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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 12:58 PM Apr 2016

FLDS people reportedly brace for apocalypse on Wednesday

Source: KUTV Salt Lake

(KUTV) Members of the FLDS polygamous community sect are reportedly bracing for the Apocalypse on Wednesday.

Elissa Wall, who escaped the FLDS years ago, told The Guardian that Warren Jeffs (the man they consider their prophet) told the FLDS people he will be freed from jail when an earthquake crumbles the walls of the prison.

At the same time, his brother Lyle Jeffs, who ran the FLDS community in his absence but was recently jailed on fraud charges, will break free from the Salt Lake federal court house when he appears for a hearing.

Tonia Tewell, Executive Director and Founder of Holding Out Help, a group that helps about 200 people escape polygamy every year, said she too has heard about the end-of-the-world prophesy and she feels confident Warren Jeffs sent that message to his followers from his Texas prison cell.

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Read more: http://kutv.com/news/local/flds-people-reportedly-brace-for-apocalypse-on-wednesday

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FLDS people reportedly brace for apocalypse on Wednesday (Original Post) jpak Apr 2016 OP
Haha! Yeah. Shadowflash Apr 2016 #1
LOL!!!! 2naSalit Apr 2016 #6
So, if you want to pick up some cars and ATVs and real estate for cheap . .. hatrack Apr 2016 #2
They probably don't maintain their shit very well since the world will end at any time snooper2 Apr 2016 #3
Make that pick up trucks with the chip and I'm in! 2naSalit Apr 2016 #7
Kind of how my brother got the house he was renting in 1975. His landlord decided to join.... Hekate Apr 2016 #23
Let's play a game elljay Apr 2016 #4
"God is testing me!" hatrack Apr 2016 #14
The psychology of this is fascinating elljay Apr 2016 #16
A pack of lips is arriving Wednesday? Will that be via FedEx, UPS, or USPS? Kip Humphrey Apr 2016 #5
Are we talkin' about them wax lips they useta sell around Halloween? /nt staggerleem Apr 2016 #11
dunno... have to wait 'til Wednesday to find out I guess. Kip Humphrey Apr 2016 #13
You misunderstood.... PassingFair Apr 2016 #27
Well, that kills my plans for getting an oil change packman Apr 2016 #8
Brainwashed Tools! SC Tarheel Apr 2016 #9
Thought we survived that already. staggerleem Apr 2016 #10
What time? edbermac Apr 2016 #12
Again? n/t jtuck004 Apr 2016 #15
Idiotic superstitions prove that humans ain't that bright. tabasco Apr 2016 #17
Is that why they support fracking? ChairmanAgnostic Apr 2016 #18
Ooh boy! More apocalypse worshippers! Initech Apr 2016 #19
and I have nothing to wear for the occasion. olddad56 Apr 2016 #20
Wednesday doesn't work for me... Earth_First Apr 2016 #21
How many is that now? 47of74 Apr 2016 #22
If it's the end of the world, can I have their stuff? N/t TexasBushwhacker Apr 2016 #24
Well, crap. I hope it waits until after my dance lesson. tanyev Apr 2016 #25
I feel fine lunasun Apr 2016 #26
Does this apply to all of us or just them? nt LiberalElite Apr 2016 #28
It's Thursday. So what happened? edbermac Apr 2016 #29
I have dinner on Wednesday...should I move my reservation up? brooklynite Apr 2016 #30
No apocalypse in New Hampshire. Just the darn spring snow. Vinca Apr 2016 #31
I have survived the apocalypse like 50 times now. sofa king Apr 2016 #32

hatrack

(59,592 posts)
2. So, if you want to pick up some cars and ATVs and real estate for cheap . ..
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:06 PM
Apr 2016

. . . now would be the time to inquire.

Hekate

(90,779 posts)
23. Kind of how my brother got the house he was renting in 1975. His landlord decided to join....
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 05:13 PM
Apr 2016

...Bo and Peep in the Oregon woods to catch a flying saucer to another world. The landlord voluntarily gave my brother all the relevant papers for the house and a note saying that for "$1 and other considerations" the property was now his. Totally legal and binding.

Anyhow, the landlord was lucky. The space ship didn't show up. Many years later Bo and Peep resurfaced as the instigators of the Heaven's Gate Cult.

elljay

(1,178 posts)
4. Let's play a game
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:11 PM
Apr 2016

What will the FLDS say when the world is NOT destroyed on Wednesday? One possibility is that their prayers were so powerful that god relented. What other good explanations can you think of for this pending non-event?

elljay

(1,178 posts)
16. The psychology of this is fascinating
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:42 PM
Apr 2016

isn't it? They would have to explain that the "horrible" fact that they are still alive is a result of God's testing their faith. The logic makes my brain hurt.

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)
5. A pack of lips is arriving Wednesday? Will that be via FedEx, UPS, or USPS?
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:12 PM
Apr 2016

I don't remember ordering a pack of lips. What does one do with a pack of lips anyway?

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
8. Well, that kills my plans for getting an oil change
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:18 PM
Apr 2016

for my car on Friday.

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staggerleem

(469 posts)
10. Thought we survived that already.
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 01:27 PM
Apr 2016

Twice, fairly recently, if I recall. One was the end of the Mayan Calendar on 12/21/2012 (coincidentally, my best friend died that day, so HIS world did end, and mine changed a great deal.) I also recall another supposed apocalypse on Memorial Day weekend in 2012 or 2013. I was at a music festival, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage played "Death & Destruction" to acknowledge it.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
17. Idiotic superstitions prove that humans ain't that bright.
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 02:00 PM
Apr 2016

We will likely be the makers of our own apocalypse, as we are destroying the only known biosphere in the universe.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
22. How many is that now?
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 03:26 PM
Apr 2016

A dozen? Two dozen? I lost track of all the times the world was supposed to end.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
26. I feel fine
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 06:23 PM
Apr 2016


Ok It DOES start with an earthquake !! Guess the Jeffs were playing that song . wait probably no music allowed

Warren Jeffs (the man they consider their prophet) told the FLDS people he will be freed from jail when an earthquake crumbles the walls of the prison.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
32. I have survived the apocalypse like 50 times now.
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 11:32 AM
Apr 2016

I am Hidden Service Charge, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.

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