Challenge Accepted!
In anticipation
(and now, if the world does end on the 21st, I gonna be seriously discomforted)
Posted on 05/14/2011 1:08:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An Irish American man has spent almost $150,000 in preparation for what he believes is the beginning of the end. Robert Fitzpatrick, 60, spent what he called his "life savings" on bus and subway advertisements throughout New York City in preparation for May 21, 2011 – or Judgement Day as Fitzpatrick has referred to it.
Fitzpatrick, a recently retired MTA engineer, is so convinced that the fast approaching date is the end of the world, that he published a book titled "The Doomsday Code." In an interview with the New York Post Fitzpatrick reasoned that his book provided "proof that cannot be dismissed" that the end was at hand.
This journalist encountered Fitzpatrick on the N train on the New York subway the other day. He was sitting by himself in the back of the last car, billboard and all, and got off at Herald Square. He did not preach or talk to any strap-hangers, despite his attention-grabbing sign proclaiming the end of the world.
Fitzpatrick believes that just before 12 midnight Jerusalem time on the 21st of May, the whole world will experience a massive earthquake which will "render the earth uninhabitable." His predictions are reminiscent of a disaster movie.
Fitzpatrick's obsession with the end of the world stems from the Evangelical radio programs hosted by Harold Camping. Camping uses a formula based on numerology in which he looks for codes and clues in the Bible to predict Judgement Day.
Camping has predicted the end on several occasions, yet Fitzpatrick tells the Post he does not want to consider his own predictions to be wrong. "I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to think about it," Fitzpatrick said, adding that "everybody asks me that."
Although many may find fault in Fitzpatrick's predictions, he is not alone. With all the civil unrest and natural disasters that have been occurring in the past eighteen months around the world, Fitzpatrick is not unique in his beliefs. Many are jumping on the bandwagon claiming that the end is near indeed. One piece of advice Fitzpatrick offers is for people to stop believing that their destinies are self-determined: "It is not our choice. It is God's choice.
My daughter thought that maybe she should change her hair appointment...
This stuff is such a crock. Jesus told us that we will know neither the day nor the hour, but all these nutcases spend every waking moment looking for it.
In the immortral words of Cormac McCarthy through the character of Anton Chigurh: "I really wouldn't worry about it."
Actually, I always heard it as: “Why are there never more than four Irishmen in a bar together at one time?” [Because when a fifth comes along it always disappears.]
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An Irish American man has spent almost $150,000 in preparation for what he believes is the beginning of the end.
A fool and his money are soon parted!
“Like many of us Irish I suspect he has been known to take a wee nip now and then..”
I happen to be enjoying a wee drop of the creature myself and I don’t see the end of the world. Perhaps I need to try harder.
“He fell in with Harold Camping’s evangelical doomsday cult. The “Family Radio” huckster.”
I cut his full page ad out of USA Today and tacked it to my office wall. I think I’ll take the week off.
This guy should´ve learned a little geology.
LOL!!
I think I'll err on the side of caution, and wish you a Happy Birthday now.
What a fool!!
There have been at least half a dozen wineos on milk crakes at Pershing Square every day for the last 70 years I know of that predict the same thing every day!
“May 21st is my 40th birthday. I wonder if I should celebrate it on the 20th just to be safe?”
Even if the end isn’t near, go celebrate since after 40 it’s all downhill!!!
Maybe GOD told him, but unfortunately it is just his time.
No, celebrate on the 21st, wouldn’t you rather have Jesus at your party?
Thursday just isn’t good for me!
Very suspicious. He doesn’t look Irish. And he lives on Staten Island.
Challenge Accepted!
In anticipation
(and now, if the world does end on the 21st, I gonna be seriously discomforted)
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