May 21 End Of The World

[Malcolm Robinson]

Suppose every nutter is coming out to play as we hurtle towards the big one next year!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/day-tipped-end-world-dawns-031145882.html

[Keith Scantlebury]

Good excuse for getting out of going shopping

[John Fox (foxy)]

Suppose every nutter is coming out to play as we hurtle towards the big one next year!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/day-tipped-end-world-dawns-031145882.html

Didn't think Wetherspoons closed that early.

[Malcolm Robinson]

Wish I had thought of that Keith............

A closed Wetherspoons is only some people's end of the world foxy!

Turns out he wasn't the Messiah only a naughty schoolboy.................

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/final-countdown-world-awaits-6pm-doom-114119189.html

[threegee]

Don't laugh, there's bound to be a get-out clause somewhere in the prediction.

And.. falling for your own propaganda is something politicians do all the time. Elastic economic cycles and "tests" that only you can interpret are just parts of this delusion. When blaming someone else for your own stupidity starts to wear thin ("It's a global problem") you "get a bloody nose and learn from it". Then you selectively and quietly "admit past mistakes", and pretend you've reinvented yourselves, whilst appealing to the same bunch of irrelevant yet time-tested prejudices to start the cycle all over again.

Preacher or politico, the public has a very short collective memory. And - to balance out those who did learn something - there's always a large bunch of wet-behind-the-ears suckers coming along.

[Brett]

[threegee]

Don't laugh, there's bound to be a get-out clause somewhere in the prediction.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-13516796

a "merciful and compassionate God" would spare humanity by compressing the apocalyptic destruction into a shorter time frame.

This is good; when the big one comes there'll not be time to need to suffer any I-told-you-so from preachers.