We still have to pray for Mercy, New rapture date set

Kevin joyce

Www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13516796

Penn

If this asshole told me it was about to rain I'd throw my umbrella away and put on some sunglasses.

If (When) this guy is proven false again, he should be banned from trying to predict anything ever again

Kevin joyce

Ya im Laughing out loud right now. Its so funny him having an new date in 5 months time

Penn

For easy reading:

Rapture: Harold Camping issues new apocalypse date

The evangelical broadcaster who left followers crestfallen by his failed prediction that last Saturday would be Judgement Day says he miscalculated.

Harold Camping said it had "dawned" on him that God would spare humanity "hell on Earth for five months" and the apocalypse would happen on 21 October.

Mr Camping said he felt "terrible" about his mistake.

But he said he could not give financial advice to those who spent their life savings in the belief the end was nigh.

Mr Camping had predicted that on 21 May, true believers would be swept up to heaven while a giant earthquake would bring destruction for those left behind.

His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions of dollars on broadcasts, billboards and campaign vehicles to publicise the prediction.

Some followers donated their life savings or simply gave away their worldly possessions as the day approached.

Many expressed bewilderment and shock as the day came and went with no sign of the global cataclysm.

"I've been mocked and scoffed and cursed at," said Jeff Hopkins, a retired TV producer in New York state who spent some of his savings customising his car to showcase Mr Camping's warning.

"It's like getting slapped in the face."

'Not accurate'

Mr Camping had not been seen since Saturday until he appeared on a show on his Open Forum radio show, broadcast from Oakland, California, on Monday to give a 90-minute sometimes rambling presentation that included a question-and-answer session with reporters.

He said that when his prediction had failed to materialise he felt so terrible that he took refuge in a motel with his wife.

He said sorry for not having the dates "worked out as accurately as I could have".

Over the weekend, he said, he had returned to the scripture and it had "dawned" on him that a "merciful and compassionate God" would spare humanity by compressing the apocalyptic destruction into a shorter time frame.

But he insisted 21 October had always been the end-point of his own chronology - or at least his own latest chronology, as a previous prophecy that the apocalypse would strike in 1994 also failed to come to pass.

Asked if he had any advice to offer those who had given away their material wealth in the belief the world was about to end, Mr Camping said they would cope.

"We just had a great recession. There's lots of people who lost their jobs, lots of people who lost their houses... and somehow they all survived," he said.

"We're not in the business of giving any financial advice," he added.

"We're in the business of telling people maybe there is someone you can talk to, and that's God."

wildefalcon

Ah, well that's all right then.

Liamario

I'm just going to throw this out there. Perhaps I'm being a little sceptical about this. But after many hours of carefully meditated research, I have come to the conclusion that this man is mentally disturbed.
Now I know a lot of you fine people will have difficulty believing this, but I genuinely think I'm onto something.

Can I ask all of you to keep this to yourself for the time being as I don't want the general public to get worried.

Omentum

Hes a rapture artist....

Galvasean

New plan: Predict apocalypse EVERY day. So when it finally does happen you were right! :pac:

Doctor DooM

He's had this set up all along. Go read the prediction, he said the rapture would end in October.

What a scumbag, has anyone read an interview? Zero remorse for those who lost their money.

Turtwig

Galvasean wrote: »

New plan: Predict apocalypse EVERY day. So when it finally does happen you were right! :pac:

What if it happens at night?

Ickle Magoo

It's gotta be embarrassing when a dead octopus has a better track record in accurate predictions... :pac:

POINTBREAK

I read somewhere that loads of people paid him $135 to have their pets cared for after they themselves had been raptured.

Galvasean

POINTBREAK wrote: »

I read somewhere that loads of people paid him $135 to have their pets cared for after they themselves had been raptured.

By whom? the atheists? they'd only eat them anyway!

krudler

Galvasean wrote: »

By whom? the atheists? they'd only eat them anyway!

no no thats their kids

Turtwig

Yeah Galva! Yeeash, you'd swear we were total monsters or something. Babies are immoral, nutritious and delicious, pets however are precious and loved by all of us.:mad:

Lustrum

Methinks some lawyer will be smart enough to make a lot of cash out of those who spent all their savings and want to sue the clown, if they have anything left to pay with of course

eyescreamcone

Galvasean wrote: »

New plan: Predict apocalypse EVERY day. So when it finally does happen you were right! :pac:

You mean like David McWilliams?

Even a stopped watch is right twice a day - Somebody intelligent

sensibleken

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Somebody intelligent

isnt that from withnail and I

seamus

Something tells me that no matter what, Mr. Camping will not be present here on earth on the 22nd of October 2011.

The Mad Hatter

eyescreamcone wrote: »

You mean like David McWilliams?

Even a stopped watch is right twice a day - Somebody intelligent

What an odd place to bring up an economist. Mind you, I don't think McWilliams constantly predicted that the economy would crash tomorrow; he said it would crash soon, said why, and said it every day. It's the why that was important.

MrPudding

POINTBREAK wrote: »

I read somewhere that loads of people paid him $135 to have their pets cared for after they themselves had been raptured.

No thatr was an atheist bloke that set up "Eternally Earthbound Pets." He had a brilliant quote in the Washington post along the lines of "they will be doubly disappointed, they didn't get raptured and I don't do refunds." Apparently he has had 250 mentally ill people pay him to look after their pets post rapture.

MrP

the culture of deference

Lustrum wrote: »

Methinks some lawyer will be smart enough to make a lot of cash out of those who spent all their savings and want to sue the clown, if they have anything left to pay with of course

I don't know, how much of a moron would you have to be to believe his BS.

However, I know the US leads the way in idiots suing large corporations because they have done something incredibly stupid (and won) so who knows. (microwave cat) (hot tea)

Anyway someday the guy will be right,

my prediction is that sometime in the next billion years the end will happen for the earth

it could be asteriod, comet strike, solar flare, us, etc

the list of things that can wipe us out in an instant are endless

the culture of deference

MrPudding wrote: »

No thatr was an atheist bloke that set up "Eternally Earthbound Pets." He had a brilliant quote in the Washington post along the lines of "they will be doubly disappointed, they didn't get raptured and I don't do refunds." Apparently he has had 250 mentally ill people pay him to look after their pets post rapture.

MrP

Maybe he should have sold them an insurance policy in case of non rapture.

non rapture insurance . com

fontanalis

On a serious not more sane people have been locked up. Same with the moron who stares at the sun in knock.

fontanalis

eyescreamcone wrote: »

You mean like David McWilliams?

Even a stopped watch is right twice a day - Somebody intelligent

Name any of the slow clocks who were anywhere close to him?

condra

Doctor DooM wrote: »

He's had this set up all along. Go read the prediction, he said the rapture would end in October.

What a scumbag, has anyone read an interview? Zero remorse for those who lost their money.

I don't think he's a scumbag and I do have sympathy for the idiots.

I think he's mentally disturbed. Apparently he's less of the cynical-greedy-minister type and more the deluded-death-cult-moron type.

The idiots who lost money following him deserve our sympathy IMO.

Knasher

Keep in mind, these are the same people who believe that the world was created in week and started counting days before the sun was even created. Christians have never been all that accurate when measuring time.

Ant

While Camping undoubtedly has mental issues, it seems that he's also very much lacking in charity towards his followers and is happy to retain their donations.

However, I find it hard to have sympathy for Camping's followers who also embrace(d) Camping's brand of homophobia, intolerance and ignorance that forms the basis of his wacky rapture prediction(s). There are many people in this world who are afflicted by tragedies and disasters through no fault of their own and are much more deserving of sympathy.

NuMarvel

seamus wrote: »

Something tells me that no matter what, Mr. Camping will not be present here on earth on the 22nd of October 2011.

Something tells me that he hasn't been present on this plane of existence for a long time already .

eyescreamcone

You morons have no clue.
I refer you to the definitive guide to the study of Eschatology (End of times - the study of)

Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life (1st published 1988)

The author?
J. Ratzinger esq.

I kid you not!!!
You couldn't make it up.

Sorry... obviously you can

MrPudding

the culture of deference wrote: »

Maybe he should have sold them an insurance policy in case of non rapture.

non rapture insurance . com

Hmmm, not really a good business plan... Selling an insurance policy that you know will have to pay out? Unless, of course, the premium was greater than the pay out. That would be kind of silly, what kind of person would a pay a premium that paid out less than the premium? You would have to be a complete idiotic gullible moron that did not have a clue and believed anything they were told... Surely there aren't people that stupid...

MrP