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Originally posted by brilab45
I'm very upset that people committed suicide and gave up
Originally posted by JiggyPotamus
I would have to disagree, respectfully. I believe that he really did believe what he was saying. If he thought he was right in 94, and then actually found where he "made his mistake," as it was reported, then I see no problem with him actually believing his own delusions. I don't really know how he came up with his predictions, but I'm sure that has something to do with it as well.
Then again, you could be right, I just do not agree.
Originally posted by brilab45
reply to post by Casandra
Valid point. I can not confirm or deny the suicide rate until tomorrow. Lets see what happens. How unforgivable prophecies are.
I am so very saddened by the whole thing. You are right to question me. Hang on. The news will be sorrowful tomorrow, I assure you.
What a mad, mad, mad world we live in. Will chime in tomorrow.
Originally posted by Mayura
This 'RAPTURE' event was just a ploy to steal credit away from much more serious events, i.e. 2012.
That's all. It's very effective.
Originally posted by benrl
First let me say that anyone predicting the end of the world at a specific date is a charlatan trying to sell you something, be it selling your life savings to support your cult to simple Internet traffic.
I am not one of these people that think these people should be held accountable for any deaths resulting in this as it's simply a Darwin award for stupidity in my opinion(I know it's illegal to yell fire in a theater for similar reasons, not the same though)
If your a Christian you can believe in the rapture doctrine or not ( for those that don't know there is debate on this even among Christian faiths) for the sake of this thread we will talk about those that believe in a rapture as Harold targets.
Now heres a theory what if Harolds idea was to predict a false prediction on purpose (hold off on the whole false prophet parts of the bible) for a thought experiment for what he views as Christians, what if it was simply a foolish mans attempt to get Christians to honestly question if they are true Christians? How many of these people that believed him, as well as Christians not versed in the bible got a little nervous as the time approached?
Maybe it was his heavy handed way of trying to show Christians they all are not as Christ like as they think? To just give them a moment to actually ask themselves have they really been "Christ like"
I gave an example to my wife, how many scream about abortion one moment but then refuse to adopt some of these children in the adoption system, how about all those crack baby's from ghettos? Where are the christians running to take them all in?
Harolds prediction was foolishness coming from a fool, no mater his motives in was irresponsible and crazy, in no way do I condone it. Simply trying to fathom the mans motives.
Originally posted by John_Rodger_Cornman
Originally posted by benrl
First let me say that anyone predicting the end of the world at a specific date is a charlatan trying to sell you something, be it selling your life savings to support your cult to simple Internet traffic.
I am not one of these people that think these people should be held accountable for any deaths resulting in this as it's simply a Darwin award for stupidity in my opinion(I know it's illegal to yell fire in a theater for similar reasons, not the same though)
If your a Christian you can believe in the rapture doctrine or not ( for those that don't know there is debate on this even among Christian faiths) for the sake of this thread we will talk about those that believe in a rapture as Harold targets.
Now heres a theory what if Harolds idea was to predict a false prediction on purpose (hold off on the whole false prophet parts of the bible) for a thought experiment for what he views as Christians, what if it was simply a foolish mans attempt to get Christians to honestly question if they are true Christians? How many of these people that believed him, as well as Christians not versed in the bible got a little nervous as the time approached?
Maybe it was his heavy handed way of trying to show Christians they all are not as Christ like as they think? To just give them a moment to actually ask themselves have they really been "Christ like"
I gave an example to my wife, how many scream about abortion one moment but then refuse to adopt some of these children in the adoption system, how about all those crack baby's from ghettos? Where are the christians running to take them all in?
Harolds prediction was foolishness coming from a fool, no mater his motives in was irresponsible and crazy, in no way do I condone it. Simply trying to fathom the mans motives.
The REAL bible doesn't set a date for the end of the world nor discourages us from doing so. No one but God himself knows when the end will come. Stop propping up false prophets like they mean anything. No one cared what he said and everyone(who knows scripture) knew he was BS.
But see that's just it.He's just the vehicle for restricting religion and smearing the church.
This guy is not a prophet he's just an paid actor.
He's a false flag public psychological operations agent. He knew that the "act" was going to be picked up by the media and trumpeted as a "christian rapture date". This is all a planned show to vilify religion and make the case that religion (control that the state doesn't have) is evil.
We fell for the ol' psyop switcheroo again.