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The World Is Going To End On May 21, 2011...sorry folks.

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Sun Aut Ex
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Postby Sun Aut Ex » Sat May 21, 2011 8:40 am

Tekania wrote:He will likely STILL have followers even after this. Both the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Seventh-Day Adventists were founded by men who made multiple failed end-of-the-world predictions. And more than a Century Later, they still follow their writings prophetically.


Hell, Joseph "Made up it as he went along" Smith still has his own sect.

It's movements like that that fascinate me. I mean, people like Jesus, he lived 2,000 years ago, so he gets some benefit of the doubt. But people like this Camping... he's right here, and I can see him bullshitting, and I can't understand why some people can't see through that.
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So you think it's ok to waste valuable police time and resources to pander to minority superstitions?

"All available officers, report downtown, armed suspected firing wildly into the public."
"I'll be about ten minutes, I have to go to ID a Muslim woman."


Yes.

Unless of course it's not OK for a woman to ask for a female to ask for a female officer to carry out body checks. In which case, the answer would be no.

"All available officers, report downtown, armed suspected firing wildly into the public."
"I'll be about then minutes, I have to go to carry out a body check on a woman."

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Tekania
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Postby Tekania » Sat May 21, 2011 8:46 am

Sun Aut Ex wrote:
Tekania wrote:He will likely STILL have followers even after this. Both the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Seventh-Day Adventists were founded by men who made multiple failed end-of-the-world predictions. And more than a Century Later, they still follow their writings prophetically.


Hell, Joseph "Made up it as he went along" Smith still has his own sect.

It's movements like that that fascinate me. I mean, people like Jesus, he lived 2,000 years ago, so he gets some benefit of the doubt. But people like this Camping... he's right here, and I can see him bullshitting, and I can't understand why some people can't see through that.


Well, Smith never made fully cataclysmic end of the world predictions. Though his prediction of New York being destroyed for not repenting after his visit failed.

He did partially hit on the Civil War, as in 1832 he predicted that a war would emerge in the US between the North and the South staring in South Carolina.... however, he also said the war would spread world-wide. So he was at best 1/2 right.
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Postby Baltenstein » Sat May 21, 2011 8:51 am

If Camping is smart, he has jumped into a barrel of sulfuric acid by now. That way, nobody will be able to find him, hence people will assume that rapture hit indeed, with Camping as the only rescuee worldwide.*nods*
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Postby Ifreann » Sat May 21, 2011 8:51 am

Sibirsky wrote:
Tekania wrote:
He will likely STILL have followers even after this. Both the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Seventh-Day Adventists were founded by men who made multiple failed end-of-the-world predictions. And more than a Century Later, they still follow their writings prophetically.

He better issue refunds. I mean there are idiots out there that sold everything, and gave him money. Now what?

He gets Raptured* to paradise**, cash in hand




*a first class flight
**the Bahamas.

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Postby Yerghoujikern » Sat May 21, 2011 8:55 am

dang, ima miss Doctor Who then
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Postby Morrdh » Sat May 21, 2011 9:02 am

Its suppose to kick off 6pm Pacific time.... :eyebrow:

Means it'll be 2am Sunday morning for us Brits, not sure whether its gonna be Midnight anywhere expect save for a couple of remote islands in the Mid-Atlantic?
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Postby Keronians » Sat May 21, 2011 9:08 am

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Postby Laerod » Sat May 21, 2011 9:11 am

Morrdh wrote:Its suppose to kick off 6pm Pacific time.... :eyebrow:

Local, actually. Makes no sense, but then again neither does the formula for figuring out the day.

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Postby Esoterias » Sat May 21, 2011 9:11 am

Guys, what you don't know is that the world already ended. This IS the afterlife. Happy doomsday! :lol2:
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Postby Sun Aut Ex » Sat May 21, 2011 9:11 am

You know, I'd quite like to see Camping come out and blame Yahweh for this one. It'd be a good change of pace for false prophets.
Strykyh wrote:I wasn't trying to be intelligent.

Keronians wrote:
So you think it's ok to waste valuable police time and resources to pander to minority superstitions?

"All available officers, report downtown, armed suspected firing wildly into the public."
"I'll be about ten minutes, I have to go to ID a Muslim woman."


Yes.

Unless of course it's not OK for a woman to ask for a female to ask for a female officer to carry out body checks. In which case, the answer would be no.

"All available officers, report downtown, armed suspected firing wildly into the public."
"I'll be about then minutes, I have to go to carry out a body check on a woman."

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Postby Terishany » Sat May 21, 2011 9:11 am

Still here...
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Postby Timurid Empire » Sat May 21, 2011 9:12 am

It's a tad hot today...
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Postby The Pope States » Sat May 21, 2011 9:13 am

were alive YAAAAAAAAAAAAA :D (zombies outside window) shit D:

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Selothey
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Postby Selothey » Sat May 21, 2011 9:13 am

18:13 here... still nothing...

Sucks actually... sittin' here, waitin' for it and nothing... pah...
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Postby Alexiandra » Sat May 21, 2011 9:14 am

Hey look! The world is going to end! Just like the fifty times before this
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Postby Laerod » Sat May 21, 2011 9:15 am

Aaaand there goes the academic quarter hour. Apocalypse not happening, it seems.

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Postby Reigna » Sat May 21, 2011 9:15 am

im miffed i didnt come up with the eternal earth bound pets idea

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Postby Chinese Regions » Sat May 21, 2011 9:15 am

nearly 6 in europe, still no jesus here either
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Postby Tekania » Sat May 21, 2011 9:16 am

Ifreann wrote:
Sibirsky wrote:He better issue refunds. I mean there are idiots out there that sold everything, and gave him money. Now what?

He gets Raptured* to paradise**, cash in hand




*a first class flight
**the Bahamas.


He's got a built in protection scheme. No one really believed, and thus no one was raptured.
Such heroic nonsense!

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Postby Sibirsky » Sat May 21, 2011 9:17 am

Ifreann wrote:
Sibirsky wrote:He better issue refunds. I mean there are idiots out there that sold everything, and gave him money. Now what?

He gets Raptured* to paradise**, cash in hand




*a first class flight
**the Bahamas.

Yep, sounds about right.

I should predict the end of the world. I wouldn't go to the Bahamas though. Been there, done that.

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Postby Keronians » Sat May 21, 2011 9:19 am

Sibirsky wrote:
Ifreann wrote:He gets Raptured* to paradise**, cash in hand




*a first class flight
**the Bahamas.

Yep, sounds about right.

I should predict the end of the world. I wouldn't go to the Bahamas though. Been there, done that.

Hey everyone. The world is going to end on December 17, 2015 at exactly 2:44 PM GMT. Please TG for payment details.


Pfft. Amateur. Everybody knows it's ending in 2012. Duh.
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Postby The Rich Port » Sat May 21, 2011 9:19 am

Baltenstein wrote:If Camping is smart, he has jumped into a barrel of sulfuric acid by now. That way, nobody will be able to find him, hence people will assume that rapture hit indeed, with Camping as the only rescuee worldwide.*nods*


I always knew sulfuric acid was God. :lol:

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Postby The Mighty Islands » Sat May 21, 2011 9:19 am

Tekania wrote:
Ifreann wrote:He gets Raptured* to paradise**, cash in hand




*a first class flight
**the Bahamas.


He's got a built in protection scheme. No one really believed, and thus no one was raptured.


Then why wasn't he raptured? and why hasn't the world started to end?

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Postby Scottish Workers » Sat May 21, 2011 9:21 am

There was a time when people like Harold Camping were burned at the stake.

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Postby The Rich Port » Sat May 21, 2011 9:21 am

Tekania wrote:
Ifreann wrote:He gets Raptured* to paradise**, cash in hand




*a first class flight
**the Bahamas.


He's got a built in protection scheme. No one really believed, and thus no one was raptured.


It makes you wonder what his followers will do.

I'm hoping they'll sue him for fraud.

Because... Let's face it, that's what he is.

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