What the fark is going on in Arkanas?!?!?

The dead bird/bat news stories in bold are redundant as they are about the events in the first three links. The bat deaths are not uncommon amongst free tailed bats. The bats roost in bridges and if the weather is too warm, they don't migrate when they should. Then a cold spell comes along and kills them.

There are fish kills all the time. They usually turn out to be caused by disease, lower than normal oxygen levels in the water or a chemical spill into the water.

/Zoe Moon using logic again (silly girl)

I guess I need to shine up my church shoes sometime soon

isn't this how Steven King's "The Stand" started out...only animal left were cats. very few people were left either- a few good and a few bad

fixed

Wow. That's a really lame fixed. Just saying.

I had to urban dictionary that one, and no surprise they had an entry

As the story says though, sick birds can't fly... so they definitely would not have traveled 90 miles.

EDIT: Also, it would be very likely that a lot of other animals would be dead around that area. Sure, it could be a disease that only affects one type of fish and one type of bird, but that's probably extremely unlikely.

5000 birds just fell from the sky with all their organs exploded at the same time. Why would they all die at the same time while flying? I don 't know why more people aren't curious about this. Along with 100,000 fish washing ashore in what's known as a clean river at the same time. weirdness

more birds died in Louisiana.

I guess we gotta start sacrificing more virgins

I don't know how I can get this pinned on BP ... but I'm gonna try.

First it was Obama getting elected, now it's dead birds and fish.

Coincidence? I think not.

Quote from vec : This may be the beginning of Pestilence, the first seal of the Apocalypse. Quote from MsGal : I thought that was Obama getting elected?

It's mass Ichtycide/Avicide. They are depressed because they didn't get what they wanted for Christmas.

Pastafarians don't have churches but we do have pirates! FSM [venganza.org]

Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.


"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale."

The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.

The Mayans and the recent Hollywood movie "2012" have put the apocalypse in the popular mind this year, but Camping has been at this business for a long time. And while Armageddon is pop science or big-screen entertainment to many, Camping has followers from the Bay Area to China.

Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he'd found: The world will end May 21, 2011.

This is not the first time Camping has made a bold prediction about Judgment Day.

On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping's believers gathered inside Alameda's Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven.

But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error. He spent the next decade running new calculations, as well as overseeing a media company that has grown significantly in size and reach.

"We are now translated into 48 languages and have been transmitting into China on an AM station without getting jammed once," Camping said. "How can that happen without God's mercy?"

By Camping's understanding, the Bible was dictated by God and every word and number carries a spiritual significance. He noticed that particular numbers appeared in the Bible at the same time particular themes are discussed.

The number 5, Camping concluded, equals "atonement." Ten is "completeness." Seventeen means "heaven." Camping patiently explained how he reached his conclusion for May 21, 2011.

"Christ hung on the cross April 1, 33 A.D.," he began. "Now go to April 1 of 2011 A.D., and that's 1,978 years."

Camping then multiplied 1,978 by 365.2422 days - the number of days in each solar year, not to be confused with a calendar year.

Next, Camping noted that April 1 to May 21 encompasses 51 days. Add 51 to the sum of previous multiplication total, and it equals 722,500.

Camping realized that (5 x 10 x 17) x (5 x 10 x 17) = 722,500.

Or put into words: (Atonement x Completeness x Heaven), squared.

"Five times 10 times 17 is telling you a story," Camping said. "It's the story from the time Christ made payment for your sins until you're completely saved.

"I tell ya, I just about fell off my chair when I realized that," Camping said.

James Kreuger, author of "Secrets of the Apocalypse - Revealed," has been studying the end of times for 40 years and is familiar with Camping's work. While Kreuger agrees that the rapture is indeed coming, he disputes Camping's method.

"For all his learning, Camping makes a classic beginner's mistake when he sets a date for Christ's return," Kreuger wrote in an e-mail. "Jesus himself said in Matthew 24:36, 'Of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my father only.' "

Camping's believers will have none of it.

Rick LaCasse, who attended the September 1994 service in Alameda, said that 15 years later, his faith in Camping has only strengthened.

"Evidently, he was wrong," LaCasse allowed, "but this time it is going to happen. There was some doubt last time, but we didn't have any proofs. This time we do."

Would his opinion of Camping change if May 21, 2011, ended without incident?

"I can't even think like that," LaCasse said. "Everything is too positive right now. There's too little time to think like that."

Wait. You smoke pasta??



I this thread.

Where is Arkanas?