Let's enjoy our right-wing posters while we can

What's funny is that all this started because Dio made a ridiculous comment that he still has not defended or explained. When he was refuted, we get two posters coming to his defense and arguing points that no one has disputed.

accurate - no one's defending these people.

Johnny - no one is saying that a non-believer would or should think that one theory is more or less valid.

AGAIN... this is about the claim that if the world doesn't end like these guys predicted, that is somehow a reflection on scripture. This is about a claim that I can apparently make up anything I want regardless of methodology, use it to contradict actual plain statements and for some reason, that claim must not carry just as much weight - even when it's rejected by the VAST majority of other people who have read scripture.

In fact, as I recall, you actually conceded the point earlier in the thread and admitted this was a false assumption. And yet you're still arguing. So I guess I'm just trying to figure out what exactly it is you're trying to argue here.
 
I know the world isn't ending on April 21st. Who knows otherwise? I'll put my view up against theirs, and even back it with a moderate wager.
 
May 21st...damn that's the day I'm volunteering at IM Houston. I guess all those Ironmen & women won't get to finish the race
 
that just doesn't make sense. you would give as much credence to the interpretation of hamlet by a guy who read it once as a professor who studied shakespeare for 30 years? say the guy who read it once said it was about how the moon is made of cheese and the professor had a more, uh, conventional interpretation. you'd weigh them the same?
 
Admiral - You're ignoring the crux of my point - which is that the "ridiculous" interpretation is just as valid as a belief that the underlying fairytale is true, because they are both absurd.

If someone actually believes "Green Eggs and Ham" is TRUE - as in, actual fact - and someone else believes the actual truth of the story is about the moon made of cheese - I put those on equal grounds because they are both beliefs in a fairytale.

I don't care how one gets to believing in fairytales, and I don't think believing in the text of Green Eggs and Ham to be anymore valid than believing it is a coded message about the moon. The key is that I'm comparing it to actual belief that the underlying text is FACT.
 
OK so here's the way they calculated the thing.

From the linked page:

As early as 1970, Camping dated the Great Flood to 4990 BC. Taking the prediction in Genesis 7:4 ("Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth") to be a prediction of the end of the world, and combining it with 2 Peter 3:8 ("With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day"), Camping concludes that the end of the world will occur in 2011, 7000 years from 4990 BC. Camping takes the 17th day of the second month mentioned in Genesis 7:11 to be the 21st May, and hence predicts the rapture to occur on this date.

Another argument that Camping uses in favor of the May 21st date is as follows:

1) According to Camping, the number five equals "atonement", the number ten equals "completeness", and the number seventeen equals "heaven".

2) Christ is said to have hung on the cross on April 1, 33 AD. The time between April 1, 33 AD and April 1, 2011 is 1,978 years.

3) If 1,978 is multiplied by 365.2422 days (the number of days in a solar year, not to be confused with the lunar year), the result is 722,449.

4) The time between April 1 and May 21 is 51 days.

5) 51 added to 722,449 is 722,500.

6) (5 × 10 × 17)2 or (atonement × completeness × heaven)2 also equals 722,500.

Thus, Camping concludes that 5 × 10 × 17 is telling us a "story from the time Christ made payment for our sins until we're completely saved."[17]
 
the actual end is october though, right? imagine what a rockstar he'll be for 5 months if he's right
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Yeah, that is a very poor interpretation. In Genesis did send rain in 7 actual days. Then in 2 Peter 3 it says that God will not destroy the earth with rain again. That kind of messes up his interpretation if he equates rain to judgment. Peter is stating that the rain = judgment assumption is false. There are other problems with it but I am hungry.
 
Happens @ 6pm and will start at the international date line. So - it will begin at 1 am cst, roll around the earth taking 24 hours.
 
You people are seriously continuing to argue with those who stick their fingers in their ears and yell "fairy tale, fairy tale, la la la I can't hear you" for six pages?
 
Had a burrito for lunch today- and it feels like the apocalypse has occurred inside my stomach.

Damn ye skeptics, damn ye all
 
This ******* has convinced thousands of naive, stupid people to spend their savings, quit jobs etc to advertise the end of the world.

He is the Berny Madoff of dumb, religious zealots. My only hope is that these naive people have friends with more brains- to convince them what asses they have made of themselves.
 
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