May 21, 2011 is going to be doomsday for the ministry of Harold Camping.
No, it is about the hope of a glorious future that all can share.
Anyone who accepts this end-of-=world date please contact me to divest yourself of the material possessions you won’t need after going to your reward. Time is running out.
“....He has seven stars in his hand: a star is a million miles in diameter and a million degrees at its core, making things pretty hot and crowded on the Earth...”
Oh good grief! This guy must have a mind that cannot process imagery, metaphors, or symbols. He must think it is impossible for there to be 50 stars on an American flag.
“But of that day and hour no one knoweth, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone.”
-Matthew 24:36
Below is a pair of emails I sent to Camping and his marketing people. No reply. Duh.
-—— Forwarded Message ——
To: familyradio@familyradio.org; webservant@familyradio.org; webservant@familyradio.org
Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 9:29:48 AM
Subject: A Challenge For You
Dear Mr Harold Camping,
I have a proposal for you.
Please exercise your faith by selling me everything you own for $1.
We can contract it so that I take possession on May 22, 2011.
According to your ‘prophecy’, you and all the other believers will have departed the Earth the day before, so you will have no need for your possessions any longer.
I am dead serious. I want your home(s), car(s), cash, investments, other real estate, contracts, account payable, securities, any position if leadership that you occupy, and any interest in any form of business (sole proprietor, non-profit, corporation).
If you refuse, then I must take that to mean that you don’t really believe your own words to be true, which would make you a false prophet.
Sincerely,
The only difference is the scientific cults expect us to pay them for our salvation.
This guy needs a reminder of what Objectivism means. It's fine to have your own opinion (rather impossible to avoid, really), but objective this piece ain't. Childish forms of atheism often put objectivism on a pedestal, but then fail woefully in practicing it.
What? it would be less disturbing if only the most poor, ignorant, or downtrodden got roped in?
I don't get it. Anyone who gets sucked into this stuff is a victim.
The members of the Heaven’s Gate flying saucer cult, to get ahead of the game, all committed suicide.
So the world DID end for them !
Scary how that works.
BTW, this book was written in 1881; you wouldn't believe how accurate it is!
In the late nineteenth century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life’s mean material affairs—and toward the next life’s glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do.
When Father Arminjon’s conferences were later published in a book, many others were able to reap the same benefit—including fourteen-year-old Thérèse Martin, then on the cusp of entering the Carmelite convent in Lisieux. Reading it, she says, “plunged my soul into a happiness not of this earth.” Young Thérèse, filled with a sense of “what God reserves for those who love him, and seeing that the eternal rewards had no proportion to the light sacrifices of life,” copied out numerous passages and memorized them, “repeating unceasingly the words of love burning in my heart.”
Now the very book that so inspired the Little Flower is available for the first time in English.
Let the pages of The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life fill you with the same burning words of love, with the same ardent desire to know God above all created things, that St. Thérèse gained from them. Let them also enrich your understanding of certain teachings of the Faith that can often seem so mysterious, even frightening:
Jesus commands us to be ever-watchful for his return, and ever-mindful that we have no lasting city on earth. The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life is an invaluable aid to inculcating in your spirit that heavenly orientation, without which true human happiness cannot be found—in this world or the next.
I got $100 that says the world will not end on May 21, 2011.
Come one come all.
Why did you post this same story twice?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721730/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2721734/posts
What time, though, and in what time zone?
That’s the only complaint I have against Mr Camping.
Such matters ought to be regulated by the Feds, doncha think?
I really can’t believe any end-of-the-world prediction if it doesn’t involve zombies.
But wait. I thought the Mayans said it will be Dec 21st 2012. What a quandary!
I thought the world ended when dad caught me behind the garage with a cigar and his favorite bottle of brandy.
I survived. I’ll bet I survive this end of the world, too. I’m good at that. So if God destroys the world on the 21st, I’ll probably hang behind and wait for the next heavenly chariot leaving Earth. There’s cigars to smoke and brandy to drink.
That article is even more inane than Campimg’s false “prophecy”.
Hey Camping, it can’t happen yet you freakin’ dipstick! It’s way too early. Plus there is no such thing as “the end of the world”, just the end of the age. Grow some balls and go through it with the rest of us.