The End of the World (We go to hell with no supper.) - October 21st

Sponsored by the Capital Region Atheists and Agnostics, this special event celebrates yet another second coming (is it a twentieth coming if no one showed the first nineteen times?), as predicted by lovable nutbag Harold Camping and his supporters. Come on out and join your fellow unbelievers for an evening of revelry in preparation for yet another eternal damnation!

Organizer Rick says:

This is a bit hard-on-the-heels of our Dinosaur pub gathering, but the circumstances here are also rather delicious. You'll recall that in days just after this past May 21, Harold Camping (he of Family Radio infamy) explained the fact that a literal, material rapture had not occurred that day as he had predicted (for the third time), as God's merciful decision to make the rapture a wholly spiritual event. Nevertheless, Harold instructs us, the die is now cast, with the saved now saved and the damned now irretrievably lost. And Harold has said that his predicted end of the world will proceed as scheduled on the 21st, with all of we uppity rational types being transported to some sort of hell. I'm thinking the pain of this transition would be eased by some modest libation. I've made no seating reservations for this event (Why would we need them?), and see it more as a quick drink after work thing. So come and lift a glass at the appointed time (half an hour after our gathering) and wait for the floods and earthquakes to consume the planet. And if on the off chance Harold is wrong once again, we can share our mirth with fellow bar patrons. Hope to see a bunch of you there.

Friday, October 21st, 2011, at 5:30 P.M.
Albany Pump Station
19 Quackenbush Square
Albany, NY