Officially the unofficial countdown to the end of the world thread: Doomsday!

[Hayabusa Rider]

Meh, you just have to be a born again to live. That just requires saying
"Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name I repent of my sins and open my heart to let Jesus come inside of me.
Jesus, You are my Lord and Savior. I believe you died for my sins and you were raised from the dead.
Fill me with your Holy Spirit. Thank You Father for saving me in Jesus' name. Amen."
And viola, you're saved! As a bonus, you never have to do it again, you're always saved!

In most christian teachings that's not right. To repent means to turn completely away from what you've done that would require forgiveness. It is an active process of reformation, not saying words. That said, Camping believes that no human act gains access to The Executive Washroom. You were selected before you existed and that is unalterable. To utterly repent seems useless. You are born screwed or not.

 

[Cogman]

In most christian teachings that's not right. To repent means to turn completely away from what you've done that would require forgiveness. It is an active process of reformation, not saying words. That said, Camping believes that no human act gains access to The Executive Washroom. You were selected before you existed and that is unalterable. To utterly repent seems useless. You are born screwed or not.

*edit* Never mind, you are right. I though Camping was a born again, he isn't.

 

[sdifox]

Sigh, local free paper "Metro" has the ad on it.

I like the footnote:
NOTE TO ALL READERS:
Please buy multiple copies of this paper and send an original to your leaders, relatives and friends with a personalized note pleading them to heed the warning.

 

[Jeff7]

I'm just leaving this here because it will be AWESOME to see how he backtracks out of it.

Unfortunately, the real backtracking won't come until October 21st. When he finds himself and everyone he knows still very much alive and on Earth after the 21st, assuming they don't partake of some Thallium-Arsenic-Twist Kool-Aid®, he'll just say that he wasn't one of the chosen ones, and that the end is still coming.

Sigh, local free paper "Metro" has the ad on it.

I like the footnote:
NOTE TO ALL READERS:
Please buy multiple copies of this paper and send an original to your leaders, relatives and friends with a personalized note pleading them to heed the warning.

So of course, the next question is, if God's determined from the start of time who's going to stay and who isn't, and there's nothing you can do about it, what's the use of warning anyone about it?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

*edit* Never mind, you are right. I though Camping was a born again, he isn't.

Even worse he's an engineer by training so you would think he would understand that internal consistency is required not optional. Forgot the premise for the moment and consider that we are supposed to beg for forgiveness because as he says god won't reject a contrite heart, but fate predetermined outcome making contrition useless. He's logically flawed because two core principles are mutually exclusive. Even if one accepts the date thing it still inconsistent. Short version is that he's a loon.

 

[IGBT]

sounds like the eco-KOOK alarmist sky is falling warmers trying a new hoax.

 

[Cogman]

Unfortunately, the real backtracking won't come until October 21st. When he finds himself and everyone he knows still very much alive and on Earth after the 21st, assuming they don't partake of some Thallium-Arsenic-Twist Kool-Aid®, he'll just say that he wasn't one of the chosen ones, and that the end is still coming.

hmm, Maybe, however there is a lot of stuff that he is predicting that (hopefully) just won't happen. The huge earthquake, for example, is sort of hard to get around.

So of course, the next question is, if God's determined from the start of time who's going to stay and who isn't, and there's nothing you can do about it, what's the use of warning anyone about it?

Because in order to save people, god has to make sure that they want to be saved, even though he already knows that they do want to be saved, but he loves them so he has to be sure that he is sure, though he is never unsure, but he knows what we know he knows about them.... It all makes perfect sense!

 

[sdifox]

sounds like the eco-KOOK alarmist sky is falling warmers trying a new hoax.

err, whut?

 

[Iron Woode]

err, whut?

he speaketh the truth.

and the world hasn't ended even though it is now the 21st in parts of the world.

 

[NoStateofMind]

he speaketh the truth.

and the world hasn't ended even though it is now the 21st in parts of the world.

The rapture is taking place in each timezone sequentially, duh!

I'm going outside at midnight to watch people get sucked up into the air.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

he speaketh the truth.

and the world hasn't ended even though it is now the 21st in parts of the world.

It ain't over until it's 5/22 in all parts of the world.

Camping backed himself into a corner with not allowing any wiggle room at all. According to him this isn't his prediction, but decreed by The Big Guy and therefore infallible. His show is on locally so I have had a chance to listen in. Granted a couple minutes at a time is all I can take, but there's not much to it.

Since many of his faithful have quit their jobs and material possessions with nothing to fall back on I suspect that Camping is a dead man walking.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The rapture is taking place in each timezone sequentially, duh!

I'm going outside at midnight to watch people get sucked up into the air.

The sun rises at midnight where you live?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

If we are all dead, how are we going to imagine it happened, or even be able to say I told you so?

 

[Jaepheth]

I'm just gonna say it now...

I'll die laughing if tomorrow there's a big earthquake, but instead of a rapture Cthulhu rises from the sea and begins devouring people.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

did any of you get one of these 'end of the world' chicks to bang cause we're all gonna die tomrrow?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

did any of you get one of these 'end of the world' chicks to bang cause we're all gonna die tomrrow?

Plenty of time, should be the most used pick up line tonight at the clubs.

 

[JS80]

Any predictions on Camping's "backup" plan for Sunday May 22? Or do you think he will go into hiding and pretend like he got raptured?

 

[Cogman]

Any predictions on Camping's "backup" plan for Sunday May 22? Or do you think he will go into hiding and pretend like he got raptured?

My bet is he will do what the Jehova's witnesses did, change his story on what he was predicting. "Oh, I wasn't predicting the second coming of christ to earth, LOL, He really went to mars. Earth is going to be, uh, May 23, 2014."

 

[BoomerD]

I just wish I could meet some of the fools who believe this shit...and talk them into giving me all their stuffs...

"After all, when you're gone in the rapture, you're not going to need it...you CAN'T take it with you..."

 

[NoStateofMind]

I just wish I could meet some of the fools who believe this shit...and talk them into giving me all their stuffs...

"After all, when you're gone in the rapture, you're not going to need it...you CAN'T take it with you..."

Yeah I've tried this. Shows how much they really believe.

 

[Triumph]

www.familyradio.com is getting hammered. i should've donated before ahead of time, so they could upgrade their servers. in our hour of need, their website is letting all of us down.

 

[Jeff7]

err, whut?

He's off his meds again.

hmm, Maybe, however there is a lot of stuff that he is predicting that (hopefully) just won't happen. The huge earthquake, for example, is sort of hard to get around.

The quake did happen - it just happened where there weren't any seismic detectors. :awe:

Because in order to save people, god has to make sure that they want to be saved, even though he already knows that they do want to be saved, but he loves them so he has to be sure that he is sure, though he is never unsure, but he knows what we know he knows about them.... It all makes perfect sense!

It's a logical singularity! Run!

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

www.familyradio.com is getting hammered. i should've donated before ahead of time, so they could upgrade their servers. in our hour of need, their website is letting all of us down.

It's dead Jim.

 

[Crono]

All this attention because an 89 year old so-called theologian doesn't understand what a simile or metaphor is.

 

[Tim]

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