He’s baaaa-aaaaack! Harold Camping (love the last name), remember that guy? Here he is:
Yesssss, him! He’s the “doomsday prophet” that proclaimed the world was going to end on May 21st. Or maybe not quite, what he said was that JUDGMENT DAY would be on May 21st. It turns out, according to Camping, that it did happen on the 21st, only it was a spiritual Judgment Day. The Wrath, well, that’s happening on … FRIDAY! Yes! THIS Friday!
Now calm down, everyone just calm down. There is a slim chance he could be wrong. According to an NPR article:
“Probably,” he said, “there will be no pain suffered by anyone because of their rebellion against God.” Unbelievers might just fall asleep and never wake up.
As for a violent upheaval?
“The end is going to come very quietly, probably within the next month,” Camping said.
You’ll note the word “probably.” Catherine Wessinger did. She’s an expert on doomsday groups at Loyola University in New Orleans and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism. She says she’s seen this before.
When prophecy fails, she says, “the person making the prediction can give themselves a way out, sort of a backdoor way of getting out of the prediction. Or on the other hand, when nothing happens, the event can be spiritualized.”
But what if he’s right this time, what if his Family Radio church sermons are accurate? I guess you’d better go check out his site. He’s feeding “the sheep.” Are you a sheep? You may still have time if you are. According to his site’s explanation of what happened on May 21st:
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. 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.
You, too, without your knowledge may have become saved before that date. Anyone can continue to beseech God for mercy because salvation and the election program are entirely in God’s hands.
So you officially have just two short days (according to Camping). What are you gonna do to make sure you see the other side? Buy some more freeze dried food from SHTF Blog advertisers? Stock up on ever more ammo? Make a donation to Camping’s church? Party your face off? Chop chop! Time is a tickin’!
– Ranger Man
BTW: any architects out there? Contest seeks zombie-proof home designs.
18 comments
Aw man – I just got PAID!!! :^)
Couldn’t this have waited until next Monday? After all, nobody likes Monday’s anyway. 🙂
I’m headin’ to the liquor store now…….
Sorry, but I have it on perfect authority that the world isn’t going to end this weekend. This is because I was informed by my missus (a perfect authority on these matters) that at the rate I was going on getting the Jeep fixed, the world would end by the time I got done with it, and I haven’t even finished re-doing the wiring yet.
If Camping is right, I reckon we don’t need to do a damned thing, because if we’re one of the “saved”, we’ll be raptured and if we’re not, we’ll simply go to sleep and not wake up. The End. Forever.
Gerard Celente has the same prediction, i.e. “the end”, but he doesn’t believe it will be quiet or peaceful, and that the economic collapse of the Western world will happen this month – as in October. Celente has a much better track record than Camping, as most of Celente’s predictions have come true.
I guess whether or not one is worried depends on who one believes ;).
BTW, thanks for your humor. It’s welcome and necessary these days ;).
no body knows when the world will end only god him self and he not saiding, so if you want to get scare and read in to this man camping hands get down and party cause the party still be going on after the 21. hey if it’s dose end may the lord be with you and your love one’s. this man camping may call wolf all he want’s but when the wolf dose cum may the lord be by his side
“this man camping may call wolf all he want’s but when the wolf dose cum may the lord be by his side”.
Oh for God’s sake, use a spell checker or proofread before you post … or something.
Do you realize how that looks?
wow
That is about the funniest damn thing I have ever read. Hilarious!
woo-hoo!
i’m on vacation this week. if he’s right i won’t have go back to work!
Damn….my pension check doesn’t come in until the 24th. Thanx for the advice Templar….brief pause while I retrieve cash from under the mattress….then I’m off to the liquor store.
no body knows when the world will end only god him self and he not saiding, so if you want to get scare and read in to this man camping hands get down and party cause the party still be going on after the 21. hey if it’s dose end may the lord be with you and your love one’s. this man camping may call wolf all he want’s but when the wolf dose cum may the lord be by his side
+1
Yeah.
+1 indeed. Thumpers galore.
geez…..
so u think it’s funny to copy my words and act like their yours wowwww now come out with your own words or we going to have a problem.
You may have missed the “+1” at the bottom of the comment there…
This is so stupid, I won’t comment but guess I just did.
can’t we all just get along? (please?)
The end of the world has been happening for hundreds of years , every time somebody gets scared of the unknown . Every big city in the nation has a bible thumping doomer or two on the street corner holding up an end of the world sign with numbers of the verse da jour written underneath .I agree with the the part of a comment above that said we are not supposed to know . Friday will be like Y2K ………….. just another day , but hey ! its friday so yeah , go get drunk anyway ! lol