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Harold Camping ruptured.
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Harold Camping ruptured.
June 20, 2011 at 2:14 am
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110613/us_n...het_stroke
Quote:LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping, who rallied thousands of followers with a failed prophecy that the world would come to an end last month, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke, a spokesman said on Monday.

Camping, 89, fell ill following a broadcast of his daily "Open Forum" radio show last Thursday evening in Oakland, California, and was admitted to an undisclosed hospital in the San Francisco Bay area, said Tom Evans, a spokesman for his Family Radio network.

"He's doing well, and that's all we want to say right now," Evans told Reuters by telephone.

He said the Family Network of 66 U.S. stations that carry Camping's show has been airing a periodic announcement about his stroke for listeners, and that the network would play archived broadcasts of his show for the time being.

Camping drew international headlines by predicting the biblical Judgment Day would occur on May 21, launching a doomsday countdown in which some followers spent their life's savings in anticipation of being swept into heaven that day.

But after Camping's prophecy failed to materialize, he said he had simply miscalculated by five months and pronounced a new date for the apocalypse, October 21.

Guess his right about doomsday coming close, for him that is.
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RE: Harold Camping ruptured.
June 20, 2011 at 2:43 am
Quote:But after Camping's prophecy failed to materialize, he said he had simply miscalculated by five months and pronounced a new date for the apocalypse, October 21.


And there will be untold numbers of morons who fall for his shit again....because being a xtian means that the barrel of stupidity has no bottom.
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RE: Harold Camping ruptured.
June 20, 2011 at 10:17 am
You know, I'm actually curious as to whether or not he actually believed he would be around to see his prophecy fail when he made the prediction. I guess we'll never know.
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RE: Harold Camping ruptured.
June 20, 2011 at 10:31 am
Maybe he had medical advice about his coming end, from, say, a Jesus Padre, MD.

"Harold, you're gonna have a stroke any day now. Best get your shit in order."
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RE: Harold Camping ruptured.
June 20, 2011 at 1:52 pm
(June 20, 2011 at 2:43 am)Minimalist Wrote: And there will be untold numbers of morons who fall for his shit again....because being a xtian means that the barrel of stupidity has no bottom.
christians who actually read the bible know that his predictions are silly ....

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RE: Harold Camping ruptured.
June 20, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Would be kinda funny if it was his world that ends on October 21.
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RE: Harold Camping ruptured.
June 20, 2011 at 3:19 pm
(June 20, 2011 at 1:52 pm)bbrettle Wrote:
(June 20, 2011 at 2:43 am)Minimalist Wrote: And there will be untold numbers of morons who fall for his shit again....because being a xtian means that the barrel of stupidity has no bottom.
christians who actually read the bible know that his predictions are silly ....

They all cherry-pick to one degree or another.

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