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Oh, the world ended today.

The world hath ended, and everything continues on as usual. Golly, I completely missed the magnetic polar flip!

https://youtu.be/6HPrfFvkEj0

Stay calm and carry on, folks. Via TimesLive.

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  2. johnson catman says

    Matt G @1:
    I am sort of lucky. I did one load of laundry on Sunday. I have clean towels for the apocalypse!

  5. blf says

    This one is so boring it doesn’t even make the list at RationalWiki.

    The International Business Times, in July 29 end-of-the-world Doomsday prediction by false ‘prophet’ is epic failure, says the nutter is claiming the video has been sabotaged:

    […] Metro reports that John Preacher of Armageddon News claims someone reuploaded their videos and placed a July 29 end-of-the-world date. “Nothing is going to happen on July 29th. We have never claimed such a thing, this date is just another false date being promote online,” clarifies John Preacher.
    […]
    Metro notes that the July 29 prediction is just one of three end-of-the-world predictions in 2016. The two others are on May 6 when an asteroid was supposed to hit the planet and U.S. President Barack Obama allegedly revealing in June he is the anti-Christ. Like July 29, the two fake “prophecies” had expired without being fulfilled.

    The RationalWiki list has several other 2016 events, including one which is still due: “2016, Fall: Bible student and computer scientist Nora Roth on MarkBeast.com claims as much through a lot of numerology surrounding seventy ‘sevens’.”:
      The 70 “sevens” in Daniel 9:24 are 70 Jubilee cycles. These 70 Jubilee cycles bring us to the end of the world. […] Sabbatical cycles are 7 years long and Jubilee cycles are 49 years long. Each Jubilee cycle consists of 7 sabbatical cycles. The 50th year is called the Jubilee.
      Seventy “sevens” = 70 Jubilee cycles 70 x 7 x 7 +1 = 3,431 years

    Sooooooooooo obvious…
    However, just one towel will suffice.

  6. kestrel says

    AGAIN??! Crap. The world just keeps on ending.

    So does this mean I don’t have to file taxes now? I was hoping that would be the case when the “rapture” totally (did not) happen, but alas, my tax guy told me I have to still file them. :-( Damn.

  7. blf says

    The world is like a Yeti. It saves its existence before dangerous moments, and if the dangerous moment results in fried planet, restores the existence to try something less stupid the next time…
    (With apologies to Terry Pratchett.)

  12. says

    Ice Swimmer:

    Any info on the next day that world is going to end?

    Not yet. I do know that the Jehovah Witnesses predicted yet another world’s end, but I think it passed already. Can’t keep up with them all. I only noticed this one because of the batshit magnetic polar flip, which did have a bit of flair to it.

  14. says

    Iris @ 12:

    Wait, are we all dead now? ‘Cause I’m having a fucking fantastic day! #apocalypse4evah

    No idea if we’re dead now. I’m going to go with Blf’s theory that the world is like a Discworld Yeti. I’m having a pretty good day myself.

  15. blf says

    (Some hours ago I tried to post what would have been an answer, but it didn’t show up — dunno if it’s in moderation for some reason, or if I fecked up, or it got et by hungry electrons or…)

    Any info on the next day that world is going to end?

    According to the list at RationalWiki: “2016, Fall: Bible student and computer scientist Nora Roth on MarkBeast.com claims as much through a lot of numerology surrounding seventy ‘sevens’.”

  17. blf says

    Ah, the Seventy-Seven Salivating Spamfilters, then… (Not a very good movie, the end-of-the-world cycles (seven, of them, of course), got boring real soon.)

  18. Lofty says

    From the other side of the International Date Line I can inform you all that the world of the 29th did indeed end on the 29th. Fortunately, like in Hollywood, there is always another sequel.

  19. Ice Swimmer says

    So, between August and December will be the next end. Maybe I should make a laundry reservation for August 31st.

    JWs thought it was going to be in 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975, 1994 and 1997.

    Pat Robertson predicted it would be in 2007.

  21. says

    Why would anyone who thought the world was going to end bother communicating about it?

    I mean, “hey guys with the gravity-wave detector, that anomaly you’re measuring is my basement black hole project gone horribly awry” does not apply.

  22. rq says

    With all the good days going around, I think someone just hit the refresh button on 2016. Not quite the end of the world as advertised.

  23. blf says

    Why would anyone who thought the world was going to end bother communicating about it?

    As I recall, Harold Camping got lots of money the last time he did this, albeit he didn’t get his sums quite right and claimed he spent it all on the advertising (presumably in an effort to get moar money to keep). Yes, he cheerfully scammed money out of people who probably could not afford the loss.

    The Late Great Planet Earth(?) author, whose name escapes me and I’m too lazy at the moment to search-for, made, as I recall, a considerable amount of money from that absurd book, and wrote multiple follow-ups.

    So I’d suggest money is one reason. As is vanity / fame, and — speculating — an “authorization”-ish desire to impose yer beliefs, “laws”, whatever on others.

  25. ledasmom says

    I only noticed this one because of the batshit magnetic polar flip, which did have a bit of flair to it.

    The Batshit Magnetic Polar Flip will be the go-to dismount from the uneven bars in Rio.

  26. says

    Ledasmom @ 25:

    The Batshit Magnetic Polar Flip will be the go-to dismount from the uneven bars in Rio.

    :laughs: I’d love to hear the announcer say that.

  27. blf says

    Hal Lindsey.

    That’s the nutter! Excerpts from his entry in The Encyclopedia of American Loons (he is apparently still alive, albeit still not sentient):

    #884: Hal Lindsey

    Harold Lee “Hal” Lindsey is a deranged madman probably best known for the 1973 book The Late Great Planet Earth, which promoted fundamentalist Christian end-times rapture dogma drivel and dispensationalism. For some reason or other the book managed to end up not only as a best-seller, but as the best-selling non-fiction book of the entire 1970s [“selling over 35 million copies” –RationalWiki] — even though it should of course never have been classified as non-fiction to begin with. At least it contained early versions of most of the current standard-fare RaptureReady conspiracies — the EU is a revival of the Roman Empire, and will eventually be ruled by the Antichrist (though Lindsey has later assigned that role to Obama), and so on.
    […]
    At present [c.2014] Lindsey hosts a TV news show where he mostly loons around about “Islamofascism” and praises St George Bush. The focus on Islam is presumably a development from The Late Great Planet Earth, according to which the Soviet Union would play the role of antagonist during the End Times. Since the Soviet Union is no longer around, Lindsey had to find a new antagonist, and Islam seemed to serve the purpose — not if you actually cared about reasoning, rationality, truth, evidence or reality, but that was never an obstacle for Lindsey. Apparently the obviously satanic Trilateral Commission also plays a role.
    […]

    He’s certainly profited from claiming (multiple times) the Earth was about to go POOF!

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