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Doomsday campers travel the country preaching the Apocalypse...on May 21
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Posted on 03/08/2011 12:30:48 PM PST by Scythian



Most people like to push thoughts about the end of the world to the back of their minds, hoping that the apocalypse, if it ever comes, will be a long way off.

But for one group of not-so happy campers, doomsday is a lot sooner...May 21 to be precise.

According to the predictions of the Family Radio ministry, on that date a massive earthquake will shake the world apart, littering the ground with 'many dead bodies'.



I think this is Harold Camping's group again ...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: apocalypse; bible; campers; camping; catastrophism; doomsday; earthquake; givingxtiansbadname; haroldcamping; may21; napl; prophecy
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To: Above My Pay Grade

“Camping predicted the world would end 17 years ago “

Yeah but he forgot about leap years and Daylight Savings Time and he didn’t carry the three and he wasn’t wearing his reading glasses.


61 posted on 03/08/2011 1:41:44 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Russ
If there is any mocking to be done I think I would wait until May 22nd...

I'm pretty comfortable mocking now.

62 posted on 03/08/2011 1:52:03 PM PST by Strategerist (There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
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To: shotdog
There’s a PhD seismologist on the west coast who made the mistake of predicting an earthquake back in the 90s based on full moon-induced high tides. He was an employee of one of the municipalities and he was fired for his flagrant unorthodoxy. As it turns out, he was and is usually correct.

He wasn't, and isn't.

Berkland makes the same vague predictions more or less guaranteed to come true every month.

Thankfully, I've noticed there seems to be far less interest in him in the last year or so.

63 posted on 03/08/2011 1:55:23 PM PST by Strategerist (There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
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To: lula

Right after you pay the caterer. But before you pay the band. Figures.....


64 posted on 03/08/2011 1:56:53 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“My car is on its last legs and if this is true, I won’t have to spend a lot of $$$ to buy a new one.”

On the other hand, you finance a new Corvette ZR-1, Nissan GT-R or Porsche GT2 a month before doomsday and never make a payment.


65 posted on 03/08/2011 2:04:46 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Scythian

Arm a gedden outta here!


66 posted on 03/08/2011 2:16:24 PM PST by Artemis Webb (What, if not a bagel and coffee, confirms the existence of a just and loving God?)
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To: dfwgator

“So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s May 20.”

There’s a song in that.
Man we got get a song together, record it, sell 8 million copies and then party till May 21! Time to get Busy!!!


67 posted on 03/08/2011 2:22:18 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Scythian

I wish some rich dude would publicly challenge these nuts to a $1,000,000 bet that the end of the world does NOT occur on May 21st, and for them to also show the specific passage in the Bible that guarantees it.


68 posted on 03/08/2011 2:23:04 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
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To: livius

so I guess there’s money behind this.

Or a bunch of maxed out lines of credit they figure on not repaying.


69 posted on 03/08/2011 2:27:07 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Boiler Plate
There’s a song in that.

I was dreaming while I wrote that.

70 posted on 03/08/2011 2:28:07 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Boiler Plate

LOL! There have been a few famous doomsday panics in the past in the US, particularly in the 19th century.

In one case (early 19th century), everybody ran up to the roofs of their houses to await the Rapture, which of course did not happen. The problem was that they had already given away their houses and land, expecting everything to be vaporized in the Rapture. When this didn’t happen, the people to whom they had given everything weren’t willing to give it back.

The doomsday believers had to sue to get their possessions back, and some of them weren’t able to do so. So I hope these folks didn’t charge to the max, because after Doomsday doesn’t come, they’re still going to be liable for the balance...


71 posted on 03/08/2011 3:09:48 PM PST by livius
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To: Scythian

One dumb question. Why are they posing for the camera?


72 posted on 03/08/2011 3:13:15 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Scythian

So on May 20th I should ask them to give me their wallets?


73 posted on 03/08/2011 3:14:30 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
They kind of shuffle around, slowly, each at their own pace, and when two of them collide, rock either goes up or goes down, in fits and starts, and you get earthquakes. Mostly concentrated near where plates meet. But there just isn’t anything to force earthquakes all at once, everywhere, unless a gigantic astral body collides with Earth, and if that happens, earthquakes are the least of our problems.

It's more complicated than that. The magnetic field of the earth acts funny when there's a big earthquake. There's more to it than just two rocks colliding.

74 posted on 03/08/2011 3:35:24 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger

Changes in the magnetic field are just a small side effect. Bottom line, there isn’t going to be any May 21st cataclysm. Massive geological forces, when they do happen, usually build up for a very long time, and give all sorts of indications.

Something of the scale to cause worldwide earthquakes would have to be immensely larger than the supervolcano that covered India with lava in the distant past. Literally, the majority of the Earth’s mantle would have to be involved.


75 posted on 03/08/2011 3:55:59 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Scythian

Harold Camping... oh boy.


76 posted on 03/08/2011 4:06:13 PM PST by Darksheare (Dear Interdimensional Monstrosity, I fear our relationship has taken a turn for the worse...)
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To: aruanan
It'll probably be around March 19 with that extreme super moon, the closest perigee in 18 years.

And yet, the earth wasn't destroyed 18 years ago. Amazing. ;-)

77 posted on 03/09/2011 1:26:35 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Slings and Arrows

Well, thanks for sharing. I feel fine too after listening to that.

Maybe the false prophets exist so that we will be skeptics after we hear their predictions fail over and over again.

The Mills grind exceedingly small.


78 posted on 03/09/2011 1:50:35 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
Maybe the false prophets exist so that we will be skeptics after we hear their predictions fail over and over again.

Maybe the devil just likes to troll.

79 posted on 03/09/2011 2:08:01 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Yes, indeed.


80 posted on 03/09/2011 4:57:11 AM PST by TheOldLady
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