Julie Baker walks the streets proselytizing with other believers that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, on May 13, 2011 in New York City. The Christian based movement, which claims thousands of supporters around the country and world, was founded by the Oakland, Calif.-based Harold Camping. Camping is president of Family Stations Inc., a religious broadcasting network that promotes the belief that May 21, 2011 is Judgment Day.
... mutual assured destruction, the deterrent that worked so well during the Cold War, would have no meaning. At the end of time, there will be general destruction anyway. What will matter will be the final destination of the dead--hell for the infidels, and heaven for the believers. For people with this mindset, MAD is not a constraint; it is an inducement.
Here is an easy quiz: look at the following extinction timeline and tell me what is missing from the chart. click on the image for a detailed view (PDF 1.2MB).
There are a few things you will never see Director Emmerich destroying in his films: mosques, Islamic holy cities, or the Kaaba. In his new film, we see many buildings and statues of various religions being destroyed except for one particular religion: Islam. Seems Emmerich and his producer/co-writer Harald Kloser, originally considered including Mecca in the world-wide destruction but then chickened out.
When everybody on earth was dead and waiting to enter Paradise, God appeared and said, "I want the men to make two lines: one line for the men who were true heads of their household, and the other line for the men who were dominated by their women. I want all the women to report to St. Peter."
So what's all the buzz about Muhammad al-Mahdi, August 22nd, and our favorite raving lunatic President of Iran?
FOR one group of expectant mothers, their due date holds an extra dimension of dread. The prospect of giving birth on June 6, 6/6/06, has prompted talk of spawning devil children on Armageddon day.
I originally wrote this on Feb 9, 2006 when my blog was hosted on blogspot. Then I read this from Dan Simmons who had a frightful encounter with a visitor from our future.
