Forget about TV coverage of or tickets for the Arsenal match

[HatterDon]

I can't believe I haven't seen anything on this site about this before, but there's this fundamentalist Christian lunatic talk-radio host [sorry for the redundancy] who has said that The Rapture will occur at noon on Saturday, May 21, 2011. I don't know if it's 1200 GMT or BST or CST, but It's The End of the World As We Know It, and I Feel Fine.

Now, as the only individual on this site who admits to going to church every Sunday, you might think that I'd be looking forward to this, but ... nah, not so much. Although the Bible says that no human knows the day or the hour of the Second Coming, I DO. It is sure to happen between the date I win the Texas Lottery and the date I pick up the check in Austin.

So, if the world does come to an end on Saturday, how Fulhamish would it be to end on an away win -- with a clean sheet?

If the world DOESN'T come to an end on Saturday, here's hoping Shady1 gets his ticket and we can take three off Arsenal.

If the former, it's been great to know you Fulham lunatics -- I love you all. If we're still around Sunday morning, then it's been okay knowing some of you, but the vast majority of you drag your knuckles when you walk.  :clap_hands:

COYW and COYR [RAPTURE!!!!!]

[nevzter]

In San Francisco (and the surrounding areas) there have been billboards proclaiming this alleged rapture on May 21, and also, some atheist organization has also placed billboards in close proximity proclaiming the rapture will never occur.

Either way, I'm just going to walk around on Saturday singing: gonna get myself into it, gonna get myself into it, why not help me do it?...

COYW

[Rambling_Syd_Rumpo]

http://youtu.be/u2UhvN0k74w

[Brandon]

On a side note, this guy has predicted this before and been wrong. He found his mistake and recalculated coming up with saturday. How many times can you get something like this wrong and still have credibility with anyone? I guess there will always be a few crazy people out there (probably Chelsea fans if they have heard of real football).

It's 2 am in Maryland and my basements flooding (some ridiculous rain right now) so I'm reading the forum in between bailing it out. Good times!

[mrska]

On a side note, this guy has predicted this before and been wrong. He found his mistake and recalculated coming up with saturday. How many times can you get something like this wrong and still have credibility with anyone? I guess there will always be a few crazy people out there (probably Chelsea fans if they have heard of real football).

It's 2 am in Maryland and my basements flooding (some ridiculous rain right now) so I'm reading the forum in between bailing it out. Good times!

His followers have given up their jobs and sold up everything in the belief its gonna happen...  Sunday Evenings conversation should be worth a listen..

[finnster01]

On a side note, this guy has predicted this before and been wrong. He found his mistake and recalculated coming up with saturday. How many times can you get something like this wrong and still have credibility with anyone? I guess there will always be a few crazy people out there (probably Chelsea fans if they have heard of real football).

It's 2 am in Maryland and my basements flooding (some ridiculous rain right now) so I'm reading the forum in between bailing it out. Good times!

His followers have given up their jobs and sold up everything in the belief its gonna happen...  Sunday Evenings conversation should be worth a listen..

Giving up the job I can understand, but why sell up everything? Where are you going to spend it?

[sipwell]

I have a pact with God. He will wait with starting the Rapture until my PhD is finished. I'll be very cross if he breaks his promise.

[TonyGilroy]

I have a pact with God. He will wait with starting the Rapture until my PhD is finished. I'll be very cross if he breaks his promise.

He'll just strike you dead when He feels like it.

He's got form for that. Read the book.

[The Bronsons]

Giving up the job I can understand, but why sell up everything? Where are you going to spend it?

:drums:  :011: :011:

[LBNo11]

Will this wind...?

...as the only individual on this message board who is a self proclaimed atheist (god help me) I suspect it will be something like this. Very funny and worth a look...

[The Equalizer]

I'd better pack my shorts, it's gonna be hot where I'm going!  :013:

[LBNo11]

I'd better pack my shorts, it's gonna be hot where I'm going!  :013:

...I'm already there mate, as instructed by Mr Fayed, not so bad as it happens, but if this prophesy comes true it's going to get much more crowded here, and the brimstone is in short supply, so please bring your own...

[AlFayedsChequebook]

The good news is that if the rapture comes, I will be surrounded by friends at the Rugby 7's at Twickenham, and in all probability, pretty drunk.

Not a bad way to go!

[sipwell]

...as the only individual on this message board who is a self proclaimed atheist (god help me)

I am standing shoulder to shoulder on that front, Mr. LB. I am working at an atheist university, writing a PhD dissecting Christian lobby groups in the EU (and hence devising a method to fight them).  :017:

[mrska]

On a side note, this guy has predicted this before and been wrong. He found his mistake and recalculated coming up with saturday. How many times can you get something like this wrong and still have credibility with anyone? I guess there will always be a few crazy people out there (probably Chelsea fans if they have heard of real football).

It's 2 am in Maryland and my basements flooding (some ridiculous rain right now) so I'm reading the forum in between bailing it out. Good times!

His followers have given up their jobs and sold up everything in the belief its gonna happen...  Sunday Evenings conversation should be worth a listen..

Giving up the job I can understand, but why sell up everything? Where are you going to spend it?

In heaven.. they've heard that God doesn't take credit..!

[Oakeshott]

This is bad news. Any chance, I wonder, they could delay an few hours as I'm hoping to back the winner of the 3.40 York on Saturday. So a tea time Armagedon would be more convenient.

[mrska]

This is bad news. Any chance, I wonder, they could delay an few hours as I'm hoping to back the winner of the 3.40 York on Saturday. So a tea time Armagedon would be more convenient.

ha ha ha like it..

[hesedmedia]

A second church-goer, also something of a hobbyist bible-scholar. Ignorance like this "I've got it! Rapture penciled in for next Thursday" business angers me more than any anti-religious diatribe ever could.

[Rupert]

And I make three! Blimey, we're a real hotbed of religious belief here, aren't we. :yay:

There was a book I read, a long time ago, which dealt with the rather strange events around new year, 1000 AD. For some reason (if the book is to be believed) it appears that a lot of Christians decided that midnight on new years day would see the second coming, and all over western Europe there were feverish preperations. Debtors were forgiven their debts, gaolers offered freedom to those they held prisoner, many of whom refused to leave their cells as they preferred to atone for as much sin as possible before the big day. All in all, dawn on new years day was a bit of a let down, followed by frantic activity to recapture those felons who had nipped out and legal attempts to reclaim previously forgiven debts.

There was a 19th C saint (can't recall his name, sorry) who was playing billiards with his friends when the subject of the second coming cropped up. On man declared that if he knew Christ was returning he would sell everything and donate the money to the poor, another said he would care for the sick, etc. They asked the man who would later become a saint what he would do. I'd finish this game, he replied.
One for both the lunatic fringe of Christianity and non-believers alike to think about.

[AmericanJames]

I guess i should have a wild pre-birthday celebration friday night into saturday cause it looks as if my birthday sunday isnt happening