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[What's Burning?]

I'm going out for breakfast May 22nd... I think I'll have waffles.

Robert Fitzpatrick is so convinced the end is near he's betting his life savings on it.

The retired MTA employee has pumped $140,000 into a NYC Transit ad campaign to warn everyone the world will end next Saturday.

"Global Earthquake! The Greatest Ever - Judgment Day: May 21," the ad declares above a placid picture of night over Jerusalem with a clock that's about to strike midnight.

"I'm trying to warn people about what's coming," the 60-year-old Staten Island resident said. "People who have an understanding [of end times] have an obligation to warn everyone."

His doomsday warning has appeared on 1,000 placards on subway cars, at a cost of $90,000, and at bus shelters around the city, for $50,000 more. Fitzpatrick's millenial mania began after he retired in 2006 and began listening to California evangelist Harold Camping's "end of days" predictions.

Using head-spinning numerological calculations, Camping has determined that the world will end on Saturday, May 21. He's used similar biblical math to pinpoint when Abraham was circumcised (2068 B.C.) and when earth was created (11,083 B.C.).

Camping has predicted the end of world once before - on Sept. 6, 1994. When the sun rose on Sept. 7, Camping admitted he might have had that one wrong. Still, Fitzpatrick remains convinced the beginning of the end is coming next week.

"It'll start just before midnight, Jerusalem time: It'll be instantaneous and global," he said. "There are too many scriptures talking about 'sudden destruction.'"

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[bud]

I thought we had till the December 2012... make up your mind

[darwin dali]

Senile retards should just go home and die quietly.

[madbrad]

What's the point of warning us of the end of the world if there's nothing we can do about it?

[bud]

What's the point of warning us of the end of the world if there's nothing we can do about it?

so you can get in plenty of umpalumpa before hand.

[darwin dali]

What's the point of warning us of the end of the world if there's nothing we can do about it?

so you can get in plenty of umpalumpa before hand.

or at least with hand.

[Juliet P]

What's the point of warning us of the end of the world if there's nothing we can do about it?

so you can get in plenty of umpalumpa before hand.

or at least with hand.

[acosmichippo]

What's the point of warning us of the end of the world if there's nothing we can do about it?

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[stonemonkey]

Camping has determined that the world will end on Saturday, May 21. He's used similar biblical math to pinpoint when Abraham was circumcised (2068 B.C.) and when earth was created (11,083 B.C.).

I think there's a flaw in his math.

Senile retards should just go home and die quietly.

Does he still have a home?

[McLaren]

Only in america

[acosmichippo]

Not exactly.

[madbrad]

What's the point of warning us of the end of the world if there's nothing we can do about it?

so you can get in plenty of umpalumpa before hand.

or at least with hand.

well ok legitimate arguments, but I figure if I had a retirement fund worth 140k that would be of no use after the end of the world, I would blow it on living it up, not on warning people, especially once they're warned they can't do anything about it except blow their retirement funds on hookers too!

[What's Burning?]

It's difficult for us to comprehend something that we don't believe in. He however seems to have no trouble comprehending. I have no trouble ordering breakfast on May 22nd. I hope no one in his family sees financial trouble because of his belief.

[acosmichippo]

I'd like to see an interview with him on May 22. I'm sure he'll have some justification worked out by then.

[texasmr2]

I thought we had till the December 2012... make up your mind

I know!!!

Hell I'm gonna start prepping now, lots and lots of ammo with bears guarding my stash !!