing how many things could be considered unconstitutional or environmentally unfriendly.

After all, people are saying that exit and entry of the planet's atmosphere is depleting the ozone layer.

Not to mention how much debt the U.S. is in; I doubt we'll have any significant investments - that would allow the construction of an interstellar space ark - anytime in the foreseeable future. Not unless people decided that their own personal survival was more important than trying to run a stable economy.

You're thinking very very very near future. In a billion years, not to mention, one million, or even a hundred thousand... who knows what countries will exist? You really think the US will exist a thousand years from now?

But yes, I agree, that we won't see huge amounts of money placed into space research or science research in general, at least not from the government. I think it's a pity, and has long-lasting affect on the US economy actually. Well, maybe things will change as we move away from these wars...

My favorite quote of the week:

Camping's PR aide, Tom Evans, told the L.A. Times that the group is "disappointed" that 200 million true believers weren't lifted up to heaven on Saturday while everyone else suffered and eventually died as a series of earthquakes and famine destroyed the Earth. "You can imagine we're pretty disappointed..."

I know some people are "evil", and "malicious", and many just plain dumb, but I haven't heard many people recently divulge regret that roughly 6 billion and 575 million people didn't suffer and die. Yeah, and these guys still think they're going to Heaven with THAT attitude! On a personal note, I'm not claiming to believe in an afterlife, however if there was a Heaven, I'm not sure the Establishment would want people who are happy when 6,575,000,000 people perish

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Most of the ones I know were just eager to be rid of all the insufferable Christians.  What a utopia it would have been...

You wouldn't know it from the way I talk all the time, but Holier-Than-Thous aren't very fond of me, and I'm not very fond of them, either.

I'm probably too progressive for them.

there's a game show on tv right now (strangely enough hosted by the guy who played Carlton on the Fresh Prince).
one of the contestant's names is Lisa Carlone (lease a car loan)