Jan
06
How do you recover from a bad doomsday prediction?
So this reverend who took out ads, and got on tv and said the world would end, and those who were so sure they spent all their money, or quit their jobs, how do they recover? I mean what do they say, oh, wow, we’re still here? ummm, maybe I was wrong, well I gotta go do my laundry then i guess.
Answer by wyliesmom
Those that do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. (not my words) Just move on.
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Since I was one of the Non-Believers, I am recovering with the assistance of Tylenol. a Virgin Bloody Mary and a cold compress
I’ll be better after lunch
older and wiser no doubt.Maybe with indigestion, a higher cholesterol level or a hangover?
You may have eaten too many burgers during that celebrate the end of the world barbeque.
consumed enough happy beverages. Now you want to repeat it all over again with another celebration of the “day after the end of the world”.
You should just go on a fast and meditate on passages of your holy books.
I don’t know but i’d sure feel like an idiot if i were that Harold Camping dude. I was more on the non believer side cause i have more faith in God than some random guy thats adding things in the bible & comes to a conclusion that the world will end on whatever date. But im sure next year he’ll say the same thing on Dec. 21, 2012, he’ll probably say my math was wrong again but this time for sure its ending!!! lol. Only God knows when or how the world will end. Not us. I think people should stop trying to figure out when the world is gonna end & live each day as if it were your last!!!!! God Bless!!!!!:)
The gullible millions who paid any attention to the crazy, old fool have only themselves to blame.
Most people quite properly wrote him off as a religious nut who had done exactly the same thing in 1994.
What those who foolishly believed him can do now is to stop taking literally passages in The Holy Bible that were allegorical, when they were written two thousand years ago. They can make a good thing out of their mistake by resolving not to listen to evangelical extremists, who are so carried away by their religiosity that much of what they have to say is absolute nonsense.
It is one thing to have a thoughtful and reasonable faith. It is something else again to allow oneself to be shown to be truly foolish in this way by listening to obviously crazy talk.
Religious extremists need to behave more intelligently and a great deal more responsibly.
Camping seemed to recover enough from the last prediction (in 1990 something) to make this prediction. “Ooops, I got my dates wrong!” is how he explained his last goof. Being wrong doesn’t seem to bother him, but those poor idiots who gave up all their possessions and made thousand mile treks across the country to say goodbyes to their loved ones, I’m sure their embarrassment will wear off in time. I don’t know what they will do to get back on their feet financially, but at least they will have learned a lesson.