Time To Stock Up on Canned Baked Beans and Spam

[Tennesseer]

No need for guns and ammo as you will smite your enemy with your flatulence.

Mormon Apocalypse Prediction Has People Stocking Up On Food

Sales for freeze-dried food, flashlights, blankets and tents have soared in Utah in recent weeks as some Mormons have begun to prepare for the end of the world. The so-called "preppers" believe the world is ending this month based on biblical prophecies, the Hebrew calendar, an unstable economy, world politics and astronomical occurrences, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Sunday.

“There is a sense of urgency, like something is up. A lot of people are mentioning things about September, like a financial collapse," said customer-service representative Ricardo Aranda at American Fork’s Thrive Life, which sells mostly freeze-dried food.

The Mormon apocalypse believers claim the Jewish High Holy Days that began this week will trigger a financial crisis based on the United States’ “wickedness.” They predict the full moon on Sept. 28 is the next sign of the world is ending.

Some of these speculations stem from Julie Rowe’s books, “A Greater Tomorrow: My Journey Beyond the Veil” and “The Time Is Now.” Rowe, a Mormon mother of three, published the books in 2014 to detail a “near-death experience." Her two books have sold more than 20,000 copies each.

Officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said they do not endorse the books or their teachings. The late Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer said in a 2011 LDS General Conference that the “end” was not near and called on young Latter-day Saints to plan for long, productive lives.

“You can look forward to doing it right,” Packer said, ” — getting married, having a family, seeing your children and grandchildren, maybe even great-grandchildren.”

Mormon Apocalypse Prediction Has People Stocking Up On Food

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Sorry... if the choice is spam or death... I choose death. Eating spam is a fate worse than death.

[mmhmm]

OMG, not again! I don't think I can take the another wind-up to the apocalypse! Then, of course, there's the moaning and gnashing of teeth when all the believers find themselves still here after the deadline has passed. Ahhhh, the drama! 

[Value Buy]

Then again, Putin is putting troops and tanks on the ground in Syria, flying jets over Iraq and Iran........

[mmhmm]

Sept 15, 2015 7:38:41 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Then again, Putin is putting troops and tanks on the ground in Syria, flying jets over Iraq and Iran........

Yes. And ... ? Are you suggesting there have never been troops on the ground before? Are you suggesting jets haven't been overflying anywhere before? Why is it different now?

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

You know eventually somebody will be right.   What is the saying "A broken clock. .. "

[busymom]

Did you hear North Korea is firing up their nuclear program again? What a year this has been!

[Robert not Bobby]

Are we having another apocalypse? Why didn't someone send me the memo, maybe on
Facebook or Instagram, or something?

This could lead to PTSD. It's all good and sort of funny.

[wyouser]

Where is the evil dude in blue? Nostradamus says there has to be an evil dude in blue! All I see on the News are a bunch of guys dressed in black!! We can't have a Pockyclips (from Mad Max) without the blue dude!!

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Some people are worried something bad is going to happen so they are taking precautions.  They are buying food staples and other necessities  just in case.  I do not think Mormons are pushing that belief on anyone else.  From what I have read and experienced many Mormons are kind and generous with helping others who want to get prepared for possible hard times.  One of their fears is that bad economic times  might be coming.  I fear that too.  As far as all the different religious beliefs that are being expressed across the world, this seems one of the more sensible ones.

I applaud people who are trying to prepare for things that worry them.  If more people did that it would be a safer, better world.  If anyone thinks bad times are not coming and does not want to prepare for that possibility, no one is forcing them to.

[Value Buy]

Sept 15, 2015 12:09:23 GMT -5 mmhmm said:

Sept 15, 2015 7:38:41 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Then again, Putin is putting troops and tanks on the ground in Syria, flying jets over Iraq and Iran........

Yes. And ... ? Are you suggesting there have never been troops on the ground before? Are you suggesting jets haven't been overflying anywhere before? Why is it different now?

If it is going to begin to get hairy, this is where it will start.
at the area that began civilization.

[Robert not Bobby]

"I applaud people who are trying to prepare for things that worry them."

I don't. I always prepare two steps ahead.

[mmhmm]

Sept 15, 2015 17:54:42 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Sept 15, 2015 12:09:23 GMT -5 mmhmm said:

Yes. And ... ? Are you suggesting there have never been troops on the ground before? Are you suggesting jets haven't been overflying anywhere before? Why is it different now?

If it is going to begin to get hairy, this is where it will start.
at the area that began civilization.

There have been troops on the ground in that area before, VB. Afghanistan comes to mind and it isn't alone there. Why is it different now?

[NoNamePerson]

Does this mean there will be a run on 50lb bags of rice and wheatberries @ Sam's like several years ago. I wonder if the bugs/weevils enjoyed it? Some fat happy bugs. Maybe we should be worried about them too.

And who is the evil person in blue? Can we fend him off by wearing purple??    

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Sept 15, 2015 16:50:28 GMT -5 wyouser said:

Where is the evil dude in blue? Nostradamus says there has to be an evil dude in blue! All I see on the News are a bunch of guys dressed in black!! We can't have a Pockyclips (from Mad Max) without the blue dude!!

What color suit does Obama usually wear?

(well... he is an "evil dude")

[Value Buy]

Sept 15, 2015 18:06:35 GMT -5 @richardintn said:

Sept 15, 2015 16:50:28 GMT -5 wyouser said:

Where is the evil dude in blue? Nostradamus says there has to be an evil dude in blue! All I see on the News are a bunch of guys dressed in black!! We can't have a Pockyclips (from Mad Max) without the blue dude!!

What color suit does Obama usually wear?

(well... he is an "evil dude")

Well, remember his party color is recognized as blue.

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Sept 15, 2015 18:25:40 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Sept 15, 2015 18:06:35 GMT -5 @richardintn said:

What color suit does Obama usually wear?

(well... he is an "evil dude")

Well, remember his party color is recognized as blue.

Good point! "In blue" doesn't necessarily have to be a clothing color!

[Value Buy]

We now have Iran promising the destruction of Israel, and today North Korea is saying they will nuke us.
So much for good faith negotiations.

What is the darn Doomsday clock ticking at these days anyway?

[Artemis Windsong]

There was a Biblical big wound washing for the Mormons on the Utah/Arizona border with floods.

[NastyWoman]

“There is a sense of urgency, like something is up. A lot of people are mentioning things about September, like a financial collapse," said customer-service representative Ricardo Aranda at American Fork’s Thrive Life, which sells mostly freeze-dried food.

The Mormon apocalypse believers claim the Jewish High Holy Days that began this week will trigger a financial crisis based on the United States’ “wickedness.” They predict the full moon on Sept. 28 is the next sign of the world is ending.

I must miss somehing because I can't figure out the tie-in to the two bolded statements. The Jewish High Holy Days started on Monday and (as far as I know per my Jewish friends) they last 10 days. So Yom Kippur (the end of this 10 day stretch) is on Wednesday 9/23. Are these good bible thumping christians really trying to imply that G*d is a slacker who needs 5 days to take the earth down? 

[NoNamePerson]

I thought the world ended with the end of the Mayan calender and we are all figments of each other's imagination.      

[fishy999]

I suppose the TX nuts can send their stockpiles to Utah now that Jade Helm is over and they don't have to fight the government

[Tennesseer]

Sept 15, 2015 19:52:42 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

“There is a sense of urgency, like something is up. A lot of people are mentioning things about September, like a financial collapse," said customer-service representative Ricardo Aranda at American Fork’s Thrive Life, which sells mostly freeze-dried food.

The Mormon apocalypse believers claim the Jewish High Holy Days that began this week will trigger a financial crisis based on the United States’ “wickedness.” They predict the full moon on Sept. 28 is the next sign of the world is ending.

I must miss somehing because I can't figure out the tie-in to the two bolded statements. The Jewish High Holy Days started on Monday and (as far as I know per my Jewish friends) they last 10 days. So Yom Kippur (the end of this 10 day stretch) is on Wednesday 9/23. Are these good bible thumping christians really trying to imply that G*d is a slacker who needs 5 days to take the earth down? 

He's busy in the Sombrero galaxy smiting recalcitrant aliens.

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Do people here ever get tired of mocking and ridiculing beliefs you disagree with?  I have read 3 articles about this and in none of them do I see a quote from someone saying the world is going to end.  Mormons believe they are supposed to be prepared for bad times by storing food and other necessities.  There is nothing new to that belief.  They have stores set up to help believers do that. 

I know a lot of posters here skated through the last economic downturn.  They did not lose their job and were able to ride through the downturn in stock values, but the truth is that that downturn really hurt a lot of people.  It makes sense to worry about another downturn and to prepare as best you can.

This is a ugly thing about me, but I hope the next economic troubles we have hurt a lot more of the posters here.  Many here are arrogant and mean-spirited to those with different experiences and worries.  The mormons are just trying to prepare for possible problems that might arise.  They are not killing people who think different.  They are not chopping of the heads of those from other religions.  They are just buying beans and rice and putting that on a shelf for just in case.

[OldCoyote]

Well said,  Hickle.

[happyhoix]

Hickle I don't think anyone is making fun of Mormons, specifically.

I think they are making fun of people who believe the end of civilization is here,  because there have been many such dire warnings in the last couple decades, and none of them have been true.

[NoNamePerson]

Sept 16, 2015 5:12:43 GMT -5 @hickle said:

Do people here ever get tired of mocking and ridiculing beliefs you disagree with?  I have read 3 articles about this and in none of them do I see a quote from someone saying the world is going to end.  Mormons believe they are supposed to be prepared for bad times by storing food and other necessities.  There is nothing new to that belief.  They have stores set up to help believers do that. 

I know a lot of posters here skated through the last economic downturn.  They did not lose their job and were able to ride through the downturn in stock values, but the truth is that that downturn really hurt a lot of people.  It makes sense to worry about another downturn and to prepare as best you can.

This is a ugly thing about me, but I hope the next economic troubles we have hurt a lot more of the posters here.  Many here are arrogant and mean-spirited to those with different experiences and worries.  The mormons are just trying to prepare for possible problems that might arise.  They are not killing people who think different.  They are not chopping of the heads of those from other religions.  They are just buying beans and rice and putting that on a shelf for just in case.

And because they don't agree with you you wish them harm? I call that mean spirited and yes ugly of you too. Just because I don't stockpile stuff for whatever someone is saying is going to happen I surley don't wish ILL WILL on my felloow man/woman.

It's people who wish ill on others that I am truly scared of because at some point they start to act on those ill feelings.

[Tennesseer]

Sept 16, 2015 6:54:35 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Hickle I don't think anyone is making fun of Mormons, specifically.

I think they are making fun of people who believe the end of civilization is here,  because there have been many such dire warnings in the last couple decades, and none of them have been true.

LOL. It's like Hickle and Oldcoyote didn't even bother to read the article.

[NoNamePerson]

Sept 16, 2015 6:54:35 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Hickle I don't think anyone is making fun of Mormons, specifically.

I think they are making fun of people who believe the end of civilization is here,  because there have been many such dire warnings in the last couple decades, and none of them have been true.

I remember the first time I heard this - I was around 10 so I don't get to worked up over it since I have lived another 61 yrs longer than the first time I heard it. Hell, if it happens tomorrow so be it. I'll probably say "it's about time"   

[Tennesseer]

@hickle-you haven't been around for almost a month. Any updates on your friend who received his 5th DUI/DWI conviction? Was he sentenced to jail/prison (which you vehemently did not want to happen) or did he just get told by the sentencing judge not to drink and drive again (which you preferred as his punishment).