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“We wait in confidence. The end of time is bad, but what comes next is beautiful”

Through his interpretation of the Scriptures and because the 5,125 year cycle of the Mayan long calendar ends on Friday 21 December, the Dutch evangelical Christian is ready for a second flood of Biblical proportions.

Mr van der Meer has bought a former lifeboat, at a cost of £11,000, to become an ark for his family when, as he believes, the Netherlands, much of which is below sea level, is swallowed in a deluge.

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£11,000 for a used lifeboat? That’s like $15,000?

sharrukin on December 20, 2012 at 6:24 PM

£11,000 for a used lifeboat? That’s like $15,000?

sharrukin on December 20, 2012 at 6:24 PM

It’s huge…and orange.

2lbsTest on December 20, 2012 at 6:28 PM

Did no one learn from Y2K?
It’s good to be prepared, but…

LincolntheHun on December 20, 2012 at 6:29 PM

£11,000 for a used lifeboat? That’s like $15,000?

sharrukin on December 20, 2012 at 6:24 PM

It’s huge…and orange.

2lbsTest on December 20, 2012 at 6:28 PM

Well…whatever floats his boat!

sharrukin on December 20, 2012 at 6:29 PM

“It may be another 10 years. The Scripture says that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. You need to be ready every day,” Mrs van der Meer told the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper.

This, at the least, is true if one follows the Bible. It makes me wonder why her husband is bothering with the boat. Then again, maybe it was a handy excuse to

get

a boat.

Othniel on December 20, 2012 at 6:32 PM

While Awaiting the Cryin’ Mayan Day of Doom
http://primordialslack.com/?p=2662

There we all were, camped on the banks of the Edisto river, our guns, rifles and ammo at the ready. We were swapping stories of music and parties and places we’d been with the predictable amounts of exaggeration and hoots of incredulity when there was a loud commotion, the kind that preceeds the sort of movement in tandem by every human limb and torso that immediately pings your central alarm system. We were on our feet, up and around, hands outstretched toward our stockpiles only to discover that wild boars had overrun us!

As we climbed every available tree with the alacrity of a Chinese acrobat seeking political asylum, we looked wistfully toward our guns and ammo as they were summarily swept up by the wild boars and carried off like so much ComicCon schwag.

So, y’know. Merry Christmas you pigs. Sad to say, we no longer possess any guns, weapons or ammo. And we have no money to replace them. But somewhere in the mouldy swamps of the Lowcountry the damn wild boars are armed. And dangerous.

Isn’t it weird that with all the gun-grabbing talk from Oppressive-left that these stores are flooding the web?

Galt2009 on December 20, 2012 at 6:35 PM

You would think she could have gotten a used sub.

Blake on December 20, 2012 at 6:45 PM

I’m gettin’ impatient sittin’ here waiting. It’s already 12/21/12 on most of the earth. Has the ending begun? When’s it gonna get here already?

stukinIL4now on December 20, 2012 at 6:46 PM

Black Hole Sun
Won’t you come?

Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 20, 2012 at 6:57 PM

Will as may die tomorrow from doomsday as will die on Saturday from mockery?

Dusty on December 20, 2012 at 7:14 PM

Yeah, what’s with the lifeboat? Sounds like he doesn’t understand the meaning of doomsday.

You can’t cheat doomsday.

Dusty on December 20, 2012 at 7:18 PM

These freaks are always the ones who refuse to shave. They are also slightly bipolar. One one hand, he says that the Lord will destroy mankind, yet he says the Lord can’t get him because he has an orange floatation device. On one hand, he says it will be Dec 21, 2012, then says, well, it can be any day. On one hand, he says there will be a flood, then on the other, says the sun will “activate”.

So really, he doesn’t actually have a coherent belief of anything in particular. The only thing he does know for sure is that shaving is evil.

keep the change on December 20, 2012 at 7:58 PM

In France believers are tonight converging on the Pic de Bugarach mountain where they believe aliens will rescue them.

Someone tell them that the Mothership will come in right behind the Hale-Bopp comet, but will only collect those believers with shaved heads, black Nikes, and no genitalia.

Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 20, 2012 at 8:44 PM