Only another 9 days....

[Freeky]

Unless they get sucked up while sitting in their cars.

[Kai]

So, no earthquake.

Everyone have the email address of We Can Know ready? I think I'll say something like:

Dear We Can Know,

Wasn't this rapture thing supposed to have happened today?

Sincerely,

Kai

[Freeky]

Some other dude says tomorrow, because you have to account for some kind of quantum and the planets have to align and Jesus.

[Kai]

Some other dude says tomorrow, because you have to account for some kind of quantum and the planets have to align and Jesus.

The bolded part made my brain hurt.

[Freeky]

Some other dude says tomorrow, because you have to account for some kind of quantum and the planets have to align and Jesus.

The bolded part made my brain hurt.

That's because you don't understand the people who need religion like I do.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

The world isn't going to end yet.

And when it does, none of the Raptards (I like this word) will see it coming. And when it comes, they will be disappointed.

They'll be all "Wait, this is it? Shit just -changes-?? I wanted fire and brimstone! I wanted to be exalted for my sacrifices. I WANTED THOSE WHO DONT THINK LIKE ME TO SUFFER!! God SUCKS! Oh shi-" and then lightening will hit them.

Ahem.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I thought the rapture is supposed to happen when no one expects it, so any attempt to set a date is automatically doomed.  The Bible says that Jesus doesn't even know when it will be.  So if anybody actually figures out when God is planning on doing it, God just changes it.

I had a thought, though.  If it can only happen when nobody expects it, and we have millions of people around the world who live in a constant state of expecting it to happen at any given moment, then no wonder it's been 2000 years and it hasn't happened yet.

[Thurnez Isa]

I thought the rapture is supposed to happen when no one expects it, so any attempt to set a date is automatically doomed.  The Bible says that Jesus doesn't even know when it will be.  So if anybody actually figures out when God is planning on doing it, God just changes it.

I had a thought, though.  If it can only happen when nobody expects it, and we have millions of people around the world who live in a constant state of expecting it to happen at any given moment, then no wonder it's been 2000 years and it hasn't happened yet.

Could answer this for you... but Im too busy being raptured

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I thought the rapture is supposed to happen when no one expects it, so any attempt to set a date is automatically doomed.  The Bible says that Jesus doesn't even know when it will be.  So if anybody actually figures out when God is planning on doing it, God just changes it.

I had a thought, though.  If it can only happen when nobody expects it, and we have millions of people around the world who live in a constant state of expecting it to happen at any given moment, then no wonder it's been 2000 years and it hasn't happened yet.

Could answer this for you... but Im too busy being raptured

Me too

Jesus Christ this is a slow process. And it fucking tickles.

[Juana]

I'm picturing a Very Secret Diaries of Harold Camping

May 21, 2011, noon
Am STILL not Raptured yet. God is taking soooo long. Am v. disappointed.

May 22, 2011
Was not raptured. Oh well. Can always try again in 15 yrs.

[The Commander]

I thought the rapture is supposed to happen when no one expects it, so any attempt to set a date is automatically doomed.  The Bible says that Jesus doesn't even know when it will be.  So if anybody actually figures out when God is planning on doing it, God just changes it.

I had a thought, though.  If it can only happen when nobody expects it, and we have millions of people around the world who live in a constant state of expecting it to happen at any given moment, then no wonder it's been 2000 years and it hasn't happened yet.

What they don't recognize is that the "end of the World" has been happening for some time now.  It's happening right now, and will continue to happen for the foreseeable future.  It's an ongoing process, not a single event.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/20/judgment-day-according-to_n_864140.html#s280789&title=A_Bahai_Perspective

The link imbeded in the article leads to the writings of Shoghi Effendi, leader of the Baha'i Faith up to the 50's. The writings go into more detail about how Baha'is envision the "Apacolypse" we are going though right now will end up, and what they work toward achieving.

http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/WOB/wob-56.html

[Thurnez Isa]

So, no earthquake.

Everyone have the email address of We Can Know ready? I think I'll say something like:

Dear We Can Know,

Wasn't this rapture thing supposed to have happened today?

Sincerely,

Kai

I'm not sure if this is in the thread already - it probably is, if so sorry about the repost.
But this is the seriously the way Camping figured out the date - I listened to it via radio clip a while ago

He took the date when he said the great flood ended - May 21 4990 BC and added 7 days from when God promised not to destroy the world again because there a vague reference to 7 days in that passage.

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:4
He then someone determined that one day = 1000 years

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Peter 2 3:6-8
And May 21 is exactly the seventeenth day of the second month.

So with an explanation like that I pretty sure Freeky is right. Camping will look randomly through the bible. Take two passages out of context. Apply some number formula and he has a new date. Hal Lindsay is still going after 80's failed to produce the end of the world, then the 90's failed to show it was just late, then 2000 amounted to nothing. Hell on the non-religious side John Hogue actually goes back and changes his books with each new edition.

EDIT: Before anyone asks about the discrepancies in Camping's predictions it's because Camping is such as idiot he mixes using the Hebrew calendar, a bullshit version of the Julian calender and the Gregorian calender.

[MMIX]

EDIT: Before anyone asks about the discrepancies in Camping's predictions it's because Camping is such as idiot he mixes using the Hebrew calendar, a bullshit version of the Julian calender and the Gregorian calender.

Camping is an idiot despite the inadequacy of his research

[Freeky]

 

[Adios]

If there really was a god those fools would be off of my planet by now as promised.