grawk Posted May 24, 2011 Report Posted May 24, 2011 I dunno, it made for a fun couple of days. I mean, no one sane actually believed him, so what's the harm?
Wmcmanus Posted May 24, 2011 Report Posted May 24, 2011 That guy is an asshole. Relax, Steve... not that kind.
Dusty Chalk Posted May 24, 2011 Report Posted May 24, 2011 I dunno, it made for a fun couple of days. I mean, no one sane actually believed him, so what's the harm?I get headaches from rolling my eyes so much.
bhjazz Posted May 24, 2011 Report Posted May 24, 2011 I dunno, it made for a fun couple of days. I mean, no one sane actually believed him, so what's the harm? Good point. Although I think about the countless thousands spent for this guy's continued miscalculations. Oh well, I guess if people are willing to believe, then a fool and his money shall soon be parted. On the other hand...
Dusty Chalk Posted May 24, 2011 Report Posted May 24, 2011 Also, perpetuation of backwards thinking leads to terrorists and Ray's shills.
Knuckledragger Posted May 24, 2011 Report Posted May 24, 2011 All jokes aside, the worst aspect of this rapture malarkey is amount of media attention it has garnered, while catastrophic clusterfucks like the three reactors in meltdown at Fukushima get pushed off the front page.
blessingx Posted May 25, 2011 Author Report Posted May 25, 2011 I could understand if this guy thought the rapture hit Saturday. Compressed air turns trucker into human balloon http://j.mp/iTXvjN
Wmcmanus Posted May 25, 2011 Report Posted May 25, 2011 I could understand if this guy thought the rapture hit Saturday. Compressed air turns trucker into human balloon http://j.mp/iTXvjN "He said his skin felt like a pork roast, crackling on the outside but soft on the inside." Kind of a strange description, but hey, I'm sure it wasn't pleasant.
Dusty Chalk Posted May 25, 2011 Report Posted May 25, 2011 I could understand if this guy thought the rapture hit Saturday. Compressed air turns trucker into human balloon http://j.mp/iTXvjN(smiles knowingly) "Fell"? "Slipped"? "Accidentally"? Yeah yeah right...
HeadphoneAddict Posted May 26, 2011 Report Posted May 26, 2011 "He said his skin felt like a pork roast, crackling on the outside but soft on the inside." Kind of a strange description, but hey, I'm sure it wasn't pleasant. It's called crepitus and also sometimes happens when someone breaks a rib and punctures a lung. I would have never thought to compare it to a pork roast, but his actual symptoms fit with this condition.
blessingx Posted June 12, 2011 Author Report Posted June 12, 2011 Doomsayer Harold Camping suffers stroke - http://j.mp/jYEDtr
bhjazz Posted June 13, 2011 Report Posted June 13, 2011 Outstanding. Although I wonder how he'll spin this to influence the flock.
Dusty Chalk Posted June 13, 2011 Report Posted June 13, 2011 Did he ever say anything on the order of, "...may God strike me down if..."
GPH Posted June 14, 2011 Report Posted June 14, 2011 Vengeance of the Gods... I feel absolutely no sympathy for this religious nutjob, he should be put in jail as far as I'm concerned.
Pars Posted June 14, 2011 Report Posted June 14, 2011 Strange he didn't see that coming... Reminds me of fortune tellers... "what, you didn't know I was coming?" While I don't wish ill will upon anyone...
blessingx Posted August 20, 2013 Author Report Posted August 20, 2013 Thought of this thread today.Nineteen days after the world failed to end, blood stopped flowing to the brain of Harold Camping, prophet of doom. Had he felt his stroke coming as he confidently forecast apocalypse? Maybe not; maybe he had no more foresight into his own demise than the demise of the world. Or maybe he had simply confused the two—after all, he was approaching his 90th birthday, and his own mortality couldn't have seemed far off when, on national billboards and his own radio network, he set a date (May 21, 2011) for the end of days. For some, it is a short mental step from "my end is imminent" to "the end of everything is imminent." Call it apocalyptic narcissism... http://chronicle.com/article/The-Comforts-of-the-Apocalypse/141117/
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