[Madam Kira]

So you know the world is suppose to end today, I just want to say how much I love you guys. ;D
Like I REALLY Love you guys.
...
No, but really.
Are you guys believing the world is going to end today?
What about 2012?
Does is creep you out that so many people believe in it?

That's what really gets me, is how many people actually believe in this.

Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go dance Till the World Ends. ;D

[Fey]

I...I shall NOT get on my soapbox about 2012...::nails that door shut::
and really, if the rapture does come today we have a party to go rapture looting, cause I know I ain' going. And I love that there's a group that set up to 'rescue' your animals if you go to rapture and leave them behind, and they're MAKING A LOT OF MONEY, cause people are idiots.

I vote for a big party on someones roof to watch the silly people get all disappointed.

[Demonskid]

technically.. IF the world was to 'end' it's not the WORLD that will end just human life..


Human life will die *just like the dino* and a new species will evolve from stuff and boom life on the world will still be there.. =w=

But I don't think the world will end.. nor human life.. xD


though the movie 2012 was interesting OwO

[Hero]

Wha? That's today?
Haha I had no idea.
I was too busy studying
/brick'd

[AceValkyrie]

In my opinion, no one can know or predict when judgement day will come. Its completely impossible. But I am not saying that the world won't end on 2012, it just might.. Just keep your eyes open, anything can happen.

[Ashurato]

I think there's something wrong when religion is more known for forecasting when the world is going to end rather than how people should love and respect each other.

All this "Rapture" ideology seems like a pretext saying "there is something fundamentally more 'good' in me than the rest of you rabble, that is why I will be saved and why the rest of you will be left behind."

I absolutely loathe sensationalist theories that seem more fabricated to con people out of their money than honestly trying saving their souls.

[Fey]

::soap box rattles to get out::
shush up in there!
yeah, we're slowly killing ourselves off, give us time, we'll get a nice extinction party goin in a few millennium.

I also have issues with the idea that souls need to be 'saved'.

[Ashley]

I don't think it will end today, but it could. The world ending today is just a likely as it ending any other day. I think the only way it could be predicted is if we knew a huge meteor was going to crash into the Earth or something and there wasn't anything we could do about it. I wouldn't believe a prediction based in religion or such instead of science.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Ashurato

All this "Rapture" ideology seems like a pretext saying "there is something fundamentally more 'good' in me than the rest of you rabble, that is why I will be saved and why the rest of you will be left behind."

This. 100% this.

We are the pure and chosen few;
all the rest are damned.
There's room enough in Hell, for you;
we don't want Heaven crammed.

I have no use for people who can't wait for this life to be over so they can get onto something better. It's solipsistic, narcissistic, and pathetically entitled. We have something. One day, we're going to have nothing. We need to make the best of it, not sit around complaining and wishing it was better.

[Serra Britt]

We are, where we are, and who we are. The bible talks about prophets and prophesies all the time but I never saw a timeframe there. You can only know if a prophecy is correct AFTER it happens, not before, according to the bible. So prophecy or not, I won't change how I live, because I could just as easily die some other way than the end of the world coming. I dunno, I guess I'm just a wierd christan who doesn't believe the same things as mainstream ones :P

[Fey]

nah, these are some really fringe extremists, not the 'normal' ones. my best friend sort of bangs her head on the wall when stuff like this happens and she was raised in a missionary family.

[Serra Britt]

Well, that's true, but it's always the extremists you hear about most so I guess I fell into the trap of thinking they were the normal ones. -bad me-

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I haven't been following it too closely, but I believe I read that the guy behind this "prophecy" has been getting criticism from Christians as much as from any other group.

When it comes down to it, religion is just window-dressing for the delusions that give these sort of people a sense of meaning in life. There have been similar movements in the past that haven't been tied to organized religion. The need to be more than a speck of dust floating in a sea of nothingness is a powerful psychological motivator, and for some, the apocalyptic conclusion is the only one.

If you want to see the silver lining here, at least the Dispensationalist/Rapture movement is largely non-violent. It could be a lot worse.

[Fey]

aaaaaaaaand we're all still here
dang, no rapture-looting...er...wait....
>.>...
<.<...
I wouldn't do that..........

[Lunaryon]

It's a post-end of the world PARTAY! Let's breaking out the soda! And the Cake! WOOT!

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Lunaryon

It's a post-end of the world PARTAY! Let's breaking out the soda! And the Cake! WOOT!

If I do some math and say that the world is ending tomorrow, and I'm wrong, can we have another party the day after? :p