If you thought you had less than three perfectly healthy months to live, what would you do? Would you travel? Spend time with loved ones? Appreciate the joy life has given you? Or would you ditch your kids and grandkids, join strangers in a caravan of RVs and travel the country warning people about the end of the world? If you’re Sheila Jonas, that’s exactly what you’d do. [...] Like her cohorts, she’s “in it ’til the end,” which she believes is coming in May.
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Starting with one station in Oakland, California, in 1959, [Harold] Camping’s Family Radio now boasts 66 stations across the United States. Thanks to strategically placed satellites, shortwave radio and the internet, the message has gone global in 61 languages. [...] But Camping also happens to be the man who once said September 6, 1994, would be the big day.He explains now that he originally thought 2011 was the year, but a few [bible] verses tripped him up and he concluded that the Great Tribulation might get cut short. There was still scripture he was grappling with, end-time signs that were to come — he points to the gay pride movement as one of them — and truths that had yet to be revealed, “but because of the urgency of time I had to get it out quickly,” he says of his previous warning.
This time around, he has no doubts.
Oddly, these death cults use failed predictions to strengthen their nutball beliefs in said predictions.
“Obviously the world didn’t end on xx/xx/xxxx date because we didn’t do a good enough job telling people about it. So we’ve been given another prediction from God and this time if we work really really hard THIS one will come true.”
Rinse and repeat.
If these lack witted dullards actually read the Bible they would know that no man knows the day or the hour. To me that means that those who claim to do so are full of horse apples.
A side issue is that the rapture comes first so unless they are lost, fairly likely considering they don’t actually seem to read the Bible, the rapture will come first and if they are Christians they won’t be around for tribulation.
Of course since these people are most likely lost maybe they do need to be making preparations for tribulation. I’d suggest preparing a retreat somewhere.
Enough of this religious stuff. We now turn the programming back over to the usual atheistic ramblings.
Silly religious freaks. Everybody knows that the world ends on April 15.
I’ve lived through the end of the world before. It wasn’t that bad. The beer was a little flat, though.
#1, or they use the “I forgot to carry the 1 in my calculations” excuse.
Two months to party and max out the credit cards!
You are all wrong! Everything will be in complete chaos, no technology, planes will crash, nuclear bombs would fire! Banks will fall! It is coming! Mark my words it will all end on January 1, 2000 at 12:00 a.m.!…
Leaving June 2011 unavailable in iCal.
This seems excellent material for a murder mystery. Possessed assailant searches the world for doomsday prophets.
I have a summer vacation cabin in northern Wisconsin and there is a family that lives in a house down the road. I have talked to them a couple times and one day then invited me to a cookout. It turns out they moved from Milwaukee to the middle-of-nowhere-Wisconsin because they thought January 1st, 2000 would be chaos with nuclear attacks and planes crashing out of the sky. So during the months previous to that day they sold their house in Milwaukee and built a new house in the middle of the woods where the nearest hospital, store, and gas station is 40 minutes away. They make a living now selling antiques on eBay. They’re Republican and we always talk politics but it never turns into an angry discussion. I figure if you have to raise your voice when you’re talking politics then it’s not a friendly discussion.
End of the world coming in 2011??
It already came on November 3rd, 2009!!
False prophets fulfill Bible prophecy, they and Obama:
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal-Obama
http://nationalreview.com/articles/224717/obama-political-viagra/mark-steyn
24 “For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
25 “See, I have told you beforehand.
26 “Therefore if they say to you,`Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or`Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it. (Mat 24:24-26 NKJ)
Where is Obama when you need him…playing golf…
His voting “present” as a state senator informed all critical thinkers, he is a political coward unwilling to lead…
He gives speeches, and that (in his mind) solves the problem…
He has spoke on all the world’s problems, so he’s done all he can do…time for golf.
#12 So which is more loony:
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal-Obama
Or the world will end May 21st?
I think they are equally loony.
an English prof in college asked us one day: “What would you do if you knew you were going to die a month from now?” Lots of blah blah but it was all a set up for his real question: “Why aren’t you living your life as if that were the case?–why aren’t you DOING what you want to DO?” My answer at the time is the same I have today: because I don’t know when I’m going to die ((and most likely, for a better future I have to delay certain pleasures)).
Why after all this time I still “vividly” remember the question when I totally dismiss its import, is a mystery to me. Maybe in a similar construct to “dogma” I recognize it is a touchstone to constantly keep in mind–to measure my options against–but its not an idea to live life by?
Hmmmm. Gee! Still thinking about it.
Alfie is CAB a tax exempt business?
In 95 days I’d be having butt secks with Sheila and telling her what a dumb ass she has been. Unless she’s a real pig of course, then I’d just laugh and point.
Still waiting…
What’s more looney, end of the world on the 21st…
Or Democrats will solve our budget deficit crisis.
By comparison to the advocacy press, its progressive anti nuke agenda…
They are all proclaiming nuclear doom:
http://infowars.com/radioactive-winds-head-towards-tokyo-as-some-flee-capital/
But even if these melt down completely, the steel flooring will hold, and it will burn itself out…
Do they say that…no, their agenda is to proclaim doom to all who use nuke power…
Its their agenda.
So what is more crazy, expect the establishment media tell the truth on any subject that can be spun to advance its progressive agenda…or believe the world may end on the 21st?
Its a hard call.
#2 No, they aren’t dullards, they fell victim to the same criterion for truth progressives have…and evidently you also.
There is no pretrib rapture in the teaching Christ:
29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
30 “Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 “And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Mat 24:29-31 NKJ)
Again:
11 “And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write:`Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”
14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
16 So He who sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
(Rev 14:11-16 NKJ)
PreTrib rapture is the product of pseudo charismata revelation, essentially the same revelation that enables progressive “smugness” and “superior attitude” as they drive their PRIUS hybrids looking down on all the Neanderthals who do nothing to stop the planet from erupting into a ball of fire…
The masses have not brains, as they refuse to use only one square of toilet paper to save the planet.
Suck on your fingers, prove your sincerity.
While the deceived go about proclaiming the end of the world and this impoverishes mainly them as they make fools of themselves…they will eventually snap out of it.
But will you ever become a constitutional conservative…that is yet to be determined.
Every wonder why progressives accept the idiotic premise turning down their thermostat…or driving a hybrid, or one square of toilet paper….will really make a global difference in the weather?
Ever wonder how anyone could be so stupid?
Its because they want their lives to matter…they just can’t accept their insignificance…their total inability to affect anything beyond their choice of attire…they can’t even turn one hair gray or black…
They are so desperate to believe they matter, they are perfectly willing to force everyone live by their absurd progressive ideas, just like hated moral busybodies:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.- C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock
Progressive bastards look down their noses at everyone, and misdirect attention to anything that prevents inspection of their belief system…lest we discover just how lunatic it is to believe using one square of toilet paper will save the planet…
AND if we don’t, it will erupt into a ball of fire!!!
What nut cases THEY are.
Compare to the religous nut cases driving in their cars, who are harmless to us…they hurt only themselves, the progressives have taken control of the media, and the IRS, and the regulatory agencies that are strangling our economy…
But we should focus on the religious nuts, and not those in Government…