NOTAM: Rapture coming on Saturday

Isn't this the Mayan calendar prediction? Wouldn't that mean they would be falling into the sacrificial pit after the blood letting?

IOW, go fly.
 
They all be kooks. I say instead of predicting the end of the world they just predict the next Series winner.
 
Jim Logajan said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...mpaign-for-the-apocalypse-seems-to-be-working

I'm not sure of the "see and avoid" rules that apply - are people ascending into heaven considered ultralights who have to yield to all other aircraft, or are they considered aircraft having an emergency, so we must yield to them?
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There was a briefing this evening at the local CAP meeting from some guys who attended a local FAAsTeam event talking about operations around the active skydiving airports in the Front Range.

The Skydiving folks called their cargo, "Meat Bombs" in their safety seminar.

Thus, I recommend the use of "Meat Balloons" for any slowly ascending humans. ;)
 
flyersfan31 said:
Somebody should get these guys together to compare schedules. How many ends of the world are we going to have to put up with?????
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There was some Korean church here in Chicago that predicted the end of the world in the 1990s. One of the guys that I worked with was a member of that church and believed in their message. He sold everything he owned, donated all the money he had and then quit work in the days leading up to the event to pray and be with his whole family who also believed. When the end day arrived of course nothing happened. He felt that his churches praying prevented the whole thing by changing G-d's mind. :rolleyes:
 
Damn, we're not going to find out who wins American Idol. :no:
 
Growing up in the Bible Belt, I remember one of my classmates solemnly explaining to me that an airline (United, I think) run by a born-again-Christian had a policy of putting one "unsaved" pilot in the cockpit so that the plane wouldn't crash in the event of Rapture.
 
Whatever happens, I need to be at the pool by 12:30 on the 30th for my first day of work at my new job. That is all I have to say about it.
 
Jim Logajan said:
I'm not sure of the "see and avoid" rules that apply - are people ascending into heaven considered ultralights who have to yield to all other aircraft, or are they considered aircraft having an emergency, so we must yield to them?
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No airworthiness certificate.
Unairworthy flying machines.
No flight training.
No flying skills.
Medically unfit.
Flight, um, Nutjob plan filed.

I never figured out why a large group of otherwise rational appearing people would be so desperately obsessed with their own death and actually looking forward to it so much that they keep planning it over and over and over.

I'm thinking they're like clouds, ethereal.
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Ever seen what happens to a cloud or fog or water vapor when it gets sucked into a jet engine or whacked by a propeller?

Anyone want to write the notam for this one? It has great potential for being hilarious in a three stooges / hitchhikers guide to the galaxy kind of way.
 
I figure if the rapture is Saturday, that probably still won't free up the rental schedule on the plane. And I'll still have to go to work on Monday.
 
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. "

Matthew 24:36
 
On a related subject, I have always been a bit skeptical of bald-headed faither healers.
 
Greg Bockelman said:
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. "

Matthew 24:36
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Like you, I use this as the foundation of my rejection in the claims of the world turning to dust tomorrow....that and many years of scientific training.

Although I disagree with this belief, I am reminded of something my 9th grade homeroom teacher would often say, "We mock what we do not understand."- DT Ester

Makes me wonder how many of us have actually (perhaps wisely) looked into the claim before criticizing...heck we may even learn something.
 
...and now back to our regularly scheduled Friday joke time
 
It's always puzzled me why, with the end of the world in sight, people feel the need to do anything different like give away their money or possessions. If the world ends tomorrow, how has their situations been improved by burning their house down? The best thing I've ever read on this has to be those that are selling unraptured pet care. That's definitely a head slap why didn't I think of that thing. Prepaid, non-refundable of course.
 
Jaybird180 said:
Although I disagree with this belief, I am reminded of something my 9th grade homeroom teacher would often say, "We mock what we do not understand."- DT Ester
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That's true, but we also mock things we do understand. Or at least, I do.
 
Jaybird180 said:
"We mock what we do not understand."- DT Ester

Makes me wonder how many of us have actually (perhaps wisely) looked into the claim before criticizing...heck we may even learn something.
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And to be clear, what I'm mocking are idiots, not Christians. Whether the rapture is Saturday or not, or whether I'm going or not, drinking poison koolaid and giving the sinners my Porsche and my cash isn't going to be on my "end of days" check list. I'm sure the Lord will have another Porsche and Pitts parked in my heavenly hanger too.
 
How can it be 7000 years since Noah's flood and yet the world is only 6500 years old? Are there no mathematicians amongst the world ender nut jobs?
 
Jaybird180 said:
Makes me wonder how many of us have actually (perhaps wisely) looked into the claim before criticizing...heck we may even learn something.
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Maybe. Probably not.

It's very difficult to even consider their claims without something substantial or at least vaguely credible to back it up. Something like "here's the orbital trajectory of the big whopping huge rock that's going to centerpunch the Earth" or, "see this really big crack in the crust of the planet that's about to pop open" or, well, anything, just something that could possibly be credible. Artificial goat entrails, hallucinations or even hokey math mind games doesn't tend to change the planet very much.

Their credibility and track record is so far right at, say roughly, in the general vicinity of, say, precisely zero. Time after time after time for as far back as they started the end of the earth idea, they've blown it. Look into their claim? Why? How serious should one take the ramblings of the same group of people who over and over keep saying "doom doom tomorrow, ooops, sorry, just kidding, it'll be this time next year here's our unsubstantiated made up proof, ha, made you jump, just making sure you're ready for the real thing next year, oops didn't happen, the doom actually occurs next year, trust me on this it's next year for certain..." After a few thousand years of that it's really difficult to buy into what is demonstratively proven to be hogwash. Poke a dog with a stick long enough and the dog is likely to bit you because you're just being annoying...and they're obnoxiously annoying.
 
This was discussed by the usual suspects, at the airport this morning...
Little Al hypothesized that it being scheduled for after supper and after the 6 o'clock news, he would be fast asleep in his Lazy Boy and would wake up in heaven after his nap... Said that was OK by him...
I pointed out that what would happen is he would wake up at eight PM and find the wife and the dog missing and he would still have to come to work work tomorrow cutting grass between the runways...
He gave me a puzzled look and asked why she and the dog would be missing?
With a wicked grin I pointed out that she and the dog were the only two in his house likely to be allowed into heaven - as it was NOT going to be him...
He got laughed at until his ears were red...

denny-o
 
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