Harold Camping dead at 92

[JesusHChrist]

These folks have it right; make the prophecy far enough out that there is little chance of getting called on it. Plenty of time to make revisions as new information becomes available. We will welcome the elohim with open arms? Will they ranch us like cattle and turn us into homo hamburgeris? What wine goes best with H. Hamburgeris?

2035 The Raëlians are working hard to establish an embassy in Jerusalem in anticipation of the 2035 arrival of aliens called "elohim", who will usher in a New Age. However, their arrival is contingent on the completion of the embassy. (Robbins p.164)

and a prophecy from those devil-worshiping scientists, sure to occur!

ca. 4,500,000,000 AD The sun will swell into a red giant star, swallowing Mercury, Venus, Earth, and perhaps Mars. This will be the true end of the world!

http://www.abhota.info/end6.htm

[Tonus]

That's a pretty good run, and he was actually capable of admitting he was wrong. I hope it was peaceful.

That's the odd part:

On Saturday, November 30th, Mr. Camping sustained a fall in his home, and he was not able to recover from his injuries. He passed away peacefully in his home

He passed away peacefully from the injuries sustained in what I can only imagine was a pretty violent fall. That's like dying peacefully from a gunshot wound, it seems to me.

He is a reminder that being wholly convinced that you are right doesn't mean much if you happen to be wrong. By all accounts, Camping was utterly shocked when May 21, 2011 came and went without incident. But that didn't stop him from what amounted to admitting a rounding error and giving it another go. When October 21, 2011 passed as uneventfully he appears to have decided that end-of-world predictions wasn't really his bag, baby.

Afterwards Camping apparently discovered the teachings of Jesus Christ, who said it was a waste of time to try and predict the end of the world and it wasn't up to puny humans to do so anyway. It's a great example of how some Christians can simply hop from one justification to another with the expectation that this wipes the record clean. "Oh, my end-of-world predictions didn't pan out? PRAISE GOD!!" Sure thing, bud. Whatever you say.

[Doubting Thomas]

I used to hear him on shortwave, and at the time I didn't know what his name was (I didn't bother to sit and listen to his whole show) but I called him "Brother Sominex" because his voice was always this droning monotone going on and on about religion. I didn't learn his name until he made the May 21, 2011 prediction.

I still have the recording I made of WYFR's May 21 broadcast claiming that "This day has to be the day of the rapture" and giving reasons for it, mainly that Harold Camping has studied the bible for a long, long time.

I seem to recall that once the original date passed he came up with a new one that was about 6 months later - anyone else remember that?

Actually he initially predicted that the rapture would happen on May 21 and the tribulation would begin, ending with the end of the world on October 21. After May 21 came and went, he claimed it was a "spiritual rapture" and not a physical, fly-me-up-to-heaven rapture. Then after Oct. 21 came and went, he admitted that he was completely baffled and vowed to get out of the doomsday prediction game.

Of course all that was quickly forgotten with all the stupid Dec. 21, 2012 doomsday crap being hyped up the next year.

[Ryantology]

Funny that the Lord was quiet about 12/15/2013 when he was handing out prophecies to the guy.

[Doubting Thomas]

Yeah, why is it that none of these "prophets" ever manage to predict their own death? In a similar vein:



Sylvia Browne failed to predict her own death, too.

[Manowar]

I hate saying this but death is not always a bad thing. This guy hurt many people who spent their life savings. Camping was so distressed that less than a month after his prediction he suffered a stroke. Serves him right

manowar