World to End on Saturday

[defanatic]

's already tomorrow here.

[Colonel Olrik]

Damn it, this means that the mortgage we took yesterday really needs to be paid and so I need to to to work on Monday. Part of me was kind of hoping..

[Iroscato]

Damn it, this means that the mortgage we took yesterday really needs to be paid and so I need to to to work on Monday. Part of me was kind of hoping..

My condolences. Though the alternative was a 5 month period of Hell on Earth as the human race is slowly destroyed, so I really can't see what you're complaining about.

[General Mung Beans]

Apparently the Campingites are insisting we must wait until Midnight Jerusalem Time even though the Hebrew Day (by which Camping "determined" the date) ends at sunset.

[Master of Ossus]

I feel fine.

[Eternal_Freedom]

^I think REM is appropriate right now...

[PeZook]

May 22 is oficially Laugh At The Rapture Not Occuring Day.

[Darmalus]

If you are still on Earth, you best fill out the proper paperwork.

http://i.imgur.com/RnAmQ.jpg

(No idea who to give credit to, or I would.)

[Master of Ossus]

I think these people are in serious danger of being laughed off the face of the Earth.

God doesn't seem terribly involved with it, though.

[FSTargetDrone]

A little bit of disappointment:

Minister's followers wait in vain for world's end

Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, May 21, 2011

(05-21) 12:29 PDT Oakland -- Followers of an Oakland radio minister who predicted that Saturday would mark the start of the world's last days waited in vain for a religious homecoming that never happened.

After driving across country from Maryland with his family in the hope of being taken up to heaven in Rapture with a crowd of fellow believers, Keith Bauer admitted his disappointment Saturday as he stood in an empty parking lot outside the locked Family Radio headquarters in Oakland.

"I was hoping. I think heaven will be a lot better than this earth," the 36-year-old trucker told a knot of reporters who outnumbered visitors at the grimy hub of worldwide speculation about the world's end at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Neither radio employees nor radio minister Harold Camping were in evidence Saturday morning in the station parking lot on Hegenberger Road near the Oakland Airport.

Although it wasn't yet 6 p.m. in Oakland, Bauer and other believers began having doubts about Camping's prophecy when the predicted earthquakes and devastation didn't happen in places like New Zealand, where the minister's predicted day of doom, destruction and religious Rapture had come and gone.

The 89-year-old Camping was unavailable for comment, having said that he wanted to spend what he expected to be his last hours on Earth with his family. He had preached that the Rapture, where believing Christians would be removed bodily from the world, would happen Saturday, with the final end of the world coming five months later, on Oct.21.

"There's definitely a pre-determined date, but that's up to God," Bauer said. "It could still happen today."

A large compound, the radio station was locked up tight Saturday. Razor wire encircled a rear parking lot, adjacent to the radio's warehouse. Through barred windows, it was possible to see boxes stacked up inside. On each box a label had been glued, saying "I hope God will save me -- Harold Camping."

Outside, a poster on the warehouse wall read, "The end of the world is almost here. Holy God will bring judgment day on May 21, 2011."

Yet, considering all the New Zealanders who persisted in remaining alive and unraptured, David Richardson, another visitor, observed, "We're in partial failure mode."

Unlike Bauer, David Richardson hadn't expected otherwise. Richardson, the quality assurance officer at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, isn't a Camping follower. He describes himself as a "compassionist" and had come to the radio station parking lot for reasons other than group rapture.

He was there "to let them know that if the theological speculation of a fallible man fails, then that does not mean God has failed you," Richardson said. "We all make mistakes."

This wasn't Camping's first attempt at using numerology from the Bible to predict the end of the world. Camping hadpredicted that Judgment Day would be in September 1994, a time that passed without incident.

"Predicting the end of the world is a bit like alcoholism," Richardson said. "Once you get started, it's hard to stop."

What small, empty lives these people must leave.

[FSTargetDrone]

Oh, and by the way...

Harold Camping's Family Radio Worth $72m

May 21, 2011 3:52 PM EDT

While Harold Camping's doomsday prediction hasn't panned out, there is one associated with him that is. Camping is the President of California-based Family Radio, a religious broadcasting network that spans more than 150 outlets in the United States.

The non-profit organization received $80 million in contributions between 2005 and 2009.

Their latest IRS filings shows almost all funds are from donations, with $18 million in total in 2009. Based on their financial documents, accountants put the total worth of Family Radio at $72 million. Numerous groups have accused the Family Radio of scamming people to get donations.

However, almost entire group's net worth is tied up in FCC broadcasting licenses, valued at $56 million. Family Radio said it only has $1.5 million in cash on its books at the end of 2009.

Many of Camping's followers have quit their job, given up their houses and their savings to support Camping's prediction.

The nonprofit employed about 350 people and paid them a collective $8.3 million -- or roughly $23,000 per person -- in 2009. Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.

He could not be reached immediately for comment on Saturday.

[Patrick Degan]

There is but one appropriate response to Camping and his flock (and never did that word have such applicability as now):

BWAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA

[Master of Ossus]

Apocalypse? Maybe later.

We should all make doomsday jokes like there's no tomorrow.

[weemadando]

I saw a great quote from someone over at Salon.

"... they said atheists would be laughing on the other side of their face this Saturday, and we're all laughing so much we need every inch of face." -Palindromebeta

[Agent Sorchus]

The only thing that I could say if the rapture had happened today is; Oh so you mean that Duke Nukem Forever isn't coming out before the world ends. What a surprise.

[The Infidel]

Well, it's past midnight and nothing happened. Wow! Amazing... They were wrong again?

Well, there is always 2012...

[Nephtys]

The world cannot end, because how else will Marty McFly visit 2015?

[aerius]

Well, it's past midnight and nothing happened. Wow! Amazing... They were wrong again?

Well, not entirely...

[Lonestar]

[Lord of the Abyss]

I saw a great quote from someone over at Salon.

"... they said atheists would be laughing on the other side of their face this Saturday, and we're all laughing so much we need every inch of face." -Palindromebeta

I like this quote from another forum: "The sky is this funny blue color, not the normal gray. There's no rain falling. And there's a really bright THING in it, so bright you can't look at it. I'm sure this has something to do with the end of the world." - Anne Neville, Pittsburgh

[Alyeska]

6pm and my overly religious room mate is no where to be found. He's either been raptured away or spending time at the bar getting drunk.

[JME2]

If you are still on Earth, you best fill out the proper paperwork.

http://i.imgur.com/RnAmQ.jpg

(No idea who to give credit to, or I would.)

LMAO.

[Patrick Degan]

They're still here?

Shit...

[Havok]

Laser tag in the Vatican. LMAO! Now that would be worth a pilgrimage.

[wautd]

nvm