New deadline set for the end of the world

No1Doyen


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24/05/2011 19:32

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/new-deadline-set-for-the-end-of-the-world-20110524.html



Evangelical priest Harold Camping has set a new date for the world’s end as he backtracked from a prediction that ‘Judgement Day’ was supposed to come last Saturday.



The US Christian, who made headlines for his outlandish claim that a selected 200 million of the world’s population would be raptured, has now marked 21 October 2011 in his calendar as the real date for the apocalypse.



The 89-year-old had previously stated that an earthquake – bigger than anything ever felt before - would strike each corner of the planet by 6pm local time on Saturday 21 May.



But according to Camping’s new end of world forecast, the globe will actually be engulfed by a huge fireball - exactly five months after the botched doomsday prediction.

No1Doyen


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24/05/2011 19:32

Speaking of the failed ‘Judgement Day’ on his radio show last night, he claimed that 21 May 2011 was just an ‘invisible judgement day’ and that he understood it as a spiritual, rather than physical event.



After hiding in a motel for two days, the Californian preacher admitted his Bible-based calculations were incorrect.



He said he believed rapture didn’t come because God decided to spare humanity five months of “hell on earth.”

During his hour-and-a-half radio broadcast, he said: “It won’t be spiritual on 21 October. The world is going to be destroyed all together, but it will be very quick.”



Unfortunately for some doomsday believers, who had spent their time preparing for Saturday’s cataclysmic event by selling their homes and assets, Camping showed no signs of remorse

No1Doyen


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24/05/2011 19:33

One naive follower Robert Fitzpatrick, a retired transport worker put all his faith into Camping’s claims and had spent as much as $140,000 (£86,000) to advertise the doomsday prediction.



Camping told his listeners: “We just had a great recession. There's lots of people who lost their jobs, lots of people who lost their houses... and somehow they all survived.”



“They should have relied on God and not me ... Family Radio is not in the business of financial advice”.



Camping also inaccurately prophesied that the end of the world would occur back in 1994.He reportedly got the date wrong then due to a ‘mathematical error’.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 19:37

I have a prediction for him...

Come 21 October 2011 the rest of the World will still think he's a numpty!

Scoty


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 19:40

Msg 4 - you sure????

philbailey


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 19:44

D F S must be crapping themselves............

Quarmby


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 19:51

Why doesn't this pathetic idiot p... off and do something useful. Typical religious idiot.

vonny


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 20:00

I would think these people would feel like idiots after the day has passed and nothing happened.

If you think the world is going to end, don't tell anyone. Specially not the world! If it does end no 1 will know! If it doesn't then you'd look very stupid.

It's like making a bet at the bookies that the world will end! Lol.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 20:37

Where can I get a bet on that the world won't end for another 100 years at least?