Tent City! Tent City! Tent City!

[Jeff Lebowski]

A different Christian group predicts that the world will be completely annihilated on Wednesday of this week. Take that, Julie Rowe!

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/christian-group-says-the-world-will-be-permanently-annihilated-on-wednesday/

[Uncle Ted]

A different Christian group predicts that the world will be completely annihilated on Wednesday of this week. Take that, Julie Rowe!

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/chri...-on-wednesday/

Oh sh*t! That's today!

[SandYFan]

A different Christian group predicts that the world will be completely annihilated on Wednesday of this week. Take that, Julie Rowe!

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/chri...-on-wednesday/

The expectation of the world ending this fall stems from an earlier prediction by Harold Camping , a Christian radio host who was based in California. In 2011 Camping used his radio station, Family Radio, to notify people that the world would end on 21 May of that year. When that turned out to be incorrect, Camping revised his prediction to October 2011. That also turned out to be incorrect, and Camping retired from public life soon after. He died in 2013, at age 93.

Apparently wanting something to be true is not the same as it being true.

[New Mexican Disaster]

A different Christian group predicts that the world will be completely annihilated on Wednesday of this week. Take that, Julie Rowe!

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/chri...-on-wednesday/

I'm waiting.....

[Jeff Lebowski]

I'm waiting.....

I hope it is later tonight. I have a bunch of stuff I need to get done.

[Jeff Lebowski]

[TripletDaddy]

01 Day(s) Since Last Apocalypse

[Uncle Ted]

[Harry Tic]

I'm sure that a ton of research has been done on this, but I'm too lazy to do back up my own hypothesis by adducing any evidence or even going back and re-reading this thread. Mrs. HT, long before the current tent city craze, pointed out to me that the folks that most eagerly anticipate the end of the world are the ones who have little to lose when this one is destroyed. They tend to be on the wrong end of the socio-economic scale and probably feel disenfranchised. And of course the truly impoverished and oppressed would welcome the kind of upheaval we associate with the end of the world. It's the comfortable and the well-off that tend to be most dismissive about what they regard as apocalyptic fantasies.

It's easy enough to smirk at the Julie Rowe nutjobs and tent city enthusiasts. And they deserve it, probably (at least that's what I tell myself when I laugh at them as well). Now, I wouldn't doubt that there is a significant demographic of LDS doomsayers that are plenty affluent and are keen on apocalypse because, if nothing else, it would reaffirm their (arguably naively literal) faith in old-school Mormonism. But I would be interested in seeing data on the kinds of folks that really get into the apocalypse stuff. My guess is (a) they tend to be disenfranchised in other ways (intellectually, socially, economically, politically); and (b) they are drawn to "politicians" like Donald Trump precisely because they promise a kind of carnivalesque upheaval of the social order.

Ok, sorry for that.

Carry on.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I'm sure that a ton of research has been done on this, but I'm too lazy to do back up my own hypothesis by adducing any evidence or even going back and re-reading this thread. Mrs. HT, long before the current tent city craze, pointed out to me that the folks that most eagerly anticipate the end of the world are the ones who have little to lose when this one is destroyed. They tend to be on the wrong end of the socio-economic scale and probably feel disenfranchised. And of course the truly impoverished and oppressed would welcome the kind of upheaval we associate with the end of the world. It's the comfortable and the well-off that tend to be most dismissive about what they regard as apocalyptic fantasies.

It's easy enough to smirk at the Julie Rowe nutjobs and tent city enthusiasts. And they deserve it, probably (at least that's what I tell myself when I laugh at them as well). Now, I wouldn't doubt that there is a significant demographic of LDS doomsayers that are plenty affluent and are keen on apocalypse because, if nothing else, it would reaffirm their (arguably naively literal) faith in old-school Mormonism. But I would be interested in seeing data on the kinds of folks that really get into the apocalypse stuff. My guess is (a) they tend to be disenfranchised in other ways (intellectually, socially, economically, politically); and (b) they are drawn to "politicians" like Donald Trump precisely because they promise a kind of carnivalesque upheaval of the social order.

Ok, sorry for that.

Carry on.

I turned on the radio this morning on the way into work and caught a discussion on one of the local talk stations from the Glenn Beck show. He was talking with some evangelist about how Christians are persecuted and how the end is near. They both claimed (Beck and his guest) that they are receiving visions of upcoming calamities if America doesn't get this ship turned around pronto. Beck claimed that he wishes he wasn't one of the chosen ones to get these visions and he begs God constantly to not show this to him, but God keeps making him see this scary stuff.

Poor guy.

[Flystripper]

[Harry Tic]

I turned on the radio this morning on the way into work and caught a discussion on one of the local talk stations from the Glenn Beck show. He was talking with some evangelist about how Christians are persecuted and how the end is near. They both claimed (Beck and his guest) that they are receiving visions of upcoming calamities if America doesn't get this ship turned around pronto. Beck claimed that he wishes he wasn't one of the chosen ones to get these visions and he begs God constantly to not show this to him, but God keeps making him see this scary stuff.

Poor guy.

Yeah, then there's the Glenn Beck thing. It didn't take him long to realize that there's a lot of money to be made off of that demographic. That's not to say that I think he's cynical: he probably believes the crap he peddles. But he found a pretty comfortable niche in the doomsday ecosystem. That's just how the system works: there are a lot of disenfranchised folks clamoring to buy and there are just enough folks like GB that are more than happy to sell.

[byu71]

I turned on the radio this morning on the way into work and caught a discussion on one of the local talk stations from the Glenn Beck show. He was talking with some evangelist about how Christians are persecuted and how the end is near. They both claimed (Beck and his guest) that they are receiving visions of upcoming calamities if America doesn't get this ship turned around pronto. Beck claimed that he wishes he wasn't one of the chosen ones to get these visions and he begs God constantly to not show this to him, but God keeps making him see this scary stuff.

Poor guy.

Back in '08 he had visions of the market going lower than 6,500 and not recovering for quite a while. Also visions of gold soaring beyond 1,800 an ounce. He also suggested people sell their homes and rent.

I think his visions are a bit suspect.

[Pelado]

Back in '08 he had visions of the market going lower than 6,500 and not recovering for quite a while. Also visions of gold soaring beyond 1,800 an ounce. He also suggested people sell their homes and rent.

I think his visions are a bit suspect.

You're just jealous that you weren't chosen to receive the visions.

[byu71]

You're just jealous that you weren't chosen to receive the visions.

I would love to have some visions. Those would have ruined my career though.