Judgment Day - May 21st, 2011 at Participating Universes

[Dimmauk]

That finding a black person in Michigan is like finding a thin person in Texas.

Few and far between.

Well we can rule out that he was Mexican. We might be fat, but we can at least swim across a river.

[bender1077]

[Cail]

lulz....(also dont know how to spoiler shit, so I'm sorry..)

By GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press Garance Burke, Associated Press – 4 mins ago
OAKLAND, Calif. – California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on Oct. 21.

Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before the Earth was destroyed, said he felt so terrible when his doomsday prediction did not come true that he left home and took refuge in a motel with his wife. His independent ministry, Family Radio International, spent millions — some of it from donations made by followers — on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.

But Camping said that he's now realized the apocalypse will come five months after May 21, the original date he predicted. He had earlier said Oct. 21 was when the globe would be consumed by a fireball.

Saturday was "an invisible judgment day" in which a spiritual judgment took place, he said. But the timing and the structure is the same as it has always been, he said.

"We've always said May 21 was the day, but we didn't understand altogether the spiritual meaning," he said. "May 21 is the day that Christ came and put the world under judgment."

It's not the first time the independent Christian radio host has been forced to explain when his prediction didn't come to pass. He also predicted the Apocalypse would come in 1994, but said it didn't happen then because of a mathematical error.

Rather than give his normal daily broadcast on Monday, Camping made a special statement before the press at the Oakland headquarters of the media empire that has broadcast his message. His show, "Open Forum," has for months headlined his doomsday message via the group's radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website.

When the Rapture didn't arrive Saturday, crestfallen followers began turning their attention to more earthly concerns.

Jeff Hopkins had figured the gas money he spent driving back and forth from Long Island to New York City would be worth it, as long as people could see the ominous sign atop his car warning that the End of the World was nigh.

"I've been mocked and scoffed and cursed at and I've been through a lot with this lighted sign on top of my car," said Hopkins, 52, a former television producer who lives in Great River, NY. "I was doing what I've been instructed to do through the Bible, but now I've been stymied. It's like getting slapped in the face."

Camping said Family Radio would never tell anyone what they should do with their possessions.

"That is between them and God," he said.

But he said he wouldn't give away all his possessions ahead of Oct 21.

"I still have to live in a house, I still have to drive a car," he said. "What would be the value of that? If it is Judgment Day why would I give it away?"

Apocalyptic thinking has always been part of American religious life and popular culture. Teachings about the end of the world vary dramatically — even within faith traditions — about how they will occur.

Still, the overwhelming majority of Christians reject the idea that the exact date or time of Jesus' return can be predicted.

Tim LaHaye, co-author of the best-selling "Left Behind" novels about the end times, recently called Camping's prediction "not only bizarre but 100 percent wrong!" He cited the Bible verse Matthew 24:36, "but about that day or hour no one knows" except God.

"While it may be in the near future, many signs of our times certainly indicate so, but anyone who thinks they `know' the day and the hour is flat out wrong," LaHaye wrote on his website, leftbehind.com.

In 2009, the nonprofit Family Radio reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million, including $34 million in stocks or other publicly traded securities.

[Kuya]

The world's gonna end forever.

[Militant]

Best part of the yahoo article on camping from today:

But the false prediction might not be so easily effaced from the lives of Camping's followers. The L.A. Times writes that Keith Bauer, a 38-year-old tractor trailer driver, took a road trip with his family to see the Grand Canyon before the world ended.

"With maxed-out credit cards and a growing mountain of bills, he said, the rapture would have been a relief," the paper writes.

But Bauer is not angry at Camping for his false prediction. "Worst-case scenario for me, I got to see the country," he told the paper. "If I should be angry at anybody, it should be me."

Robert Fitzpatrick, who spent $140,000 of his life savings to advertise the rapture in New York, said he was dumbfounded when life went on as usual Saturday.

"I do not understand why ...," he told Reuters while awaiting the event in Times Square. "I do not understand why nothing has happened."

[Headspace]

I kinda feel bad for the kids of these dipshits.

Lives ruined because of Camping.

[Pirian]

I kinda feel bad for the kids of these dipshits.

Lives ruined because of Camping.

No, not because of Camping, because they were stupid. If it wasn't Camping then it would have been something else.

[Headspace]

No, not because of Camping, because they were stupid. If it wasn't Camping then it would have been something else.

I suppose

[Jaybar]

Fucking Mayans.

[6souls]

IBTimes - San Francisco has a different wording to the AP article above;

Harold Camping, the infamous Doomsday prophet whose May 21, 2011 date turned to be false, delayed the End Time five months later to be October 21, 2011 as he spoke in the Open Forum at Family Radio in Oakland, Calif.

For the first time since last Friday, Camping appeared to the public in an Open Forum and spoke explained the situation. And contrary to what the public wanted, the failed Doomsday prophet had simply delayed the date.

"The whole world is under Judgment Day and it will continue right up until Oct. 21, 2011 and by that time the whole world will be destroyed," said Camping.

Previously, he said he was sure “"ithout a shadow of a doubt it is going to happen."

Not only he delayed the date of Doomsday, Camping did not admit his mistake about his May 21 date either. He claimed that Rapture did happen, but only in a spiritual sense.

"On May 21, this last weekend, this is where the spiritual aspect of it really comes through. God again brought judgment on the world. We didn’t see any difference but God brought Judgment Day to bear upon the whole world."

About his followers who have spent their savings and quit their jobs because of the trust they put on their leader, Camping denied any responsibilities.

“They should have relied on God and not me,” Camping said. "Family Radio is not in the business of financial advice."

"People cope," the Family Radio president said, indicating that those who invested in the prediction should learn how to get on with their lives.

Some of Camping's followers, including Adrienne Martinez who is pregnant with her second child, has spent their entire money and savings and quit the jobs.

This was Camping answer to them: "Family Radio is not in the business of financial advice. They should turn to God and pray."

http://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/arti...october-21.htm

[Snprphnx]

Fucking Mayans.

sup jay, long time no see. what you been up to, besides being left behind in the rapture?

[Jaybar]

Not your personal chat log!

If this guy gets sued for terrorism then I hope a lot of news networks get the same deal. You know, spreading fear to the masses while collecting the monies.

Spoiler: show

Sup snp =P

[Myrrh_Quetz]

I have a theory.

What if he was right but the only person on the planet worth saving was Mucho Man Randy Savage? What if whatever he lived his life by was the correct way?

[Eliseos]

The judgment day bumper sticker that was put on my apartment's dumpster has been taken down, happened sometime before Sunday morning. Now my skynet sticker that was next to it is useless.

[kuronosan]

I hope that fucker dies.

[Lordender]

Man that guy trolled people so hard, how can this not be one of the top trolling's in the history of trolls?

I mean only FF14's release can rival a trolling like this.

[Vucian]

OAKLAND, Calif. – California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on Oct. 21.

Judgment Day actually will come on Oct. 21.

Oct. 21.

Spoiler: show

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[Seanr]

Rescheduled!!

Rapture Predictor Harold Camping: Apocalypse Rescheduled for October 21

Max Read — Harold Camping, the radio host who predicted the world would end on Saturday, made his first post-non-apocalypse public appearance on his radio show Monday night. "The first question," he told listeners, "is 'Camping, what about you? Are you ready to shoot yourself or go on a booze trip or whatever?'"
The answer, it soon became clear, is no. Camping had spent millions promoting May 21 as "the rapture" — the day when true Christians would be taken up to Heaven on an angelic shuttle bus to have a free continental breakfast with Jesus — and the start of the end of the world. A huge earthquake was supposed to hit at 6 p.m., and the earth would face death, destruction and famine for five months, until the real "end date" of October 21.

Obviously, it didn't happen quite as predicted. Journalists confronted Camping on his doorstep on Sunday, where he told them he was "flabbergasted" by the failure of his predictions and would "say more" on Monday.

And so he did. "I can tell you personally," Camping told his listeners, and a collection of journalists live in the studio, "that when May 21 came and went it was a very difficult time for me." He spent Saturday night in a hotel, avoiding the press and praying. But "the light dawned" when he read a quote from his friend Gabriel Otero, who told "local newsmedia" that, back on September 7, 1994, the last time Camping predicted the end of the world, God had returned "in a mystical way." And, in reading Otero's words, Camping realized that he had been "looking at the Bible too earthly... when the Bible is a very spiritual book." Which led him to conclude:

We were convinced that on May 21, God would return in a very physical way by bringing in an earthquake and ushering the final five months of judgement. When we look at it spiritually, we find that he did come.

See, the rapture did happen, it just didn't happen in a "visible" way. He was totally right the whole time! The world is still in the process of ending. "We have not made a mistake insofar as the timeline," Camping said. It's just that judgement day was "spiritual," not "physical." And, in light of this, the promotional campaign is over:

We're not going to pass out any more tracts. We're not going to put up any more billboards — in fact they're coming down right now... The world has been warned. The world is under judgment... We're just learning we have to look at all of this more spiritual [sic]. But it won't be spiritual on October 21.

So why is God waiting till October to blow us all up? Camping read out a letter from a supporter who believes that, for (incomprehensible) geophysical reasons, the earth would not last for five months following the great predicted earthquake. (This is not an official Family Radio theory, yet, but Camping assured his listeners it would be investigated.) The same supporter, in the same letter, indicated that God, in His infinite mercy, did not want everyone to suffer "Hell on earth" for five months. (This was up Camping's alley — he does not believe in "eternal hell" — and he expounded on it at length.)

Either way, you heard the guy: Mark your calendars for October 21. And be nice for the next five months! Because you're under judgment.

I really wish God would push it back to like November 10th, so i can at least get a little bit of MW3 in

[Blasta]

According to some Finnish news website, the 21th of May was just a "spiritual doomsday" lawl.

P.S, Bingo!

[Guitarman]

well at least i get my 28th birthday on the 20th before we all die, so that's a plus.

Third time's the charm, right?