tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064729025510181487.post3915820479950892338..comments2023-09-26T16:01:59.345+02:00Comments on A life in juxtaposition: The end is never as nigh as you think it isEugenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17722877695054410613noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064729025510181487.post-35332914833555123932010-08-30T14:26:30.406+02:002010-08-30T14:26:30.406+02:00How many times has Alex Jones for instance prophec...<i>How many times has Alex Jones for instance prophecied an imminent police state and FEMA concentration camps for everyone? He's been wrong about it every year for I don't know how long and yet otherwise intelligent people still pay attention to him!</i><br /><br />A very popular thread on the discussion site I frequent is titled "Was 9/11 a conspiracy?" It attracts every Alex Jones-worshiping nutcase on the planet, apparently. I don't post in that thread, but read it on occasion to remind myself what a bunch of paranoid nutters so many Americans are. It's scary reading the thought processes of my fellow countrymen and women. Occam's Razor is not welcome there. All theories must be as convoluted, complex and conspiratorial as possible. The truth about 9/11 can't be as simple as a bunch of terrorists hijacking planes and ramming them into buildings. No, it must be a Zionist conspiracy with the "JOOOOOOS" controlling everything behind the scenes. These paranoid tinfoil-hat idiots live in a miserable world where the government hires explosives experts, dresses them up in construction worker outfits, and has them install explosives behind the drywall of the World Trade Center Towers in order to bring the towers down in a controlled implosion. All in order to kill 3,000 of the government's <i>own citizens</i> so that we have justification to go to war for oil.<br /><br />The mind reels at the frightening stupidity.<br /><br />Oh, and for the record, 9/11 was indeed a conspiracy. Just not by us!GumbyTheCathttp://gumbythecat.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064729025510181487.post-29414516817627642312010-08-26T13:12:59.526+02:002010-08-26T13:12:59.526+02:00C'mon Gumby, you can do it!! The blogoshpere ...C'mon Gumby, you can do it!! The blogoshpere misses you!<br /><br />Thanks for sharing his "math". In my wildest dreams I never would have realised it would be that retarded.<br /><br />The psychology behind this must be fascinating because it's not confined to religious groups. How many times has Alex Jones for instance prophecied an imminent police state and FEMA concentration camps for everyone? He's been wrong about it every year for I don't know how long and yet otherwise intelligent people still pay attention to him! The mind boggles...Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17722877695054410613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064729025510181487.post-8500439670625578242010-08-25T16:01:59.124+02:002010-08-25T16:01:59.124+02:00Here's the Reader's Digest version of Camp...Here's the Reader's Digest version of Camping's mathematical nuttery that he used to conjure up his 5/22/11 date.<br /><br />************<br /><br />The number 5, Camping concluded, equals "atonement." Ten is "completeness." Seventeen means "heaven." Camping patiently explained how he reached his conclusion for May 21, 2011.<br /><br />"Christ hung on the cross April 1, 33 A.D.," he began. "Now go to April 1 of 2011 A.D., and that's 1,978 years."<br /><br />Camping then multiplied 1,978 by 365.2422 days - the number of days in each solar year, not to be confused with a calendar year.<br /><br />Next, Camping noted that April 1 to May 21 encompasses 51 days. Add 51 to the sum of previous multiplication total, and it equals 722,500.<br /><br />Camping realized that (5 x 10 x 17) x (5 x 10 x 17) = 722,500.<br /><br />Or put into words: (Atonement x Completeness x Heaven), squared.<br /><br />(from debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com)<br /><br />****************<br /><br />Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo.GumbyTheCathttp://gumbythecat.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064729025510181487.post-66545027483677850692010-08-25T15:47:53.391+02:002010-08-25T15:47:53.391+02:00Heh heh. I'm glad you wrote this. I have a hal...Heh heh. I'm glad you wrote this. I have a half-finished piece on Harold Camping that I just can't muster up the <i>ooomph</i> to finish. I GOTTA get my blog going again.<br /><br />You are absolutely correct when you say how pointless it is to even try to argue with people such as the Campingites. I read one psychologist who was talking about Camping's 5/21/2011 Rapture date prediction as it related to Camping's cultish, fevered followers. He warned against mocking those people on 5/22/2011, as psychological studies of cults have shown it will actually drive these people <i>further</i> into the clutches of their cult leader.<br /><br />Screw that, I say. On the religion-oriented discussion forums I frequent, the Camping doomsday date-setters have been harassing and stalking people for months. I have already warned them that I, and many others (from atheists to evangelicals), would be on them with a vengeance on 5/22/2011. We are going to have great fun at their expense, with much derisive mocking. As a matter of fact we're going to throw an online party, complete with virtual cookies and Kamping Kool-Aid.<br /><br />If that drives them further into the clutches of their cult master, so what. It's not as if these psychologically damaged lunatics were going to walk away from their freak-show doomsday cult anyway. I have absolutely zero sympathy for these death-cultists.<br /><br />Sounds harsh, I know. But everything we throw at them on 5/22/11 will be small potatoes in comparison to the crap that these smug, robotic, mindless, self-sanctified, arrogant, judgmental "I'm part of the 3% elect and you're not" sickos have been harassing people with for the last year or so.<br /><br />I just wonder how many duped but otherwise innocent people will sell or give away their houses and other possessions, give all their money to Camping's Family Radio, or ruin their credit by running up their credit cards making purchases they couldn't possibly pay back, all because they think they won't be around after 5/21. I have read some "survivor's tales" from people who did just that during the run-up to Camping's infamous failed 1994 prediction. I have also heard a rumor of at least one suicide stemming from 1994, but do not have confirmation.<br /><br />This is why I plan on being heartless and cruel to the Camping cult message-spreaders come 5/22. Their foolishness deserves to be widely mocked and mercilessly ridiculed. This is the first big end-times date-setting event of the Internet era, and it needs to be as widely and publicly scorned as possible. The more public the ridicule, the greater the chances are that maybe some peoples' lives won't be ruined the next time Camping or another dangerous religious fraud sets a Rapture date.GumbyTheCathttp://gumbythecat.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com