The Sad Thing Is....

[Rayaan]

He's getting just what he wants and has you all giving it to him, attention.

True, but I believe he's mostly getting a negative attention.

[Zen Badger]

Sadly, he'll find plenty of gullible fools still willing to follow him.

[Jax]

Sadly, no one has thrown him into an asylum yet.

[Doubting Thomas]

Unfortunately you can't just round up crazy people and throw them into the loony bin like the good ol' days. But if Camping needed a theme song, I'm sure that nothing would work better than "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha."

[Faith No More]

I've come to the conclusion that people like Camping are not the problem. The problem is the idiots that think there is some sort of legitimacy to these prophecies. There will always be some nutjob screaming that the end of the world is coming so what we need to do is make people understand it's all nonsense. However, maybe we should be leading these lambs to the slaughter to weed them out of the gene pool and the voting population.

[Doubting Thomas]

I think the root of the problem is that people give the bible so much credence. Most people who make ridiculous claims use the bible as their inspiration. Harold Camping even said that the bible guarantees that he's right. You and I know that the bible is just a bunch of superstitious nonsense written down by primitive, superstitious men who didn't know any better. But too many people take it as absolute irrefutable truth, probably because they've never actually read it.

[Ace Otana]

Saturday was "an invisible judgment day" in which a spiritual judgment took place, he said. But the timing and the structure is the same as it has always been, he said.

I love this bit. "Oh it wasn't material, it was spiritual". Yep, spiritual, the very thing we cannot test, observe, study and verify. How so very convenient. Something to be rejected on the spot.
Can't test or verify that for which does not exist.

BTW, I've had a spiritual connection with Odin and we had this 'spiritual' conversation. He told me that all agnostics, atheists, secularists and the like will be alright. We'll have this planet all to ourselves and that all theists will perish in hell. After all the evil theists are gone, he said he'll give us the fountain of youth so we can live on forever right here. Quite reassuring.
And because it was a personal experience and spiritual it cannot be disproven, so it must be true!

[Violet]

He's getting just what he wants and has you all giving it to him, attention.

I give my attention to a joke... for all I register this could be Sarah Palin or George Bush spouting this nonsense. It isn't this time.. and I really don't care who it is: it's still mildly humorous that some people thing a world can "end".

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And I think the problem is that children aren't tickled enough these days. The solution: THE RETURN OF THE TICKLE MONSTER!

[Minimalist]

But too many people take it as absolute irrefutable truth,

Yep...they treat it as if it were a fucking bible or something.

[Faith No More]

I think the root of the problem is that people give the bible so much credence. Most people who make ridiculous claims use the bible as their inspiration. Harold Camping even said that the bible guarantees that he's right. You and I know that the bible is just a bunch of superstitious nonsense written down by primitive, superstitious men who didn't know any better. But too many people take it as absolute irrefutable truth, probably because they've never actually read it.

This is a good point. I wonder how many of his followers actually asked him to explain how he got the date. Too many people just rely on others for their source of knowledge in the bible because the person claims religious authority. One of the most common paths of deconversion is actually picking up the bible and reading it for yourself.