Time to close this thread and start up the ‘Will the world end on Dec 21, 2012?’ one…
Well it didn’t happen, do we still need to look at THIS prediction to see what has enthralled so many people or can we just say it’s the same bunch of morons believing the same bunch of nonsense as usual.
Are you going to start threads every time you hear some crackpot idea or do you think that maybe you can at least filter out the really, really stupid predictions?
The marks were the usual morons. The main difference with this one was the astounding amount of money that went into the sales pitch.
Is there any official word yet from this guy about what went “wrong”?
Camping was apparently the only one vacuumed into heaven. His contingency plan included a late night flight to Bali . Now the donations can continue unabated.
As I said on a parallel thread, we must be kind to the Unraptured. Tell them, "Come on, don’t get depressed about it. It’s not the end of the world. "
Feel sorry! Why?
Maybe stupidity is its own punishment. I see the world didn’t end THIS time either - Camping has made this “prediction” before.
Not a peep, just like last time. Make the claims, take the fools’ money, lay low for a while, rinse and repeat.
Just because nobody we know was Raptured doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, we just might hang out with the wrong types of people.
Camping said there would be a series of catastrophic earthquakes associated with the Rapture. That’s the problem with getting too specific.
He only has to be right once. Isn’t that what Bush said?
I listened to the local radio affiliate that Camping broadcasts from – nothing but religious music and pre-recorded features. I’m betting that the radio station’s board of directors has a big (and loud) meeting tomorrow to figure out what to do.
In a way, it’s almost a shame Camping was wrong: his analysis was really so elegant! It’s sort of like string theory in advanced physics: it’s so pretty, it ought to be right!
Anyway, I will, once more, give the poor fellow a good character. He is a gentleman, at least in his on-air persona, and never engages in “hate radio” Bible analysis. Callers have tried to get him to declare Obama the anti-Christ, for instance, and he simply refuses to play that kind of game. I think he really did believe in his numerology. He apologized, openly and publicly, the last time he was wrong. He has that much grace, at least.
Trinopus
P.S. I once worked out a complex literary proof that sci-fi writer Arthur Byron Cover was really Philip Jose Farmer writing under a pseudonym. When I actually met Mr. Cover, and presented my evidence to him, he admitted that it was, in fact, quite convincing, having only the one small flaw of being incorrect!
No matter how nice he is to have a cup of tea with, Camping is a delusional moron and he deserves to be derided as a colossal idiot for his beliefs.
If he really believed his fantasies it doesn’t make the lives he ruined any better.
You’ll have to endure an annoying ad before reading much at the above link. From what little I saw it isn’t worthwhile.
He did harm to a lot of people . People were convinced to buy ads telling others about the end. They gave away their money. It was a terrible case of ego. He told everyone only he had figured it out. Fuck him.
Farmer writing under a pseudonym? As if.
What he said. This version of the rapture wasn’t something you could miss.
I don’t follow Camping, but I know a couple of people who do. One is a former hardcore fundamentalist who is now a moderate Christian, the other is a cynical subgenius type with an interest in fringe beliefs. Both say that Camping is not a deliberate conman, that he is utterly sincere in his beliefs. If he was a conman, why the specific date? it would be easier to fleece the marks with repeated promises that the rapture is coming “soon.”
Hell, I gotta give him props for being one of the few fundamentalist religious types who has made an empirically falsifiable prediction. That’s rare in his world.
Because they have made complete fools of themselves. It’s not like they were fooled by bankers selling very complex financial instruments that turned out to have fraudulent origins (i.e., credit default SWOPS, the cause of the current Great Recession). They were fooled by pie in the sky idiocy by someone who had pedaled the same thing earlier, even if it was heavily advertised. Their lives are fucked up, and the fact that they fell for something that stupid is a pretty good indicator that their lives will continue to be fucked up. They probably are not evil people. Just foolish.
This just in: Harold Camping says he “might” have made a mistake. Might. But just wait…til October! That’s when the real one happens! Then, if that doesn’t work, 2013! Or 2015! Or…any other date that you idiots will fall for, just like the last time!
(italics mine) “Might.” He leaves open the possibility that he was NOT wrong, whatever that means.
I will be all a-shiver 'til October.
He’s also claiming that God made a “silent judgment” and the saved will be taken at the sane time as the world ends.