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End of Days Coming on May 21st

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by rocketsjudoka, Jan 3, 2011.

  1. ima_drummer2k

    ima_drummer2k Member

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    Immediately after the Texans make the playoffs.

    So we're basically safe.
     
  2. justtxyank

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    I think this actually was the third time.
     
  3. Rashmon

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    "Who so shall endeavor to locate lawn furniture on the day of rapture shall seek leroy, lord of the lawnchair."

    The Book of Leroy 3:13

    Thank you leroy.
     
  4. Yung-T

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    Some clowns said it's comin October 21st now, really creative.
    If your previous calculation doesn't work, just skip half a year.
     
  5. Qball

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    According to wiki, his first prediction was for 09/05/94. 05/21/11 was his 2nd prediction.
     
  6. Cannonball

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    That was the other part of Camping's prediction. Rapture on May 21, actual end of the world on October 21.
     
  7. justtxyank

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    I thought I heard he predicted for 92, 94 and now 11.
     
  8. GlenRice

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    The guy is now saying the rapture is in October 21st
     
  9. Surfguy

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    He should line up for a beating on October 22nd.

    Place in line will be determined by wristband lottery. One punch or slap a person.
     
  10. rocketsjudoka

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    How can anyone still believe this guy? :confused:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43140373/?gt1=43001

    Radio host now says Judgment Day coming in October
    Camping says he took refuge in a motel when his May 21 prediction didn't come true

    OAKLAND, Calif. — California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on Oct. 21.

    Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed, said he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions — some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.

    But Camping said that he's now realized the apocalypse will come five months after May 21, the original date he predicted. He had earlier said Oct. 21 was when the globe would be consumed by a fireball.

    Saturday was "an invisible judgment day" in which a spiritual judgment took place, he said. But the timing and the structure is the same as it has always been, he said.

    "We've always said May 21 was the day, but we didn't understand altogether the spiritual meaning," he said. "May 21 is the day that Christ came and put the world under judgment."

    It's not the first time the independent Christian radio host has been forced to explain when his prediction didn't come to pass. He also predicted the Apocalypse would come in 1994, but said it didn't happen then because of a mathematical error.

    Rather than give his normal daily broadcast on Monday, Camping made a special statement before the press at the Oakland headquarters of the media empire that has broadcast his message. His show, "Open Forum," has for months headlined his doomsday message via the group's radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website.

    When the Rapture didn't arrive Saturday, crestfallen followers began turning their attention to more earthly concerns.

    Jeff Hopkins had figured the gas money he spent driving back and forth from Long Island to New York City would be worth it, as long as people could see the ominous sign atop his car warning that the End of the World was nigh.

    "I've been mocked and scoffed and cursed at and I've been through a lot with this lighted sign on top of my car," said Hopkins, 52, a former television producer who lives in Great River, NY. "I was doing what I've been instructed to do through the Bible, but now I've been stymied. It's like getting slapped in the face."

    Camping said Family Radio would never tell anyone what they should do with their possessions.

    "That is between them and God," he said.

    But he said he wouldn't give away all his possessions ahead of Oct 21.

    "I still have to live in a house, I still have to drive a car," he said. "What would be the value of that? If it is Judgment Day why would I give it away?"

    Apocalyptic thinking has always been part of American religious life and popular culture. Teachings about the end of the world vary dramatically — even within faith traditions — about how they will occur.

    Still, the overwhelming majority of Christians reject the idea that the exact date or time of Jesus' return can be predicted.

    Tim LaHaye, co-author of the best-selling "Left Behind" novels about the end times, recently called Camping's prediction "not only bizarre but 100 percent wrong!" He cited the Bible verse Matthew 24:36, "but about that day or hour no one knows" except God.

    "While it may be in the near future, many signs of our times certainly indicate so, but anyone who thinks they 'know' the day and the hour is flat out wrong," LaHaye wrote on his website, leftbehind.com.

    In 2009, the nonprofit Family Radio reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million, including $34 million in stocks or other publicly traded securities.
     
  11. Carl Herrera

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    How come Camping and his group didn't give away all their worldly possessions in anticipation of the May 21 rapture?
     
  12. MadMax

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    Dear Press and American Public:

    Please stop giving this guy the attention he craves.

    Hugs & Kisses,

    MadMax
     
  13. DaDakota

    DaDakota Balance wins
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    Hmmmm, I think it is more prudent to continue to expose and laugh at people like him to show the world what a joke these people are, thus saving more folks from the lunacy of the next so called prophet..........

    DD
     
  14. ima_drummer2k

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    I'm just glad we get to see some football before we all BURN IN HELL. Assuming the lockout is over.
     
  15. MadMax

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    fair point. i'm just tired of hearing about him.
     
  16. rocketsjudoka

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    In the article I posted he said doing so would be of no value.
     
  17. BetterThanEver

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    October 21st has come and gone. Did Harold Camping reschedule it again?
     
  18. rocketsjudoka

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    I saw a brief mention of him on a local news station yesterday morning but other that haven't heard a thing. He probably rescheduled but nobody paid any attention.
     
  19. Buck Turgidson

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    This is a quality album title.
     
  20. CometsWin

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    I always survive the rapture. Damn I'm good.
     

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