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So the crazy folks who insist that Judgement Day is May 21 have infested our neighborhood. Yesterday, I got passed by a giant, lime green bus with attached trailer, each shrink-wrapped with the cling film announcing that it was time to repent because Judgement Day was May 21. This morning, I got passed by a maroon SUV bearing the same message. This one was blasting trumpet fanfares every two or three seconds. I hope nobody in the neighborhood was still trying to sleep.

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I have seen this pop up again and again, and all I want to know is who is behind this particular Doomsday deadline. I haven't heard anything about it until just now. Is it Christian fundamentalists misinterpreting other cultures' calendars again?

Family Radio host Harold Camping. Although I'm fairly sure that some of the billboard/promotion people are actually making fun of it all. As far as I understand it, the specific date comes from 'mathematical' proofs ala:

1) Before the flood God said it would be 7 days. Some dude in the new testament says a day to god is like a thousand years. It's been exactly 7000 years since that warning, so end of days.
2) 5 = "Atonement", 10 = "Completeness" , 17 = "Heaven." Do a bunch of math involving days since April 1, 33 * solar year / blah blah = 722,500 = (5 x 10 x 17)^2 THEREFORE CLEARLY THE RAPTURE IS RIGHT NOW GUYS
3 through 8) etc.

All I know is I don't graduate until the 23rd so I'm gonna be pissed if the jesuit who is supposed to be handing me my diploma goes and raptures right before commencement and they lose all my paperwork.

...I still don't get it.

Short version: Crunch a bunch of (made up and/or interpolated) numbers based on a mix of Old Testament sources and Kabbalah, and you get May 21, 2011 as being a significant date. What is its significance, exactly? That depends on what numbers you applied and crunched. In order to have something to panic and/or gloat about, that was decided to be either the end of the world or the Rapture or both.