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Post by deziloooooo on May 21, 2011 19:39:13 GMT -5
Has it come and gone already, a little confused. I was atching the ball game, Marlins and Tampa, a few minutws before six, they said back in a minute for a station break, maybe...and then after five minutes , they were back, lots of crying, "phews, we made it man, that was close " before they got back on track for the game..Marlins won by the way.
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Post by billisonboard on May 21, 2011 20:29:31 GMT -5
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Post by billisonboard on May 21, 2011 20:36:35 GMT -5
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Post by lakhota on May 21, 2011 20:43:48 GMT -5
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Post by lakhota on May 21, 2011 20:46:08 GMT -5
If the end of the world is not on May 21, what will Camping’s followers do?While followers of Harold Camping and Family Radio prepare for the a giant quake that will signal the beginning of the end of the world, nonbelievers are preparing for what will happen to followers when the Rapture doesn’t come. Suicide prevention hotlines have been set up because experts fear despondent followers who are depressed that the expected event did not appear on May 21. Suicides after failed predictions have before. When Camping made a false Rapture prediction in 1994, a man committed suicide in New Jersey. When the world didn’t end in 1997 as Heaven’s Gate thought it would, 39 members of the cult took their lives. Other followers may face financial woes. The New York Times reported that some Family Radio adherents have stopped making their house payments or saving up for their children to go to college. Again, there is a precedent for this. Thousands of Millerites who thought the world would end in 1844 were left penniless after they sold or gave their posessions away because they assumed they would not be needed. Mark Vrankovich, director of the Christian group Cultwatch, whose aim is to warn people about cults, told the New Zealand Herald he worries that some followers might break off relationships when the Rapture doesn’t come. “You invest a lot of your emotional energy or put money into it. So no matter what the evidence you want to keep on believing,” he told the Herald. “The alternative is that you've wasted your time and money, you've wasted friendships and burned bridges - people don't want to face up to that.” Still others may be left pet-less. A man in Sonoma, Calif. has alarmed neighbors with the announcement that he will be euthanizing his animals before the end of the world. Gawker snidely suggested that followers might beat up Harold Camping when they realize May 21 isn’t the Rapture, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Head of the Millerite movement William Miller was publicly taunted and nearly assaulted for his mistake. But if Camping isn’t publicly shamed, there’s always another option — Presidency. He’d only be following in the footsteps of earlier televangelist Pat Robertson, who was so unfazed about his failed prediction for the world to end in 1982 that he ran for President just six years later. That kind of ploy, however, would likely do little to help assauge the disappointment and shame Camping’s followers will feel if the Rapture does not come this Saturday. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/if-the-end-of-the-world-is-not-on-may-21-what-will-campings-followers-do/2011/05/20/AFWPfz7G_blog.html
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Post by Tennesseer on May 21, 2011 21:16:40 GMT -5
"Rapture in Studio City, CA is scarier than Blair Witch Project. It will take your breath away."Time Magazine "Two thumbs up"Roger Ebert "An extraordinarily effective horror film"Chicago Sun Times "Los efectos especiales están fuera de este mundo. Felicidades Helm Brian"Guillermo del Toro (Director of Pan's Labrynth)
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Post by handyman2 on May 21, 2011 21:23:43 GMT -5
Well I am still here so I guess I was not one of the chosen. I wonder why not. I give to charity, don't beat my wife and am good to my neighbors. Oh wait a minute the chair I am sitting in is starting to levetate. See yall in the here after.
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Post by lakhota on May 22, 2011 18:20:13 GMT -5
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Post by domeasingold on May 22, 2011 18:44:52 GMT -5
Since we are all still here. Does that mean none of was chosen. Maybe just the Tibeten Monks were and we are just waiting for all the shit to start.
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Post by lakhota on May 22, 2011 18:53:33 GMT -5
The Rapture: Funniest Tweets and PhotosIt was the rapture that wasn't, except virally. From hedonists indulging in pre-judgment day pursuits to post-rapture survivors finding heaven on earth, The Daily Beast combs the web for the amusing photos and commentary about the day the world was supposed to end. "If u waiting for your man to come back last night and he still not home do you think he joined the rapture or he over someone else house"More: www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-22/funniest-rapture-tweets-jokes-and-photos/?cid=hp:mainpromo6
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Post by lakhota on May 22, 2011 21:21:14 GMT -5
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Post by lakhota on May 23, 2011 17:38:41 GMT -5
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Post by lakhota on May 23, 2011 17:39:50 GMT -5
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Post by thyme4change on May 23, 2011 18:02:12 GMT -5
The 2012 date has been out there for a long time, but doesn't have as much of a religious bent to it, so I wonder if it will be as much fun as this one was.
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Post by ed1066 on May 23, 2011 18:40:53 GMT -5
The 2012 date has been out there for a long time, but doesn't have as much of a religious bent to it, so I wonder if it will be as much fun as this one was. You think liberals are going to bash Mayans (aka "brown people") the way they gleefully bash Christians? I don't think so...
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Post by thyme4change on May 23, 2011 18:49:49 GMT -5
Probably not - but can't we just bash all the nut-cases that believe this stuff, year after year?
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Post by Value Buy on May 24, 2011 8:07:09 GMT -5
Joplin Missouri might have thought the Rapture was here on Saturday. Right about 6 pm local time. Heck, at 6 pm local time, that same storm hit our area, and the wind and rain was a whopper. Made you kind of a believer for a few minutes.
Or.........at least made you question the situation.
The USA has already scored big time on the number of tornadoes produced this year. Looks like a new all time record will be hit. And now......we have the hurricane season fast approaching. Throw in a few major earthquakes around the world, and volcanos, spewing forth, who knows? This is kind of how I see the end coming for the Earth. Similar to Superman's home planet Kripton. Mess with the Earth, and bad karma starts our way. Oh my God! I'm an environmentalist. The end of Days is coming!
If the Japanese earthquake could move the island six feet, and slightly change the Earth's axis, here is where God's plan will come from.
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Post by mmhmm on May 24, 2011 9:06:39 GMT -5
Heh. I was making rounds in the hospital last night. Rounding on third floor, where Med/Surg and Orthopaedics are located, I didn't see a soul at the nurse's station (They were all in rooms, caring for patients). Both floors were dead quiet. I got the giggles thinking about the Rapture, so I went into the ICU. I figured if everyone had been raptured, the ICU nurses would still be there! ;D
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Post by wyouser on May 24, 2011 10:10:19 GMT -5
Breath easy folks. The preacher says youve got until October...his math was wrong......See Yahoo.com Ap report May 24 2011. (although if you quit you jab and gave everything away...5 months could be a kind of long time
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Post by mmhmm on May 24, 2011 10:36:24 GMT -5
Oh, for Pete's sake! Don't tell me this poor, deluded soul has come up with another date, wyouser!
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Post by wyouser on May 24, 2011 10:50:57 GMT -5
I wonder if he could have used some "no child left behind" concerning his math skills when he was young?
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Post by wyouser on May 24, 2011 10:54:20 GMT -5
I suppose, Lakota, you will need to amend your thread to October 21, 2011??? Maybe if this gets fiddled with enough it will coincide with the December 2012 date??
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2011 11:30:57 GMT -5
My observations from reading this thread: If self-important pompous asshats with a superiority complex think they are a lock to be "Raptured", then most normal folks shouldn't worry about a thing!
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Post by lakhota on May 24, 2011 17:49:04 GMT -5
Harold Camping Calls May 21 An 'Invisible Judgment Day,' Says October 21 Is Real End-Of-World DateTo casual viewers, Harold Camping is a two-time loser when it comes to rapture predictions. However, the 89-year-old evangelist who claimed that the world was going to end this past Saturday, only to have his predicted rapture turn out to be a lot less apocalyptic than advertised (save for for one volcano burst in Iceland that was hardly rapture-like). Now Camping has gone from preaching the word of God and is now using semantics, according to the Washington Post. In a special broadcast Monday night on his radio program "Open Forum" that the rapture he predicted was “an invisible judgment day“ that he has come to understand as a spiritual, rather than physical event. “We had all of our dates correct,” Camping insisted, clarifying that he now understands that Christ’s May 21 arrival was “a spiritual coming” ushering in the last five months before the final judgment and destruction. During the 90-minute broadcast, Camping walked listeners through his numerological timeline, insisting that his teaching has not changed and that the world will still end on October 21, 2011. “It wont be spiritual on October 21st,” Camping said, adding, “the world is going to be destroyed all together, but it will be very quick." weirdnews.aol.com/2011/05/23/harold-camping-says-october-21-real-end-of-world_n_865978.html
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Post by thyme4change on May 24, 2011 17:52:17 GMT -5
Darn. I thought we were going to move back to making fun of the 2012 whack-nuts, but we have to stick with this guy's story for another 5 months? Hopefully he will die soon and this will be his last prediction.
P.S. Christians - now that you have already been judged, and so have the rest of us - you can back off trying to convert us. Our names already are not listed in the book. You might want to try having a little fun too.
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Post by lakhota on May 24, 2011 19:00:36 GMT -5
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