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In case you haven't been paying attention, we are thisclose to end times. Don't have time to study up on Armageddon? We've got the facts you need to know below.Wait, when is the world ending?
Saturday (May 21) according to one Harold Camping.
Who is Harold Camping?
Camping is an 89-year-old radio evangelist who the Washington Post labels a "fringe" figure in the evangelical movement. He's a retired civil engineer and former Sunday school teacher who is now worth millions of dollars and owns a vast Christian radio network that stretches as far as Nigeria.
Is this the first time Harold Camping has predicted the Rapture?
Good question! Nope. In fact, Camping predicted the world would end in Sept. 1994. When the world didn't come to a screeching, fiery halt, Camping retracted his prediction saying he'd miscalculated.
What exactly should we expect for this whole end of the world thing?
Camping and his adherents believe that at 6 p.m. ET on Saturday a massive earthquake originating in Fiji will make its way around the Earth. Graves will open (yuck) and two hundred million 'saved' individuals will float up to heaven. The rest of us will be doomed to live on earth for five hellish months before God finally annihilates the Earth.
Are you sure?
No, because we just found this Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog post in which Camping is quoted as saying Armageddon will actually begin at 6 p.m. at the International Dateline (Between Pago Pago, American Samoa and Nuku'alofa, Tonga), which speeds up the timeline -- meaning 2 a.m. ET and 11 p.m. PT on May 20.
What does Harold Camping suggest we do to prepare?
Not a dang thing. The man himself plans to watch the destruction unfold on TV. "Everyone will be weeping and wailing because they'll know in a few hours it'll come to their city," Camping tells the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
What happens if Camping is wrong?
We all settle in and watch Justin Timberlake and Gaga on 'SNL.'
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It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
According to this article, if it occurs at 11pm on May 20th (2am ET May 21) then your last paragraph is 24 hours off! Justin Timberlake & Lady Gaga will be no more!! What's on tonight at 11pm PT??
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do peps believe everything they read, this sounds soooo stupid!! Live your life to the fullest your time will come soon enough
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Just as long as the world doesn't end before Doctor Who comes on tonight. Seriously, though, doomsday predictions have had a zero percent success rate over the last 2000 years. I don't think some old guy is gonna change the trend (and oh, look, it's well past the hour that stuff was supposed to start to happen on the IDL).
even nustradamus didn't predict the exact time and date of doomsday... its because no one knows!!!
i think, doomsday don't come one day alone, i think its starting now... fear, hunger, disasters, war, its all over us now...aren't those the signs of doomsday???