Only two more shopping days left until no more shopping days ever...maybe.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/18/tick-tock-goes-the-doomsday-clock/?hpt=C1

Tick tock goes the doomsday clock

By Jessica Ravitz, CNN

Perhaps you’ve already noticed, what with the billboards and signs dotting the landscape, the pamphlets blowing in the wind and the RVs plastered with Judgment Day warnings weaving through cities. Or maybe, as the birds chirped outside and you sipped your morning coffee, a full-page newspaper ad for the upcoming mass destruction caught your eye.

May 21, 2011, according to loyal listeners of Family Radio, a Christian broadcasting network based in Oakland, California, will mark the Day of Rapture and the start of Judgment Day (which, they say, will last five months). Those who are saved will be taken up to heaven, and those who aren’t will endure unspeakable suffering. Dead bodies will be strewn about as earthquakes ravage the Earth, they say. And come October 21, they’ll tell you, the entire world will be kaput.

It’s the kind of belief that riles up churchgoers who insist no one can know when Judgment Day will come, and the sort that many say does a disservice to Christianity. And it’s the kind of message that delights the types who are planning tongue-in-cheek End of the World parties and are responding to a Facebook invitation to attend a post-rapture looting. Rapture events, including one at a tiki bar in Fort Lauderdale, are being hosted by American Atheists. News outlets, comedians and even Doonesbury can’t seem to resist a good end-of-the-world prophecy.

Earlier this year, CNN traveled with a team of believers - all of whom had walked away from friends, families and jobs - as they set out to share this serious message aboard a caravan of Judgment Day RVs. These ambassadors or co-laborers in God’s work, as they see themselves, let us into their world. Along the way we met other supporters, as well as a sea of skeptics, many of them drunken pirates gathered for an annual festival in Florida.

[Drale]

1. I have already decided

I am not going to feel bad for all these idiots who gave away all their stuff. I normally feel bad for people down on their luck, but this is just pure stupidity.

[KG]

2. i need a new pick-up truck, so the rapture works for me.

also, think how this would reduce the unemp problem!

[lob1]

delete--dupe

[lob1]

3. Anyone want to get together for a post-rapture brunch?

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. I'd love to, but I'm already signed up for a post-rapture looting party. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Come right over

we are doing brunch on Sunday (for real)

[polichick]

4. Maybe that's why Psycho Sarah isn't running - she's planning to get raptured.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. since I am going to be SHOPPING on the DAY

I am sure to get an express elevator to the first circle of hell... being Jewish... Alighieri was nice about that

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. Or , at least, shorter lines. n/t

[L0oniX]

9. Reverend Billy says ...stop shopping!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kwAftPLlU

[Duer 157099]

10. LOL "Be not wise in thine own eyes"

On a sign telling the rest of us that he knows the exact specific day!

Irony is rich with this one.

[liberal N proud]

11. I guess if I am going to do the floating rubber dolls...

I had better get them bought.
Anyone know where I can get helium?

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. What is the proper attire for looters?

Wouldn't want to look out of style when jacking an '11 Benz.......

[Curmudgeoness]

13. I didn't think about it, but I had better get a new outfit

for judgment day. What color should I get? A sedate blue or a bold red? Demure or sexy? Decisions, decisions!

:evilgrin:

[Turbineguy]

14. What a dumbass!

I just paid for something that will not get delivered until Monday.

[malaise]

15. This is some fall down funny

shite. The entire world is laughing at this madness. :rofl:

[Contrary1]

16. I would love to know where all these knuckleheads will be hiding out, come Sunday. n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

17. I'm holding out for the day after judgment day sales

100% off church pews and stained glass. Get there early.