Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: End Of The World Is Nigh (Again)

[Tank]

Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: End Of The World Is Nigh (Again)

Mark your calendars.

It's going to be a busy year for end-of-the-world aficionados, now that Jose De Jesus Miranda has weighed in.

The U.S.-based religious leader is penciling in June 30 for the end of days, nudging out Mayan Doomsday enthusiasts who have have earmarked December 21, 2012 for humanity's last gasp.

"An earthquake is coming," Miranda proclaimed in an April 25 ministry broadcast.

"It is getting closer and we will see the catastrophes. What you have seen is nothing. What is coming is cities falling."

But Miranda is bringing his own unique twist to the Apocalypse-faithful. While promising the "complete destruction of the bad seed," the minister promises that he will emerge as a sort of superhero -- with the power to fly and even walk through walls.

Mr. Doomsday, if you will. Or, as his followers call him, 'Dad'.

What we do know of Miranda is that he was, in fact, born mortal -- in Puerto Rico in 1946. By his own account, Miranda was visited by Jesus in 1973 -- apparently the Messiah walked up to him and entered his body.

Hence, De Jesus.

From there, his pronouncements have only gotten more interesting.

In 1988, Miranda disclosed that he was actually the Apostle Paul. Not long after that, Miranda took it to the next level, calling himself both Jesus Christ and the Anti-Christ -- a one-stop shop for all your Reckoning needs.

How do these whack jobs get airtime!!!

[philosoraptor]

How do they get airtime?  Because humans are unable to look away from a train wreck when they see it happening.

[Tank]

How do they get airtime?  Because humans are unable to look away from a train wreck when they see it happening.

How true 

[Velma]

How do they get airtime?  Because humans are unable to look away from a train wreck when they see it happening.

How true 

Far too true.   

[Asmodean]

Easy money too, for those with some charisma and imagination.

[Sandra Craft]

Every time someone announces the end of the world, I have an MiB flashback:

There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!

Damn Hollywood.

[fester30]

Nobody f's with De Jesus Miranda!

[En_Route]

One day one of these people is going to be right. Pity he/she won't be around to reap the credit.

[Ali]

I don't understand why these religious types are so hung up" on the whole "End of Days" scenario.  Presumably they believe that they'll all be Raptured or whatever when it happens anyway, so what's the deal with getting all het up about it?

[Tank]

One day one of these people is going to be right. Pity he/she won't be around to reap the credit.

Probably not in our lifetime. And all that would do would be to confirm the truth of the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy.

[Tank]

I don't understand why these religious types are so hung up" on the whole "End of Days" scenario.  Presumably they believe that they'll all be Raptured or whatever when it happens anyway, so what's the deal with getting all het up about it?

I don't understand it either. But then I, like you, are not in the thrall of an Institutionalised Superstition.

[xSilverPhinx]

This guy is definitely a more colourful character than that one who failed just a while back.

[Sandra Craft]

Nobody f's with De Jesus Miranda!

I wouldn't talk back to a suit that purple, no.

[Stevil]

Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: End Of The World Is Nigh (Again)

Miranda was visited by Jesus in 1973 -- apparently the Messiah walked up to him and entered his body.

Sodomy or Oral?

[Sandra Craft]

Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: End Of The World Is Nigh (Again)

Miranda was visited by Jesus in 1973 -- apparently the Messiah walked up to him and entered his body.

Sodomy or Oral?

I think anal would make a more lasting impact.