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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
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| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
More impending Rapture:  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.143.134.177 |
I intend to buy your book soon, Des. If anything for the cover alone. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.81.136 |
Too late after tomorrow, Tony. Brilliant cover though. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
I intend to buy your book soon, Des. If anything for the cover alone. ================== Thanks, Tony. I hope the bonus track of a novel proves enjoyable, too. Just watched a repeat showing of last year's Prom performance of Mahler' Symphony No 8 (Symphony of a Thousand). And I now know what Rapture truly is. Seriously. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.81.136 |
Ordered my copy - may have to bring it to FCon for a signature (if you're planning on being there, Des). | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.60.210 |
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It is the most poetic thing I know about physics:You are all stardust.You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements-the carbon, nitrogen,oxygen,iron,all the things that matter for evolution-weren’t created at the beginning of time. Lawrence Krauss | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.91.235 |
Except for lithium, beryllium and boron, which are bypassed in stellar nucleosynthesis and are only created by the spallation of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium. The poetry still stands, though. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.81.136 |
I'm made of twigs and chocolate though. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.60.210 |
But what are the twigs and chocolate made from? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.91.235 |
Galaxies. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
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| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.81.136 |
Arf, arf! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
Thanks, Mick, for ordering a copy.  To show I don't really believe in this Rapture business today, I would like to advertise again a long-tern project for which I've now erected an external window-stage: The Last Balcony | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.81.136 |
It's interesting to note that Harold Camping has a series of special offers on his website that run from 21st to 28th May. Is it possible he didn't believe it either? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
After Rapture Day yesterday, Sky News tells me that today is 'Survival Sunday'. Neat, I thought ... until I realised they were talking about soccer. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Ah, but surviving in the football league is far more important than the end of the world as we know it.  BTW I wonder if we're the only survivors - the only ones left on Earth ...? | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 92.4.206.122 |
I'll phone my brother who is a very devout Baptist pastor. If he doesn't answer the phone we're in trouble... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.60.210 |
Why do all these events happen on the hour? It's never "The world will end at about twenty past four give or take a minute, these things take some orrganising so we can't be that precise" It's always dead on the hour. Strange. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.60.210 |
It appears the dead may have risen... I have an invite on my facebook page to a screening of a Clockwork Orange with a Q&A with the director on June 2nd... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.143.133.75 |
I want to complain to someone about the reporting of these 'end of the world' or 'Hardon Collidor' stories as the other day when my youngest found out about this new one he was in real grief until 6 o'clock, nearly in tears. And this is the kid who swims across icy lakes. It chewed both my kids up for weeks untill the collidor got switched on. I just wish the media would think about what stress these stories can cause. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
So the endtime officially began on Saturday and the world is set to end on 21st October 2011, after five months of Hell on Earth. Party Time!!!! | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
Hell on Earth? Try the Level One Electical A Group for four classroom sessions on a Monday - halfway through woopee, I haven't torn any of them limb from limb with my bare hands and only two more sessions to go. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
It makes me angry as well Tony. I was brought up on tht stuff and we were even taught it at Sunday School. I remember a big, Baptist Sunday School Special one summer Sunday evening when the chapel was packd with kids and their families - most of whom never normally set foot in church. The minister, one Pastor Toogood (honest) preachd a sermon about the fall of Jericho, and, all smiles and once-upon-a-time, proceeded to describe how thousands were slain along with their families and livestock and how anyone hwo disobeyed God would not only die but jeopardise their families and future generation as well. Wet beds and nightmres all round for the next six months! CheerS Terry | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.36 |
I think I prefer reading about end of the world prophecies to reading about some dumb prostitute from Big Brother and which footballer she's trying to charge for having sex with her... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I think end of the world prophecies, and the scary effects they have on kids, have always been around - in my time anyway. But perhaps the internet has made it much easier for kids to access this stuff and therefore scare themselves even more? I remember being scared stiff by news pictures of atom bomb testing and such like when I was a kid (also that picture of the Vietnamese girl running screaming with napalm burns on her back gave me nightmares for years - how could humans do that to each other, I thought?). Not to mention there were all the folk songs, etc, which prophesised the end of the world, all about wars and their effects, etc. No wonder I became a hippy! But I'm not at all sure you can protect kids from this kind of stuff anyway - and certainly not now with the internet. There was one kid in our class, a Jehovah's Witness. Poor lad used to get teased to death about his (or, rather, his parents') beliefs. Everyone used to ask him if the world is going to end in 19xx (can't remember when it was supposd to be now), why are you bothering to study for your O levels (yes, it was that long ago - no CGSEs then). Poor lad. I wonder what happened to him? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I grew up with this: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/04/ron-cobb/ | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Jesus was the first one to got end-time predictions wrong—so why would any of his faithful believers assume they could do any better?! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.237.230 |
Now firts post image has experienced rapture:  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.237.230 |
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