Oh c'mon people.

We had this nice end of the world going on and you had to go and turn all poh-litical.

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The US has among the highest concentrations of religious people in the western world
http://www.adherents...om_atheist.html

Whoa! 3-9%!? I thought Australia was crazy for only being ~40% non-Christian.

[/font]Oh c'mon people.

We had this nice end of the world going on and you had to go and turn all poh-litical.

You're just saying that because you're a communazi!!!!
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The US has among the highest concentrations of religious people in the western world
http://www.adherents...om_atheist.html

Whoa! 3-9%!? I thought Australia was crazy for only being ~40% non-Christian.

heh, apparently this camping guy has already been wrong about predicting the end of the world. People is so dumb...

'Rapture': Believers perplexed after prediction fails

Robert Fitzpatrick, a retired transportation agency worker in New York, said he had spent more than $140,000 (£86,000) of his savings on advertisements in the run-up to 21 May to publicise the prediction.

After 1800 passed and nothing had happened, he said: "I do not understand why... I do not understand why nothing has happened."

"I can't tell you what I feel right now. Obviously, I haven't understood it correctly because we're still here."


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This guy has to be feeling pretty sick. £86,000 down the drain. Holy crap.

The whole idea of a 'rolling' Rapture seems fairly dumb too.

I see nothing dumb about it. In fact, it seems the most logical. It's a rolling rapture that will take place over the course of thousands or millions of years. Each day, some people will die! Yet at the same time, you never know who, or exactly when your time is, so therefore, it's unpredictable, yet very predictable!

he must have gotten it wrong, SkyNet will become self aware, that was untill a scientist turned it off just before the time it was sopposed to become self aware and will now have to wait many years to get to that same state again

Sadly, SkyNet becoming self aware is something I do worry about. Well, not skynet per se, but something similar. The only thing that could put it off would be for a programmer of the AI to make the AI extremely corrupt so it wouldn't do something which might seem logical. The other thing I worry about is the ultra religious being in power. Not necessarily the religion itself, but the fact that so many of them do heinous acts feeling like they're helping bringing about the apocolypse is a good thing. Unfortunately, there's nothing in any of these holy books that states that purposely bringing about the end might in fact be a bad thing, and that people in general should be focusing on how to avoid the destruction of the Earth instead of promiting it's destruction.

'Rapture': Believers perplexed after prediction fails

Robert Fitzpatrick, a retired transportation agency worker in New York, said he had spent more than $140,000 (£86,000) of his savings on advertisements in the run-up to 21 May to publicise the prediction.

After 1800 passed and nothing had happened, he said: "I do not understand why... I do not understand why nothing has happened."

"I can't tell you what I feel right now. Obviously, I haven't understood it correctly because we're still here."

This guy has to be feeling pretty sick. £86,000 down the drain. Holy crap.
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It's not just him though. There was a link on reddit (sorry, too lazy to look it up atm), which described several people besides him who pretty much destroyed their future on this quackery. One family sacrificed their children's college education money on this promotion...

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The whole idea of a 'rolling' Rapture seems fairly dumb too.

I see nothing dumb about it. In fact, it seems the most logical. It's a rolling rapture that will take place over the course of thousands or millions of years. Each day, some people will die! Yet at the same time, you never know who, or exactly when your time is, so therefore, it's unpredictable, yet very predictable!
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Nice. At the sake of sounding stupid because I didn't pickup on the hidden joke, Camping's prediction was that the Rapture would begin at 6pm local time in each timezone across the world. So while it was still Friday in the US and Europe people in the Pacific would have already left. The notion that the Rapture would follow a man made construct of fairly arbitrary lines on a globe is pretty dumb.

I'm actually a bit scared for the whole thing next year. Not because I think the world is going to based on the date of an arbitrary calender but just from the random craziness of people who think the world is going to end. I'm sure there are going to be a lot of people who blow life savings and a huge increase in crime from people that think it won't matter if they get caught. I can certainly see some very bad man made juju going down. While it wouldn't be the end of the world it could be bad enough.

I'm actually a bit scared for the whole thing next year. Not because I think the world is going to based on the date of an arbitrary calender but just from the random craziness of people who think the world is going to end. I'm sure there are going to be a lot of people who blow life savings and a huge increase in crime from people that think it won't matter if they get caught. I can certainly see some very bad man made juju going down. While it wouldn't be the end of the world it could be bad enough.

Think positive. If you happen to know a nutcase like that you can always reason with him/her to give all their belongings to you. After all, you're gonna need them after his/her departure.

*starts seeking for a rich crazy eotw weirdo*

Think positive. If you happen to know a nutcase like that you can always reason with him/her to give all their belongings to you. After all, you're gonna need them after his/her departure.

*starts seeking for a rich crazy eotw weirdo*

Wonder how many Mayan apocalypse insurance scams there are going to be next year. Did read there was some kind of post Rapture pet service that would take care of your pets after you left. I'm sure there are more then a few people who would like a refund.

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I was raptured up. I'm typing this now on a cloud computing system!

*rim shot*