"We now calculate that a government related target in NYC near the Hudson river in the US and another government related target in the UK will be hit one by a sea borne dirty bomb and the other in a manner we do not know on May23/24 or May27/28, 2008"
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I'll bring the popcorn.
If you are correct even in these vague, unspecific prophecies, I will convert*.
*Offer not viable if you actually provoke the attack.
From their main page:
"We now therefore expect a twin terrorist attack in the US in NYC around the Hudson River, and the UK on 2008Iyyar17 or 2008Iyyar21, which in fact corresponds with solar dates between the sunsets of May23/24 or May27/28. This is the fulfilment of the stone of Daniel2 hitting the image and of mushroom the cloud of 1Kings18 rising from the west or the sea or both. We have got this wrong so far around 70x."
71st time's the charm?
"The Kingdom of God began on 23rd April 2008!"
Apparently, this nutjob is late in updating his highly entertaining website.
Are those the ones that said they'd have to "seriously reconsider their options" if the bomb didn't hit at this and that time?
Are they still at it?
Doesn't make them different from any other doomsday cult in history, but still...
Sea Borne Dirty Bomb?
Seriously... Are we going to be fighting underwater freaking terrorists?
I suggest instead of an atomic bomb, we get an atomic bong...
More world peace that way... Infact I suppose if we release a giant cloud of THC or maybe some form of airborne ecstasy into the Iraq, Palestine and Israel we can solve a lot of our problems. We would however be helping out "big chocolate" which is not good...
So they're saying they'll do the bombing.
FBI, anyone?
Also, what the fuck do they think a "radiation bomb" is supposed to do? other than cause a whole lot of panic at the word itself? Seems to me morons are thinking "all the fallout, none of the fireball" nukes or something, when in fact all you get is a mildly elevated cancer risk for whoever's in the neighborhood and those who made it.
Better to pack a little extra rdx instead.
And when this date comes and goes, and nothing happens, I am gonna sign up for your forum, and LAUGH MY FUCKING ASS OFF at you, while quoting this bullshit back at ya.
Here, I'll take a stab at his whole prophecy thing.
I forsee that there will be no bombs on those dates. I further foresee the Lord's Witnesses making another prediction of when the bombs will hit, failing it, predicting it again, and repeating the process indefinitely.
Eh? Doesn't this really belong in CTSDT?
I also predict someone will get shot in NYC this month. Will I be right? Only time will tell.*
*police report statistics
To use statistical data, the US suffers from a significant terrorist attack every few years. However, the fact that terrorist attacks rely quite significantly on human and political behaviour puts a very large variance on things. Still, if you merely said, "Somewhere in the USA there will be a terrorist attack in the next 10 years" I'd say that's quite plausible, even though America has so far done a fair job at preventing that.
Each of the variables, however, date, location and method of attack shirnks the probabilities so small the chances are smaller than being struck by lightning. Putting them together, unless you had a Infinite Improbability Drive, is pure lunacy, which I believe is your realm.
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True, a dirty bomb in somewhere like London would make money disappear like a... disappear-y thing.
However, a dirty bomb on a government target? With a fall out shelter? Our yew four reel?
"Thou art a foo."
- Mr. T
Oh lovely, when it doesn't happen, they will simply say that they miscalculated or misinterpreted the ancient bible codes and push the date back six months or so, and still collect contributions from the rubes.
I like how they give themselves 2 extra days leeway.
It'll still be funny when it isn't true - unless, of course, these people are in some kind of terrorist doomsday cult and MAKE it happen.
The great thing about Bible Code predictions is that if they don't come true, you can always find a negative word in the text that negates the prophecy. Thus, "dirty bomb explodes in New York" becomes "No dirty bomb explodes in New York." Considering how frequently words like "no" and "not" are used in the Bible, any bible code prophecy almost automatically has a negative alternative, so that whether an event happens or not, the decoder can say he was right.
Also, if they are using the so-called Bible Code to predict the future, this has been totally debunked, and,even the discoverer of this "coding" has proclaimed that one cannot predict future events with it, assuming it works at all.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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