So what are you doing on the 21st around 6pm?

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Tue May 24, 2011 12:46 am

Perhaps those in Iceland considered the predictions were off by 24 hours for a short time...

Iceland Volcano Spews Ash, Sparks Lightning

Post by **Icarus Unfallen** » Tue May 24, 2011 2:59 am

Anyone in Iceland raptured?

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue May 24, 2011 3:33 am

it's like thunder
it's like lightning
the rapture is frightning

Post by **Icarus Unfallen** » Tue May 24, 2011 4:06 am

You better knock on (Norwegian) wood!

Post by **Cambo** » Tue May 24, 2011 4:36 am

So apparently the Rapture was postponed till October.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43140373/ns/us_news-life/

Post by **Avatar** » Tue May 24, 2011 4:47 am

peter wrote:
Vraith wrote:I'm of the opinion that the world did actually end, but much like t.v. shows about lawyers, a new one is always created instantly and it is exactly the same.
Might be closer to the truth than you think Vraith. How other does the world of the past get to the world of the future if not by an infinite series of anhialations and recreations?

Thief of Time? Or The Langoliers?

October huh? Lucky I wasn't holding my breath.

--A

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue May 24, 2011 5:53 am

julie's b-day is in october.

now i don't have to get her anything?

Post by **peter** » Tue May 24, 2011 7:59 am

Sunbaneglasses wrote:I am glad that the pesky end of the world, rapture business didn't cause me to miss Doctor Who last Saturday night. I would have hated to have had to kick someones ass.

Wow - are you guys in USA getting the new Dr Who TV shows that are so popular here in the UK. Me, I'm a fan of the old Dr Who's of the sixties, seventies and eighties (but then I would be at my age) - the new ones don't quite hit the spot for me - but I had thought that Dr Who was purely a British phenominum (easier to say than spell that word!).

Post by **Damelon** » Tue May 24, 2011 12:00 pm

In the U.S. Doctor Who was a staple of PBS stations in the late 70's and 80's, and had quite a following here, though they lagged a few years behind current then. Now it's on BBC America. I've never gotten into the new Doctors. Tom Baker and Peter Davison represent the fellow to me.

Post by **peter** » Tue May 24, 2011 1:17 pm

I'm not a millenarianist, or an eschatologist or an armageddonist - hell I didn't even watch the film 2012 - but is it just me or do there seem to be a load of these really bad natural disaster events happening at the moment. In the last few years since say that tsunami that happened at Christmas time a few years ago, there does seem to be a higher than usual concentration of 'stuff' happening around the world. I mean today we have volcanoes blowing off in Iceland, America being trashed by tornadoes and storms etc, we've had earthquakes in Japan, forrest firse in Australia, hurricanes in Haiti - you name it, it all seems to be happening. Now is this just the 'cherry cake' principle of events clustering or am I imagineing it, or do I start brushing up on my crystal skull Quetzacoatl rapture suvrviving skills.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Tue May 24, 2011 1:56 pm

Cambo wrote:So apparently the Rapture was postponed till October.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43140373/ns/us_news-life/

*snort*

As I posted on Facebook, he's always had this as a "back up date."

Post by **Vraith** » Tue May 24, 2011 3:53 pm

peter wrote:I'm not a millenarianist, or an eschatologist or an armageddonist - hell I didn't even watch the film 2012 - but is it just me or do there seem to be a load of these really bad natural disaster events happening at the moment. In the last few years since say that tsunami that happened at Christmas time a few years ago, there does seem to be a higher than usual concentration of 'stuff' happening around the world. I mean today we have volcanoes blowing off in Iceland, America being trashed by tornadoes and storms etc, we've had earthquakes in Japan, forrest firse in Australia, hurricanes in Haiti - you name it, it all seems to be happening. Now is this just the 'cherry cake' principle of events clustering or am I imagineing it, or do I start brushing up on my crystal skull Quetzacoatl rapture suvrviving skills.

Things do cluster, it's true...but that combines with the fact that most of these things, even if/when they happened 100, 200, 1000 years ago [which they did] simply weren't disasters even though they were happening...cuz there weren't very many people living there in lots of buildings...none of them are really natural disasters, they're all man-made...cuz it's just the humans and the stuff they make that suffers.
[And I know from personal experience that earthquakes are actually kinda fun if you're someplace where nothing can fall on you.]

But on topic...that is my mom's birthday, and she's gonna think it's all her fault now, cuz she blames herself for everything.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Tue May 24, 2011 6:37 pm

peter wrote:I'm not a millenarianist, or an eschatologist or an armageddonist - hell I didn't even watch the film 2012 - but is it just me or do there seem to be a load of these really bad natural disaster events happening at the moment.

I think the human mind has a tendency to think there's a narrative or reason for everything. I recently read an article that claimed people are more likely to believe in global warming when there's a heat wave in their area.

Every storm season, since I was a kid, people have remarked on an increase of some kind of meteorological chaos. But like the Beatles song about revolution, everything turns out all right. It's probably gone on since Roman times, I'll bet. Perhaps there is a statistical increase but it's most likely that silly science!

We've had more devastating storms in the past. There's usually always a record holder and it's always several decades ago. What'd our forefathers, members of the "Greatest Generation" do so bad?

It's just a natural fact there's going to be big events in the future (and as time goes on without a doubt bigger than the 2004 tsunami). It's just the way the world works.

Post by **sindatur** » Tue May 24, 2011 8:40 pm

Vraith wrote:
peter wrote:I'm not a millenarianist, or an eschatologist or an armageddonist - hell I didn't even watch the film 2012 - but is it just me or do there seem to be a load of these really bad natural disaster events happening at the moment. In the last few years since say that tsunami that happened at Christmas time a few years ago, there does seem to be a higher than usual concentration of 'stuff' happening around the world. I mean today we have volcanoes blowing off in Iceland, America being trashed by tornadoes and storms etc, we've had earthquakes in Japan, forrest firse in Australia, hurricanes in Haiti - you name it, it all seems to be happening. Now is this just the 'cherry cake' principle of events clustering or am I imagineing it, or do I start brushing up on my crystal skull Quetzacoatl rapture suvrviving skills.
Things do cluster, it's true...but that combines with the fact that most of these things, even if/when they happened 100, 200, 1000 years ago [which they did] simply weren't disasters even though they were happening...cuz there weren't very many people living there in lots of buildings...none of them are really natural disasters, they're all man-made...cuz it's just the humans and the stuff they make that suffers.
[And I know from personal experience that earthquakes are actually kinda fun if you're someplace where nothing can fall on you.]

But on topic...that is my mom's birthday, and she's gonna think it's all her fault now, cuz she blames herself for everything.

Phew, missed my mom's birthday by two days. She'll be happy to know she won't be having a Birthday this year, she hates getting older.

Cool that our mom's birthdays are only 2 days apart, smal world.

Post by **Sunbaneglasses** » Tue May 24, 2011 10:07 pm

peter wrote:
Sunbaneglasses wrote:I am glad that the pesky end of the world, rapture business didn't cause me to miss Doctor Who last Saturday night. I would have hated to have had to kick someones ass.
Wow - are you guys in USA getting the new Dr Who TV shows that are so popular here in the UK. Me, I'm a fan of the old Dr Who's of the sixties, seventies and eighties (but then I would be at my age) - the new ones don't quite hit the spot for me - but I had thought that Dr Who was purely a British phenominum (easier to say than spell that word!).

Oh yeah, I like the classic Doctor Who best also but I would rather watch "New Who" than just about any other fictional show on television. Doctor Who happens to be BBC America's highest rated show. I watch BBC America as much as I watch any other network, if it showed nothing but Top Gear and Doctor Who I might never change the channel.

Post by **Rigel** » Tue May 24, 2011 10:34 pm

sindatur wrote: Cool that our mom's birthdays are only 2 days apart, small world.

Because geographic proximity causes coincident birthdays?

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Tue May 24, 2011 10:36 pm

"For those of you with a little time and an undiminished love of nature in the raw..."

Video shot from a helicopter within a few miles of the volcano as it erupted.

Volcanic Eruption in Grimsvotn, Iceland May 21, 2011

Post by **Vraith** » Wed May 25, 2011 3:07 am

Rigel wrote:
sindatur wrote: Cool that our mom's birthdays are only 2 days apart, small world.
Because geographic proximity causes coincident birthdays?

Well...I'm pretty sure geographic proximity has something to do with birthdays...

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed May 25, 2011 5:00 am

my dad loved the Tom Baker - Dr. Who.

it was an odd choice as he did not much like science fiction.

Post by **peter** » Wed May 25, 2011 10:37 am

I heard that the end of the world did happen as predicted but as it began with the removal of the truly good people to the Land flowing with ambrosia and costliest nard and as there were only half a dozen of them, none of the rest of us noticed. Now however we who remain reap the rewards of our licentious iniquity by getting to be here as the 'fields of Armageddon' spread ever outward (from Iceland) and we are consighned forever to the Departure Lounge of Heathrow Airport waiting for a plane that will never take off.

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So what are you doing on the 21st around 6pm?