Judgement Day is coming

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Some Say Judgment Day Will Take Place Saturday, May 21, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011 Zondra Hughes
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Harold Camping predicts Christ will return on May 21, 2011.

Judgment Day is just a few days away. Christ will return on May 21, 2011, according to Harold Camping, founder of We Can Know radio.

Camping has been spreading the word about the final days via his Christian Network (that consists of a radio station and companion website), www.wecanknow.com.

We Can Know is the organization behind a series of biblical billboards that bear the date of the Rapture. The organization’s philosophy is that, “We can know something about how God will behave in the future by looking at how He has behaved in the past (Hebrews 13:8). Since He has given advance notice of the precise timing for judgment in the past, we should not be surprised that He is revealing the timing of the end today.”

The We Can Know end of the world campaign has included bumper stickers, pamphlets and even a few mainstream interviews to get the message out.

Follower Kevin Brown said to NPR that God has told him to spread the word about May 21, 2011. “People need to know,” Kevin Brown told NPR, “and God commands us to share the Gospel about the end of the world. He says if we do not share the Gospel then their blood will be on our hands, whether they believe or not. God’s been moving me to do this.”

Camping arrived at the date by the Good Book, which he says predicts that the Rapture is to occur 7,000 years after God’s first warning about the flood. Camping said the flood happened in 4990 B.C., on what would have been May 21 on today’s calendar.

One day equals 1,000 years to God, and God gave Noah one week of warning. And thus, there is a 7,000-year gap between Noah’s flood and the Rapture, bringing us to May 21, 2011.

Not everyone believes the clock will run out on May 21. The American Vision organization points out that Camping initially said the end of the world would occur in 1994.

“In spite of the failure of his 1994 Rapture prediction, Harold Camping is predicting May 21, 2011, as the date the Rapture will take place,” the organization states. “American Vision is so confident that Camping is wrong, we are holding our National Prophecy Conference just a few weeks after his predicted rapture date.”

Judgment Day is also a great week to throw a party, according to the American Atheists, who do not believe in God. The Atheists are hosting a Rapture after-party to prove that Camping is wrong. –zondra hughes

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

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[Over-Head]

I'll be in my shed, ahhhh.........preparing


Besides as the JW's always said, "No one knows the exact time, but were in the last days, the light is getting brighter, there's a new thought, this old system is doomed, paradise on earth is at hand....."

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Doesn't matter. They're still allowed into heaven. It's in Jesus' teachings. Repent.

Repent Repent Repent, Love God and all will be forgiven. And if you don't know Christ, you can't possible have a relationship with him. That's what the entire new testimant is about. Being a good person and building your relationship with Christ.

And how can someone who has no understanding of Christian fundamentals know that that's Wrong?

What about sacrafices? The Mayans didn't think that what they were doing was wrong. They thought they were honoring their Gods.

That's what is misunderstood heavily.

You think that just because you get down on your knees, and tell God more lies about how you repent your sins that you are automatically forgiven?
God doesn't say lie about repenting....

He says REPENT!! The only people who truly repent, are people who are sorry for what they have done, and what they've become.
And they will be forgiven. People make mistakes. HUGE mistakes. Everone deserves a 2nd chance.

re·pent1    
[ri-pent] Show IPA
–verb (used without object)
1.
to feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct; regret or be conscience-stricken about a past action, attitude, etc. (often followed by of ): He repented after his thoughtless act.
2.
to feel such sorrow for sin or fault as to be disposed to change one's life for the better; be penitent.

Penitence, can be gained, and lost.

[4th and Long]

This Saturday in Times Square, Robert Fitzpatrick will be waiting for the world to end.

This 60-year-old MTA retiree from Staten Island joins the hordes who follow the Biblical calculation of Family Radio preacher Harold Camping. Camping predicts that the end of days is near -- in fact, it's tomorrow, May 21, at about 5:59 p.m. ET.

"Judgment day will begin very shortly before midnight Jerusalem standard time. I think it's going to be instantaneous. Everything will be destroyed and God is going to create a new heaven and a new earth," says Fitzpatrick, who spent his $140,000 life savings to have 3,000 posters put up in New York City's subway and bus system, warning of this impending End of Days.

Though many are chalking up this May 21 hysteria to religious zeal, leaders among mainstream Christian denominations have largely condemned date-setting, citing Bible verses that say no man can know the time of the Rapture.

Why are Fitzpatrick and those on Family Radio's recent proselytizing tour convinced that the end is upon us, despite centuries of failed predictions?

That's hard to answer, but psychologists and religious scholars say it derives from a number of very human urges: from the fear of death to the desire for justice to the fatalistic despair that this world is too broken ever to be fixed.

Although there's no way to gauge how many people actually think the world will end with a bang (or a whimper) on Saturday, doomsday is big in the U.S.

"Thirty to forty percent of Americans report believing that the end times are coming eventually, so while most reject the teachings of Camping, there is a strong strain of this kind of thinking in this country," says Christian Lane, author of "The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty."

So for some, anxiety spurred by the recent natural and economic disasters makes apocalyptic thinking more appealing, he says. "It becomes easier to convince people that things are getting worse and that the answer will come through divine dispensation, rather than have them face the fact that humanity must fix its own problems."
Gary Laderman, chairman of the department of religion at Emory University, says the story of ultimate reckoning is very popular in religious texts and popular culture.
"It's a scenario where you can pinpoint the heroes from the villains, good from evil. It's a powerful story that people identify with. It's not so foreign to be fixated on the end of the world, our society today just fixates on it in popular culture instead, with Armageddon movies," he says.

Nevertheless, Camping's campaign isn't likely to win many converts, says Stephen O'Leary, an expert in religious communication at University of Southern California.
"The people following his predictions are apocalyptic enthusiasts already looking for signs of the end times. They want to reinforce their idea that these are the last days," he says. They are "unable to face up to the reality of their mistakes and misplaced faith when the prophecy is wrong," he adds.

Waiting For the World to End

"These people are so eager for this 'setting right of all injustices' that they make the mistakes so many have made in the past. These predictions have come and gone literally hundreds of times," he says.

But behind the eagerness is a dichotomy between hope for the "new world" and fear over the ending of this one, religious experts say.

With their buses emblazoned with slogans and their neon-colored T-shirts, Camping's followers have been, at times, jubilant as they spread the "awesome news" that "the End of the World is almost here!" Fitzpatrick seems to share none of their glee.

With only hours remaining before he believes most of the people of the world will be condemned forever, Fitzpatrick echoes his subway ads, urging others to pray. His voice has nothing of the preacher's fervor.

"This is a time for sorrow and sobriety. We all have people we love who have no interest in this and the Bible tells us that these people will perish. A lot of children are going to die," he says.

[Dave Lane]

Are we there yet?

I need to know if I should set up my scopes for Saturday night viewing. Its a lot of work and if the world is ending or there's gonna be 20% of the people that disappear I may need to check see if they left any better scopes laying about.

[Dave Lane]

"the fatalistic despair that this world is too broken ever to be fixed."

Are you ****ing kidding me? This is the most awesome time to live in all of history! Other than to move forward a few years, there is no time in history that has ever been this awesome.

We are all very very lucky to live in this time. Even after tomorrow.

[4th and Long]

Pop Culture Signs That Doomsday Is Upon Us

10 crazy reasons the end of days might actually be here.

10. If Oprah Winfrey's ending her talk show, the whole world might as well end with it. Ahead of May 21, 2011, ABCNews.com put together a list of examples from pop culture that suggest Doomsday may indeed be upon us. Winfrey has held court as the queen of the daytime talk show for so long (25 years, to be specific) that it seems inconceiveable she'll end her reign on May 25. But maybe the big O knows something we don't ...

9. Think about the most famous people on TV these days. Jerry Seinfeld? Nope. Jennifer Aniston? Gone to the big screen. Instead, we have self-made reality TV stars like Bethenny Frankel and Kim Kardashian. Frankel recently made a reported $120 million by selling a line of low calorie cocktails to a major liquor distributor. Kim Kardashian reportely made $65 million in 2010. "Jersey Shore's" pouffy princess Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi got $32,000 to lecture to students at Rutgers University. Remember, these people got famous just by being themselves. Call it luck, call it talent, or call it a sign that the world's gone mad.

8. The comeback of leggings was disturbing enough. Jeggings, in all their acid wash and dark rinse glory, might be seen as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

7. But they're not worse than denim diapers. Putting jeans on a baby's bare bottom? Have we all gone insane?

6. Worse still is the trend of people not wearing pants at all. Lady Gaga started it, shunning anything that even remotely obscures her upper thigh region in favor of skin-tight leotards. (When she wants to be modest, she puts on fishnets, as shown here.) Rihanna followed her lead. These days, the "S&M" singer favors spangled panty-like bottoms.

5. Italy actually let the cast of "The Jersey Shore" into their country. Why would they do that if it didn't think the end of the world would cut short Snooki and co.'s stay?

4. As the 1990s faded into the 2000s, it seemed one of the most disturbing epochs of music had finally come to an end -- the boy band era. But like a nightmare you just can't shake, it's back. New Kids on the Block and The Backstreet Boys are combining forces, touring this summer (assuming Doomsday doesn't destroy them, of course) to the delight of ... who, exactly?

3. In March, Charlie Sheen got fired from the hit show he once headlined, "Two and a Half Men." He launched a North American comedy tour in which he practically got booed off stage in city after city. And yet, according to Forbes, he made $40 million in the last 12 months, more than he's made ever before. It just doesn't make sense.

2. Maybe the world is about to end because humans seem to care more about their pets than they do about themselves. Time magazine reported in 2009 that annual spending on pets in the U.S. had reached $43 billion. After Doomsday does its work, perhaps cats and dogs will inherit whatever's left of earth.

1. Or maybe vampires will lord over the planet's remains. After all, they're so popular right now. "The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide" isn't even a new novel in the series -- it's a guide to all of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" books -- and yet, last month, it was at the top of the young adult bestseller list. Vampires, if this is what we've come up with after more than 2,000 years of civilization, go ahead, take it, do what you will.

[4th and Long]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Are we there yet?

I need to know if I should set up my scopes for Saturday night viewing. Its a lot of work and if the world is ending or there's gonna be 20% of the people that disappear I may need to check see if they left any better scopes laying about.

Oh hell yes, Dave, set it up. Should you survive, you may be able to catch the next big bang!

[beach tribe]

Why would this moron want to embarrass the shit out of himself like this??.....Again!?

[DMAC]

Fitzpatrick, who spent his $140,000 life savings to have 3,000 posters put up in New York City's subway and bus system

DUDE...no!

[DMAC]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

"the fatalistic despair that this world is too broken ever to be fixed."

Are you ****ing kidding me? This is the most awesome time to live in all of history! Other than to move forward a few years, there is no time in history that has ever been this awesome.

We are all very very lucky to live in this time. Even after tomorrow.

I know...go back a few hundred years, HOLY SHIT!

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by DMAC

DUDE...no!

Great he'll be on food stamps and welfare on Monday.

[Al Bundy]

Well.. I guess it was fun knowing some of you. I can't believe I am going to spend my last hours on earth inside a ****ing Crate & Barrel.

[Bearcat]

Too bad the end of the world is the day before the day after tomorrow and not the day after tomorrow.... I never thought I'd say this, but the Vancouver Canucks are going to the [slurp] (that's the sound the EOW makes, just fyi) [silence].

[Johnny Vegas]

anyone going to spend their last day on earth ****ed up!?!! Imma get me some black tar heroin, snort all the cocaine on a line of strippers asses, pop some uppers, slam a bottle of jameson and pop a couple oxy's.