# So what happens on Sunday, May 22, 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562 "2011-05-20T13:21:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/21 "2011-05-21T13:42:50Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > Does the Apocalypse observe DST? What about India’s weird half-hour time zone? And will it take place at the same time everywhere in China? No offense, young lady, but you’re in [_ **WAY OVER YOUR HEAD!** _](http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/db/2011/05/20/) 😉 _ **- Jack** _ ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/22 "2011-05-21T14:07:13Z")
It’s Sunday 22 May where I am. I’m just chilling out after my shift. Same as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/23 "2011-05-21T14:12:35Z")
Is anybody keeping an eye on Camping to see what happens to _him_ at the appointed time? If not, I’m guessing he is going to try to pull a disappearing act to keep the true believers wondering. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/24 "2011-05-21T14:19:43Z")
FREE CARS for all us heathens! ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/25 "2011-05-21T15:54:25Z")
> [@Trans Fat Og](#): > > The third is too insist that \*\*the date was right \*\*and that **it did happen**. If you are a skeptic, that just shows how blind you are, and woe unto you. If that were true, and there were still believers here to insist it’s true… that doesn’t say much for their faith/worthiness in the eyes of God, does it? 😃 (Of course there are probably people who _will_ insist, without realizing what that actually says about themselves.) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/26 "2011-05-21T20:55:55Z")
Well, it is now 6:20 in Newfoundland and I haven’t heard a word about their travails. There was a really sad story in yesterday’s NY Times about a family of five in which the parents had stopped saving for the kids’ college (two of them were twins who looked about ready to go off to college), the mother had quit her job (although the father hadn’t) and the kids didn’t believe a word of the prediction, but they were going to be screwed. Will human folly never end? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/27 "2011-05-21T21:00:53Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > How do you determine a real Christian, is it the same definition as that of Harold Camping? Certainly not. Camping seems to think HE knows when civilization ends. Bible says no man will know the date. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/28 "2011-05-21T22:01:57Z")
Look up Leon Festinger and his observations of such groups, along with the psychological phenomenon of cognitive dissonance. Harold Camping DOES NOT represent anything close to mainstream Christianity, and there are several hundred million of us who would like to have a word with him and other Parousiacs about what they are doing to the religion. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/29 "2011-05-22T00:27:36Z")
> [@Vlad\_Igor](#): > > Look up Leon Festinger and his observations of such groups, along with the psychological phenomenon of cognitive dissonance. Harold Camping DOES NOT represent anything close to mainstream Christianity, and there are several hundred million of us who would like to have a word with him and other Parousiacs about what they are doing to the religion. What THEY’RE doing to the religion? I’m not a Christian, but I honestly don’t see how promoting that the rapture was going to happen today is one iota less believable than any supernatural proposal so-called mainstream Christianity espouses. Heck, many Christians DO believe there will be a last judgment on Earth; an actual, conveniently unknowable, moment, after the supernaturally-initiated horrific event called Armageddon, when the god of the Abrahamic bible will judge the worth of every human being. Yeah, that’s much less crazy than proposing the exact same thing with a date. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/30 "2011-05-22T14:05:58Z")
Well I’VE got to go to work. So there’s that. I suppose that could count as tribulation. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/31 "2011-05-22T16:19:39Z")
Anyone seen any news coverage or interviews with these people today? Any links? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/32 "2011-05-22T16:26:34Z")
They had Camping (or maybe one of his minions, I don’t recall) on the radio last week and the hosts were trying to get him to commit to a Monday phone call if the world didn’t end. He kept trying to demur at first (“Oh, but it will end…”) and they kept trying to pin him to saying he’d come back if it didn’t. Finally he gave some excuse like “Saying I’d come back would show a lack of faith in God so I won’t do it”. I’m assuming he won’t be calling in on Monday. ---
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/33 "2011-05-24T10:26:26Z")
> **[Rapture 2011 - Harold Camping - October 21](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/third-times-a-charm-harold-camping-says-rapture-definitely-happening-on-october-21/)** > > We are currently two days into the coming End of the World, and with no significant increase in death and destruction, professional Rapture prognosticator Harold Camping has some explaining to do. But no worry, he's got a foolproof excuse for why we... Here’s the update from Camping we’ve been waiting for. So don’t worry, the apocalypse is still on it’s way, only it’ll be in October.:dubious: Let the fun continue or something. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/34 "2011-05-24T15:05:06Z")
_ **This:** _ INSTALLING RAPTURE. ███████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 44% DONE. Install delayed…please wait. Installation failed. Please try again. 404 error: Rapture not found. EVENT “Rapture” cannot be located. The rapture you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. 😛 This has been posted at least twice by different people in reponses to Yahoo News items on Camping, and has probably appeared elsewhere. I don’t know what party deserves credit for it. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/35 "2011-05-24T15:18:51Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Sagan’s option 2 isn’t relevant, since none of them are praying for it not to happen, since they expect to be taken up to heaven. They are trying to convert us heathen in time… [From NPR:](http://m.npr.org/news/front/136560695?singlePage=true) _…I had profiled several believers before May 21. The day after, most didn’t answer the phone. Those who did wouldn’t talk on the record. But one man, his voice quavering, said he was still holding out hope that they were one day off. Another believer asserted that their prayers worked: God delayed judgment so that more people could be saved, but the end is “imminent.” …_ See, even if Camping doesn’t use “option 2” his crestfallen followers had to come up with _ **something** _ for self-comfort and to comfort others. I wasn’t about to argue that the second option was likely, but it did in fact materialize. And, really, that’s just sad. What Camping himself has said fits both 1 and 3. So, as a whole, the group and their fellow-travelers have gone 3 for 3. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/36 "2011-05-24T15:21:17Z")
> [@CyclopticXander](#): > > [http://www.mediaite.com/tv/third-times-a-charm-harold-camping-says-rapture-definitely-happening-on-october-21/](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/third-times-a-charm-harold-camping-says-rapture-definitely-happening-on-october-21/) > > Here’s the update from Camping we’ve been waiting for. So don’t worry, the apocalypse is still on it’s way, only it’ll be in October.:dubious: > > Let the fun continue or something. Oh, that’s all right then. It’s not like he was really _wrong_ or anything… 😛 We got together for a rapture party with cupcakes and wine. I was greatly disappointed that there was no earthquake. After all that build-up, what a let-down. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562/37 "2011-05-24T15:57:05Z")
I felt fine at the 6 o’clock TV hour, waiting to listen to Harold Camping churn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-happens-on-sunday-may-22-2011/582562.md?page=1)