LetsRun.com's Policy for the Rapture aka End of the World

6pm in what time zone?

Does God still work in Jerusalem time and if so, does he observe daylight saving? Or does he use UTC these days?

wejo wrote:

On the Rapture day May 21 the chosen few will descend into heaven.

Yeah, right wrote:

Freudian slip?

It depends on which side of the world you are on at 6 pm.

Limpy McGimpy wrote:

"On the Rapture day May 21 the chosen few will descend into heaven."

Nice twist on that, wejo. I guess we'll find out exactly how closely The Big Man watches for spelling/typos.

Clarence Clemons is worried about typos?

For what it's worth, you may be gone but most of your Godless, homosexual loving audience will remain. Not much will change around here.

Reminds me of this one:"Whoever said that all men are created equal never saw Wilt Chamberlain in the shower."

Brian Wave wrote:

Limpy McGimpy wrote:

"On the Rapture day May 21 the chosen few will descend into heaven."

Nice twist on that, wejo. I guess we'll find out exactly how closely The Big Man watches for spelling/typos.

Clarence Clemons is worried about typos?

wejo wrote:

As for the message boards, they will go completely unmoderated...

^^Promise?

letsrun is gonna be in legal trouble if everyone's dreams don't become reality before the end of the world

this shit is like Y2K of 1999!!!~

Wejo - I have big money on a horse that is going to win the Preakness. What happens to my money if the jockey is raptured and the horse runs and wins without a rider or runs riderless and loses?

Who rebates my money? God, the racetrack, the owner of the horse? I need answers now!

Religion

Doomsday Prediction Fizzles Out

Published May 21, 2011

| Associated Press

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May 13: Debra Schaper of Maryland, who is a member of a religious group called Family Radio, displays a placard while spreading the group's prediction that the world will end on May 21, 2011.

Reuters

May 13: Debra Schaper of Maryland, who is a member of a religious group called Family Radio, displays a placard while spreading the group's prediction that the world will end on May 21, 2011.

As the deadline for the Apocalpyse passed in the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia, it seems the end of the world prediction is fizzling.

Twitter users around the world expressed their mock disappointment to the "non-rapture."

Daniel Boerman tweeted: "I'm from New Zealand, it is 6:06PM, the world has NOT ended. No earthquakes here, all waiting for the rapture can relax for now. #Rapture"

In Australia, Jon Gall tweeted: "#Rapture time here in Melbourne. A rather quiet sort of rapture if you ask me." Also writing, "Well we have had the #Rapture going for 50 minutes now. So far it hasn't interrupted my fish & chips and glass of stout."

Similarly disappointed KillaJeules wrote, "So it's 6:37pm here in Brisbane, Australia. No earthquakes. No beaming up of Christians. No zombie apocalypse. No surprises haha."

Some had shut themselves inside to pray for mercy as they waited for the world's end.

Others met for tearful last lunches with their children, and prepared to leave behind homes and pets as they were swept up to heaven.

And across the globe, followers of a California preacher's long-publicized message that Judgment Day would arrive Saturday turned to the Bible, the book they believe predicts Earth's destruction on May 21.

The doomsday message has been sent far and wide via broadcasts and web sites by Harold Camping, an 89-year-old retired civil engineer who has built a multi-million-dollar nonprofit ministry based on his apocalyptic prediction.

After spending months traveling the country to put up Judgment Day billboards and hand out Bible tracts, Camping follower Michael Garcia planned to spend Friday evening with his family at home in Alameda, near the Christian media empire's Oakland headquarters.

They believe it will likely start as it becomes 6 p.m. in the world's various time zones.

"We know the end will begin in New Zealand and will follow the sun and roll on from there," said Garcia, a 39-year-old father of six. "That's why God raised up all the technology and the satellites so everyone can see it happen at the same time."

The Internet was alive with reaction in the hours past 6 p.m. Saturday in New Zealand.

"Harold Camping's 21st May Doomsday prediction fails; No earthquake in New Zealand," read one posting on Twitter.

"If this whole end-of-the-world thingy is still going on ... it's already past 6.00 in New Zealand and the world hasn't ended," said another.

Camping's radio stations, TV channels, satellite broadcasts and website are controlled from a humble building on the road to the Oakland International Airport, sandwiched between an auto shop and a palm reader. Family Radio International's message has been broadcast in 61 languages.

Camping, however, will be awaiting Jesus Christ's return for the second time. He said his earlier apocalyptic prediction in 1994 didn't come true because of a mathematical error.

"I'm not embarrassed about it. It was just the fact that it was premature," he told The Associated Press last month. But this time, he said, "there is...no possibility that it will not happen."

Skeptics are planning Rapture-themed parties to celebrate what hosts expect will be the failure of the world to come to an end.

Bars and restaurants from Melbourne, Australia to the Florida Keys advertised bashes.

In Oakland, atheists planned a gathering at a local Masonic temple to include group discussions on "The Great Success of Past Apocalypses," followed by dinner and music.

Camping and his followers believe the beginning of the end will come on May 21, exactly 7,000 years since the flood in the biblical story of Noah's Ark.

Some 200 million people will be saved, Camping preaches, and those left behind will die in earthquakes, plagues, and other calamities until Earth is consumed by a fireball on October 21.

In the Philippines, a big billboard of Family Radio ministry in Manila warned of Judgment Day. Earlier this month, group members they distributed leaflets to motorists and carried placards warning of the end of the world.

Christian leaders from across the spectrum have widely dismissed the prophecy, but one local church is concerned that Camping's followers could slip into a deep depression come Sunday.

Pastor Jacob Denys of Milpitas-based Calvary Bible Church plans to wait outside the nonprofit's headquarters on Saturday afternoon, hoping to counsel believers who may be disillusioned if the Rapture does not occur.

"The cold, hard reality is going to hit them that they did this, and it was false and they basically emptied out everything to follow a false teacher," he said. "We're not all about doom and gloom. Our message is a message of salvation and of hope."

On Friday afternoon, a small group of eccentrics, gawkers and media opportunists convened outside Family Radio's closed office building. A sign posted on the front door said "SORRY WE MISSED YOU!"

As May 21 drew nearer, followers say donations grew, allowing Family Radio to spend millions of dollars on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the doomsday message. In 2009, the nonprofit reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million, including $34 million in stocks or other publicly traded securities.

Marie Exley, who helped put up apocalypse-themed billboards in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, said the money helped the nonprofit save as many souls as possible. She said she and her husband, mother and brother planned to stay glued to the television Friday night in Bozeman, Montana for news of an earthquake in New Zealand.

Camping recommended this week that followers surround themselves by their loved ones and not meet publicly, Exley said.

"It's an emotional time and we're kind of nervous and scared about how things will pan out as to who will be here and who will go to heaven," she said. "I'll probably be scared in the fog of it, and crying, because we don't know who is saved and who is not."

Some people wanted to make sure their pets receive good treatment, no matter what happens.

Sharon Moss, who founded AfterTheRapturePetCare.com to provide post-apocalypse animal care, said a new wave of customers has paid $10 to sign up in the last few weeks.

"A lot of people have said you should be out there saving souls not saving pets but my heart says `why can't you do both?"' said Moss, who identifies herself as Protestant.

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I saw this on another site in response to a story about Camping's rapture prediction and thought this was well stated:

A group of mindless thoughtless and idealogical people were misled today. It would seem that when you embody all of your hope and emotion within a single representative individual, people elevate that individual to the status of a deity and follow that individual without questioning or rationalizing their actions.

When that deity fails to perform, the mindless, thoughtless idealogues cannot process the failure and attempt to place the blame for the deity's failure on anything and everything else. Villification and demogoguery are used to squelch any criticism of the deity. Irrational hatred is the eventual result.

While I am referring to liberals and the obama administration in this example, the same could be said for the pastor and his group of nuts.

Do not for one second believe these reports from New Zealand of the rapture not happening.

The media has always had a liberal bias.

The righteous in New Zealand have been whisked away and the unrighteous are dealing with earthquakes and whatnot. They would not be able to post on twitter.

I am going outside to kick some old ladies in the shins. Righteous my ass. I have no intention of being whisked anywhere. I have invested some serious money in my house renovations and I'll be seriously pissed if I don't get to enjoy my finished basement and big ass flat screen.

This is by far the best thread I've read in a long time on this board...beware the Rapture everyone...

Curious Georgie wrote:

this shit is like Y2K of 1999!!!~

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the world already ended in 2000. I'm almost out of beans and rice.

Rap, rap, rap,

They call it the Rapture.

Rap, rap, rap,

You know what it's after.

Trolling your own website. I am really unsure what to think about that.

The Rapture has been postponed to 9:00PM PDT to immediately follow the mens 1500 at Occidental tonight.

lol...and the world keeps on spinning.

usually wejo trolls as Oh Barry and NObama.