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<p>onto doomsday in 2012. Is there a specific date in that year?</p>
<p>I was not worried. My God does not work that way :o</p>
<p>Of course Harold Camping predicted the end of the world and rapture a few years ago too. I wonder if his Family Radio listening audience increases significantly. </p>
<p>I did run into a “believer” in Knoxville Thursday nite and offered him a ride home if he would give me his soon to be useless car. He declined my generous offer.</p>
<p>@ texaspg</p>
<p>December 21, 2012</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon</a></p>
<p>We are not Christians, so no worries here. I was more worried about what to pack for D1’s graduation next weekend, apparently it maybe raining and cold.</p>
<p>“To the shock and distress of a handful of ultra-devout Christian believers, the sun went down yesterday on an America and the world that had signally failed to end.”</p>
<p>I am glad it was clarified as being a handful of “ultra-devout Christian believers” because as a devout Catholic I do not know anyone who believed this to be true. The Roman Catholic priests were all in agreement that the only one who knows if the world as we know it will end is God himself. </p>
<p>The ultra religious Christian groups who preach this sort of thing are not taken seriously by mainstream Christians…just to clarify.</p>
<p>Thanks Blueiguana. I guess we have another 18 months of blissful life at least!</p>
<p>…but is it really fair to call them “ultra religious” or “ultra devout”? I’m not willing to give them that credit. It’s offensive to the rest of Christianity.</p>
<p>momma-three, as a Baptist, I didn’t know know anyone who believed it either. My Bible says that “no man knows” when Jesus will return, not even Jesus himself. Why this preacher thinks that he has information that Jesus didn’t have is beyond me, but it seems presumptuous in the extreme. toledo is right; there is nothing devout about these people. </p>
<p>The thing that really bothers me about these episodes is that some non-Christians may think that it represents actual Christian theology. It makes us look like wignuts. :(</p>
<p>We were in NYC last weekend. These people were out in full force, handing out flyers, prophesying. We watched as one young man demanded to know what the ‘believer’ would do when the world didn’t end. The ‘believer’ seemed very flustered and never answered. I’m just disappointed that the media gave it so much attention. I’m sure there were plenty of frightened people out there.</p>
<p>If I had personally known some of them, I would have asked them if I could have some of their assets - some jewelry(diamond studs)?</p>
<p>That was my point LasMa…the fact that the word Christian was used implies that Christians are nutty. I find it offensive that this thinking is being associated with Christianity. I could only speak of Catholism…what was being said in my church and what people who practice my religion believe. I did not mean to imply that other Christian religions are nutty…please do not take offense, I just quoted what the OP quoted. Note the last sentence of my comment.</p>
<p>All my friends and family must be bad because the rapture did not take any of us. </p>
<p>I don’t know anyone who was frightened by this (maybe I have the wrong type of friends :rolleyes:). Most comments I heard were along the lines of “can it wait till after the new Doctor Who has aired?” and people planning to attend the post rapture looting event… </p>
<p>One of my brothers fish died so I hypothesized that it ws a good little fish anf the rapture took him. I don’t know if he was a believer though.</p>
<p>I can’t believe how much attention these nuts got in the press. It seems like it was on every newscast. I guess there isn’t much else newsworthy going on in the world despite Iraq, Afghansitan, the rest of the middle-east, floods in our country, etc.</p>
<p>At least it sounds as if was just words by the idiots who believe stuff like this. Not that far from where I live there were the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ people who believed there was a flying saucer behind the Hale-Bopp comet that was coming to whisk them away so they all killed themselves in what they believe was the process. There’s clearly something very wrong mentally with anyone who’d believe something like that. Oh well - it’s survival of the fittest in action.</p>
<p>I suspect that if the fish had never been baptized, he couldn’t ascend. Just a guess, though.</p>
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<p>Oh goodness, no! I was just affirming your point from another Christian angle, the Baptist angle. You and I believe the same thing about the second coming, and it is most assuredly NOT what these people believe.</p>
<p>I don’t know why so much media attention was devoted to people who are mentally ill.</p>
<p>I was more concerned with the people who were planning to participate in Post Rapture Looting than those who believed the Rapture was coming.</p>
<p>As we were on the road back from a weekend getaway, I made sure to ask husband what I should do to take over the wheel of the car should he disappear from the driver’s seat.</p>
<p>We have it all figured it out, here. Yesterday, we were expecting out of town friends for the weekend. They were a little late, and at the exact designated time that the world was supposed to end, I received a call letting me know there was a major problem - their car had died and they were going to have to cancel. I had already prepared a big dinner in their honor, so a few moments later I went to put the food on the grill. The grill had some kind of a leak, and as it turned out, I had to cook the food indoors. So, as far as we are concerned, the end of days is really about malfunctioning mechanical devices!</p>