[JWBear]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

So I'm trying to nail this down. The whole hoopla is started by a lunatic who broadcasts his own brand of Christian propaganda from Oakland, California - and he decided, after his admittedly failed reading of Biblical prophesy in 1994 (when he last predicted the Rapture would happen) that he now has it absolutely correct, and the Rapture will occur when always scheduled - on May 21, 2011.

Now, he says it will start at 6pm local time in the ocean between New Zealand and Fiji, and take the form of cataclysmic earthquakes that will roll out from there. But it's not clear from anything I can find whether the Rapture happens on May 21st in New Zealand or May 21st in Oakland, because those are two different days (from the perspective of either place).

Since he does specify local time, I'm gonna go on the assumption (different from my earlier one) that the date is local, too. Meaning the Rapture, when it hits Los Angeles, will be later TODAY, May 20th - at 10:00 p.m.

Accounting for time necessary for the wave of cataclysmic earthquakes to reach the West Coast of the U.S., it might be around midnight TONIGHT, and not tomorrow night.


I guess Brad's party is off. As is our pants-dropping I love you Mass Hug. Bummer.

According to the good Reverend, the rapture will occur at 6PM local time in each and every timezone starting at the International Date Line. In other words... The Aussies will get sucked up 18 hours before us. It will hit Europe 10 hours after that; and the east coast 3 hours before here in California.