According to Christian radio broadcaster, Harold Camping, true Christians will be taken up into Heaven tomorrow.
Great quote...
Chris McCann of eBible Fellowship, one of the groups helping to spread the message, said it had been publicised in almost every country.
"The only countries I don't feel too good about are the "stans" - you know, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, those countries in Central Asia,"
[url]BBC News - 'Rapture' apocalypse prediction sparks atheist reaction[/url]
Assuming that it's not the beginning of the end tomorrow (final destruction of the Earth is on October, 21st apparently) and we all, including Mr. Camping, make it to Sunday, I'd be very interested to know what he'd have to say about it.
I'm quite surprised at your scepticism, Barafundle.
According to Christian radio broadcaster, Harold Camping, true Christians will be taken up into Heaven tomorrow.
He appears to be correct, except that his date is pretty late. If I peak into my local churches, they appear to be empty already...
The message has me worried nevertheless. What can I do to warn my cousin, Stan? :confused:
Haven't followed the link, but I guess we can know what nation this comes out of, huh? (sigh)
V
:rollaugh::rollaugh: or should it be 😮 !
I'll wait and see! Tomorrow will be here soon enough.
Didn't Jesus say that we know no the hour.....?
The same guy predicted the rapture to happen in 1994 too, but later blamed a mathimatical error when nothing happened:rolleyes:
On a serious note I do worry about the people that follow him, I've heard some have 'donated' money to help with the 'end times' get the word out campaign...they're gonna feel a bit gutted when...sorry IF JC hasn't popped by
btw...will it bw 6pm USA time? what time will it be here?? xx
I'm working this weekend, so will miss it all!
(AJ - 6pm Eastern Standard Time, Central Time or Mountain Time or Pacific Time? 5hours from EST to UK - then add an hour for the others consecutively - and also, does this have to include Daylight Saving?????)
(AJ - 6pm Eastern Standard Time, Central Time or Mountain Time or Pacific Time? 5hours from EST to UK - then add an hour for the others consecutively - and also, does this have to include Daylight Saving?????)
I haven't read of any particular time for kick off. Mr. Camping wants to follow events as they unfold...
Mr Camping... says he knows "without any shadow of a doubt" that "judgement day" is arriving. He says he will spend Saturday with his wife, close to a TV or radio.
"I'll be interested in what's happening on the other side of the world as this begins," he told Reuters.
There is no "Plan B", he says.
I've got a feeling that 'plan B' might include discovering another mathematical error (assuming [and hoping] that plan A not working out!).
I did think it would be funny if someone pointed out to him that all the members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea had suddenly disappeared.
Thanks for the warning Barafundle! :speechless-smiley-0
I just told my husband and he said laconically, "So tomorrow's the day I lose you is it?" Off topic, but he's reading a philosophy book (which co-incidentally talks about the Rapture and Armaggedon and he just got there today) Anyway, he said to me this morning, "Do you have a book with the 10 Commandments in it?" "How about the Bible, Exodus 20" I replied. Bless him.
Well ,see y'all! (I'm sure!)
Judy
Anyway, he said to me this morning, "Do you have a book with the 10 Commandments in it?"
Oh, thanks, Judy. It's all in that book is it? :p
You saved me some bother. I needed to know them too for research; the local librarian wasn't helpful so I was thinking of Google. 😉
V
I haven't read of any particular time for kick off. Mr. Camping wants to follow events as they unfold...
Mr Camping... says he knows "without any shadow of a doubt" that "judgement day" is arriving. He says he will spend Saturday with his wife, close to a TV or radio.
"I'll be interested in what's happening on the other side of the world as this begins," he told Reuters.
There is no "Plan B", he says.
I assume he has no plans to be going to heaven himself then? Not a true Christian by his own definition on that account. I guess that's what happens to him if he can't free himself of those racial prejudices against other countries.
Oh, and I'm still here. So I guess that's conclusive proof that I'm not a true christian. Never thought I was anyway. 😉
All Love and Reiki Hugs
Well I never!!! We are still here. It must be a dream!
Well I never!!! We are still here. It must be a dream!
There's still nearly 14 and a half hours of the day left yet jnani. 😉
The world can't blow up today, I have a client at 11am!
RP 😉
The world can't blow up today, I have a client at 11am!
RP 😉
Don't worry, according to a story in todays DM it's not till 6pm local time where ever you live [url]Judgment Day 'Rapture Parties' planned as evangelist Harold Camping predicts huge earthquake Bloomberg alternate side parking Knicks championship prediction | Mail Online[/url]
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I have an accupuncture appointment at 5.30 so at l wIll be chilled out at 6pm:)
Well, it's nearly half past 7pm in eastern Australia, and - surprise, surprise... nothing. So something tells me nothing's going to happen to the rest of the world either. 😀
This article in [url]The Christian Science Monitor [/url] is the only one I've found so far that details exactly how the good Mr Camping calculated his date. Have a read:
Camping says that because Jesus was crucified on Friday, April 1, 33 AD, and that it takes exactly 365.2422 days for the earth to complete one orbit of the sun, we can conclude that, on April 1, 2011, Jesus was crucified exactly 722,449.07 days ago. Add 51 days to this to get to May 21, and you get a figure of 722,500.07.
Round that down to the nearest integer, and you get 722,500, which is an important number because it is the square of 5 x 17 x 10 . The number five, says Camping, represents atonement. Ten represents completeness, and 17 represents heaven. Multiply all these together – twice – and you get 722,500. Therefore the apocalypse kicks off on Saturday, May 21.
Skeptics of Camping's method might ask why the date of the end of the world is linked to that of Jesus' crucifixion, why the numbers five, 10, and 17 represent what Camping claims they represent, why they should be multiplied together, why they should then be squared, and, for that matter, why the Bible would contain esoteric numerological references predicting the end of the world in the first place. They could also point out that April 1, 33 AD was actually a Wednesday, and that, under Camping's method, April 1, 2011 gets counted twice.
Oh dear... :rolleyes:
I'm just wondering what all his followers (apparently thousands of them worldwide) are going to do now that their doomsday prophecy has so spectacularly failed. Let's hope they might find something more constructive to do with their lives - since it turns out they go on after all.
Maybe Mr. Camping has gone. His website has.
It has been such a laugh! some people inadvertantly lift up spirit(even if their intentions were slightly different!) I am left here chuckling reading through this thead. Vey funny!
I bet the whole world is laughing, so this guy has scored a few points on that account...
5 minutes and counting....
By genuine coincidence, I'm just looking at HP now and it's - about 2 minutes to go (here). But of course, the prediction obviously failed as other time-zones have already gone through it. (Not that I expected it I hasten to add!)
It reminds me of, if anyone remembers, Benjamin Creme who's followers paid for whole-page ads all over the world in major papers such as The Times. Actually, not to predict the end of the world, but that Maitreya the Christ would take over all TV sets and speak to everyone in their own language.
That was mid or late 1980s. Mid I think. The event interested me as Creme had been saying it would happen one day since I encountered him myself in 1977. I didn't think he'd ever make the leap and give a date. He did!
Of course, there's always an "out". I think Creme said when the day came and went that "humanity wasn't ready". So the blame was on us - and funny that only the week before we were deamed ready and it was all going to happen!
Oh here we go. [url]Benjamin Creme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] It was 1982. And I see Creme "went for it" again in 1997.
V
I've been telling rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow.
I've been telling rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow.
Literally?!!
my kids told me yesterday the world was going to end tomorrow, I said to them lets see what tomorrow brings
Nearly 11pm ... Still here! ... no earthquakes ... Calculations wrong ... again???
I hope no-one's too disappointed... 😉
Charis
Isn't 21st The Rapture where Jesus saves all the Xians and then Armageddon is in October? Either way, it's after 11pm now so I'm hoping that Tesco is open late tomorrow if all the Xians have gone! 😀
Isn't 21st The Rapture where Jesus saves all the Xians and then Armageddon is in October? Either way, it's after 11pm now so I'm hoping that Tesco is open late tomorrow if all the Xians have gone! 😀
Ah well, I'm a Christian, as are many of my friends, and we're all still here (it's Sunday morning in Australia)... What I find sad is - most Christians, as far as I know, don't put any trust in these kinds of crazy doomsday predictions, and yet people like Camping make out that they are the only true followers of Christ. His fearmongering isn't any more Christianity than bin Laden's ideology was Islam. And the kind of deity his ideas portray - wrathful, vengeful, hating, mercilessly destroying all but a "chosen" few... sounds much more like a projection of human fear and hatred and insecurity than anything divine. It's certainly not what I worship.
All love, Charis
I think we can all see, though, that there's a real seriousness behind the fact that people the world around still take religion as a framework, and make a mockery of it like this which the media loves to latch onto. Never mind the media, though, I mean it's serious that so many people are still so divorced from true spirituality so as to, first of all, make such ludicrous ego-based pronouncements, but even more so that there are always willing followers.
I think it's absolutely the right response to laugh and make jokes. Absolutely, as a starting point. Yet I think it's our healthy way of saying "Nay!" to ludicrous and non-spiritual uses of religion wherever they occur - including all such misuses of Christianity, over-zealous and non-Quranical Islam, and etc, etc.
Start with a healthy laugh, but the problem humanity is facing in these things is that so many people still have no connection to spiritual Reality at all.
V
Start with a healthy laugh, but the problem humanity is facing in these things is that so many people still have no connection to spiritual Reality at all.
I would say they do have, really (otherwise they wouldn't exist in the first place!)... they're just completely unaware of it. No-one who's caught even a glimpse of the Divine - whatever way they may conceptualise it - could believe for a moment that God would do what those failed doomsayers predicted.
I think it's inevitable that we all will finally come to understand spiritual Reality - whether in this phase of existence or beyond it - since it's all that truly exists. It's just saddening sometimes to see the extremes to which fanaticism can (mis)lead people in the opposite direction.
In the meantime, for another laugh, I've just found this helpful piece: [DLMURL="http://newyork.ibtimes.com/articles/149639/20110521/rapture-doomsday-guide.htm"]What to Do When the Rapture Doesn't Happen: A Guide for Believers[/DLMURL]
Oh well, I guess my poor students still have their Reflexology exam today then!