Well,

if it is a doomsday cult, then they should realize that they can't take it with them, no?

Agape doomsday cult's financial empire dismantled, ordered to pay taxman $3 million


Isn't that right?

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Well...

NKY evangelist's trial exposes lavish lifestyle: Man accused of keeping hundreds of thousands of dollars


An INTERNET evangelist?!? We're all in the wrong business...

Mind you, it wouldn't be surprising for anyone claiming that the economic structure of the world will soon collapse to be carrying gold and jewels. That's assuming that gold and jewels will be worth anything then. Much better to stockpile canned goods and clean water. And guns to protect it all. And... oops! I'm beginning to sound like a survivalist. No, don't stockpile anything! If we're going down the tube lets make Mama Earth happy and all go together. Give her a chance to get over us, recover, and start afresh...

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These cult leaders!

Disabled woman wins $500,000 payout from Rocco Leo's Agape Ministries doomsday cult

They may really start out believing their own claims, but at some point of ripping off their followers I really think they come to believe that they're just ripping off their followers. It doesn't make sense otherwise...

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A wonderful find!

Mayan art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists

"But Dr Saturno points out that the new finds serve to further undermine the fallacy that this is tantamount to a prediction of the end of the world."

But those who believe won't be convinced.

It's funny. This discovery is so much more important than the calendar, which is only a part of it, but what hits the media? Whatever can make the most impression and sells the best...

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Being in a good mood is enough?

‘The time is finished’: Religious sect erects billboards in Toronto ahead of the ‘transformation’

Well, it apparently teaches them "How to live in a good mood,”. So would a good book, I believe, but it would be less expensive.

The transformation is set for June 30, 2012. Not that long to wait, I guess...

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Even the secular media

talks about the end of the world more often lately.

Apocalypse Soon

"Prophecies of impending doom — based on hard science as well as Scripture — abound. Where does our appetite for retribution come from?"

Or talks about our talking about it...

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Just general information

Apocalypse 2012: how will the world end?

Out of all this comes the funniest thing of all - end of the world theorist capitalists who spend their time making money off of the possibility of this happening by selling necessary products to those poor people that they've helped to believe in the end of the world in the coming year. If it is truly going to end, as the people selling survival things, etc., to the public believe, then what good would selling anyone anything do? They should give it away! The fact that they don't points out to me that they expect to live on perfectly well after whatever their chosen date is, so that they can spend the money they've made off of others. Ah, yes, trickery and flim-flam.

I agree with the cartoon in the article. Have the believers ever gone ballistic because their yearly calendar ends at December 31? Have they thought that that meant that the calendar makers have some hidden knowledge about the end of the world taking place at that time? No, I'm sure they haven't. Is this any different?

Have a great 2012, everyone, and don't taken any Mayan wooden nickels!

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Oh, don't tell

the 'end of the world' and 'apocalypse' conspiracy theorists this:

Mayans 'did not predict world to end in 2012'

"The calendar used by the ancient Mayan civilisation does not predict the end of the world in December 2012 as some believe, according to experts."

But don't tell those consipiracy guys because they'll just say that that info is put out by the Illuminati or the Bilderberg Group and that's what they want you to believe (whatever good it would do them if the world is ending)...

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Ummm...

I'm not sure you need to read this. It's just an example of some of the people out there.

Emergency 11.11.11 Spiritual Warfare Report

Though you might enjoy it (or believe in it). Who knows?

I think Diane Kossy needs to re-open her museum...

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Who?

After The Rapture, Who Are 'The Leftovers'?

It's not all going to be roses, even if the Rapture isn't Biblical...

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Secrets?

Mayan Secrets to Be Revealed by Mexican Government in '2012' Doc


They weren't secrets to the Mayans, likely, and they've only become 'secrets' in current parlance.


Why am I not surprised that this is tied into a film?

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Interesting 'prophecy'

1968 Prophecy by a 90 Year Old Norwegian Woman

Of course, this in on the intertubes, so it has to be accurate and true, correct? None-the-less, I'm think that God looks on our behaviour, on my behaviour, and shakes his head and then checks his watch to see if it's time for the end of the world yet. We certainly deserve it, if for no other reason than the way we treat the world in our reckless quest for money and profit. Money, the god of this world...

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For some

it foreshadows the end of the world.



End Times? Texas Lake Turns Blood-Red


I consider the U.S. 'Tea Party' politics and the popularity of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann to be a more accurate indicator of the same thing...

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There are reasons

Updated: 5 Lessons Learned from the Apocalypse Fail, Or, It’s Not the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel So-So

There are reasons why people follow apocalyptic preachers, and it doesn't mean that they're simple or stupid or ignorant or poor...

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It seems

a little cold to say 'just another cult'...


Family Radio Employee Estimates $100M Spent on Judgment Day Advertising

As on other occasions, people's lives may have been destroyed by being misled by these end-time pronouncements. As if financial troubles due to our dismal economy isn't enough, these end-time preachers take their follower's money and ruin their lives. In this case the money went to an incredible amount of advertising. Even my city had billboards by their church. I don't think it's such a great trade for them...

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Alas...

Failed May 21, 2011 Doomsday prophet Harold Camping gone into hiding?

...even though Camping himself may be hiding as a result of the non-end=of-the-world, what remains to be seen is the effects on his followers, many who spent a great deal of their personal money to spread his message. It's not right to say what I've heard lots of people say in comments all over - "They got what they deserved for following a looney!" That's not right, and it's not fair. So many people are looking for meaning in their life, and hope that they're on the right track. Just because Camping's message caught them somehow is no reason not to feel sympathy for the ordeal they're experiencing now...

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Now here

is a kind and gentle voice discussing the very thing that a certain group of people were expecting to happen today...

May 21, 2011: The harm that ‘Judgment Day’ will do

It's hard to be wrong. It's especially hard to be so very publicly wrong. A voice of charity and kindness...

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This is in the news again

in preparation for tomorrow's end of the world...

US atheists offer pet rescue after judgment day

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The end is near

Apparently, it is tomorrow...

Predictor of May 21 Judgment Day to monitor news broadcasts

Having missed before, he's monitoring news broadcasts just to make sure? You'd think he'd know if the world ended around him...

I've blogged about this before. We even have at least one billboard in our city that I've seen.

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But, at least when he's wrong

he admits that he's made a mistake.

A durable doomsday preacher predicts the world's end -- again

But then he heads right back to do it again...

(Mind you, despite my conviction that it has to go on 'cus an eternity in hell is nothing to rush off for, some days it just seems that it would be right...)

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