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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:21 PM
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Tonight We’re Gonna Party Like It’s May 21, 2011
Hey, remember Harold Camping, the dottering old fool who claimed that the rapture would take place on May 21? Well he postponed it by six months after it failed to happen, which means this Friday is, once again, the end of the world.

“Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period,” Camping said on his Web site, Family Radio. “On that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21.”

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See, this time it’s “official.” Last time it wasn’t. It all makes perfect sense, right? I can’t wait until Saturday, when this one turns out to be false too. And just like before, his followers will be confused — as if they aren’t already — but they will continue to find ways to rationalize that failure just as they have his failures in the past. Now if they actually believed in the Bible, of course, they would stone him to death. That’s what the Bible commands for false prophets. But I bet they’ll just keep sending him money.

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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:25 PM
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1. thanks for clearing that up
really hard to keep all of my Rapture dates straight these days


but if this time proves to be a dud.....well, then, .....there will be an angry letter to the Times!
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:27 PM
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2. Aw hell, I think we should celebrate these EOW days anually
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Rambis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:28 PM
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3. It even has it's own sound track
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jeepnstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:40 PM
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4. Being an old-school prophet was a tough business.
One wrong answer and all your previous work went out with the trash and you got the rock pile. Much of the Old Testament's justice is really pretty severe to me but I'm not so sure about this one.
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:42 PM
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5. NPR did a story on Camping yesterday. He sounds really terrible after his last stroke.
His prediction could come true for himself. Donations to his organization have trickled off since his May 21st mistake. The bastard feels not remorse for the suckers who gave him their life savings, quit jobs, and sold houses.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 01:01 PM
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6. I vote for the stoning.
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 01:15 PM
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7. I will be participating in some stoning of my own...
:smoke:
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 01:18 PM
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8. Yeah, that's probably a more realistic choice!
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