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Newsflash: The world will end on Friday night.
Who is Harold Camping?
This shocking prediction comes from US Christian broadcaster Harold Camping, the same man who said the world would end on May 21 - and also on September 6, 1994.
We're still here, he believes, because on May 21 only God's true believers were "withheld" while the rest of us were left to be under "final judgment" for the next five months.
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In a rambling explanation posted on the website for the 90-year-old's California-based radio station, Family Radio, he said earthquakes were known to be an important sign of impending Judgment Day.
And in fact - try and keep up here - May 21 itself was a kind of earthquake of mankind, he said.
"All of mankind was shaken with fear. Indeed the earth [or mankind] did quake in a way it had never before been shaken," Mr Camping wrote.
"God had come spiritually to bring judgment upon the whole world."
He went on to write that "universal judgment" would not be physically felt until the end of the five-month judgment period, which is October 21.
"Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved [the elect], are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period.
"On that day the true believers [the elect] will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21.
"You, too, without your knowledge may have become saved before that date. Anyone can continue to beseech God for mercy because salvation and the election program are entirely in God's hands."
Get it? Neither do some of his fellow Christians.
Glenn Lee Hill, a retired pastor from North Carolina, has rejected Mr Camping's latest predictions.
"That is an erroneous prophecy, I don't believe the world is about to end. Jesus has provided the choice for people to live forever," Mr Hill told The Christian Post.
"The late night comics tend to make fun of Christians anyway and when this happens it gives them an opportunity to mock us."
When Mr Camping made the prediction in May, groups of followers quit their jobs and gave up their retirement funds to spread the word about the apocalypse.
Groups of followers still believe in him, with some continuing to spread the message in neon RVs, according to The Daily.
Just months ago, after suffering a stroke, Mr Camping appeared unsure about his predictions.
"I really am beginning to think as I restudied these matters that there's going to be no big display of any kind,” he said in an audio address quoted by The Washington Post.
"The end is going to come very, very quietly."
He's basing his prediction on the existence of earthquakes?
That's a pretty shaky foundation to argue from.
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There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
Groups of followers still believe in him, with some continuing to spread the message in neon RVs, according to The Daily.
Because they'd hate to give God an easy target.
Also, with this earthquake = incoming judgement theory, Camping is planning to rock the foundations of Theology.
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There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
I should create a doomsday calender, in which time is told through false predictions of the end of the world.
There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
n0t_u wrote:But would the world end when the calender runs out of dates or spiral on forever?
Oh, we just cut it off partway to screw with people thousands of years later.
/Mayantrolling
There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
If I were the Big Cheese I would be a tad miffed at nutters claiming in my name what I am suppoosed to be doing and when.
I would therefore rapture them to a sub-way station to wait on a very crowded platform for the tube train to Paradise. The train would eternally be just one minute away.
The rest of humanity can carry on happily buggering things up as per.
HBMC technically it is a fallacy not a myth
The word has been mythappropriated imho
Lots of people want rapture to happen so that they don't have to die.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
2011/10/17 10:34:11
Subject: Re:So apparently the world ends on Friday.
Personally I'd play "Never Gonna Stop Me" by Rob Zombie, but taht's probably because he's likely the kind of person who considers heavy metal to be the domain of the antichrist.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
Oh this guy failed back in 1989 as well, so I would not worry about what he says.,
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
Excellent. I don't have anything planned. I'll pencil it in.
*get gas, get milk, world ends.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
shasolenzabi wrote:Oh this guy failed back in 1989 as well, so I would not worry about what he says.,
I thought this guy failed 3 months ago or something like that?
He did and realised people where pissed so he said that there was a judgmental waiting time for humanity, basically he made up an excuse for destroying peoples lives.
The biggest indicator someone is a loser is them complaining about 3d printers or piracy.
