So, it's after 6pm EDT on May 21, 2011 and I'm still here?

[makattak]

What the heck?

Apparently Mr. Camping was wrong. I'm shocked.

Of course, I'm sure that "The faithful prayed it away" again.

Not that Mr. Camping is a false prophet in this for... profit. Of course not. 

[Scout26]

Yeah, but is Fistful still here ?

[Hawkmoon]

What if he was right, and the fact we're still here just proves that we're BAD people?

[grislyatoms]

Didn't Matthew have some very pointed things to say about false prophets? "And ye shall know them by their fruits?"

There is another one, Isaiah I think (it's been a long time) that basically said "If a prophet's prophesy does not come to pass, then he is a false prophet and ye shall not follow (him)."

Well, darn, there's a fly in the ointment for Mr. Camping.

[Nick1911]

Who knew?

A prediction based on a book written 2000ish years ago by our ancestral tribesmen who accepted the things they didn't understand about the world as an act of some unseen all knowing deity have in fact turned out the be false!

[RocketMan]

So the Apocalypse didn't come on schedule?  You didn't get Raptured?  Get over it, people, it's not the end of the world.

(Can you burn for a bad pun?)

[Hawkmoon]

Who knew?

A prediction based on a book written 2000ish years ago by our ancestral tribesmen who accepted the things they didn't understand about the world as an act of some unseen all knowing deity have in fact turned out the be false!

Oh, pooh.

The calculation was just off by a bit. Just need to tune up the algorithm and try again ...

[Nick1911]

Oh, pooh.

The calculation was just off by a bit. Just need to tune up the algorithm and try again ...

Haha, I imagine he'll say that just like he did in '94.

 

[PTK]

...and '88, no? Or was that the OTHER, other, other, OTHER, other whackjob?

[Nick1911]

...and '88, no? Or was that the OTHER, other, other, OTHER, other whackjob?

Not sure, it's a chore keeping track of whackjobs these days with as many as there are.

[grislyatoms]

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 18:21-22

Found it.
Now I have to wonder...how many are still going to enable Mr. Camping's life$$$$tyle?

[lee n. field]

There is another one, Isaiah I think (it's been a long time) that basically said "If a prophet's prophesy does not come to pass, then he is a false prophet and ye shall not follow (him)."

Deuteronomy somewhere.  There's another case presented in the same passage.  If the prophet wannabe says things that come true, and leads you away from the LORD, it's God testing you.  He still a false prophet.  "You need not be afraid of him."

[Boomhauer]

Now I have to wonder...how many are still going to enable Mr. Camping's life$$$$tyle?

Probably plenty. I said it on another forum, that there are a lot of people who are so gullible they'll believe and completely trust anyone who drops the J-word in front of them.

I don't know about you, but I can't find the part in the Bible that says that you should give up common sense and blindly trust anybody who claims to be a Christian...

[makattak]

Deuteronomy 18:20- "But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”

Mr. Camping is very fortunate we live under the new Covenant and not the old.

Also, Nick, I'm quite certain of the prophecy based off a 2000+ year old book:

Mark 13:32 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

I'm certain every single one of these doomsday prophecies will be wrong.

[makattak]

Probably plenty. I said it on another forum, that there are a lot of people who are so gullible they'll believe and completely trust anyone who drops the J-word in front of them.

I don't know about you, but I can't find the part in the Bible that says that you should give up common sense and blindly trust anybody who claims to be a Christian...

This kind of stunt is how the Seventh Day Adventists were formed. So, this kind of thing can last a LOOOONG time. (They were created out of doomsday predictions in the 1800s.)

[Perd Hapley]

Who knew?

A prediction based on a book written 2000ish years ago by our ancestral tribesmen who accepted the things they didn't understand about the world as an act of some unseen all knowing deity have in fact turned out the be false!

'Cause science explains how a three-day-old corpse comes back to life, right? 

[Stand_watie]

Deuteronomy 18:20- "But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”

Mr. Camping is very fortunate we live under the new Covenant and not the old.

Also, Nick, I'm quite certain of the prophecy based off a 2000+ year old book:

Mark 13:32 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

I'm certain every single one of these doomsday prophecies will be wrong.

  Hezekiah 27:12 "When a false prophet cometh amongst thee and wrongly predicteth the rapture, thou shalt whack his penis with a ballpeen hammer, yeah and then thou shalt hear truthfullness from his lips in his cries of pain..."

[Nick1911]

Deuteronomy 18:20- "But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”

Mr. Camping is very fortunate we live under the new Covenant and not the old.

Also, Nick, I'm quite certain of the prophecy based off a 2000+ year old book:

Mark 13:32 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

I'm certain every single one of these doomsday prophecies will be wrong.

Sweet!  So all I have to do to prevent rapture from happening is put up a billboard on I70 that warns, "rapture is tomorrow!"?

 

[lupinus]

Probably plenty. I said it on another forum, that there are a lot of people who are so gullible they'll believe and completely trust anyone who drops the J-word in front of them.

I don't know about you, but I can't find the part in the Bible that says that you should give up common sense and blindly trust anybody who claims to be a Christian...

Actually, it says quite the opposite.

And hidden whacky math aside, I seem to also recall it clearly stating no one knows when the time will be until it happens.

[cosine]

Yesterday there was a plane buzzing around downtown Milwaukee pulling one of those trailing banners, and the banner was proclaiming "Judgement Day: May 21." That's the first time I even saw one of these end-times predictions being advertised by airplane.

[CNYCacher]

Sweet!  So all I have to do to prevent rapture from happening is put up a billboard on I70 that warns, "rapture is tomorrow!"?

 

Do you think that if you hold up a sign at a craps table that says "Next roll will be 11" then you will prevent an 11 from ever happening?

[Nick1911]

Do you think that if you hold up a sign at a craps table that says "Next roll will be 11" then you will prevent an 11 from ever happening?

I'm just horsing around.  Personally, I don't believe any particular mythology. (This will probably piss some people off, but I classify all religions as mythology.  It's a title, but in my mind a fitting one.  That's just me, YMMV.)

I'm just noting that if we accept Mark 13:32 as an axiom for some particular reason ( ), I think the concept of staving off disaster by having some random person driving down the freeway thinking "Hey, maybe rapture is tomorrow... huh." to be hilarious.

But I have no dog in this fight.  My personal beliefs don't include rapture ever happening.

[CNYCacher]

I'm just noting that if we accept Mark 13:32 as an axiom for some particular reason ( ), I think the concept of staving off disaster by having some random person driving down the freeway thinking "Hey, maybe rapture is tomorrow... huh." to be hilarious.

I see what you are saying now.  I don't take from that passage the same meaning as you take from it, which I think is why I didn't understand your humor.

[Nick1911]

I see what you are saying now.  I don't take from that passage the same meaning as you take from it, which I think is why I didn't understand your humor.

Ah, kk.

If I might inquire, what do you make of the passage?  Just curious what your take is.

[Tuco]

There's still 1.5 hours left here, you heathens 
Or was the prediction based on GMT?