Worst. Apocalypse. Ever.

[oselle]

It's 6:04 pm. I have not been raptured and so far, I see no sign of a global earthquake. Was that supposed to be 6:00 Eastern Time or what?

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[janissa11.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Apocalypse is on PST?

[oselle.livejournal.com]

You'd think it'd be on Jerusalem time or something, which means it should have happened HOURS ago.

[janissa11.livejournal.com]

You'd think that these bastards who get their jollies out of cooking up end-times/apocalyptic deadlines *cough*Glenn Beck*cough* would at LEAST remember the international date line and hedge their bets. "Ah, yes, the Rapture will come at 6:00pm. In Chicago. Which, as we all know, is actually 9:00am tomorrow in Melbourne, Australia. And 1:00am tomorrow in Paris. But those are heathen socialist countries, so piss on 'em."

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Supposedly the guy responsible for pimping this thing so hard said it would begin in Asia, in which case it's come and gone. The same guy last predicted the rapture in 1994. It's funny how there's only a rapture when there's a Democrat in the White House.

What's really pathetic is the people who believed in this. I read about one guy who cleaned out his life savings buying up advertising space to spread the word. Other people have spent the past week driving around saying farewell to all of their friends and relatives. Really? Can anyone be that stupid? Even if they are, even Jesus said "no one will know the day or the hour." Are they calling Jesus a liar?

[janissa11.livejournal.com]

I'm actually a bit worried about some of these people. I'd really prefer not to get up tomorrow morning and hear about them drinking the Kool-aid, you know what I mean?

I wonder what Camping expects to say to St. Peter when he arrives at the pearly gates? "I really, really thought I was right? I really, really thought all those people selling all their worldly possessions and going through their retirement savings and their children's college education funds was a good idea? I really, really thought I knew better even when scripture told me there was no way I could possibly be correct?"

Hubris. Plain and simple, and repulsive.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I'm not worried about these people at all. If they're stupid enough to believe that some radio-host has the inside track on the end of the world, then they'd be stupid enough to follow any huckster with a good line, and if they want to reduce themselves to penury over it, hell...let them. If they want to drink the Kool-aid, they can go ahead and do that too -- natural selection is at its best when it's weeding out the idiots.

[shoofus.livejournal.com]

maybe its on PMS and its sulking

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Keeping my fingers crossed for the fiery end-of-all in October.

[eken95.livejournal.com]

I feel excluded, I didn't see any mention of the UK having an earthquake, were we all to be left out of the rapture?

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Well, you ARE socialists.

[eken95.livejournal.com]

"Well, you ARE socialists"


Sadly not so much these days.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I'd always had this dream of running off to England but I guess not.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

I feel so left out! I'm still here. *sighs* I was hoping I'd get out of paying back my student loan!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Even if there was a Rapture, I'm sure the collection agencies would have been left behind too.

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

I was so hoping those people would be Raptured away and leave us in peace. Alas.

[twirlycurls.livejournal.com]

This was my hope as well. Damnitall. I was looking forward to a lot less traffic come Monday.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I was hoping for a long weekend myself.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

No such luck.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I just assumed I didn't make the cut but if there's no earthquakes it looks like it's a dud! I wonder if they're going to interview that guy...

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I heard he put out a press release saying that the final fiery judgment is still on schedule for October, and that Rapture DID happen on Saturday, it's just that no one was worthy to be taken up. I guess he didn't explain why there were no global earthquakes, fires, or dead rising from their tombs.

[merylmarie.livejournal.com]

The very first thing Camping started with in his calculations was that the world was created 11,013 years ago. That should have been everyone's first clue that something needed rethinking. These poor sods need to get out more.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Well, the sort of people who'd believe Camping are the same ones who believe the earth is only 11,000 years old.