Are You Prepared?
I’m sure you’ve seen the signs everywhere – May 21 Judgment Day. What’s it all about?
On May 21, “starting in the Pacific Rim at around the 6 p.m. local time hour, in each time zone, there will be a great earthquake, such as has never been in the history of the Earth,” he says. The true Christian believers — he hopes he’s one of them — will be “raptured”: They’ll fly upward to heaven. And for the rest?
“It’s just the horror of horror stories,” he says, “and on top of all that, there’s no more salvation at that point. And then the Bible says it will be 153 days later that the entire universe and planet Earth will be destroyed forever.”
That seems very specific. I think that means it will be 9 PM our time. Have you been packing a travel bag? Some people are taking this very seriously.
Camping’s predictions have inspired other groups to rally behind the May 21 date. People have quit their jobs and left their families to get the message out.
“Knowing the date of the end of the world changes all your future plans,” says 27-year-old Adrienne Martinez.
She thought she’d go to medical school, until she began tuning in to Family Radio. She and her husband, Joel, lived and worked in New York City. But a year ago, they decided they wanted to spend their remaining time on Earth with their infant daughter.
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Now they are in Orlando, in a rented house, passing out tracts and reading the Bible. Their daughter is 2 years old, and their second child is due in June. Joel says they’re spending the last of their savings. They don’t see a need for one more dollar.
It seems odd doesn’t it? They’ve stopped working to prepare for the end of the world but are also expecting a child? Talk about hedging your bets.
This si the kind of stuff that bothers me with religious cults. They affect the vulnerable. I’ll bet Harold Camping will be just fine. What about the people who are still very young and are spending the last of their money. What will happen to them when the prophecy doesn’t arrive?
Tags: Religious Fanatics
“…People have quit their jobs and left their families to get the message out.”
Cuz.. you know, Jesus LOVES that.
I went to see O Beautiful this past weekend at UD. Jesus is one of the characters in the play and he drifts through in torn blue jeans and tie-died tee-shirt. He often speaks in vernacular with the same accent as the character he’s addressing. At one point a character asks him why he does this and he replies that he doesn’t, it is just that people hear him that way. And, they hear whatever they want him to be saying, not what he actually says.
Just one of the Oh Wow moments in the show. If you can get a ticket I highly recommend it.
“… Family Radio, a Christian network worth more than $100 million.”
I wonder how much it will be worth on May 22nd?
Auntie Dem. I heard great things about that show as well.
I wonder if Family Radio is giving free airtime or if they’re still selling radio ads. Because if Camping truly believes what he’s preaching, there’s no need to generate revenue. He should have planned it out like that family and figure on the company being bankrupt on May 21 since there won’t be a May 22.
Otherwise, he’s a hypocr… yeah.
This group was on a corner in Wilmington a few months ago:
http://www.drl2.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/doom.jpg (sorry for lousy cell phone shot)
And my take on how they should have designed their advertising:
http://www.drl2.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/savedateodo_poster.jpg
There’s a group that’s created a “Countdown to Backpedaling” site tracking the number of days until the excuses start flowing as to why Jesus missed another deadline. They’re also planning a “The End is Nah” event on the 22nd. http://www.wecantknow.com/
Cool..this will be my second apoycolypse! The first one I was about 10 and when the sky didn’t go dark I askedif I still had to go to school …they said yes
I’ve been a skeptic ever since.
The rabble rousing of the week-minded…
I see the analogy to the RS claiming that if the Dems won in 2012 life for Americans is dead
Does anyone else see the similie n this?
I stopped paying my bills but I am wondering what I can do with the money:)
Give it to the rich, since they’re gonna have a harder time gettin into heaven.
Stoneys on 202 (located right under one of those billboards) is having an “end of the world afterparty” on the 22nd. We’re getting lunch reservations.
The *BEST* fish & chips ever are at Stoneys.
“She thought she’d go to medical school, until she began tuning in to Family Radio.”
I’m thankful for small blessings. I wouldn’t want her treating me.
But Venus, how would the money help them:)? Just sayin’
St. Philapina pray for
usanother 3 months of billboard rent on I95 so we all can mutter WTF?!? under our breath.Fools and their money, so they say…..
I’ve been tearing off mattress tags,spitting on sidewalks and “forgetting” to put coins in parking meters.
I know I’ll burn, but my mad insurrection feels so right.
I wouldn’t work so hard, skip — save your strength for the Afterparty at Stoney’s.
Yeah Cassandra, I’ll make the party if I’m not vaporized or in jail.
Camping is a loon. He’s been predicting the “end of days” since the early 1990s, when he published the book “1994?” A lot of morons believed him then & quit their jobs, donated their savings to Family Radio, etc. Needless to say, many were pretty pissed off when the world did not end & they were destitute & jobless.
My Father-in-law told me a story about the last time this guy predicted the end of the world. He told me that one of his employees came to him telling him that he was going to resign and pack his family up and move out west until the rapture. My FiL ended up talking the guy down using his extensive biblical knowledge to disprove this loon and pretty much saved this guys career. About a year later the guy thanked him for talking him out of it.
I swear, this guy must just get off on the attention. He should just start a blog, that’s what all of the attention seekers I know do.
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These folks were in DC last week.
And nothing can happen on the 21st – one of my students is having his Bar Mitzvah that night and I’d hate to see an entire year’s worth of teaching go up in smoke. That and it’s going to be a hell of a party (no pun intended). 🙂