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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on May 20, 2011, 04:08:23 PM
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Folks have been predicting the "end of times" since the beginning of time,....so I always like to cover my bases, just in case.
He was wrong in 94' but ya' never know.
http://www.examiner.com/deism-in-tampa-bay/end-of-the-world-set-for-may-21-2011-says-christian-leader
End of the world set for May 21, 2011 says Christian leader
Christian leader Harold Camping, Bible scholar and founder and president of Family Stations, Inc., a company which produces Christian radio and television programs, has publicly announced the end of the world will take place on Saturday, May 21, 2011.
Camping claims to have developed a mathematical system of studying the Bible which allowed him to learn when the end will come. However, this is not the first time Camping used a mathematical system to study the Bible to learn when the end will come. Back in the 1990s his studies told him the end would come on September 6, 1994. He and several dozen of his followers got together on that date waiting to be raptured but nothing happened. No rapture.
Just because Camping was wrong about the expected but non-occurring 1994 rapture/end of the world, he shouldn't be discouraged.
:P
Between the zombies coming and Obama......
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Since "no one knows the day or time ..." I live my life as a continual
good bye till we meet again provided you are ready to go.
Glad I was too busy to follow the hype on this crack pot this week!
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Can some please explain this whole Rapture obsession to me? As a Christian, I believe we will all meet God. Whether I die at 90 surrounded by fat grandchildren, get hit by a bus tommorow or Jesus returns in a cloud of purple smoke on Thursday afternoon seems completely irrelevant. Who cares how it happens? Obviously millions, who are into anything "endtimes" related. I just got a big glossy flier initing me to a "rapture conference" for only $150. ::) There are those Left Behind books that let you live through the tribulations like its a Tom Clancy novel. WTF? Preach the Good News, live a decent life and get on with your day. What is it with the millions of prophecy guys? It'll happen, you can't predict it, don't worry about it.
FQ13
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Well it has been a pleasure reading and responding to some of the great posts. According to the news it is supposed to start with a massive continual earthquake. At 6PM starting in Greenwich England and then traveling around the world hitting each new time zone at precisely 6 pm. :o :o So have a party tomorrow starting at 1200 with lots of cold refreshments and some good food and count it down. ;D ;D ;DThen if nothing happens I guess we will all hear from you again on Sunday. Enjoy!! 8)
Mike Mc
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Well it has been a pleasure reading and responding to some of the great posts. According to the news it is supposed to start with a massive continual earthquake. At 6PM starting in Greenwich England and then traveling around the world hitting each new time zone at precisely 6 pm. :o :o So have a party tomorrow starting at 1200 with lots of cold refreshments and some good food and count it down. ;D ;D ;DThen if nothing happens I guess we will all hear from you again on Sunday. Enjoy!! 8)
Mike Mc
Guess I don't need to worry about storing that propane after all. I guess I'll go fishing (screw the limit!). My only regret is that I'll probably be raptured with a sore finger unless I want to leave unused ammo behind for the heathens. ;D
FQ13
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If somebody on the forum is taken away, can I have your stuff?
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Ooh, ooh, dibs on billt! ;D
FQ13
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Gonna miss you fellas. ;D
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Camping claims to have developed a mathematical system of studying the Bible which allowed him to learn when the end will come. However, this is not the first time Camping used a mathematical system to study the Bible to learn when the end will come. Back in the 1990s his studies told him the end would come on September 6, 1994.
He forgot to carry a one and ended up getting the wrong date. New calculator should fix that.
I'm sure he's on the money with this one. :P Start mixing the Kool-Aid.
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Go ahead and overnight your stuff to me now. Quick before its too late!
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see you all on the other side, lol 8)
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sigh....
And all this is supposed to come from the Bible?
Greenwich Meridian? Each time zone an hour later?
They thought the world was flat when most, if not all, of the Bible was written.
All this time zone and the number of hours in a day and etc. are all inventions of man.
Nice to see God liked our handiwork so much He is gonna end the world on our schedule.
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But....Newfoundland is on the half hour! Does that mean they get a pass and move on to the next game of life?
Lucky Newfies anyway...damn!
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Even if he's right I plan on being here Sunday. ;D
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So, should I clean my 1911 tomorrow, or not?
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Well if its supposed to be 6pm GMT that would make it the 22nd May here in Oz, so I guess we will get to live a day longer.
See we are the chosen ones! LOL
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So, should I clean my 1911 tomorrow, or not?
If it were a Glock, I'd say no. But it is a rust bucket, so better safe than sorry. ;D
FQ13
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Should make for an interesting weekend! Sons getting married Sat. and I plan to shoot an IDPA match Sunday. Maybe for all concerned it should be the other way around. More fun to shoot just before the world ends and have it end before he takes the plunge!!!!!!!
JMHOFWIW
Richard
PS: If I can't take my toys with me no one can have them.
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Anyone remember that scene from the movie Little Big Man, where the Indian chief says it's a good day to die, so he spreads the buffalo robe out, lays down, closes his eyes and commences to die? Then, when the raindrop hits him in the face, he opens his eyes, looks at Crabbe, and grunts in disgust that he couldn't even die?
Wonder if these folks in the rapture caravans feel a little like that this morning. ;D
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Anyone remember that scene from the movie Little Big Man, where the Indian chief says it's a good day to die, so he spreads the buffalo robe out, lays down, closes his eyes and commences to die? Then, when the raindrop hits him in the face, he opens his eyes, looks at Crabbe, and grunts in disgust that he couldn't even die?
Wonder if these folks in the rapture caravans feel a little like that this morning. ;D
One of my all time favorite flicks....+1
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The Hot Property for this weekend is the time zone just east of the Greenwich Meridian.
This all starts with a continuous earthquake in the meridian's time zone at 6PM and then moves west so that each time zone is hit with the quake at 6PM of that time zone.
The time zone just east of the meridian will get hit 23 hours later. I imagine they will be keeping a close eye on their neighbors just a few miles west, perhaps with with BBQ parties and open bar?
If things come apart, or come together, depending upon which side of St. Pete's ledger you think your entry is listed, they have a lot of time to party/prepare.
Clean your guns ahead of time. There is a popular series of books, starting with Left Behind, who's story line is about the fight between good and evil back on earth after the Chosen have been plucked from away.
BTW, 6PM Greenwich, will be noon Eastern, if I remember the day light savings juggling correctly. So, I'm sure some alert news team will be able, or not, to give us a blow by blow of the event, or non-event, around about lunch time.
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well it is just gone 23:35 on the 21/05/2011 and we are still here ;D
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Hello ... Hello ...Hello!!!
Anybody out there?
Am I the only one left ... where did you leave the keys and combos to your gun rooms?
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You've still got two hours m58. Me, I'm gone in 45 minutes. My advice is to drive like hell to Mi.. Kilo seems pretty righteous. He'll probably get raptured and you know that sweet little .30 cal MG will come in handy when the zombies come (there must be zombies somewhere in the tribulations right?). ;D
FQ13
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Guys...guys...pay attention..
it was at NOON Eastern that the Greenwich Meridian got hit....we still have till 6PM eastern for our turn...
though it seems someone would have noticed if 1/2 of England went off the air half an hour ago...
Maybe someone set their watch wrong?
Everyone's time comes at 6PM in THEIR time zone. I know it seems a strange way for it to happen, but God works in Mysterious Ways.
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In my best Doc Holliday (as done by Val Kilmer) voice, "Well, that certainly was a bust."
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People around the world:
TEOTWAWKI has been delayed due to circumstances beyond our control.
Please stay tuned. This is only a postponement and not a cancellation.
We will make every effort to keep you informed of the revised schedule.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
The Management.
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People around the world:
TEOTWAWKI has been delayed due to circumstances beyond our control.
Please stay tuned. This is only a postponement and not a cancellation.
We will make every effort to keep you informed of the revised schedule.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
The Management.
Sad thing is, the management of this particular ponzi scheme, er "ministry" racked up a net worth of $72 million. What do you think the odds are that they gave it all away to help the poor before the end? ::)
FQ13
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There is one born every minute and they are soon parted from their money.
His book, The Doomsday Code is still listed on Amazon but down to $14.27 from it's original price of $20.99. Only 4 left
Actually I was referring to a Higher Management
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Actually I was referring to a Higher Management
Yep.
Amazes me at how Christians make claims that they know exactly when the end beginning is coming..... I guess they missed that part about us not knowing when that time would be.
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6;05 PM and I'm still here, No earth quake, no cataclysm, in fact the sun came out for the first time in a week. ::)
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It's after 6 p.m. and I'm still here. I don't feel any earthquakes either.
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Sad thing about that article is it quotes one of this idiot's followers. He's a retired NYC transit worker and put $140K of his retirement into bill boards warning folks to repent. Now, he's broke (though he did still think the world will end today, just later ::)). That preacher should be shot. His family is laughing all the way to the bank and the flock got fleeced. I guess they should be glad they weren't offered purple kool-aid. :'(
FQ13
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Well, I'm sort of disappointed.
How many times in your life are you gonna get to see the world come to an end?
You're lucky if you get to see it just once.
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Everone knows the world is really going to end Dec. 21, 2012 when the Mayan calendar runs out. ::)
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Although the world didn't end, I would have paid MONEY to watch the faces of "true beleivers" in San Fran and Indonesia when there WAS an eathrquake yesterday. Plus you add Iceland's volcano, I'm sure even a couple skeptics started to wonder. :)
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Yawwwnnnnn. What up?
Believe the Bible or not, this is gonna happen when you choose not to include parts you don't like.
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Found a story over at Confederate Yankee that talked about a family where the parents abandoned their teenage children spiritually and otherwise to prepare for the end. They were followers of the religious leader, Camping, in question here. One of the children, Grace, said her mom told her that she would not be going to heaven with Mom and Dad when the end was to come yesterday. The children's story is sad and troubling.
As part of the story, the author speculated on the thoughts of those followers who are now faced with the fact that the end did not come. Here is a quote. The rest can be found here http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/
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This awkward realization is going to impact a very small community of end times believers when the sun comes up today and tomorrow and the day after that as it always has. They're going to realize they were fools.
But are they going to understand why?
Are they going to understand that they fell for Camping's false prophesy because they do not want responsibility over their own lives? Once they make that revelation, will they end their lives in despair, or will they try to get the therapy they need to discover why they are so willing to abandon the lives and children the real God gave to them as the most precious of gifts?
While I fear the former and hope for the later, odds are that many of these weak-willed followers will listen when Camping finds the "error" in his end times math and resets the end of the world several more years or decades into the future (he had already done so once before). They will still follow the false prophesy of a near-time Revelation, and continue to create the Hell on Earth for their families, a fate that they so ironically sought to avoid.
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These a-holes have a long and embarrassing history that goes back at least a 1000 years.
Obviously they haven't been right yet.
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When I lived in Austin we had a public access TV channel (and who thought that was a good idea?). Anyway, one of the favorites was one of these prophecy guys. He would go on about how the end was coming and Gorbie was the anti-Christ. "Just look at him, he has the mark of the beast on his head plain as day"! ;D Good fun after a few beers.
FQ13
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We had one right down the street in MA. Same deal, some greasy looking biker dude prophet telling all manner of doom and despair.