A retired MTA employee has pumped his $140,000 life savings into an ad campaign warning that the world will end on May 21.First of all, it'll take a little more than Armageddon for that happen.
Robert Fitzpatrick, a follower of the notorious California Evangalist Harold Camping, has posted his Doomsday message on 1,000 subway car placards and at bus shelters throughout New York city.
To be honest, I feel sorry for this guy - he's gonna wake up May 22 and realized he pissed away his life savings. On the other hand, what the fuck - if you pony up the $crillah, the MTA will let you advertise any religious fanaticism you want? Really? Isn't the MTA at least partly a public service; can my cannibal friends advertise their thirst for heads? And if some guy can scare the shit out of people that the end of the world is coming, why the fuck can't their be nekkid titties as well?
Oh yeah,. that's right... dangerous zealotry good, Janet Jackson's nipple nobody noticed in the first place, bad.
But more importantly, what if the world DID end 5/21? Does that mean at midnight? And whose midnight? What if I'm all geared up for the final blow to happen, but it turns out to happen an hour earlier than I'd expected, completely fucking up my final speech which is to include the ten minutes of shark material I've polished to perfection over the last decade? That would fucking suck.
2 comments:
it could happen at anytime. No one leaves here alive. sBe ready and do not be caught dead without accepting JC as your personal SAVIOR. We ALL need one.
I, for one, would LOVE to see the MTA loosen the restrictions on ads. As for your question about what time Judgement Day starts, they've got that covered, too:
On May 21, starting in the Pacific Rim at around the 6 p.m. local time hour, in each time zone, there will be a great earthquake, such as has never been in the history of the Earth," he says. The true Christian believers — he hopes he's one of them — will be "raptured": They'll fly upward to heaven. And for the rest?
"It's just the horror of horror stories," he says, "and on top of all that, there's no more salvation at that point. And then the Bible says it will be 153 days later that the entire universe and planet Earth will be destroyed forever."
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/07/136053462/is-the-end-nigh-well-know-soon-enough
I guess we need to move to American Samoa since they'll be the last time zone to reach 6pm.
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