Doomsday campers travel the country preaching the Apocalypse...on May 21

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[AppyPappy]

“Camping predicted the world would end 17 years ago “

Yeah but he forgot about leap years and Daylight Savings Time and he didn’t carry the three and he wasn’t wearing his reading glasses.

[Strategerist]

If there is any mocking to be done I think I would wait until May 22nd...

I'm pretty comfortable mocking now.

[Strategerist]

There’s a PhD seismologist on the west coast who made the mistake of predicting an earthquake back in the 90s based on full moon-induced high tides. He was an employee of one of the municipalities and he was fired for his flagrant unorthodoxy. As it turns out, he was and is usually correct.

He wasn't, and isn't.

Berkland makes the same vague predictions more or less guaranteed to come true every month.

Thankfully, I've noticed there seems to be far less interest in him in the last year or so.

[massgopguy]

Right after you pay the caterer. But before you pay the band. Figures.....

[SVTCobra03]

“My car is on its last legs and if this is true, I won’t have to spend a lot of $$$ to buy a new one.”

On the other hand, you finance a new Corvette ZR-1, Nissan GT-R or Porsche GT2 a month before doomsday and never make a payment.

[Artemis Webb]

Arm a gedden outta here!

[Boiler Plate]

“So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s May 20.”

There’s a song in that.
Man we got get a song together, record it, sell 8 million copies and then party till May 21! Time to get Busy!!!

[reagan_fanatic]

I wish some rich dude would publicly challenge these nuts to a $1,000,000 bet that the end of the world does NOT occur on May 21st, and for them to also show the specific passage in the Bible that guarantees it.

[Boiler Plate]

so I guess there’s money behind this.

Or a bunch of maxed out lines of credit they figure on not repaying.

[dfwgator]

There’s a song in that.

I was dreaming while I wrote that.

[livius]

LOL! There have been a few famous doomsday panics in the past in the US, particularly in the 19th century.

In one case (early 19th century), everybody ran up to the roofs of their houses to await the Rapture, which of course did not happen. The problem was that they had already given away their houses and land, expecting everything to be vaporized in the Rapture. When this didn’t happen, the people to whom they had given everything weren’t willing to give it back.

The doomsday believers had to sue to get their possessions back, and some of them weren’t able to do so. So I hope these folks didn’t charge to the max, because after Doomsday doesn’t come, they’re still going to be liable for the balance...

[Boiler Plate]

One dumb question. Why are they posing for the camera?

[Boiler Plate]

So on May 20th I should ask them to give me their wallets?

[Partisan Gunslinger]

They kind of shuffle around, slowly, each at their own pace, and when two of them collide, rock either goes up or goes down, in fits and starts, and you get earthquakes. Mostly concentrated near where plates meet. But there just isn’t anything to force earthquakes all at once, everywhere, unless a gigantic astral body collides with Earth, and if that happens, earthquakes are the least of our problems.

It's more complicated than that. The magnetic field of the earth acts funny when there's a big earthquake. There's more to it than just two rocks colliding.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Changes in the magnetic field are just a small side effect. Bottom line, there isn’t going to be any May 21st cataclysm. Massive geological forces, when they do happen, usually build up for a very long time, and give all sorts of indications.

Something of the scale to cause worldwide earthquakes would have to be immensely larger than the supervolcano that covered India with lava in the distant past. Literally, the majority of the Earth’s mantle would have to be involved.

[Darksheare]

Harold Camping... oh boy.

[TheOldLady]

It'll probably be around March 19 with that extreme super moon, the closest perigee in 18 years.

And yet, the earth wasn't destroyed 18 years ago. Amazing. ;-)

[TheOldLady]

Well, thanks for sharing. I feel fine too after listening to that.

Maybe the false prophets exist so that we will be skeptics after we hear their predictions fail over and over again.

The Mills grind exceedingly small.

[Slings and Arrows]

Maybe the false prophets exist so that we will be skeptics after we hear their predictions fail over and over again.

Maybe the devil just likes to troll.

[TheOldLady]

Yes, indeed.