Posted on 05/20/2011 8:31:24 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
I’m not going to lie to you guys but doing this research was less fun and more confusing. Confusing because most of the infallible proof that they had revolved around numbers. Numbers, it seems to me, that were just made up to prove fact. Essentially it’s around the same logic as this:
My name has five letters.
There are four seasons.
5-4=1
1 is the purest number.
Therefore I am the second coming of Christ.
Alright, it might not be that crazy, but it’s almost there. And keep your panties on people, I do not believe that I’m the second coming of Christ. Although I do think that turning water into wine would be awesome. Would it be a fine full bodied Merlot or a crisp Riesling?
Alright, so the actual numbers. Keep in mind the numbers that they start off with are all kind of made up- they argue that they got these numbers because God wanted them to receive them around now. 7! Oh sorry, did I startle you? God was just sending me a number.
According to the ambassadors, they have discovered that the great flood that Noah had to deal with was 4990 B.C. In the Bible it also said that God told Noah that he had seven days before the great flood.
Elsewhere in the Bible (2 Peter 3:8) one day to God equals 7000 years to us. Which was really the whole defense of the Scopes trial and led to some sweet monologin’ in Inherit the Wind.
OK, so 7000 years after 4990 B.C. is 2011. Then if you add in the leap years and what not it rounds up to May 21st, 2011. Or something.
So their other proof is going up from the exact date of the crucifixtion, which according to them is April 1st, 33 A.D. Was that the first April Fools Day joke? ‘Cause in that case, April Fools should technically be April 3rd, because everyone was all like “Christ is dead!” and then He was all like “No I ain’t B*tches! April Fools!” I don’t care if you just found that blasphemous. Jesus Christ playing pranks is hilarious. "You're blind! April Fools! Now you can see! LOLz, guys!"
Back to the numbers. After April 1st, 33 A.D. there are 722,500 days until May 21st. Why is the number 722,500 important? It isn’t! Yay arbitration!
To the folks at Family Radio, the number 722,500 is represented by the equation 5x10x17x5x10x17, which are symbolic numbers. 5 means atonement, 10 means completeness and 17 means heaven. And then you do that twice? Hey, why not!
Then there’s the theory that between April 1st, 33 A.D. and April 1st 2011 is 1,978 years. Then you multiply that by the number of days in a solar year (365.2422 days) and then add 51 days (because that’s how many days are between April 1st and May 21st) and you get 722,500. INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE, PEOPLE!
So anyway, that's the proof that the Bible tells you. In any case, there's still a chance we're all doomed on Saturday (or at least 2012 for that matter - it's totally going to happen). So there's only one question left to ask.
What would you listen to as humanity came to an end? Hard rock? Classical? Something on the lighter side?
Here's a list of ideas (list yours below):
1. Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture (Finale)
2. R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World
3. Paula Cole - I Don't Want To Wait (Dawson's Creek Opening Titles)
4. Europe - The Final Countdown
5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Death Is Not The End
6. Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing (From Armageddon)
7. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
8. Metallica - Four Horsemen
9. The Doors - The End
10. Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil
11. AC/DC- Highway To Hell Music
12. Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World
13. U2 - Until The End Of The World
14. Muse - Apocalypse Please
15. Elvis Costello - Waiting For The End Of The World
16. Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
17. Talking Heads - Nothin' But Flowers
18. Bright Eyes - Four Winds
19. Prince - 1999
20. The Clash - London Calling
21. Britney Spears - Till The World Ends
Cool. Guess we’ll have to have happy hour a little early. Did said nutjob specify where the earthquake would be? Or is the whole planet going to shake? Just wondering. I’m kinda close to a fault line that’s a couple hundred years overdue... Wait—is the earthquake before or after the Rapture? I’d hate to miss the show.
I think you should start a ping list Called WERE YOU RAPTURED?
Ask all that maybe think they could be raptured to post and then ping them all about 7PM Sat. night and we can see we are the bad people left behind.
From what they were saying on the radio yesterday (I won’t claim to have read up on it, I like to stick to secondhand hearsay in such matters) starting at 6 pm tomorrow there will be five months of hell on earth. War. Plagues. Floods. Famine. Reruns of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’. It will be horrible.
GMTA See #36
Single ladies...I don’t see a wedding ring...he MIGHT be available! :-)
I saw that. I though maybe, if I was vewwy vewwy quiet no one would call attention to you beating me to the punch. But NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!
How would I start this list, a new thread? :O
LOL
I was gonna stock up on Trojan condominiums, but decided they wouldn't be needed any longer....
Top that wise guy...
So, out in San Fran, it should be on the 11:00 news. (Somehow, I'm willing to predict a lot of SFs leading light ain't gonna make the Cut.)
Could be worse. I could have mentioned you only missed it by 15 minutes... But hey, it’s the end of the world, so I won’t rub it in. :-)
“...Not a good day to run late. We’ve only got 30 hours to get everything done....”
Look at the up side to all of this. If you have a lot of debt, you won’t have to worry about paying it off. After tomorrow, it won’t matter.
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