Do we really only have a couple of Day's left on this Planet?!?

[CP/M User]

A terrible reminder I got today - today is the 3rd June 2006.
Does this mean that on the 6th of June 2006 (which'll be
06/06/06 wherever you are) we're out of here!

My friend was saying 666 being the Devils number - should I be
playing "Stairway to Heaven" on that day?

It's a frightning prospect. Guess it's only if you believe in
all that Voodo trash! Heck - we all have to go sometime don't
we?

CP/M User.

[Mad-Mike]

I'm just going to look at it like Y2K, I'll believe it when I see it.

[alexkerhead]

Big problem with that. it would have to be June 6, 0006 to be considered 6-6-6 or 666 as christians refer to it as. 2006 is 2000 years too late.

I wouldn't even give it a second thought.

[CP/M User]

alexkerhead wrote:

> Big problem with that. it would have to be June 6,
> 0006 to be considered 6-6-6 or 666 as christians
> refer to it as. 2006 is 2000 years too late.

> I wouldn't even give it a second thought.

Good enough for me - I cannot deny my religion, however dates
are all based on that very foundation - which is why other
cultures have their own rules about it. All that Nostradumus
hocus pocus doesn't worry me.

CP/M User.

[alexkerhead]

alexkerhead wrote:

> Big problem with that. it would have to be June 6,
> 0006 to be considered 6-6-6 or 666 as christians
> refer to it as. 2006 is 2000 years too late.

> I wouldn't even give it a second thought.

Good enough for me - I cannot deny my religion, however dates
are all based on that very foundation - which is why other
cultures have their own rules about it. All that Nostradumus
hocus pocus doesn't worry me.

CP/M User.

Christianity is based upon the bible and the existance of Jesus Christ. The notion of 666 is from the book of revelations. A guy high on opium wrote that. Rest assured, we probably don't have anything to worry about, except for bush..lol:twisted:

[carlsson]

By the way, June 6th is the newly defined Swedish national day and I sincerely hope the world will not end by that.

To be picky, the date is 20060606 or 06062006 something like that, so quite a way from 666.

[alexkerhead]

By the way, June 6th is the newly defined Swedish national day and I sincerely hope the world will not end by that.

To be picky, the date is 20060606 or 06062006 something like that, so quite a way from 666.
Yeah, I mentioned that earlier, but actually, there will never be a 06-06-06. It happened only once in history June 6 year 6, to make 6-6-6.
I wish folks would stop worrying.:mrgreen:
It is bad down here in the bible belt south, everything swears the world is ending in three days...lol....

[Terry Yager]

I wonder how it works, since it isn't the same time/date everywhere in the world at once. Does it go by time zones? Starting from Greenwich, that gives me five hours to convert to Christianity and be saved. If you guys in GB see anything funny start to happen around midnight, be sure and give the rest of us the heads-up before the end of the world reaches our side of the pond.

--T

[carlsson]

It will start at CP/M User's horizon, he's probably the most far east of all of us. If he reports the armageddon when it begins, you will have more than 12 hours to convert to Christianity.

[alexkerhead]

I hope I have time to build a space ship and fly away.
Oh wait, according to the book the 666 notion came from, the earth is the only celestial body, I have nowhere to go.

[carlsson]

On the other hand, it was said that Hell will freeze over the day Finland won the Eurovision Song Contest. Now they have done it (thanks to a monster show that reminds people about Satanism, no less) so I wonder if the Devil now is busy shoveling his way out of his home, having no time for Armageddon or other devastating business.

[Terry Yager]

Hell, Michigan freezes-over every Winter...

--T

[Mad-Mike]

Yeah, I mentioned that earlier, but actually, there will never be a 06-06-06. It happened only once in history June 6 year 6, to make 6-6-6.
I wish folks would stop worrying.:mrgreen:
It is bad down here in the bible belt south, everything swears the world is ending in three days...lol....

Down south, all they do is swear up and down that Armegeddon is coming like Chicken Little about the Sky Falling, it's almost funny, but that reminds me of a reason why I moved north as FAR away as I could. I hardly hear anything about it, on 6/6/06, they're repaving the apartment driveway.

[CP/M User]

Terry Yager wrote:

> I wonder how it works, since it isn't the same
> time/date everywhere in the world at once. Does it go
> by time zones? Starting from Greenwich, that gives me
> five hours to convert to Christianity and be saved.
> If you guys in GB see anything funny start to happen
> around midnight, be sure and give the rest of us the
> heads-up before the end of the world reaches our side
> of the pond.

I just assumed it would occur where the date line occurs on
the planet - but how do we even know it's 1hr away from NZ?

All this falls back onto what I mentioned earlier about Dates.
Who knows the Earth might disolve on a date which has no
relevalance - based on the age of the Earth - which could be
between NOW to infinity, but like all things everything comes
to an end.

CP/M User.

[CP/M User]

carlsson wrote:

> It will start at CP/M User's horizon, he's probably
> the most far east of all of us. If he reports the
> armageddon when it begins, you will have more than 12
> hours to convert to Christianity.

Maybe, or maybe it'll be off the shores of Bermuda, as I said
the International Date line is approx an hour off the shores
of NZ. Or maybe this so called conveyor belt which brings warm
temperatures off the shores of England will suddenly stop!

CP/M User.

[CP/M User]

carlsson wrote:

> On the other hand, it was said that Hell will freeze
> over the day Finland won the Eurovision Song Contest.
> Now they have done it (thanks to a monster show that
> reminds people about Satanism, no less) so I wonder
> if the Devil now is busy shoveling his way out of his
> home, having no time for Armageddon or other
> devastating business.

Well the so called Conveyor belt which brings warm
temperatures to England/Europe (I guess) is believe to be in
the process of stopping. Once it stops it takes a while for it
to start up again (not sure of the period - perhaps 50
years?), this is thought that once stopped it brings Sub-zero
temperatures. The doco talk about Englands coldest Winter
being -20ºc in 1962/3 with the conveyor stopped it was thought
this would be the standard winters would be this cold - year
after year. It's a frightning prospect unfortunately - cause
on a global scale it's believe this controls large amounts of
rain - without it less rain - perhaps none!

Hate to sound all doom & gloom about it, but as I say we'll
just have to wait & see what happens - I thought the doco was
a bit over dramatised in it's claims.

CP/M User.

[carlsson]

I think it is more commonly known as the Golf stream, and it is debatable whether it will stop or reverse direction, and if so, on which conditions. One thing for certain, the Bible doesn't explicitely mention the Golf stream shifting since it was an unknown phenomenon (and perhaps the Atlantic sea was unknown to Hebrews and Greeks as well).

I think I posted here before about the web page that is lobbying for Ireland to apply for Winter Olympics 2020, when the stream is supposed to have stopped or reversed, and Dublin will have a climate like Moscow and thus should be able to offer snow and ice in the winter.

[alexkerhead]

Down south, all they do is swear up and down that Armegeddon is coming like Chicken Little about the Sky Falling, it's almost funny, but that reminds me of a reason why I moved north as FAR away as I could. I hardly hear anything about it, on 6/6/06, they're repaving the apartment driveway.
I think (I am going to stay though. where I live, I dont have to worry about getting old computer and telephones snatched from under me, lol. I can goto a yard sale at 11am and still get good stuff down here, but up north the are too many collectors.

[DimensionDude]

A minor point, Anders, with apologies for pointing this out in public, but it's the Gulf stream, as in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Golf stream would be a body of water that certain sportsmen in funny plaid pants and odd hats would complain loudly about when their (golf) balls landed in it. :wink:

Kent

[Terry Yager]

The Gulf Stream is only a part of the 'Atlantic Conveyor' system (which is also known by the unlikely name: 'Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current'). As the Gulf Stream (surface) water cools in the polar region, it becomes denser and drops into a cold, deep, southbound current. See the diagrams:

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange1/10_5.shtml

--T

[atari2600a]

Thinking back to the original post, what makes 2006 so satanically special? June 6, 1906 was also 6/06/06, & the same for each previous century.

[alexkerhead]

Thinking back to the original post, what makes 2006 so satanically special? June 6, 1906 was also 6/06/06, & the same for each previous century.
Religious fanatics(not religious people) try and blow things way out of proportion, to disquise their own self doubts.

[atari2600a]

...& furthermore, there's still many signs of the apocalypse left! Heck, there's a million things mentioned in the Turah\Bible\Quran left!

[dongfeng]

that unlimately depends on your religion

Wherent we all meant to die just after 2000, when the planets in the solar system all lined up and the gravitational pull with suck everything into the Sun? Yah...

[alexkerhead]

Religious books are all circumstancially written, with embedded things that have to happen, and can be easily interpreted as something.
People are just finding it hard to accept that we really don't need to follow a book anymore.
I believe in the existance of superior beings, but not in a spiritual since.

[CP/M User]

dongfeng wrote:

> Wherent we all meant to die just after 2000, when the
> planets in the solar system all lined up and the
> gravitational pull with suck everything into the Sun?
> Yah...

Never heard that one - cause I realised all the planets lined
up, though nothing about the gravitational pull.

I recall maybe dubious claims about millenium bug doing some
damage - e.g. Planes falling out of the sky, Hospital machines
ceasing to function & People suddenly finding themselves
without a pacemaker. Fortunately all that was false.

Who was the drama queen which started all that hype anyway -
they should be locked up.

Okay, a certain amount of checking was done obviously to make
sure - in case something might of happen & indeed there was
probably some systems which needed to be patched up to work -
though a lot of that was over-hyped.

CP/M User.

[Terry Yager]

I believe in the existance of superior beings, but not in a spiritual since.

That's just too wierd, cause I believe in spiritual beings, but not in a *superior* sense. I believe that human beings are equal, or superior to any other being ever created (which also implys the existance of a *creator*)...

--T

[Terry Yager]

Well, it's after midnite in GB. Anything strange happening in the sky? (You know, angels blowing trumpets, four horsemen, that sort of thing)...

--T

[carlsson]

No, it is 3 AM over here (gosh, I should be sleeping) and the dawn is near. No signs of anything unusual, but what do we know, maybe it is what the Armageddon is about; one day God is bored about the dull life we live, so He brings home the true believers to have a party elsewhere, and the rest of us can keep going on here in our misery. No big wars or disasters.

[Vlad]

Yeah, I just got done talking to a good friend in Denmark, nothing happened. Ah well. The world should have ended like 45 times now, and we're still keepin the streak alive! ^_^

-VK

[atari2600a]

I got 10 times. What are the other 35?

[alexkerhead]

Yeah, I just got done talking to a good friend in Denmark, nothing happened. Ah well. The world should have ended like 45 times now, and we're still keepin the streak alive! ^_^

-VK
It is 1:14am here, and the world hasn't ended here yet.:oha:

[CP/M User]

alexkerhead wrote:

> It is 1:14am here, and the world hasn't ended here
> yet.

LOL, yeah it's 5:30pm in the arvo here in Oz & nothing
suspecious has happened. Like you said 2000 years out of
date! :-D

Maybe it's one of those midnightie things when the world blows
up on the strike of Midnight on the date line or something -
which mean's this could be a last night of sleep.

But personally, I don't believe this'll happen!

CP/M User.

[alexkerhead]

Yeah.
It was fun kiding around however..

[Chris2005]

Revelation 13

1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.

10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

[Chris2005]

I was worried there for a bit ;)

[Terry Yager]

All that, and nothing about a date...

--T

[Chris2005]

yeah, I was curious who was paying for those billboard ads. It was all bull from the start.

[dongfeng]

Over here, the horror movie "Omen" was released on 6/6/06. It's the only film I can remember that premiered on a Tuesday :lol:

[Chris2005]

a remake? I think I had heard there was going to be one, but I didn't think it would be out that soon.

[Chris2005]

"Religious books are all circumstancially written, with embedded things that have to happen, and can be easily interpreted as something.
People are just finding it hard to accept that we really don't need to follow a book anymore."

What do you mean by circumstantially written? I'm way rusty here, but I would think the description of a person being crucified (Psalm 8 IIRC) long before that form of execution was even invented (by the Phoenicians I think, not the Romans), is pretty startling. People are quick to judge the bible, with very little knowledge about it, yet sit mesmerized by their teacher/professor when he tells them just how we evolved from primordial snot, and a numerous host of other things, with, yes NO scientific backing. Ultimately, neither Creationism nor evolution is proveable by scientific methods - there just wasn't anyone there to observe it. Newton's law of gravitation on the other hand is repeatable and therefore proveable, as are a host of other natural laws. Anyone that tells you that evolution is scientific is feeding you a crock, and I don't mean the kind from down under.