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Reminder: World to end this Saturday

stevew

stevew

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i bought a shiny hammer and a lot of nails.....no one to crucify.
 
Fool

Fool

The Thing cannot be described
Sep 10, 2001
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****. Anyone know how to kick heroin and get rid of the clap? Preferably before the missus gets home in an hour. Thx.
 
JohnE

JohnE

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May 13, 2005
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Front Range, dude...
It really is too bad it didnt happen. We prolly would have lost abunch of idiots, and could go about our business in relative peace and prosperity...
 
Silver

Silver

find me a tampon
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JohnE said:
It really is too bad it didnt happen. We prolly would have lost abunch of idiots, and could go about our business in relative peace and prosperity...
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Ironically, if the rapture had happened, I'm 100% sure (ignoring the whole fairytale aspect of the underlying premise) that anyone expecting to get raptured would not have been.
 
KavuRider

KavuRider

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Jan 30, 2006
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Apparently this was the practice rapture:

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

Wow...
 
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$tinkle

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
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Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed,
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has anyone mulled over the logistics of this? it would be far more daunting than coachella times HFstival to the promise keepers power.

the porta pottie lines could on -- literally -- forever
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

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Nov 10, 2005
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haha what a maroon

When the world didn't end on May 21, many people who had given up their earthly possessions were left with nothing.
But one believer never lived to see the day. She left nearly her entire estate -- around $300,000 -- to the group behind the failed prediction, leaving some family members out in the cold.

Eileen Heuwetter was shocked to find out that her aunt left the majority of her estate to Family Radio, the group responsible for the doomsday warnings that the world would end on May 21. She and her sister were each left $25,000 from their aunt's estate. The rest is going to Family Radio.
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http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/01/pf/doomsday_inheritance_donations/index.htm?iid=HP_Highlight&hpt=hp_c1
 
sanjuro

sanjuro

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I think Camping is the genius.

If the Rapture did happen, he'd be on the first boat to heaven. When it didn't happen, he struck gold.
 
Pesqueeb

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
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Riding past the morgue.
The faith of Camping's most ardent followers was not swayed by the recent news.

According to Fred Store, a longtime Family Radio listener, the general belief is "Judgment Day did in fact occur on May 21."
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Damn, that is a powerful amount of the dumb.
 
Pesqueeb

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
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Riding past the morgue.
In other news: World still here.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A California preacher who foresaw the world's end last year is acknowledging for the first time that his apocalyptic prophecy was wrong.

In a missive posted on his independent ministry's site on Thursday, 90-year-old Harold Camping says he has no evidence the end of the world will come anytime soon. The preacher also says he isn't interested in considering future dates.

Camping's Family Radio International spent millions of dollars in the last few years putting up thousands of billboards plastered with the Judgment Day message.

After global cataclysm didn't occur on May 21 as he had forecast, Camping revised his prophecy, saying he had been off by five months.

He was later hospitalized after suffering a mild stroke.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/harold-camping-admits-hes-wrong_n_1335232.html?ref=end-of-the-world
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