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Philip
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 13:31 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2006 13:31
I've just finished reading in a Sunday newspaper's magazine about a small American mid-western cult who fervently believed that the world was supposed to end last December 31 2005. Apparently they all got horribly drunk on the day.

I bet they felt VERY stupid when they woke up the next morning.

I think someone should found some kind of charitable group, the group's mission being to send lots of people to see cult members like these and, on the day after the world was supposed to end, to turn up at the premises, point at the cultists and laugh an awful lot.

It'd be doing them a favour. It really would.

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 13:33
That'd only be fair if they were allow to point and laugh at the new-founded laughing cult if the world actually DID end

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whos heard of the bible code? that has predicted some freaky sh*t.
enough to make me, a completely unreligiouse, science and proof needing minded person a bit worried.
http://exodus2006.com/3code.htm

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 18:50 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2006 19:16
pfft. you realise you can do the same thing with the bible code as you could with moby dick or hamlet?



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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 18:59
Don't worry about the world ending tommorrow - it's already tommorrow in Austrialia!

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 19:01
And has the world ended?

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 20:20
It has here.


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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 20:34 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2006 20:39
they had the same thing happen in the USA on new years eve 1999, this cult sold all their worldly possesions (houses, cars, personal items etc) then gave all the money to charity, they then went up into the hills to await the end of the world and pray for our souls.

come new years day 2000 the cult leader said the power of their prayer had saved the world (yeah! right!), the funny thing is, they did a follow up piece on em and over 3/4 of the cult members are still in the cult (probably got nowhere else to live since they now don`t own a house ), the worst thing must have been if you where a child in one of those familys and they sold all your possesions off, then when you go back to school after the holidays everyones gonna just laugh their heads off while boasting about all the neat stuff they had for Christmas while they`ve got zilch.



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Would anybody like to join my cult!

I have predicted that the world will be invaded by giant alien Muffins from the planet Skaro in 2007. Anybody who joins my cult will be saved!

Just send $250,000 to me for your survival pack.

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 20:41
hey!, do I need one per person?, where do I send the money?

just as soon as this Nigerian banker puts the cash in my account then I`m your man



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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 20:41
Would anyone like to join my cult that mnemoix is going to take over the world and remove all public transport only 50p

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 20:52
Come on, we all know that the world will be taken over by ME...

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 21:01
i bowhunt squirells on my free time, they make cool little hats

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 21:05 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2006 21:06
I didn`t know Squirells had any sewing skills, do they make hats out of felt or are they more like the top hat? all silk and stuff, or being country animals maybe they use straw and make those hats they used to wear when Punting, although I would have thought a punt pole was too large for a squirell. (I did say punting...didn`t I?).



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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 21:24
Lol, you guys know nothing, the mayans state that the world ends 2012... duh!

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 00:35
The magnetic poles are supposed to switch around soon, so compass will point South. Maybe that will cause some sort of major disaster? Who knows? I don't believe in Bible codes.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 00:51
Pincho, thats one of the causes of the end of the world

I think the end of the mayan calender is 2012 because they can not precdict any further than that... Because it all depends on 'Earth'. Earth is a living thing too, you know. Once those magnetic poles switch, weather and everything will be chaotic depending on how poeple treated ther planet. And in my bible (i'm muslim) it says the the beast of the earth will imerge from mountains... which will probably be Earth in the form of a beast.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 00:54
i dont believ in any bible and i say the world will end when we overpopulate to the point where we're forced off the planet, or when the sun becomes a red giant, whichever comes first...

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:16 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2006 01:18
One ****MAJOR**** flaw in your bible code...

How the hell can the old testament refer to dates in the Gregorian Calendar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It blows the whole scientific proof thing out of the window, unless they had a time machine.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:17
I highly recommend you all go out and buy "Call of the Weird" by Louis Theroux. A brilliant book profiling all sorts of cults like these - including one guy he interviews who was adamant the world would end in 1994. He went back a few years later to reinterview him. Classic.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:26
maybe we are in the Matrix and th eworld has ended.lol well you never know.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:34
You could spend all day trying to work out stuff like that. All you're going to end up with is a strange sense of wasted time.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:35
Quote: "All you're going to end up with is a strange sense of wasted time."
or the date the world will end

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:47
the world will end in a couple billion years when the sun goes pop... no bible code required

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:51
whos to say by then we cant stop that?


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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:55
yeah, lets just dump a trillian pounds of liquid oxygen into the sun, and if it isn't out by then, just light a match and turn it into water.

jk.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 02:08
Quote: "he magnetic poles are supposed to switch around soon, so compass will point South"


A touch more will happen than that!! That field isn't only used for telling us where north is - it deflects lots of nasty ray from the sun that otherwise would rip the DNA of all living things to pieces.

I think the world is going to end a long time before the sun goes out. I recently read "A short guide to nearly everything" by Bill Bryson. I never realised how close the earth potentially is to total annyhalation! Meteors, bacteria/virii, the sun, ourselves... Plenty of stuff!!! Good book too.

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Quote: "A touch more will happen than that!! That field isn't only used for telling us where north is - it deflects lots of nasty ray from the sun that otherwise would rip the DNA of all living things to pieces"
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Uhh, wtf?

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 09:53
Yeah it does deflect radiation.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 10:10 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2006 10:15
But flipping the poles won't kill everyone. It is true, they estimate that the last time this happened was as close as 7800,000 years ago.

Scientists think the poles started to flip again just a few years ago, but it will take a few thousand years to complete.

The Sun's poles swap over every 11 years!

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 13:49
The poles take a while to flip - but during this time they'll get weaker as they approach "normal" (ie, before they invert). During this time the entire earth is unprotected from the nasty cosmic rays. During this unprotected time, these rays will come straight down to earth and through pretty much everything (I think they can penetrate through thick concrete)

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 14:54 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2006 14:55
http://qntm.org/destroy

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 17:32
They missed out the giant Pacman method.

1/ Build gigantic metal Pacman.

2/ Face him towards Pills (Planets)

3/ Wait for it to get to Saturn.

4/ As it goes around Saturn, eating the moons it now faces back towards Earth.

5/ Wait...... (Important!!! Do not Imitate a giant Ghost)

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Posted: 4th Apr 2006 03:02
The "bible code" is crap. You can do it with just about any book. at the end of the day, if you look for something and you want to find it bad enough, you will find it. It's where we get most of our conspiracy theories If I got bored enough, I'm sure I could find the planet's doomsday prophecy in "James and the Giant Peach" or "Atlas Shrugged" or "1984..." oh wait, nevermind that last one

Cults are always making crazy claims. The Jehovah's witnesses are the scariest of them all because none of their members realize how brainwashed they are. They don't allow their members to get blood transfusions and as a result thousands of people have died... including children and infants who could have lived if they'd recieved one. They even have recovering Jehovah's Witnesses groups for people who've been brainwashed by the organization. What's frightening is, many people look at them as nothing more than a nuisance and don't realize the horrible crap they preach or the lies they claim. For instance, they claim their headquarters is in Brooklyn, New York. I've seen this "headquarters," where they claim over 700 Jehovah's witnesses operate... less than 30 people actually go their daily, except for when they have J.W. tours and whatnot. Scary stuff.

In a nutshell: If you're religious, cool. It's your own belief everyone should be entitled to believe in whatever they want. But if that "religion" is based on one person's view of a mainstream religion, and we know what that guy's name is (in the case of the Jehovah's Witnesses, that would be a guy named Russell in the later 1800's), then it's a cult. Simple as that. Name a religion that was founded by a person whose name we know that isn't a cult... I dare you!

Sorry about that. My girlfriend, Sharyn, is a "recovering" Jehovah's Witness. Thankfully she met me, an agnostic, who lead her to question the organization. I personally don't believe in the bible, but if she wants to be a christian I don't have a problem with that. but not if her beliefs are based on the beliefs of some psychopath whose willing to let infants die. that's simply NOT cool!


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Are you trying to start a flamewar?

In any case, cult isn't defined by who starts it, its a view or religion which isn't considered a "mainstream" religion.

Quote: "In religion and sociology, a cult is a group of people (often a new religious movement) devoted to beliefs and goals which may be contradictory to those held by the majority of society. Its marginal status may come about either due to its novel belief system or due to idiosyncratic practices that cause the surrounding culture to regard it as far outside the mainstream. "


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In either case, by my definition or by yours, they're still a cult. My definition works pretty well too, I think... can you name a religious organization that isn't considered a cult that was founded by a real-life person whose name we know and there's physical evidence to support that person's existence? Nope. My method is a fast way to determine whether or not a group is a cult or not. Besides, if someone honestly tried to support the Jehovah's Witnesses on here and say they AREN'T a cult I'd have a serious issue and might even be forced to blow up said person's house because of it (joking!). They're a cult, hand's-down, and the only people who know anything about them who DON'T think they're a cult are the members themselves, only because they're brainwashed beyond belief. I'm pretty sure that if I got into a "flame war" with a Jehovah's Witness, not only would I win without contest, but I'd also end up making them leave the organization... in fact, I'd put money on that because I detest them for how they treat children and how they brainwash people into following some crazy guy's beliefs. Heck, if they charged people to join I would have seen to their destruction by now, by going on a public warpath screaming the truth about their organization from rooftops. Whenever I think about this for longer than three hours I start to consider doing that anyway


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Look, if you want to argue or flame about anything, more power to you, but I don't think religious debates are allowed, I was merely pointing that out.
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Posted: 4th Apr 2006 03:46 Edited at: 4th Apr 2006 04:03
Quote: "Name a religion that was founded by a person whose name we know that isn't a cult... I dare you!"


The Lutheran Church, founded by Martin Luther.

EDIT: It's not the small cults that we have to worry about, but rather those who want to take over the world...


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Posted: 4th Apr 2006 04:13
Quote: "whos heard of the bible code? that has predicted some freaky sh*t.
enough to make me, a completely unreligiouse, science and proof needing minded person a bit worried."


This was disproven on some Urban Myth Show and as has already been stated, it works with anything. You should see what Vanilla Ice's last album predicted.


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WOW... You all know nothing about the end of the world!!!

Let me enlighten you a bit.

In a few hundred years humanity will have colonized the solar system, and a form of hyper drive will be invented. This will consist of literal passing out of our plane of existence, and entering it at another point. About a thousand years after the invention of hyper drive, the galaxy will be mostly colonized by humans. On earth, a small group of scientists will question what really lies outside our universe, and shall set about disproving the theory of parallel dimensions. They will unexpectedly discover that while our universe is the only real universe, there lies an infinite potential for other universes to exist elsewhere, and that by trying to travel to one of these other 'verses, they can actually cause it to come into being.
Thus the hyper gate project will begin, and about half a century later, humans will make their first trip to another universe. This discovery will be followed not long after by The Dreamer project, which will be a computer designed specifically to create other verses and nexuses to encompass these new verses. Over thousands of year’s humanity shale extend its empire to other universes, creating the multiverse empire. After thirty thousand years of this prosper and a major decline in innovation and invention, the hyper gates will shut down.
Trillions of humans will end up stranded throughout the multiverse, void of the supplies and technology from the Earth Verse, as it is called. This sudden collapse of the Multidimentional Empire will be mainly cause by the evolution of humanity in our own verse. You see, while the human designed verses will be made specifically to stunt natural selection and evolution as a whole (although not entirely stop it), such measures could not be taken in our own universe. Humanity will evolve throughout thousands of planets in our galaxy, until only the earth shale still have "classic" humans. The Earth shale reject these new species, and hide and isolate itself in a time field, waiting for a time when the other species are long gone. They will wait a long time... In the rest of the multiverse, humans learn their own methods to travel between verses, and Earth becomes a mere myth.
500 million years later, however, a human will escape to our Verse from another, just as the infinite possibility of the multiverse is reduced to zero, by the hard work of an organization known as the RS... not only do all verses but the Earth Verse cease to exist, but hyperspace travel becomes impossible as well. The human who escapes the multiverse will manage to find the by then mythical earth, and warn it about the RS's plans to destroy existence completely. Earth will be given protections and weapons beyond the comprehension of us, and humanity will wait... 500 more millions years and humans change....

But I've said too much... You must forget what you've just read... It is not safe for us to know the future or the paradoxes that shale come of it... At least not yet.

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someones bored....

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Not really, but you probably wont understand what most of that was until I have enough games released.

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You and your multiverse. Come join my Pwnageverse. You can have the omniverse.

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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 02:24 Edited at: 5th Apr 2006 02:25
I didn't mean that to be a flame. Somehow I doubt we have any ehovah's Witnesses on these forums, and besides, they aren't really a religious group... not unless you consider the Jonestown Kool Aid people a "religion" too (they were the Kool Aid people). I was merely pointing out that they're an evil, evil cult hellbent on world domination (they tell their members to ignore world politics, but at the same time they openly preach that the United Nations is evil and whatnot).

I didn't think of the Lutherians, or the Church of England... but besides those organizations you'll come up dry I said this same thing to a friend over the summer and she said "well, what about the Scientologists? They're not a cult and they were founded by L. Ron Hubbard (sp?)". Then again, she didn't know that the Scientologists wear space suits when they have weddings. See, the Scientologists believe that all of us are actually sent down from and someday in the future the from our home will come here, and they'll us all back. Spooky!


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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 02:36
Joel, your arch enemy was a Jehova's Witness


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Such fools, the universe will end when giant brains invent a machine that knows everything, Unless the legendary heroe with his noble scooty puff junior comes to the rescue.

If you're so smart, why are you reading my post?
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uhh... I thought it was a Srgt... then again, been a long time! lol.
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