No offense, young lady, but you’re in WAY OVER YOUR HEAD!
- Jack
It’s Sunday 22 May where I am. I’m just chilling out after my shift. Same as usual.
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.
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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.)
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?
Certainly not. Camping seems to think HE knows when civilization ends. Bible says no man will know the date.
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:
Well I’VE got to go to work. So there’s that. I suppose that could count as tribulation.
Anyone seen any news coverage or interviews with these people today? Any links?
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.
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.
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.
…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.”
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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.
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.
I felt fine at the 6 o’clock TV hour, waiting to listen to Harold Camping churn.