Derp: "Harold Camping 'flabbergasted'; rapture a no-show"

Harold Camping 'flabbergasted'; rapture a no-show

The man who said the world was going to end appeared at his front door in Alameda a day later, very much alive but not so well.

"It has been a really tough weekend," said Harold Camping, the 89-year-old fundamentalist radio preacher who convinced hundreds of his followers that the rapture would occur on Saturday at 6 p.m.

Massive earthquakes would strike, he said. Believers would ascend to heaven and the rest would be left to wander a godforsaken planet until Oct. 21, when Camping promised a fiery end to the world.

But on Sunday, almost 18 hours after he thought he'd be in heaven, there was Camping, "flabbergasted" in Alameda, wearing tan slacks, a tucked-in polo shirt and a light jacket.

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:facepalm:

I felt sure he'd "rapture" himself to the Cayman Islands with money extorted from his gullible flock.

is that people would send him $70 million.

It's the suicidal impulse that bothers me. How so many can give up everything in a communal death wish.
Indicates an underlying despair; loss of faith in everything but imaginary transcendence.

he thinks he can get a third chance at this. He's going to have to wait a while before he can predict another armageddon.

:grr:

Why do people listen to these fools?