Man says 5 cities to be destroyed on Friday

[Bearcat729]

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Local man: Five cities to be destroyed Friday


John Gilmore says God told him that a serious event will destroy five cities Friday. (WVLT)


Pastor John Stuart believes that Gilmore's claim is just another Y2K. (WVLT)


Despite naysayers, Gilmore has pulled all of his money out of the stock market and stockpiled food. (WVLT)


By Saturday we will know if Gilmore's prophecy is correct. (WVLT)


Farragut, Knox County (WVLT) - A Farragut man says he's only the messenger, claiming his personal relationship with god has revealed to him, five cities in the United States that will face economic collapse Friday, November 11, 2005.


As WVLT Volunteer TV's Stephen McLamb learns, eleven is a well known number in history and this man feels eleven, eleven is the beginning of the end.



"But I want people to know that I'm perfectly sane, that I'm at peace with what's going to happen," John Gilmore says he's just a messenger and living by it. He says people in New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and San Francisco face some form of serious destruction on Friday.



"Something is going to happen to the effect that these cities are going to be devastated to the point that our economy is going to collapse," Gilmore says.



One local pastor says he's not buying Gilmore's claims.



"Remember the year 2000 where everything was going to be destroyed through Y2K and it never happened," says Pastor John Stuart, from Erin Presbyterian Church.



But Gilmore is and he's preparing for long term problems by storing extra food, water, and by getting his money out of the stock market.



Gilmore feels Friday is God's judgment for our desires for wealth, greed, and killing the unborn.



"Every time throughout the bible, he corrects that with judgment. And he does that to drive us away from the evil one and back to him and that's what I believe we are going to see tomorrow," Gilmore explains.



But Pastor Stuart says false claims have been made for centuries all because of anxiety.



"Probably on Saturday morning we are going to wake up and we'll wonder. What on earth were we scared about?" Pastor Stuart says.



"If it we're me, I would not be in the cities that I mentioned and I've notified everybody I know in those cities that they need to leave. They'll have to make that ultimate decision themselves, but my decision would be to leave, says Gilmore.



Gilmore was questioned about false prophets and whether he could be one of them.



He responded, "no, because I am right."


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[CamEdwards]

Why on earth is this considered news?

[sovereignstar]

I will go back to watching FOX now.

[gottimd]

Economic or physical collapse? Why am I asking, as if it is true.

[Critch]

I'm glad I've got the day off work.

[Joe]

cool

[Anthony]

shit, well, if tomorrow is my last day at least SkyDog is coming with me. about time God started messing around with Atlanta.

[ice4277]

God is just messing with this guy. He's really planning on taking out Wichita and Toledo.

[gottimd]

Why is it always NY or DC? LA always gets overlooked along with Chicago.

[CraigSca]

What I found most interesting is the following:


John Gilmore says God told him that a serious event will destroy five cities Friday. (WVLT)

By Saturday we will know if Gilmore's prophecy is correct. (WVLT)

What brain trust came up with that one?

[Cuckoo]

Why is it always NY or DC? LA always gets overlooked along with Chicago.

Yeah, I think if you're taking out cities, LA has to be on the list. And if we lose Vegas, that means we're left with Atlantic City, Mississippi Riverboats and Indian Casinos. I don't like those options.

[gottimd]

Des Moines better get on that list too.

[Coffee Warlord]

Why is it always NY or DC? LA always gets overlooked along with Chicago.

Because John Gilmore used to play for the Bears, and God, being a Bears fan, decided Chicago was alright.

[Critch]

Why is it always NY or DC? LA always gets overlooked along with Chicago.

God told me he was keeping them for the follow-up 5 city destruction next week.

[sachmo71]

Why does god have to be so vague? Doesn't he know more than it will be "a serious event"?

[FBPro]

God is just messing with this guy. He's really planning on taking out Wichita and Toledo.
NOT Toledo........nnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooo!!

[digamma]

Paging Mr. Wheels. Mr. Bubba Wheels.

[sterlingice]

You know, I never really liked any of those cities. I would miss some of the cool stuff in DC but getting rid of the politicians are worth losing the monuments, a couple of copies of the Constitution, moon rocks, and everything else in the museums. ;)

SI

[digamma]

You know, I never really liked any of those cities. I would miss some of the cool stuff in DC but getting rid of the politicians are worth losing the monuments, a couple of copies of the Constitution, moon rocks, and everything else in the museums. ;)

SI
But what about Dover, PA? Pat Robertson says it's DOOMED too.

[CamEdwards]

No, he said if there's a natural disaster, don't go crying to God, because God doesn't want to hear it.

Pat Robertson: God's personal assistant.

[digamma]

No, he said if there's a natural disaster, don't go crying to God, because God doesn't want to hear it.

Pat Robertson: God's personal assistant.Damn Yahoo! headline writers.

Pat Robertson Warns Pa. Town of Disaster

[rjolley]

Why is it always NY or DC? LA always gets overlooked along with Chicago.My first thought when reading the list of cities was, "Why not Chicago?" Guess He's a White Sox fan an figured the fans deserve to enjoy the win a little longer.

And why not Nov 11, 2011? That would be 11/11/11.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

San Francisco gets it? Did Capsicum write this article? :D

[Greyroofoo]

Toledo will stand forever!!!!!!

[Swaggs]

he's been playing too much Civ.

[SackAttack]

San Francisco gets it? Did Capsicum write this article? :D

No, He just detests the Giants.

[Honolulu_Blue]

You know, I never really liked any of those cities. I would miss some of the cool stuff in DC but getting rid of the politicians are worth losing the monuments, a couple of copies of the Constitution, moon rocks, and everything else in the museums. ;)

SI
Uh.... Hello?

[VPI97]

Does this mean I don't have to go into the office tomorrow?

[Easy Mac]

Why does God only speak to the crazy people?

[Solecismic]

Coming this fall on NBC: Category 666.

[Schmidty]

People like this guy make me very angry. His type are the ones that make us look so freaking stupid.

[Mustang]

But Gilmore is and he's preparing for long term problems by storing extra food, water, and by getting his money out of the stock market.

Gilmore feels Friday is God's judgment for our desires for wealth, greed, and killing the unborn.


Greed is one of the reasons God is judging us but, he finds it necessary to protect his wealth..

Hmmm.. interesting.

[Schmidty]

Dola.

Everyone have their jollies and make fun of Christians now. Hope it makes you feel better about yourselves.

[Coffee Warlord]

Why does God only speak to the crazy people?

God isn't speaking to him. But Rickman IS!

http://mydivx.lihoman.ru/order/actor/rickman/rickman.dogma2.jpg

[sterlingice]

Uh.... Hello? Well, maybe if you weren't a Wings fan, God wouldn't be smiting your town. Ever think of that, smart guy? :p

SI

[Ragone]

shit, well, if tomorrow is my last day at least SkyDog is coming with me. about time God started messing around with Atlanta.


God's always messing around with atlanta.. have you seen their nba team?
apparently no one in atlanta has either

[CraigSca]

Dola.

Everyone have their jollies and make fun of Christians now. Hope it makes you feel better about yourselves.
I'm not making fun of Christians, I'm an equal-opportunity doomsayer-make-fun-of'er.

[gottimd]

9 Hours in the day thus far elapsed and DC is quite alright, for those of you who believed this asshat.

[CamEdwards]

Dola.

Everyone have their jollies and make fun of Christians now. Hope it makes you feel better about yourselves.

Schmidty,

I don't think by making fun of this guy people are making fun of Christians. I think they're basically making fun of crazy people.

Or, if this guy's correct, taunting God.

[TroyF]

Uh.... Hello?


Quit your complaining. You were given 12 hours. That's plenty of time to get the hell out of dodge. And if you stay, FEMA is right there to assist you.

Good luck!!!

[Easy Mac]

Schmidty,

I don't think by making fun of this guy people are making fun of Christians. I think they're basically making fun of crazy people.

Or, if this guy's correct, taunting God.
6 of 1, half a dozen of the others...:p

[cthomer5000]

is this going to cut into lunch?

[Kodos]

It's always fun watching these morons the day after when nothing happened. "Our prayers have gotten God to hold off judgment for another week! But you are all dooooooooomed next Saturday for sure!"

[Anthony]

[checking myself]

"spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch"

whoo...still here.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Dola.

Everyone have their jollies and make fun of Christians now. Hope it makes you feel better about yourselves.
:rolleyes:

[MizzouRah]

At least St. Louis is ok.

..and this thread would go crazy if something did happen today... :eek:

[Solecismic]

John Gilmore says God told him that a serious event will destroy five cities Friday. (WVLT)

It's always fun watching these morons the day after when nothing happened. "Our prayers have gotten God to hold off judgment for another week! But you are all dooooooooomed next Saturday for sure!"

Next week, on the Gilmore Ghouls, Houston, Baltimore and Medford Oregon face the uncertain wrath of divine judgment.

[Anthony]

now, is this one of those instances where if something *did* happen, he would get to say "i told ya so" or would that be bad form?

[cartman]

Pat Robertson only said that the town that voted out the Intelligent Design schoolboard members was doomed. I guess he was talking to a different Big Guy Upstairs.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Well, maybe if you weren't a Wings fan, God wouldn't be smiting your town. Ever think of that, smart guy? :p

SI
Ok. It's a deal. If God doesn't smite "my town" and D.C. still stands by the end of the day today, then it will prove once and for all that He is a Wings fan. Come on, Jeebus!

[Honolulu_Blue]

Next week, on the Gilmore Ghouls, Houston, Baltimore and Medford Oregon face the uncertain wrath of divine judgment.
Classic!

You know, if God decides to wake the dead and unleash a horde of zombies on five cities, I might be down for that. My buddy McShane is rolling into town today. My town house has bars and gates on all accessible doors and windows. I fancy our chances holding out for a good while. Of course, if they are they super-fast new fangled type zombies, I'll just end it. There's really no hope against those things. Too many. Too fast. End of.

[sachmo71]

Classic!

Of course, if they are they super-fast new fangled type zombies, I'll just end it. There's really no hope against those things. Too many. Too fast. End of.

Zoombies?

[Rockstar]

I think New York went to crap forever ago. :D

This guy missed his train (or comet) ten years ago with the Heavens Gate Cult.

[sterlingice]

Ok. It's a deal. If God doesn't smite "my town" and D.C. still stands by the end of the day today, then it will prove once and for all that He is a Wings fan. Come on, Jeebus!
Nah, it just shows the guy is a crazy nut. You just can't win.

SI

[sterlingice]

Classic!

You know, if God decides to wake the dead and unleash a horde of zombies on five cities, I might be down for that. My buddy McShane is rolling into town today. My town house has bars and gates on all accessible doors and windows. I fancy our chances holding out for a good while. Of course, if they are they super-fast new fangled type zombies, I'll just end it. There's really no hope against those things. Too many. Too fast. End of.
Well, you know what they say:
Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared For Full-Scale Zombie Attack (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41676)

PITTSBURGH—A zombie-preparedness study, commissioned by Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy and released Monday, indicates that the city could easily succumb to a devastating zombie attack.

<small>October 19, 2005 | Issue 41•42 News

</small>
SI

[gottimd]

, if they are they super-fast new fangled type zombies, I'll just end it. There's really no hope against those things. Too many. Too fast. End of.
Too Fast, Too Furious?

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

I thought this was the thread about PAT ROBERTSON.

[scooper]

[checking myself]

"spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch"

whoo...still here.
When HA breaks out a Nuns on the Run reference, maybe it IS the end of the world.

[Passacaglia]

Man, what the hell? No hate for Chicago?

[Anthony]

When HA breaks out a Nuns on the Run reference, maybe it IS the end of the world.

i got it from Austin Powers, for the record.

[scooper]

i got it from Austin Powers, for the record.
Ah. Forgot about that. STW&W predates even AP. In the cheesy 80's comedy Nuns on the Run, two ex cons dress as nuns in sort of a witness protection scheme. They chant spectacles, testicles, wallet as a reminder of the order of the sign of the cross.

And here I thought I was maybe not the only person on the planet who rememered that movie.

[Rizon]

[url]


As WVLT Volunteer TV's Stephen McLamb learns, eleven is a well known number in history and this man feels eleven, eleven is the beginning of the end.

.

What was it like to see
The face of your own stability
Suddenly look away
Leaving you with the dead and hopeless?

Eleven and she was gone.
Eleven is when we waved good-bye.
Eleven is standing still,
Waiting for me to free him
By coming home.

Moving me with a sound.
Opening me within a gesture.
Drawing me down and in,
Showing me where it all began,
Eleven.

It took so long to realize that
You hold the light that's been leading me back home.

Under a dead ohio sky,
Eleven has been and will be waiting,
Defending his light,
And wondering...
Where the hell have I been?
Sleeping, lost, and numb.
So glad that I have found you.
I am wide awake and heading home.

Hold your light,
Eleven.
Lead me through each gentle step by step
by inch by loaded memory.

I'll move to heal
As soon as pain allows so we can
Reunite and both move on together.

Hold your light,
Eleven. Lead me through each gentle step by step
By inch by loaded memory
'till one and one are one, eleven,
So glow, child, glow.

I'm heading back home.

[Celeval]

He was wrong... actually it was Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington DC, New York, and Boston. And it was yesterday.

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/showthread.php?t=44387

[tucker342]

Des Moines better get on that list too.Agreed, it's about time someone else feels this way as well:) just as long as God spares Iowa City:D

[Dutch]

If there is ever a need for a follow-up interview, it's right now. :)

[bob]

He says people in New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and San Francisco face some form of serious destruction on Friday.

I live in Dunwoody, right outside of Atlanta. Do I survive this, or is it the entire metro area?

[JonInMiddleGA]

from today's Knoxville News-Sentinel (www.knoxnews.com)

Apocalyptic views lead to firing

Knology manager trumpeted visions of end times to media

By LARISA BRASS AND BILL BREWER, [email protected], [email protected]
November 12, 2005

The general manager of Knology's Knoxville operations has been fired after expressing religious views about the end of time to local media outlets, including the News Sentinel.

John Gilmore, 34, has managed the local office of the Georgia-based provider of cable television, Internet and phone services for the past five years and has been with the company for six years. He was relieved of his duties Thursday.


Mike Roddy, vice president of marketing for Knology in Atlanta, confirmed Friday that Gilmore was fired for eschatological comments he made in a Tuesday column in the News Sentinel and on a subsequent local television appearance.

"The company's position is that everybody is entitled to their opinions and John is certainly among them," Roddy said. "John was asked not to represent his opinions as the company's and he continued the appearance of doing that as general manager of Knology and we decided to let him go. They just weren't the company's opinions."

Roddy further said that Gilmore was asked to not do another media interview on his beliefs, but he appeared on WVLT, Channel 8, Thursday night after he alerted Knology he was going to.

"If John wants to give his own opinions, that's fine. But he needs to not do it as a representative of this company," Roddy said.

In the past week, Gilmore has been quoted and interviewed live about his views on events he believes will take place leading to the final judgment of God and the end of the world.

He spoke of the power of a secret organization called the Illuminati that he said is trying to destroy national sovereignty. He said the group finds significance in the number 11, with the Sept. 11 attacks occurring 11 years to the day after the first President George Bush used the phrase "New World Order" before Congress.

Gilmore predicted a big event Friday as well - Nov. 11, 2005, whose digits, if one counts November as the 11th month, add up to 11 (1+1+1+1+2+5).

His comments appeared in a column by Ina Hughs on Tuesday, accompanied by two letters he wrote that appeared on the News Sentinel's Web site, Knoxnews.com.

After being interviewed on WVLT, he gave interviews to two local radio stations Friday morning.

Gilmore said company officials contacted him Thursday and asked him to leave the company.

"They said, 'If you have to continue to talk publicly I don't know if we can continue working together,' " Gilmore said, adding that the company expressed concern about the association of its brand with his beliefs.

"I'm kind of well known in Knoxville being associated with Knology," he said, pointing out that the company felt he was representing Knology's views with no disclaimer.

When asked if he planned to pursue legal action against the company, Gilmore said, "absolutely not," because he understood the company's decision.

"There was no animosity," he said. "We're all still friends."

Gilmore said he already knew he would leave Knology.

"I was pretty much told that I'd be leaving at some point. Our heavenly Father told me that. I didn't know a time or anything, but it just worked out this week," he said. "To be honest, I'm waiting to see where my heavenly Father will lead me. I'm really being called to do other things."

Roddy said the company is not concerned about being sued over the matter based on freedom of speech or religion concerns.

Knoxville lawyer Rick Hollow, who specializes in First Amendment issues, said judgment shouldn't be passed on either side of the issue without knowing all the facts.

"But the situation certainly has implications which suggest a potential chilling effect on free expression and should therefore be closely scrutinized," Hollow said.

[Honolulu_Blue]

This is D.C. checking in. I haven't left the house. Haven't even had my coffee yet, so I am not sure, but I think we're all still here.

[Easy Mac]

New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and San Francisco

Knicks lost
Capital lost
Thrashers won
Warriors won
Wizards won

I'd call it a wash.

[Anthony]

damn, the Knicks lost AGAIN? i forgot to watch that game, it was on at like 10:30 ET.

man, so much for the Larry Brown factor. i will say i expected better from him - 5, 6 games into the season and he still doesn't have his starting 5 official? he's had all of preseason and all of camp. this team ain't gonna win the championship this year, not like he has to throw away games trying to mix and match. get something set in stone, play a lineup for 10 games and see what works. make changes every so often.

Jerome James=the end of Isaiah Thomas' career as Knicks GM. i give Thomas till next season.

[Ben E Lou]

He was wrong... actually it was Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington DC, New York, and Boston. And it was yesterday.

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/showthread.php?t=44387 (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/showthread.php?t=44387)http://dynamic.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Dutch]

I am guessing the guy was probably wrong.

I was on pins and needles in suspense.

[DanGarion]

So any small towns/cities destroyed yesterday?

[Desnudo]

So any small towns/cities destroyed yesterday?

I think there was a forest fire somewhere in South America.

[MizzouRah]

my head feels like it was destroyed by a Budweiser train..

[DanGarion]

my head feels like it was destroyed by a Budweiser train..
Those commericals are for Coors Light not Budweiser.

[MizzouRah]

Those commericals are for Coors Light not Budweiser.
Shhh... I can't say that word here in St. Louis.