phishtaper Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 im wondering, should i get groceries tonight? or, risk it and get them tomorrow morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 I think you've got until 6pm tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 is that Eastern Standard Time or Eastern Crazy Time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffhead77 Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 I think it starts around midnight. Depending if Jesus gets stuck in traffic or not. What were they thinking scheduling this on the long weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Eastern Specific Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybone Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 I hope it is not until after dinner.Our "Last Supper" should be epic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Be careful if Fluffhead invites you for a stroll in the garden afterward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 It should start to take in Australia first so we can use that as a baseline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Kirk Cameron seems to know a thing or two about Rapture/Apocalypse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bONES Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 I think tomorrow is judgement day.We still have 5 months of suffering before the world ends on October 21st.I'd buy groceries if I were you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 I just fought the end of my bbq due to some rapture shit with some really awesome wood firing skills. Still got the ribs smoking! Screw You Rapture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 I hope it is not until after dinner.Our "Last Supper" should be epic! :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 my eight year old kid's excuse for eating a freezie at 1oPM rather than going to bed:"but the world is going to end tomorrow Dad!"we had to give in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 I read somewhere that a bunch of people are buying inflatable sex dolls, filling them with helium and then releasing them all at once just to screw with the fundies.3:11 Korean time, still no sign of vanishing people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 it's happening at 6PM EST. which means it'll be May 22 in much of the world. but Jesus was last seen in upstate New York, so Eastern time does kind of make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgnor Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 (edited) Somebody's gonna have to postpone this thing. I don't have time for the end of the world right now, I have too much shit to do. Whose end-time is this anyhow? Whatever happened to 2012? I'm ready for that. Edited May 21, 2011 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 pHCdS7O248g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 ahh crrrap!! Wish I'd seen this earlier!! Laying out clothes like that in key spots, woulda been f'ing hillarious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 Nicolaitanes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeker Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 Macho Man has sacrificed himself to save us all from the Rapture. Thanks Randy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elemeno Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 today is only judgement day. the rapture takes places oct 21,2011. looks like we still got time to do it up right!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgnor Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Noige! I knew this couldn't be right. Les didn't have it circled on the calendar and she knows when EVERYTHING is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 well, it looks like Harold Camping was wrong after all. quelle surprise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_rawk Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 OAKLAND -- If the universe started with a big bang, Saturday's non-rapture qualifies as a big whimper -- or maybe just a big bust. Though the tremendous earthquake and ascension into heaven of the faithful predicted by Doomsday prophet Harold Camping did not happen, there were lessons to be learned from the most-hyped non-event since Y2K. "For those who were invested in this prediction, their world did end Saturday," said Rev. Jeremy Nickel, the minister at Fremont's Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation. "They thought they were going to heaven, and they didn't. They may have donated all their money. They're going to be in a world of hurt." Billboards guaranteeing the end of the world Saturday were almost as ubiquitous as Starbucks outlets in the Bay Area and the world and just as galvanizing to followers, who donated more than $100 million over the past seven years and drove RVs all over the United States to alert people of the coming rapture. Oakland-based Family Radio, with 66 radio stations across the globe, was uncharacteristically quiet Saturday, its website down. The Alameda home of Harold Camping, president of Family Radio, was deserted Saturday and he was not answering his phone. The only pilgrims at the station's Hegenberger Road office Saturday morning were media and Keith Bauer -- who hopped in his minivan in Maryland and drove his family 3,000 miles to California for the Rapture. "I had some skepticism Advertisement but I was trying to push the skepticism away because I believe in God," he said in the bright morning sun. "I was hoping for it because I think heaven would be a lot better than this earth." Bauer, a tractor-trailer driver, began the voyage west last week, figuring that if he "worked last week, I wouldn't have gotten paid anyway, if the Rapture did happen." After seeing the nonprofit ministry's base of operations, Bauer planned to take a day trip to the Pacific Ocean, and then start the cross-country drive back home Sunday with his wife, young son and another family relative. Meanwhile, in downtown Oakland about 200 atheists attended the American Atheists convention commemorating (mostly mocking) the rapture. "Here's the takeaway," said Richard Hodill of San Mateo, who staffed the registration table at the atheist convention. "Learn to be a discriminating and critical thinker. Base your life on evidence-based reasoning. Religion exploits people to their detriment." Indeed, the ever-irreverant Bay Area reacted to the non-Rapture in its own unique fashion, with End of the World garage sales, a Zombie crawl to raise money for Oakland libraries and a gathering at Family Radio headquarters that was a cross between a Raiders tailgate party and a Grateful Dead parking lot celebration. "I came here because I am interested in cognitive dissonance, or how people react when their prophesies fail," said Peter Persoff, of Piedmont, as he stood in the Family Radio parking lot, where locked glass doors revealed only a darkened, silent interior. "I hoped to be around with these guys as the news came in and nothing was happening." "What better place to observe the Rapture than in a bar with a drink in your hand?" said Rebecca Auerbach, who organized a party at Jerry's Cocktail Lounge in her Richmond neighborhood. Less than a mile from Camping's Alameda home, a UC Berkeley anthropology graduate student held a rapture moving sale, advertising on Craigslist: "If you are not planning on getting raptured tomorrow, then you might need some stuff." "I think people are still into private possessions," said Mather, who declined to give her last name. "The sale went great. I'm feeling lighter already, although I'm not levitating anywhere." There was a happy resolution in Boyes Hot Springs, a town near Sonoma, where a Family Radio believer William Tinker relinquished his cockatoo, Senegal parrot and cat to a county animal control officer. Tinker had threatened to kill his pets in advance of Judgment Day, but with the help of the Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue, he turned his pets over to authorities, said Mickaboo volunteer Vincent Hrovat. There was one thing Christians and Muslims, Unitarians and Catholics all seemed to agree upon with regard to Camping's prediction. "In my view it just doesn't square with Biblical revelation, which clearly suggests that according to the 25th chapter of Matthew's Gospel we neither know the day nor the hour that the end times will begin," said Gregory Chisholm, pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church of Oakland. "So if one were really trying to help people prepare for the end times, one would counsel people to minister to the sick and feed the hungry and visit those who are in prison, because that's exactly what the Lord says to do," Chisholm said. A Muslim spiritual leader agreed. "Our understanding is the same as the Christian understanding in the Bible. No man knows when the end will come," said Khurram Shah, president of the Contra Costa County chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Bay Point. Given that Camping already unsuccessfully predicted the end of the world in 1994, Shah's words seemed to ring true. "I don't think people should live in fear. If I didn't think positive, I wouldn't be able to do what I do," said Lisa Chichard, who has been Camping's neighbor for more than 50 years and was standing at the gate of her home next door to Camping Saturday. Chichard is a special education teacher at Oakland High School, working with severely handicapped children. "I grew up with the Campings. They are hardworking people and I respect his Biblical scholarship," said Chichard, standing at the gate of her home. "But I don't necessarily think in such apocalyptic terms." "If you live every day to its fullest and do the right thing, when the world ends, you'll be all right." Sue Espinoza was planted before the television, awaiting news of her father's now infamous prediction: cataclysmic earthquakes auguring the end of humanity. God's wrath was supposed to begin in New Zealand and then race across the globe, leaving millions of bodies wherever the clock struck 6 p.m. But the hours ticked by, and New Zealand survived. Time zone by time zone, the apocalypse failed to materialize. On Saturday morning, Espinoza, 60, received a phone call from her father, Harold Camping, the 89-year-old Oakland preacher who has spent some $100 million — and countless hours on his radio and TV show — announcing May 21 as Judgment Day. "He just said, 'I'm a little bewildered that it didn't happen, but it's still May 21 [in the United States],'" Espinoza said, standing in the doorway of her Alameda home. "It's going to be May 21 from now until midnight." But to others who put stock in Camping's prophecy, disillusionment was already profound by late morning. To them, it was clear the world and its woes would make it through the weekend. Keith Bauer, a 38-year-old tractor-trailer driver from Westminster, Md., took last week off from work, packed his wife, young son and a relative in their SUV and crossed the country. If it was his last week on Earth, he wanted to see parts of it he'd always heard about but missed, such as the Grand Canyon and the Painted Forest. With maxed-out credit cards and a growing mountain of bills, he said, the rapture would have been a relief. On Saturday morning, Bauer was parked in front of the Oakland headquarters of Camping's Family Radio empire, half expecting to see an angry mob of disenchanted believers howling for the preacher's head. The office was closed, and the street was mostly deserted save for journalists. Bauer said he was not bitter. "Worst-case scenario for me, I got to see the country," he said. "If I should be angry at anybody, it should be me." Tom Evans, who acted as Camping's PR aide in recent months, took his family to Ohio to await the rapture. Early next week, he said, he would be returning to California. "You can imagine we're pretty disappointed, but the word of God is still true," he said. "We obviously went too far, and that's something we need to learn from." Despite the failure of Camping's prediction, however, he said he might continue working for him. "As bad as it appears—and there's no getting around it, it is bad, flat-out—I have not found anything close to the faithfulness of Family Radio," he said. Others had risked a lot more on Camping's prediction, quitting jobs, abandoning relationships, volunteering months of their time to spread the word. Matt Tuter, the longtime producer of Camping's radio and television call-in show, said Saturday that he expected there to be "a lot of angry people" as reality proved Camping wrong. Tuter said Family Radio's AM station in Sacramento had been "severely vandalized" Friday night or Saturday morning, with air conditioning units yanked out and $25,000 worth of copper stripped from the equipment. He thinks it must have been an angry listener. He was off Saturday but planned to drive past the headquarters "and make sure nothing's burning." Camping himself, who has given innumerable interviews in recent months, was staying out of sight Saturday. No one answered the door at his Alameda home, though neighbors said he was there. By late afternoon, a small crowd had gathered in front of Camping's Oakland headquarters. There were atheists blowing up balloons in human form, which were released into the sky just after 6 p.m. in a mockery of the rapture. Someone played a CD of "The End" by the Doors, amid much laughter. There were also Christians, like James Bynum, a 45-year-old deacon at Calvary Baptist Church in Milpitas, holding signs that declared Harold Camping a false prophet. He said he was there to comfort disillusioned believers. "Harold Camping will never hand out poisoned Kool-Aid," Bynum said. "It's not that kind of a cult. But he has set up a system that will destroy some people's lives." If nothing else, guess you gotta give him credit for the balls on him. I'd be nervous to venture out so far out on a limb as to suggest that it may or may not rain on any given day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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