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I'm getting really annoyed by all the people hoping/speculating that the world is going to end soon. Do you know how depressing that sounds? And, of course, I need to point a finger at the religious out there because 99% of the posts with these threads contain religious aspects. My bro sent me a message tonight and I'm not sure where he got it from, but it had me laughing so I thought I'd share it here-
"The rapture (and similar things in non-christian religions) is like the saddest thing ever in christian religion. It's like the biblical version of that strange boy everyone knew back in school who lied about an uncle who was an ex navy seal and worked for Nintendo, and when you'd poke fun at him for his obvious lies, he'd tell you that his uncle would bring him the 'Super Nintendo II' with all the awesome games in the coming weekend and then you're gonna be sorry you ever poked fun at him. That's basically the rapture for these nutcases. I'm sorry dudes, Jesus wont show up and save you from all these smug normal people who enjoyed their lives while they where living."
"Macho Man Randy Savage died for our sins. It is only through his benevolent sacrifice that the judgement day has been postponed. Thank you Macho Man, thank you for saving us all."
Really think about the above. I don't know about all of you wishing the world will end, but do us realistic people a favor and be quiet about it. No reasonable person wants to hear your depressing proofless garbage. If you're going to say you know the precise date, you're an idiot and a false prophet. If you say you don't know and/or your religion states that the date is unknown, why even bring it up? Do you people get off on cursing and condeming people? Oh, you think you're warning them? You're not-- it's just a fear tactic to subscribe someone to your beliefs and you're absurdly naive to realize it. That's sad to even bring up if you've really got nothing to work with but irrational fears. So let's all enjoy our saturday together. Go out, enjoy the weather if it's nice, try to make a positive difference, and forget about all the earthquakes brewing in the Pacific- http://i.imgur.com/KbM01.png
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Amen! Amen! That's about as religious as I am.
Good post and I'll still be here and see all you Bible folks tomorrow. I think you are all going to miss your flight.
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Keep laughing. We will see who laughs last. Watch for me, I'll be the one waving bye. Do wish you would want to go to, too. I hope the Macho Man had Jesus in his heart, if not, sounds like you will get a chance to meet your idol.
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Keep laughing. We will see who laughs last. Watch for me, I'll be the one waving bye.
lol Okay, I'll give you $10,000 today if you give me $10,000 plus 100 percent interest when you're still here tomorrow. ::)
And Falconer...as the bumper sticker says, "Come the Rapture!...We'll have the earth to ourselves" ;D
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Keep laughing. We will see who laughs last. Watch for me, I'll be the one waving bye. Do wish you would want to go to, too. I hope the Macho Man had Jesus in his heart, if not, sounds like you will get a chance to meet your idol.
Really?? REALLY??? :angry7:(face-palm) :bs:
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Only God can predict when the world will end. It could end tomorrow or in 2012. Does it really matter when the world will end? None of us have the power to stop it anyways. So, just be thankful for each day that you wake up to see another day.
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still here :P
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Only God can predict when the world will end. It could end tomorrow or in 2012.
Uh, why do you punctuate such a statement with a suggestion of 2012? That makes me think you're one of those mushy believers whose life does not reflect a true belief at all. Otherwise you'd know that ancient Mayan superstition has absolutely nothing to do with your ancient Christian superstition.
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This is all :bs:. Quit being followers and be a leader. Some people are so gullible. I will believe it when I see it. You either be a part of the problem or be a part of the solution.
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Keep laughing. We will see who laughs last. Watch for me, I'll be the one waving bye.
The Super Nintendo 2 does not exist. And your uncle isn't an ex-navy seal who works for Nintendo. Seriously though, your pompous and antagonizing text here just reinforces what I said so thx for showing the proof in the pudding :)
Do wish you would want to go to, too.
If your personal god did exist, I would not want to join him anywhere considering his atrocious resume through the ages. I do not and never will positively associate myself with anyone or anything that kills and plagues women and children for petty and immature reasons.
I hope the Macho Man had Jesus in his heart, if not, sounds like you will get a chance to meet your idol.
I highly doubt you'll get this awesomely corny entertainment in your little shiny rainbow cloud-city.
(http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/716/randysavageflyinelbowlf8.gif)
"I'M TOO HOT TO HANDLE AND TOO COLD TO HOLD! OHHHH YEEEAAAHHHH!"
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We are going to see and hear alot of really bitter Bible people for the next few weeks. They will be disgruntled their heavenly charriott never showed up and swooped them away. We will hear all kinds of excuses and reasonings and they will damn all us non-believers to hell.
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People should be ashamed for spreading stupid speculation like this. No us here, but the dorks who started it. My 11 year old has been scared to death for days now. No one know when the earth is going to end.
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If this year isn't the end of the world, we will always have next year when the world's suppose to end. :peace:
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I don't agree whatsoever with the person doing this prediction. Scripture even discusses how no one knows the time or date and that it will come "as a thief in the night."
2 Peter 3:10 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."
1 Thessalonians 5:2 "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night."
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They will be disgruntled their heavenly charriott never showed up and swooped them away.
Adding to the ridiculousness, the Rapture is supposed to occur at 6pm "everywhere" (apparently god abides by our man-made time zones). So that means it would have already happened in Europe, Japan, Australia, etc. So unless god is blocking our news streams with his awesome wizarding ways, the Rapture didn't happen. *gasp*
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The end of the world ppl are crazy.
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I don't agree whatsoever with the person doing this prediction. Scripture even discusses how no one knows the time or date and that it will come "as a thief in the night."
Yes you do. You still believe it's going to happen; you still believe all of the same batshit crazy details of the event, minus knowing the actual date. ...Right?
Seems to me, Judgement Day is just this threat and/or source of inspiration that people like to hold over their heads to keep from being washed away by the depressing waters of their daily lives. Very few people actually believe it; for when someone actually DOES step up to the plate like Harold Camping to show the courage of his convictions, even the Christians call him crazy! lol
Re: "a thief in the night"...I don't know about you, but we shoot burglars.
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If this year isn't the end of the world, we will always have next year when the world's suppose to end. :peace:
The world WILL end...when the sun engulfs it in 5 billion years. That's a guarantee. But we'll all be long dead by then, so why stress it?
The world COULD end...if crazy religious nuts nuke us all. Do what you can to prevent that, not encourage it.
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I don't agree whatsoever with the person doing this prediction. Scripture even discusses how no one knows the time or date and that it will come "as a thief in the night."
Yes you do. You still believe it's going to happen; you still believe all of the same batshit crazy details of the event, minus knowing the actual date. ...Right?
Seems to me, Judgement Day is just this threat and/or source of inspiration that people like to hold over their heads to keep from being washed away by the depressing waters of their daily lives. Very few people actually believe it; for when someone actually DOES step up to the plate like Harold Camping to show the courage of his convictions, even the Christians call him crazy! lol
Re: "a thief in the night"...I don't know about you, but we shoot burglars.
I repeat, I do NOT believe or support what this "quack" is saying and pushing. I do believe in the Rapture and stand by the verses I listed. Once again, I do NOT agree with the "quack." Also, you know just as anyone else that the "thief in the night" is a representation of what is being shown in the verses. I'm not wanting to argue with you, I am just adding my little 2 cents worth in here with everyone else.
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This is stupid... everyone has their different opinions but my opinion is that the people that think they can predict when the 'world ends' are idiots. nobody can know anything like that
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This is stupid... everyone has their different opinions but my opinion is that the people that think they can predict when the 'world ends' are idiots. nobody can know anything like that
You said it perfectly!!! :)
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But there is a chance the world will end. In roughly 5 billions years the sun will expand into a giant red dwarf which will possibly engulf the Earth. Even if it doesn't get far enough to engulf the Earth it would make the Earth completely uninhabitable (at least in biosphere 1). This is also assuming that human technology prevents this by either stopping the sun or moving the Earth. But even then we're more than likely going to be on some other planet if we exist at all.
The argument for the end of the earth is not completely unreasonable. Of course anyone who follows religion is going to have a crazy opinion about anything they relate their religion too. So I automatically ignore any argument they try and make.
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Thank you jcribb for making a rationale argument. Being a Christian doesn't mean we automtically believe all of the crap some quack tells the world.
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The world COULD end...if crazy religious nuts nuke us all. Do what you can to prevent that, not encourage it
*Looks at Iran* :angry7:
Being a Christian doesn't mean we automtically believe all of the crap some quack tells the world.
Christians believe in an absurd and wacky ending to the world just as Harold Camping does. The only difference here is one says he knows and the other has been saying "I dunno...but soon!" for milleniums.
The argument for the end of the earth is not completely unreasonable. Of course anyone who follows religion is going to have a crazy opinion about anything they relate their religion too. So I automatically ignore any argument they try and make.
I wish I had the stoic capability to do this, but there's just so much crazy garbage being spewed out from religions about the end. Although I totally agree with you, I just wish the voices of reason speak louder over the needless bull.
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"Macho Man Randy Savage died for our sins. It is only through his benevolent sacrifice that the judgement day has been postponed. Thank you Macho Man, thank you for saving us all."
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g260/prtee33/Macho.jpg)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAH! YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I swear all day all I heard on the radio was this end of the days, It was suppose to be at 6pm I guess EST, Obviously nothing was gonna happen or did. The cook who came up with this great idea I am sure is telling his followers he made a mistake in his mathematics and doomsday is not for 1 year from today I cant believe people buy into this stuff, Not to mention Profit off of it they should be ashamed of themselves. I heard of this one website that was just made, You send them $150 and if the rapture happens (of course no refunds) they will take care of your animals to us it sounds nuts but the guy said he has like 2000 customers so far... I guess what they say a sucker is born every minute. It just angers me to take advantage of people
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I am 54 years young and do you know how many times since i've been on this earth SOMEONE has said the world is going to end on such and such a day...to many to count...geez it was suppose to end yesterday once AGAIN but hellooooooooooooooooooo we are still here :wave:
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Statistically speaking, it's more probable that life on Earth, or the Earth itself will be destroyed by an asteroid or comet hitting us vs the sun going Red Giant on us. And for those who have trouble believing that could happen within generations vs millions of years, just remember comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 from the mid-90's. Yes, there was concern from the scientific community that the comet's trajectory would take it by the Earth (was an outer projection, but still possible until the comet came closer to our solar system). Fortunately it hit Jupiter vs us. If it hit us instead, none of us would be having this conversation.
If you never heard of this comet or paid attention, I recommend searching on some of the footage and images - they're pretty awesome to watch (for any space junkies out there).
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You send them $150 and if the rapture happens (of course no refunds) they will take care of your animals to us it sounds nuts but the guy said he has like 2000 customers so far...
This is nothing short of selling old-school cures for alcholism or baldness via a tonic. People will always fall for the same ol' tricks. Pretty sad and funny.
Statistically speaking, it's more probable that life on Earth, or the Earth itself will be destroyed by an asteroid or comet hitting us vs the sun going Red Giant on us. And for those who have trouble believing that could happen within generations vs millions of years, just remember comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 from the mid-90's. Yes, there was concern from the scientific community that the comet's trajectory would take it by the Earth (was an outer projection, but still possible until the comet came closer to our solar system). Fortunately it hit Jupiter vs us. If it hit us instead, none of us would be having this conversation.
If you never heard of this comet or paid attention, I recommend searching on some of the footage and images - they're pretty awesome to watch (for any space junkies out there).
This is very true. Didn't Bush cut a ton of funding to astronomers? I imagine he thought god would never allow a massive meteor to hit earth while we're on it. ::)
Well it's sunday! And it's JUDGEMENT DAY...for Harold Camping.
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I'm getting really annoyed by all the people hoping/speculating that the world is going to end soon. Do you know how depressing that sounds? And, of course, I need to point a finger at the religious out there because 99% of the posts with these threads contain religious aspects. My bro sent me a message tonight and I'm not sure where he got it from, but it had me laughing so I thought I'd share it here-
"The rapture (and similar things in non-christian religions) is like the saddest thing ever in christian religion. It's like the biblical version of that strange boy everyone knew back in school who lied about an uncle who was an ex navy seal and worked for Nintendo, and when you'd poke fun at him for his obvious lies, he'd tell you that his uncle would bring him the 'Super Nintendo II' with all the awesome games in the coming weekend and then you're gonna be sorry you ever poked fun at him. That's basically the rapture for these nutcases. I'm sorry dudes, Jesus wont show up and save you from all these smug normal people who enjoyed their lives while they where living."
"Macho Man Randy Savage died for our sins. It is only through his benevolent sacrifice that the judgement day has been postponed. Thank you Macho Man, thank you for saving us all."
Really think about the above. I don't know about all of you wishing the world will end, but do us realistic people a favor and be quiet about it. No reasonable person wants to hear your depressing proofless garbage. If you're going to say you know the precise date, you're an idiot and a false prophet. If you say you don't know and/or your religion states that the date is unknown, why even bring it up? Do you people get off on cursing and condeming people? Oh, you think you're warning them? You're not-- it's just a fear tactic to subscribe someone to your beliefs and you're absurdly naive to realize it. That's sad to even bring up if you've really got nothing to work with but irrational fears. So let's all enjoy our saturday together. Go out, enjoy the weather if it's nice, try to make a positive difference, and forget about all the earthquakes brewing in the Pacific- http://i.imgur.com/KbM01.png
That pissed me off. Congrats. But the rapture WILL happen. Maybe in 2 minutes or maybe in 20 years. Will you be ready? I know for a fact that i'm going to heaven because JESUS IS MY SAVIOR!!!
...but yea the actual date will not be known. The crazy guy just defaced christianity as well as earned about 17 million in donations.
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Thank you jcribb for making a rationale argument. Being a Christian doesn't mean we automtically believe all of the crap some quack tells the world.
Thank you, mh, for understanding what I was trying to say.
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That pissed me off. Congrats. But the rapture WILL happen. Maybe in 2 minutes or maybe in 20 years. Will you be ready? I know for a fact that i'm going to heaven because JESUS IS MY SAVIOR!!!
W-W-W-Wacky arrogance!! Dude, your uncle is not an ex-navy seal who works for Nintendo and he is not bringing over the Super Nintendo 2 this weekend.
(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn20/coldsteel1212/Deal_with_it_dog_gif.gif)
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Only God can predict when the world will end. It could end tomorrow or in 2012.
Uh, why do you punctuate such a statement with a suggestion of 2012? That makes me think you're one of those mushy believers whose life does not reflect a true belief at all. Otherwise you'd know that ancient Mayan superstition has absolutely nothing to do with your ancient Christian superstition.
Fine, the world could end tomorrow or in 2013. Are you happy now that you get to live to see 2013 at least? LOL
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Another :bs: end of the world is coming in 2012. :peace:
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Fine, the world could end tomorrow or in 2013. Are you happy now that you get to live to see 2013 at least? LOL
Wow, I'm glad some random Internet person gets to decide how long I'll live.
lol