The End Is Nigh!

old hippy

Nigh, I tells ya!

The world will end (again) in 2060, thankfully I'll be long gone and miss out in the apocalypse. Which makes me wonder; the world appears to "end" on a regular basis. With all the fervent believers insisting that it's going to happen - what do they do when it doesn't end? How do they rebuild their "credibility"? Do they simply insist that it will end on another day?

danniemcq

are the neutrinos going to mutate?

Cause thats all science ya know

The Backwards Man

If it's true and the world ends I'll eat my hat.

Sunnyisland

I be 113 years old , must remember to be ready for it.

nelly17

For some reason I keep on sleeping through the rapture

Manach

Probably they, like the OP, seem to exist in a bubble that only allows their own worldview in and spew out random events whenever the mood takes them.

danniemcq

nelly17 wrote: »

For some reason I keep on sleeping through the rapture

as long as you don't sleep through the raptors

197th User Id

old hippy wrote: »

Nigh, I tells ya!

The world will end (again) in 2060, thankfully I'll be long gone and miss out in the apocalypse. Which makes me wonder; the world appears to "end" on a regular basis. With all the fervent believers insisting that it's going to happen - what do they do when it doesn't end? How do they rebuild their "credibility"? Do they simply insist that it will end on another day?

They don't rebuild it. They just get highlighted as morons.

We should all on a quarterly basis propose and agree on different dates.
These date are disseminated through conspiracy message boards and various other nutter media.

A list of those taking it seriously is made publicly available.

nelly17

danniemcq wrote: »

as long as you don't sleep through the raptors

Ah yes but the end did come for those suckers

ruthloss

nelly17 wrote: »

For some reason I keep on sleeping through the rapture

You are doing it wrong!!;)

old hippy

Manach wrote: »

Probably they, like the OP, seem to exist in a bubble that only allows their own worldview in and spew out random events whenever the mood takes them.

Get out of the bed the wrong side today? Not had enough weetabix, perchance?

Geomy

nelly17 wrote: »

Ah yes but the end did come for those suckers

Looks like Nidge is a blood sucker for Halloween, check this out. ..

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danniemcq

nelly17 wrote: »

Ah yes but the end did come for those suckers

have you not seen the documentary Jurrasic Park?

Driveby Dogboy

Hedgemeister

One dark November day in the late '50s my Teacher suddenly burst into tears in the middle of the classroom.
"Tis the end of the World, she sobbed, three dark days an' three dark nights are coming, so off ye go now home to be with your parents when the end comes!"
Scared the shyte out of us 9 year olds I can tell you...

(And no Joe Duffy to ring for verification)

Just imagine if that happened nowadays...shure the childer would be scarred for life!


Jeez, Ireland was a quare place in those times.

RikkFlair

Tonight I'm gonna party like it's 2059

Femme_Fatale

Manach wrote: »

Probably they, like the OP, seem to exist in a bubble that only allows their own worldview in and spew out random events whenever the mood takes them.

Like the Rapture? I presume once it's a bubble you agree with it's ok?

Hedgemeister wrote: »

One dark November day in the late '50s my Teacher suddenly burst into tears in the middle of the classroom.
"Tis the end of the World, she sobbed, three dark days an' three dark nights are coming, so off ye go now home to be with your parents when the end comes!"
Scared the shyte out of us 9 year olds I can tell you...

(And no Joe Duffy to ring for verification)

Just imagine if that happened nowadays...shure the childer would be scarred for life!


Jeez, Ireland was a quare place in those times.

Cuban Missile Crisis? My dad was in his early to mid teens. Said they were convinced this was it. The Cold War era really was all about the "World is going to end" stuff - right up to the early 90s. I remember for the first Gulf War in 1990/91 (I was 12/13) there was major apocalypse fear, whereas nothing like that for the next one in 2003.

theblaqueguy

We should all be preparing for the end.
Anyone else watch doomsday preppers the people that are preparing for the end of the world as we know one of my favorite lines from it is
"When the big trucks stop rolling how much food you holding?"

Lawrence1895

Homer Simpson knew it all the way long

Hedgemeister

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Like the Rapture? I presume once it's a bubble you agree with it's ok?

Cuban Missile Crisis? My dad was in his early to mid teens. Said they were convinced this was it. The Cold War era really was all about the "World is going to end" stuff - right up to the early 90s. I remember for the first Gulf War in 1990/91 (I was 12/13) there was major apocalypse fear, whereas nothing like that for the next one in 2003.

Nah, a Pope died, Pius I think. His death co-incided with something else but I can't think what it was. It was a few years before the Cuban missile Crisis in 1962. We got no time off school for the little Cuban episode.

TheBegotten

OP hasn't validated his fears with a link? Must've been called off so :pac:

stretchdoe

'The end is nigh'.

Always seems a more immediate threat if said in a northern-irish accent.

Hedgemeister

The trouble with these bloody Doom forecasters is, they'll eventually get it right!

What I remember of the 1950s was the air of gloom & doom which permeated every aspect of our lives.
Compulsory / strictly enforced Religon, dire poverty, dirty water, (from Wells fed with liquid (s) of dubious origin, as only cities and big towns had piped water) Dry toilets, buckets of shyte, fleas, lice, oil stoves, mass emigration, visiting Missionaries frightening the shyte (and money) out of the parishioners, and the strictly enforced 'pennies for the black babies' to be brought to school by hungry Irish children whose parents were in dire poverty.
Menfolk co-erced to attend Solidarity Meetings & Women forced into The Legion of Mary , with their heads covered in Church, and not allowed sit with us males (in our Church anyway) but had to stay on the 'women's side', to the left of the main Aisle.
In the Church/Cinema/Dance Hall, the smell of Camphor (Moth Balls) & Damp clothes. Men wore hob-nailed boots, hats, and black suits, collar-less shirts, and were worn out hulks at thirty five, and dead by fifty, from TB or worked to death to support huge families.
Milk was straight from the cow, no pasteurisation in those times/ Entertainment was non existant during Lent.
Picture House & Dance Hall closed by order of the Parish Priest. (Of course there was zero sex...because TV hadn't arrived yet)
Three telephones in every Parish. The Post Office, The PP's house and another in the 'big house'.
Travelling Shows, (fit ups) were the order of the day in the Parish Hall, where the Clergy collected the money at the door and enforced a strict dress code...dresses to mid-calf, etc, and the visiting actors got a percentage of the door talkings.
I remember the lack of medical services too. The Doctor came to our end of the county on Mondays, from 10 am to three pm. If someone got sick any other day, then it was three Hail Marys and two Our Fathers, or call an Ambulance out from the City...if you could get to one of the three phones!
Being beaten black & blue in school for not knowing your sums, the Irish word for something or other, not knowing your prayers, your Cathecism, or because the effin teacher was having a bad day...
Ahh the good auld days!
Sorry about the rant folks...the word DOOM brought it all flooding back!
Jeez, the 40s must have been worse but I wasn't about then.

old hippy

TheBegotten wrote: »

OP hasn't validated his fears with a link? Must've been called off so :pac:

Ach, I don't fear anything - except the next Star Wars trilogy. Here's a link, apologies, should have added it at the start.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/the-world-will-end-in-2060-according-to-newton-7254673.html