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End of the world? How about a party instead? (Most Christians Ignore it, Skeptics Milk it)
The Manila Bulletin ^ | 05/19/2011 | Tom Breen

Posted on 05/19/2011 8:39:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Cheryllynn

Not me, this means I’ll still be able to watch the new Jesse Stone movie and ‘Game of Thrones’


21 posted on 05/19/2011 9:41:24 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Bitsy

It’s men that are being mocked, not God.


22 posted on 05/19/2011 9:42:43 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Ezekiel
“It’s the end of the world as we know it! But I feel fine…!”
REM

Later!

23 posted on 05/19/2011 9:43:41 AM PDT by Jeremiah Jr (AYIN RIMMON)
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To: SeekAndFind

Camping and his ilk are the direct products of individual interpretation of the Bible coupled with misguided trust in the theory of Sola Scriptua. Yet many support this chaos and the expansion of cults now numbers well over 30.000 plus. What a shame.


24 posted on 05/19/2011 9:50:20 AM PDT by bronx2 (while Jesus is the Alpha /Omega He has given us rituals which you reject to obtain the graces as to)
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To: bronx2

RE: Camping and his ilk are the direct products of individual interpretation of the Bible coupled with misguided trust in the theory of Sola Scriptua.

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I wouldn’t attribute it to those who adhere to the doctrine of Sola Scriptura. After all MOST Evangelical Christians DO NOT support Harold Camping at all.

Many have in fact spoken to him to disuade him from continuing his foolishness ( the church he used to go to, a Reformed Church banned him from teaching after he stubbornly refused to listen ).

When a group of individuals want to be stubborn and refuse to listen, the only way to make them listen is for them to learn their lesson.


25 posted on 05/19/2011 9:55:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: Charles Martel

They’re not mocking God or the people that believe in Him. They’re mocking dinks that think they’re the chosen ones and that Saturday is the chosen day and they’ll all be whisked away to heaven. If anybody in this is mocking God it’s the folks thinking Saturday is rapture day and they’re invited.


26 posted on 05/19/2011 10:00:59 AM PDT by discostu (Come on Punky, get Funky)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is how the world is going to end with this flash animation.
http://endofworld.net/

(warning: bad language!)


27 posted on 05/19/2011 10:16:16 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Charles Martel
Now people are planning and organizing *mockery* of God and of people who believe in Him.

I don't mock God, or the people who believe in Him, but I don't take seriously those who think they know the day or the hour. Calling them out is not even in the same ballpark as "mocking God" but folks throw up that old strawman all the time.

28 posted on 05/19/2011 10:20:39 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Bitsy
Scripture also says God will not be mocked.

Scripture doesn't say Harold Camping won't be mocked. :-)

29 posted on 05/19/2011 10:28:16 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: SeekAndFind
... many other skeptics are milking it.

I don't get why people who state that they do not believe in God call themselves "skeptics" when it comes to matters of religion. It sounds like they have their mind made up already.

30 posted on 05/19/2011 10:30:44 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: bronx2
... misguided trust in the theory of Sola Scriptua.

First, it is Sola Scriptura.

Second, Scripture states very clearly that not only does anyone not know when Jesus will return, but that we must reject the teachings of anyone who claims to know such a thing. IMO, Camping and these other blasphemers are doing the Devil's work.

31 posted on 05/19/2011 10:33:41 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Larry Lucido

Scripture doesn’t say Harold Camping won’t be mocked. :-)

Point.


32 posted on 05/19/2011 10:33:45 AM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999.


33 posted on 05/19/2011 10:34:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

“The End Of The World As We Know It”

That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn’t coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it’ll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o’clock - TV hour. Don’t get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...

(It’s time I had some time alone)

-R.E.M.


34 posted on 05/19/2011 10:40:33 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (One of these days, Alice....one of these days.....POW!! Right in the kisser!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
So, you guys are so sure you’ll be LEFT BEHIND huh?

I'm hoping that neither my LEFT BEHIND nor my RIGHT BEHIND get left below.

35 posted on 05/19/2011 10:44:53 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Charles Martel
I'm tempted to start a "Shooting the post-Rapture Looters" Facebook page, just to see the reactions.

LOL!!!! Sign me up!

36 posted on 05/19/2011 10:46:51 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: SeekAndFind
So, you guys are so sure you’ll be LEFT BEHIND huh?

I have this terrible feeling that I'm still going to need to mow my lawn this weekend.

37 posted on 05/19/2011 11:18:44 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Larry Lucido; Alex Murphy
Speaking of Left Behinds:


38 posted on 05/19/2011 11:28:02 AM PDT by Gamecock (It's not eat drink and be merry because tommow we die, but rather because yesterday we were dead.)
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To: Gamecock; Alex Murphy

Long as they’re not cotton dockers!


39 posted on 05/19/2011 11:45:51 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: SeekAndFind

Speaking of scams: http://www.aftertherapturepetcare.com/

I’d say my dog is more likely to go to heaven than most people, I know, though...


40 posted on 05/19/2011 3:23:47 PM PDT by Chucky is a girlie man
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