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Doomsday economics
There are competing predictions about the end of the world. Nostradamus was never precise about the dates but Harold Camping was – twice. This nonagenarian owner of a multi-million dollar media empire set tongues wagging as the date for his latest prediction – Saturday, 21 May 2011 – came and went without incident. There were no reports of people suddenly taking off into the skies, defying the law of gravity. An earlier projection in 1994 failed because, according to Camping, he had made a computational mistake.
Harold Camping Earned his Christmas Present Early This Year: a Yap-Stuffer
Dear Santa: If you could, I need you to provide me a gift for a special person—the gift of knowing when and how to shut up. I won’t go into details, except that Camping developed quite a following, who sold off their worldly possessions and cashed out investment accounts, to give to Camping, to fund promotion of the event that would transport them to Heaven, while the earthly heathen riffraff were left to cook down in a slow crockpot of doom until the Earth ended for us on Oct. 21.
Of That Day And Hour Knoweth No Man
I was reading in World News Daily the other day; finding an article by Joe Kovacs concerning Harold Camping; our current “Doomsday” minister of darkness. The world did not end on 21 May 2011.
No apocalypse means no reason to seek forgiveness
Rats. I thought I could get out of writing a column this week. I had marked May 21 as the end of the world because a preacher named Harold Camping in California (that should have been my first clue something was amiss) said on that day the Earth would be obliterated.
Harold Camping, Not Again!
A Family Radio spokesman had “guaranteed” that the May 21st rapture date was “the day”! May 21 was the date Harold Camping had predicted would bring the judgment of God upon the world. That day was to be marked by an immense, global earthquake, but the day came and went without worldwide incident—and without the occurrence of the rapture of the Church.
Top 10 Doomsday Predictions that failed (including May 21, 2011 by Harold Camping)
With Harold Camping’s recent prediction about Doomsdaybeing May 21, 2011, many people are being drawn toDoomsday theories. Doomsday theories date all the way back to the death of Jesus. Most prophets of doom tend to quickly gather their devotees whose belief is so fervent that they are willing to sacrifice their finance, family, and even their own lives.
Lessons from the apocalypse that wasn’t
We’re still here, and Harold Camping, the octogenarian eschatologist who said Saturday would bring the Rapture, is not – carried out of sight, probably not up to his Lord, but down to some less vaunted place.
Is Harold Camping Mad, Bad and Dangerous? A Religious Terrorist?
Harold Camping received thousands of dollars in donations from followers who gave up their lives because of his apocalyptical predictions and promises. Is Harold Camping Mad, Bad and Dangerous? A Religious Terrorist?
May 21, 2011: The End of the World?
Well, tomorrow, May 21, 2011, is supposed to be the end of the world. Wait, I thought the Mayans said it was supposed to be December 21, 2012? Either way, it gets a lot of publicity. (This post is a good example.)
May 21: End of the world?
Doomsayers warn of the end of the world happening on May 21, characterized by disasters of a global scale. Family Radio President Harold Camping, the man behind the `Judgement Day, May 21 Campaign’ warns of cataclismic events happening on Saturday 6 p.m. Western time, 6 a.m. Eastern.
