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I didn't know about this whole "rapture" until today. Sad thing is, the first thing that comes to mind is that one episode of Squidbillies where they called off the raptureAren't we already doing that now?
The World Is (Supposedly) Going to End Saturday!
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I didn't know about this whole "rapture" until today. Sad thing is, the first thing that comes to mind is that one episode of Squidbillies where they called off the raptureAren't we already doing that now?
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Okay, I find this sutiably hilarious. Harold Camping - the guy predicting the end of the world - used numerology to do it. But one of Family Radio's basic beliefs (at least according to Wikipedia) is that "numerology cannot be applied to numbers in the Bible when following the Biblical rule".
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We had a group here (Sydney) back in the 90s who went through a thing like this. In fact they might have been a local branch of this same guy's sect(?) if he said the same back in 1994.
Anyway they had been on the TV saying how they fully believed that the world was going to end on a certain date. It had quite a bit of coverage despite it only being a few dozen believers. So when the day rolled around, they all gathered together in their church / rented space more like it. AND a group of rowdy non-believers who had gathered outside to basically have a good laugh. So it was shown on the news the next day, when the world didn't end. The rowdy crowd outside - who might have met first at a pub before going there - did a big new years eve style countdown 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - ZERO!!! With a loud cheer ringing out. It was so funny to watch.
Anyway they had been on the TV saying how they fully believed that the world was going to end on a certain date. It had quite a bit of coverage despite it only being a few dozen believers. So when the day rolled around, they all gathered together in their church / rented space more like it. AND a group of rowdy non-believers who had gathered outside to basically have a good laugh. So it was shown on the news the next day, when the world didn't end. The rowdy crowd outside - who might have met first at a pub before going there - did a big new years eve style countdown 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - ZERO!!! With a loud cheer ringing out. It was so funny to watch.
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Actually, the prediction doesn't say that the world will end at the strike of midnight on May 21st. It will start with a massive earthquake in Kiribati at 6pm local time. It will end with a second earthquake in Samoa at 6pm local time. The irony of this is that Samoa recently shifted its time zone to better trade with Australia and New Zealand; it's now in one of the "first" time zones, as opposed to being in one of the "last". This means that the world will actually end on May 22nd. If you believe.
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Yeah, fifteen sounds reasonable. I've seen enough horror films to know that the life expectancy of various characters goes a little like this, from shortest to longest:
Pretty blonde girls - 2 minutes
Anybody of colour - 5 minutes
People who are looking forward to a fight - 10 minutes
The character who understands what is going on and finds a way to fight it - 30 minutes
The main character's mentor - 45 minutes
The tough guy - 1 hour
The main character's best friend - 1 hour 40 minutes
The main character - 2 hours - 2 hours thirty minutes (depending on the length of the film)
Anybody played by Bruce Campbell (even if he is playing a pretty bottle-blonde Asian girl who is looking forward to the fight because she understands what is happening and is both the main character's mentor and best friend and really quite tough) - immortal
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There is a corollary to this, though. In my experience if the main character's best friend slots into any other character classification (especially the tough guy) he is usually the first to go. Kinda like a double whammy.
