This guy has a lousy record of predicting the Rapture.

[stephen55]

Well, the good radio preacher Harold Camping seems to have blown it. (Harold Camping...Harold Camping...that name sounds familiar.)

That's it. Years ago he predicted the Rapture and Judgement day would occur back in Sept. 1994.

"Predicting the end of the world is a bit like alcoholism," Richardson said. "Once you get started, it's hard to stop."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/21/MNP41JJA8B.DTL

 

[JackLuis]

Well, the good radio preacher Harold Camping seems to have blown it. -

"Predicting the end of the world is a bit like alcoholism," Richardson said. "Once you get started, it's hard to stop."

Well I hope he's happy, to find himself left behind?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Have you seen pictures of the guy? He's about six months older than Santa and all dried out and scrawny-looking. No wonder he's hoping for the end of the world, he's not having any fun here, anyhow.

 

[Noor]

Well, the good radio preacher Harold Camping seems to have blown it. (Harold Camping...Harold Camping...that name sounds familiar.)

That's it. Years ago he predicted the Rapture and Judgement day would occur back in Sept. 1994.

"Predicting the end of the world is a bit like alcoholism," Richardson said. "Once you get started, it's hard to stop."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/21/MNP41JJA8B.DTL

Third time's a charm?

Although it didn't work for the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Hi Stephen!

 

[3113]

Third time's a charm?

Given that he's something like 89, I don't think he's going to get another chance at this. I think his end of the world is coming for him real soon.

 

[Saiyaman]

I think I can explain Camping's reasoning here by using a quote from a cartoon series "The life and times of Juniper Lee"

There's a family reunion going on at our herione's house and two of her great aunts, already in their late eighties, known for their never ending criping showed up. When asked by their grandniece how they are doing, the said elderly ladies reply:

"We can't complain."
"We could but who would listen?"

That's Camping's deal here, he craves attention, he shouts until somebody listens and then gathers more people around him who are also willing to listen.

 

[xssve]

Nah - now you tell me - and I went and run up a Ginourmous tab down at the neighborhood bar.

He probably just forgot to carry the 1.

 

[Saiyaman]

Let's have Frank Zappa's view on people like Camping here, 30 years old but still very much relevant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jP4jdm69U8

And if these words you do not heed
Your pocket book just kinda might recede
When some man comes along and claims a godly need
He will clean you out right through your tweed

That's right, remember there is a big difference between
kneeling down and bending over...

He's got twenty million dollars
In his Heavenly Bank Account.. .
All from those chumps who was
Born again
Oh yeah, oh yeah
He's got seven limousines
And a private plane...
All for use of his
Special Friends
Oh yeah, oh yeah
He's got thousand-dollar suits
And a Wembley Tie...
Girls love to stroke it
While he's on the phone
Oh yeah, oh yeah
At the House of Representatives
He's a groovy guy. . .
When he Gives Thanks He is not alone. . .

He is dealin'
He is really dealin' IRS can't determine
Where The Hook is
It is easy with the Bible
To pretend that
You're in Show Biz
They won't get him
They will never get him
For the naughty stuff
That he did
It is best in cases like this
To pretend that
You are stupid

He's got Presidential Help
All along the way
He says the grace
While the lawyers chew
Oh yeah
They sure do
And the Governors agree to say: "He's a lovely man!"
He makes it easier for
Them to screw
All of you...
Yes, that's true!
'Cause he helps put
The Fear of God
In the Common Man
Snatchin' up money
Everywhere he can
Oh yeah Oh yeah
He's got twenty million dollars
In his Heavenly Bank Account
You ain't got nothin', people
You ain't got nothin', people
You ain't got nothin', people
Thank the man.. .oh yeah

 

[stephen55]

Third time's a charm?

Although it didn't work for the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Hi Stephen!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg/536px-Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg
The Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus warns of the false prophets who are to come.
By Carl Heinrich Bloch, 19th c.

Given the number of false prophets over the ages, I wonder if this Jesus fellow was one of them?


Hi Noor!

 

[sr71plt]

I wonder if this Jesus fellow was one of them?

Oh, I don't think so. Although none of us know what he actually said/preached about anything, Jesus wasn't quoted as pushing any of these crazy Rapture ideas. Most everything attributed to him is universally "good" advice on how to relate to others right here in this life. He wasn't even "Christian"; he was happy to be a Jew.

The problem here is that Christianity isn't really a "Jesus" movement, it's a Paul movement. Christians mainly motor along on Pauline principles and the decisions on what/what not to include in the Bible were based on Pauline interpretations, not Jesus principles.

What this preacher is playing off ("save your souls; send me your money because you don't need it in heaven") became highlighted even later, during the Medieval period, when the concept was invoked to keep the peasants hopeful and poor and producing and no trouble.

 

[3113]

Caption Picture!

Oh, Excellent! Caption Picture Everyone!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg/536px-Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg

"Bring me a brewski! Who wants to go to heaven sober?"

 

[stephen55]

Oh, I don't think so. Although none of us know what he actually said/preached about anything, Jesus wasn't quoted as pushing any of these crazy Rapture ideas. Most everything attributed to him is universally "good" advice on how to relate to others right here in this life. He wasn't even "Christian"; he was happy to be a Jew.

The problem here is that Christianity isn't really a "Jesus" movement, it's a Paul movement. Christians mainly motor along on Pauline principles and the decisions on what/what not to include in the Bible were based on Pauline interpretations, not Jesus principles.

What this preacher is playing off ("save your souls; send me your money because you don't need it in heaven") became highlighted even later, during the Medieval period, when the concept was invoked to keep the peasants hopeful and poor and producing and no trouble.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mohandas Gandhi

So many people over history have said something along the lines of, "Your only hope of salvation (chance of everlasting life, Valhalla, Paradise, enlightenment, happiness or (insert pie in the sky dream of choice))" is to follow me that I call Humbug on all of them.

Or as Mark Twain said...

"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight."

 

[stephen55]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg/536px-Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg

To paraphrase James Joyce...

"Christianity sober is Christianity stiff. Bring me the water that I may may turn it into wine!"

 

[sr71plt]

Sorry, I don't get that steamed up about anything these days. It just rots your mind without any payoff.

I just look for the good and useful in anything and shrug at the rest and let others obsess over it--one way or the other.

 

[Noor]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg/536px-Bloch-SermonOnTheMount.jpg
The Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus warns of the false prophets who are to come.
By Carl Heinrich Bloch, 19th c.

Given the number of false prophets over the ages, I wonder if this Jesus fellow was one of them?


Hi Noor!

there were about 50 of them at the time of Christ, he just had better followers, or better pr

 

[Noor]

Oh, I don't think so. Although none of us know what he actually said/preached about anything, Jesus wasn't quoted as pushing any of these crazy Rapture ideas. Most everything attributed to him is universally "good" advice on how to relate to others right here in this life. He wasn't even "Christian"; he was happy to be a Jew.

The problem here is that Christianity isn't really a "Jesus" movement, it's a Paul movement. Christians mainly motor along on Pauline principles and the decisions on what/what not to include in the Bible were based on Pauline interpretations, not Jesus principles.

What this preacher is playing off ("save your souls; send me your money because you don't need it in heaven") became highlighted even later, during the Medieval period, when the concept was invoked to keep the peasants hopeful and poor and producing and no trouble.

Paul who was Saul among other things...

 

[masterdrakin]

Well keep guessing and eventually he might get it right.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Of course he has a lousy record -- he's predicting something that is never going to happen. Like-- batting minus a thousand. There's no ball to hit.

 

[3113]

Of course he has a lousy record -- he's predicting something that is never going to happen. Like-- batting minus a thousand. There's no ball to hit.

Hey, now the end of the world is going to happen...we just can't predict when or how. Asteroids, solar flares, entropy....don't you watch the doomsday channel (aka, the Science Channel?)

 

[xssve]

I think it happened, it's over - god couldn't find anybody he wanted to hang out with for the rest of eternity.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Hey, now the end of the world is going to happen...we just can't predict when or how. Asteroids, solar flares, entropy....don't you watch the doomsday channel (aka, the Science Channel?)

I had to stop watching NOVA. Talk about nightmares.

 

[stephen55]

Hey, now the end of the world is going to happen...we just can't predict when or how. Asteroids, solar flares, entropy....don't you watch the doomsday channel (aka, the Science Channel?)

I predict the end of the world, aka doomsday, will happen in about five billion years.

The sun is about halfway through it's lifespan. When the hydrogen in the sun's core is just about used up it will swell into a Red Giant. The outermost region of the future sun will be somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Earth will be a charred cinder incorporated into the sun.

I'm not worried about it.

 

[Handley_Page]

Of course, the current Volcanic activity in Iceland could not possibly be anything to do with it, could it ?

Could it ?

 

[Stella_Omega]

He was predicting the "rapture," and that's not going to happen. Anyone who predicts the Rapture will have a lousy track record.

 

[jomar]

Maybe not, but he knows how to turn a buck.