Will the world end May 21st?
The weather is a bit dull and overcast where I am, theres still time
OR you weren't chosen to go
I think there's a good chance it wasn't an intentional hoax at all.
This perfectly sincere individual (the guy at the root of it all) was simple misguided in his his beliefs and incorrect in his calculations. Hey - it happens to a lot of us. 
Calculating stuff based on the Mayan calendar isn't easy, you know. 
Hmm. Live and learn. My local news reported that it was based on the Mayan calendar. (I couldn't believe they even did a thing on it at all, but maybe that's just me. They had the whole Doomsday clock thing - etc. etc. Maybe I wasn't listening closely enough. The did feature a part about the guy's incorrect prediction in 1994. Oh well.... Bible. Mayan calendar. It's all pretty much to same to me.
By virtue of the definition of the word "believe" (regardless of what someone believes), the term "believer" means that anyone who believes anything thinks what he believes is true. If he didn't, he wouldn't believe it.
People can believe what they want, of course; but, to me, people who presume to make predictions about the world and predictions about what there is, or isn't, in terms of anything that goes on after we die are all the same. I, personally, think people ought to figure out what they believe or don't believe without following the words or writings of any other human beings, because no other human beings have any "special connection" to knowledge about the non-Earthly matters of things like after life, supreme beings, or how any creator thinks or plans to do things. No middle men - and certainly no words of people who walked the Earth centuries and centuries ago when human beings believed things like that the moon was made of green cheese or that when the Winter brought more darkness they had to light fires to convince "the gods" not to make the sun go away. \
There's a big difference between believing in God, or at least not ruling out the possibility that there's God, and believing stuff that human beings have written and said (even if they've written and said stuff out of good intentions, such as trying to make some of those barbaric people of a couple of thousand years ago (and far more recently, for that matter) behave in more civilized, compassionate, ways.
I, personally, don't believe that anyone's believing in God is "equal to pagan" by any means. What I see as "equal to pagan" is believing books that have been written by human beings and believing that certain human beings are more than that and know more than that.
Really - when someone who believes in The Rapture sits before a TV camera, is asked by the reported whether long-dead people are going to look like themselves when they gift lifted out their graves, and says with a straight face that they will look just as they always did.... Well, what can I say... My mind is boggled that this world has been populated with human beings for as long as it has, and as late in the game as this, we still have people believing some of this stuff.
I, personally, believe that faith and spirituality are between each individual and anyone/anything "out there"; and that anyone/anything that has presumed to interfere with each individual's private journey of finding his own faith/spirituality (or not) has stunted the progress human beings could have been making if people hadn't believed what other human beings told them.
So, to me: Bible, Mayan calendar, whatever it is that someone came up with thousands of years ago - it's all the same. (Again, I'm not knocking faith in a Creator. Just knocking the words and stories written by human beings and passed off as anything other than that. )
- klarawieckposted 13 years ago
0 Could be Toby, California will be the last time zone. Only another couple of hours to go there.
Were the socks holy?
- klarawieckposted 13 years ago0
What you people don't realize is that we actually died on the 21st and we are all confused spirits, living an alternate reality in a Bruce Willis's "Sixth Sense" kind of way.
So it really is gonna happen on the 21st really then?
Oh well now I am convinced! I mean he says he really really means it and that doesn't sound at all like a small child playing guessing games and passing it as fact or anything
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