I can't be positive, but I'm fairly sure that's New York City. In fact, I think it might even be Union Square. (Google supports this--Family Radio apparently pamphlets in Union fairly often.)
So, I've got one more week of fighting the temptation to shear the flock...
-- Steve wishes to acknowledge the intelligence and bravery of the lady with the sign. Approaching teh stoopid that closely (without barking to their dogwhistles, anyway) can be hazardous.
My wife is testing cake recipes that day in preparation for making a cake for my parents' joint 80th birthday later this year. So we'll have apocalypse... AND CAKE.
...when the promised event does not happen, they concoct tons of mental acrobatics regarding why -- they prayed so hard that God decided to skip it, or there was an error in their calculations or... or... or... or...
I really wonder what will happen to the folks who have quit their jobs and sold all their worldly belongings (and, in the case of one guy NPR talked to, is "separated from" his wife because she couldn't put up with his crazy any more).
Think the Teabaggers will stump for Rapture Unemployment Benefits for their fellow Krazy Kristianists?
Damn. I'm working that day. Otherwise I could've gone on a picnic in the cemetery and watched the dead claw their way to the surface. Better yet, I could've made a killing selling them dewormers!
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Date: 2011-05-13 04:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-13 04:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-13 04:34 pm (UTC)-- Steve wishes to acknowledge the intelligence and bravery of the lady with the sign. Approaching teh stoopid that closely (without barking to their dogwhistles, anyway) can be hazardous.
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Date: 2011-05-13 04:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-13 05:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-13 05:35 pm (UTC)I'd wonder why this date in particular (er, for the dooooooomsday, not for the birthday), but I figure the Crazy doesn't have to have a reason.
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Date: 2011-05-13 05:39 pm (UTC)No, really.
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Date: 2011-05-13 05:44 pm (UTC)Actually, I forgot to check most of my webcomics, I must have gotten distracted in the middle. :/
Re: the doooooooomsday date, wow. That's... really... special.
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Date: 2011-05-13 06:40 pm (UTC)-- Steve also notes that the linked article says that this prediction is yet another result of "Engineers' Disease".
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Date: 2011-05-14 03:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-13 05:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-13 06:06 pm (UTC)...hmm. Sounds like a Douglas Adams scenario.
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Date: 2011-05-13 06:47 pm (UTC)The cake will not be a lie.
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Date: 2011-05-13 05:46 pm (UTC)...when the promised event does not happen, they concoct tons of mental acrobatics regarding why -- they prayed so hard that God decided to skip it, or there was an error in their calculations or... or... or... or...
So, so sad.
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Date: 2011-05-13 06:49 pm (UTC)Think the Teabaggers will stump for Rapture Unemployment Benefits for their fellow Krazy Kristianists?
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Date: 2011-05-13 11:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-14 02:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-14 04:18 am (UTC)the rest of us could get on with our lives without those guys ...