Boris Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Are you relieved or disappointed? Doomsday came and went without a peep, as May 21 failed to bring about earthquakes, a rapture or the mass excavation of all the world's dead :)The rumour that May 21 would kick off the end of the world was started and propagated by Harold Camping, the president of the Oakland, California based Christian radio broadcasting network Family Radio. Camping, who also made a failed doomsday prediction in 1994, had claimed that his mathematical interpretation of the Bible pointed to May 21 as the day of the rapture. Earthquakes were supposed to shake the globe, throwing the dead from their graves as believers' souls ascended to heaven. Five months later, on Oct. 21, 2011, the universe is supposed to end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 It's all very well Harold Camping believing his prediction but how is it the many thousands of others, worldwide, also trusted his garbling? Never underestimate the gullibility of your fellow man.I recall an episode of The Simpson's that had a very close resemblance to this silliness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Not the first time he's done it either. He sounds the sort of guy who'll start all over again, claim he's worked out what he did wrong with his latest set of calculations then come up with a new date and in the land of the free he'll find a flock. Probably sincere but very very odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Not the first time he's done it either. He sounds the sort of guy who'll start all over again, claim he's worked out what he did wrong with his latest set of calculations then come up with a new date and in the land of the free he'll find a flock - - - - - just as Homer Simpson did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Harold Camping, the president of the Oakland, California based Christian radio broadcasting network Family Radio. That about says it all for me. He's probably been watching too many Zombie films the US put out over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Religious mumbo jumbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Earthquakes were supposed to shake the globe, throwing the dead from their graves as believers' souls ascended to heaven.Well, if it's any consolation to Mr. Camping, there was a faint shaking here in Japan on Saturday. Unfortunately I didn't know then that the world was supposed to end on that day. (I found out later in the evening, when I had dinner with one of my American friends. [Not a believer.]) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 See also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13489641See also http://www.ranker.com/list/the-12-greatest-end-of-the-world-prophecy-fails/ivana-wynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 claim he's worked out what he did wrong with his latest set of calculations then come up with a new dateGuess what I was right, 21st October which is just in time to save me buying my brother a birthday present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 That about says it all for me. He's probably been watching too many Zombie films the US put out over there.I am so sick of zombies, vampires, and wolfmen I could puke.Good call, Gandalph. He belongs in the loony bin along with everyone who quit their job to follow his madness.-pops- watches The Simpsons? I knew you had good qualities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 The latest:/>http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110613/ts_atlantic/haroldcampingsuffersstroke38757_1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 -pops- watches The Simpsons? I knew you had good qualities.I'm a big fan. I have all Simpsons episodes on DVD and have a "fix" almost every day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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