AUSTIN, Texas, December 31, 2002: The Church of the SubGenius has announced that the end of the world will take place on Saturday, July 5, 2003. In preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday prophecy, the Church is requesting that all of its members participate in a bizarre religious ceremony taking place in upstate New York, during the final weekend before the arrival of the apocalypse.

Since its inception in 1953, Church founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs has predicted that a fleet of flying saucers will arrive at the beginning of July to destroy the worldwide Conspiracy against the Church of the SubGenius, while all ordained SubGenius ministers will be rescued by escape vessels piloted by the Alien Sex Goddesses, also known as the Xists.

The Church is inviting all of its members worldwide to gather together for the final hours in Sherman, New York from July 2 to July 6, at a clothing-optional outdoor campground called Brushwood Folklore Center. The first gathering at this compound took place in 1996, and the event has increased in size and participants each following year. 1998 was designated the first true "X-Day," and each successive year has added one to the total. This year's celebration in 2003 is X-Day 6, or X-Day VI.

The Church has been engaged in a massive recruitment campaign to increase the numbers of its membership before the arrival of the Xists. According to Church records, the organization currently has approximately 100,000 members worldwide. SubGenius recruitment has been especially dedicated among the ranks of people who refuse to conform to the norms of society, including disbelievers, blasphemers, pranksters, rebels, hackers, pornographers, geeks, and outcasts.

The Church is seeking performers and producers from the adult entertainment industry in particular, because sexual freedom has been an important part of Church doctrine from the start. X-Day will be a celebration of pornography and adult entertainment, and certain parts of the event will be restricted to adults only. Only ordained ministers of the Church of the SubGenius are allowed at the event, but the Church is accepting memberships at its standard rate of $30 up until the final hours of July 4.

The Church stresses that no one is REQUIRED to perform at X-Day, including the professional entertainers invited to the event. All participants will be encouraged to take part on a voluntary basis, and no one is required to do anything. The event can be seen as a weekend of rest and relaxation for anyone who wants to travel to X-Day and observe the events; though audience participation is encouraged.

The Church of the SubGenius has been no stranger to controversy since its foundation, and the upcoming X-Day celebration promises to be no different. In the late 1980s, members of the Church were accused of spreading a virus in Macintosh computers known as the "Peace Virus." Numerous articles have been written on the Church in such noteworthy publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired Online, the Boston Globe, U.S. News and World Report; broadcast reports have been produced by CNN and NPR. In April 1999, officials of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts shut down an official SubGenius Devival gathering in the belief that the Church was affiliated with the Trenchcoat Mafia (the organization blamed for the Columbine high school shootings), though authorities later realized the association was mistaken. In its January 1, 2000 issue, a "Time" magazine poll declared J.R. "Bob" Dobbs the biggest fraud of the 20th century.

Are you recruiting?

Sounds interesting!:P

Originally posted by Jon
AUSTIN, Texas, December 31, 2002: The Church of the SubGenius has announced that the end of the world will take place on Saturday, July 5, 2003. In preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday prophecy...{deleted for brevity}


did you write all that or is it copied from somewhere?

What a load of bull!!!

Oh loook - it's the end of the world


again!

That is a bummer because I have just paid for our holiday on the 26th. If I had known I would have spent the money *sigh*:o

Moon

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
Oh loook - it's the end of the world


again!

That is a bummer because I have just paid for our holiday on the 26th. If I had known I would have spent the money *sigh*:o

Moon
Now the actual end of the world is on Dec 12 2012. And no mistake.

Yeah I miss out on being 36 by days!!!

Moon

Have you made your will yet?

Originally posted by John
Have you made your will yet?

Who's going to read it out?

Geoff we better move the forum's Christmas meeting to this Friday :(

I did not write this end of world rubbish BTW found it on some website while surfing the net...

:wave: Goodbye everyone lol

The only thing thats coming out of Austin Texas on July 5 is Lance Armstrong to take the yellow jersey in The Tour DE France.
Now he is a God.

What Christmas meeting ???

Moon

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Now the actual end of the world is on Dec 12 2012. And no mistake.
really? how so?

I've been reading the 2012 stuff for years...it was written in the Bible...the Mayans predicted it...etc. Yet I'm still in denial because naturally, I don't wanna die at 27. Is there any evidence to say that the world will not end in 2012?:o

Just Type:
"Eschatology 2012"
into google
for enlightenment

There is also a technological theory (sc-fi Channel fans will have seen this already0 That there will be a singularity - the end of the world?

Round about 2014.

Moon Maiden

Wow
"Clothing optional theme-parks" and "Adult-entertainment industry representatives being encouraged to attend because sexual freedom is so important"
Sounds like a good excuse for a massive orgy to me
Going out with a bang in fact...
Presumably they will all be so "shagged out" so to speak that they will hardly notice when the world doesnt quite end.
There are some strange people out there

:wave: Guess the end of the world never happened :banana: still time though:?

Still here, anybody else out there or I am on my own in cyber space.
Maybe they got the date wrong:D

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Just Type:
"Eschatology 2012"
into google
for enlightenment


Rivetting stuff

Your search - "Eschatology 2012" - did not match any documents.

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:banana:

er you did remove the quotes didn't you? [edit - ah no you didn't...]
ahem
you should see this:



http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Eschatology+2012&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

or this

http://www.google.com/search?q=Eschatology+2012&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Now the actual end of the world is on Dec 12 2012. And no mistake.

I thought it was the 23rd Dec 2012! Been reading too much Graham Hancock. Love his work!

Now the actual end of the world is on Dec 12 2012. And no mistake.

I thought this was the Mayan "end date"... not necessarily the end of the world. A bit like the anticlimax the millenium bug was bound to be.

News just in from NASA -

2012 will see the largest solar storms since 1958 - disrupting everything that uses electronics and radio waves.

In 1958, the Aurora Borealis was seen as far south as Mexico....but we only had one artificial satellite at that point...

a taste of things to come? http://www.solarstorms.org/NewsPapers/d1958.pdf - NY times article from 1958

Looks like I'll miss Emmerdale then..........:(

worry not, its repeated on ITV2 on a sunday :)

will this be like the 'millenium bug'? you know, planes falling out of the sky etc etc

If it does end in 2012 i'm gonna go to Dfs in 2009 and get there 3 years free credit offer.

Well 2012 crops up a lot in wingnut end of world scenarios, as well as 'peak oil' timetables of doom and so on.

This NASA research (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm) is not a wingnut theory, and has come about through a better understanding of Solar 'weather' and magnetic convection currents.

(hint - click "play Audio" on the page to get the campest narration of the article possible!)

We are protected from solar storm activity by the earth's magnetic field, but we are also about 200,000 years overdue for a pole inversion, where the south and north magnetic poles swap places.

But even if the poles aren't flipping at the time of the storm, it can still do tremendous damage, maxing out powerlines, knocking out satellites and avionics, anything that can carry a current has the potential to be seriously affected.

Think 'Massive EMP Weapon' and you will get the general idea....

Wow, this is an old thread. As such, I feel compelled to comment.
Foxxx was right way back in 2003 - the start of the next long count will be 23/12/2012 in English money. I've also heard the 22nd quoted, which will be the end of the "4th age of man", the current long count, and coincidentally my parents' wedding anniversary, which will save me having to get them anything.
Intrigued by the NASA connection Phan - I seem to remember some argument of a correlation between the long count and solar magnetic cycles in a Hancock/Bauval book, although our feeble minds like to find patterns where there are none (e.g. global warming plotted against decline in pirate activity, or one I came up with the other day at a boring analytical chemistry conference: The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of biscuit quality. Quality biscuits, such as bourbon creams, Jammy Dodgers etc. are there in fewer number, and they also go faster...actually, this is quite a credible theory. Digestives make up the bulk of the biscuit tray, of course.)
I'll be 32 in 2012, which means I won't get to live longer than Jesus did. Bummer for him too, 'cos he'll miss his 2011th birfday, if he still celebrates it. How can a holy spirit eat egg sarnies with the crusts cut off?

As a serious aside, while a Peak Oil timetable of doom may be pushing things, any finite natural resource will blah blah blah...
sorry I was about to go all preachy. What do I care? I'm a fatalist. Come and blow us up you crazy magnetic storms...

What a load of kakk

Have you been on the waccy baccy again, defstef?

Just to clarify;

#1; "Church" is a gathering of Christians with a structured system of pastoral authority. Thus rendering 'Church of the sub - genius'' not a Church!

#2; The Bible does not state that the world will end in 2012.
In fact it is pretty emphatic in labouring the point that no one knows the time of the end except God, We however, can be aware of the signs of the end.

Thankyou!

Have you been on the waccy baccy again, defstef?

Well I haven't and that made sense (sort of) to me.

I guess I should start a 2012 thread properly, as there isn't one yet.

tymr and defstef are right about the end of the mayan long count, its just their calendar ticking over, no 'end of the world' about it.

This solar storm won't be the end of the world, but should provide for a couple of interesting months in 5 years time.

Could be a damp squib of course, but the smart money says not.

Eastwoodgill - which part is "kakk" (i.e Finnish for the numeral 2)?

Defstef - The correlation between pirate activity and global warming is based on spurious piracy statistics. Piracy is on the rise...

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Well I haven't and that made sense (sort of) to me...
I had considered the possibility that it might.

Have you been on the waccy baccy again, defstef?

Like most Mondays, I'm suffering from sleep deprivation. It's the adjusting between weekend nocturnalism to weekday diurnalism that does it. And it's not kakk [sic] Eastwoodgill, anyone who has watched Mysterious Cities of Gold would know the tremendous knowledge of the ancient peoples of central and south America. Pointy-eared alien Olmecs aside...

will this be like the 'millenium bug'? you know, planes falling out of the sky etc etc

Probably.

And we all remember what happened there for all the fuffing scare stories etc, a big fat SOD ALL! :rant:

It was all just a great big con probably designed by Intel, Microsoft et al to con everybody into buying brand new "Y2K proof" computers for Christmas 1999 :rant:

Probably.

And we all remember what happened there for all the fuffing scare stories etc, a big fat SOD ALL! :rant:

It was all just a great big con probably designed by Intel, Microsoft et al to con everybody into buying brand new "Y2K proof" computers for Christmas 1999 :rant:

I expect Andy Grove and Bill Gates have been engineering deep magnetic currents in the sun too...

So will it be a case of BOOM
or more a case of the internet crashes, Nestle goes bankrupt etc.

hmmm,

so should I be stocking up on chocolate, or unplugging my pc's then?

2012...

will it be like a big firework display?

I love sparklies me :)

Is there any evidence to say that the world will not end in 2012?:o

Just look how many other "Doomsday" predictions we've had, and how many have actually happened:D.


So will it be a case of Nestle goes bankrupt etc.

See. Every cloud has it's silver lining:D (I hate Nestle).

some other scenarios - http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

If its ending on the 5th july 2012 at least Americans can celebrate independance day on 4th and if its december 22/23 2012 can have an excuse why i didnt bother with christmas presents that year! sorted:thumbsup:

will this be like the 'millenium bug'? you know, planes falling out of the sky etc etc

Well, the millenium bug arose from a lack of foresight in the code of an inferior operating system, and an increase in solar activity is a natural physical phenomenon. Not much in common between the two.

Oh no, the millennium bug!! blah blah blah

Oh no, the millennium bug!! blah blah blah

Yep. Nice one.

will this be like the 'millenium bug'? you know, planes falling out of the sky etc etc
Would that be the 'Islam bug' that causes that? :hihi: