VOLCANO MADNESS: Re: [Geology2] The Totally Non-Scientific Formula for Doomsday or What Happens When You Stop Taking Your Meds

Monday, May 23, 2011

Re: [Geology2] The Totally Non-Scientific Formula for Doomsday or What Happens When You Stop Taking Your Meds

LMAO, Mark! I think you're on to something!

;-)

Lin

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mark Smith <smithsurf@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Cheers Lin.

Perhaps 722,500 also has some significance because it is a round number, lol! Apparently Camping's website is down, so he isn't taking the failure too well I guess!

Mark.

--- On Mon, 23/5/11, Lin Kerns <linkerns@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Lin Kerns <linkerns@gmail.com>
Subject: [Geology2] The Totally Non-Scientific Formula for Doomsday or What Happens When You Stop Taking Your Meds
To: "Geology2" <geology2@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, 23 May, 2011, 15:28

As we were discussing this earlier, I will add this information that I found on Camping's formula for how he derived that the Rapture was May 21, 2011. I do this because A) I want our members to know the true nature of one Harold Camping's skewed "science," B) And we all can laugh just a wee bit longer at the insanity of this claim.

Remember the quake that was supposed to travel across the world when the "Rapture" occurred? Think back to the movie, "2012." Apparently the writers of said screenplay and Camping never heard of plate tectonics. However, they all followed the outdated, weird Theory of Crustal Displacement given by a chap named Hapgood in the '50's. Under such a theory, indeed, the earth's crust could behave like the peel of an orange and shift en mass above the earth's interior. Hapgood was one of those fellows I would have gladly let loose Lord Kelvin again to quell such notions.

Now, on to your enlightenment... er, befuddlement. Ya. That fits.

Lin

Claim

Camping claims that the Rapture will occur on May 21st, 2011, and that God will completely destroy the earth five months later on October 21, 2011.

It's just another example of pseudo-religious bunk by people trying to interpret the bible to fit in with their own crackpot ideas. This time the perpetrator is Harold Camping. Here is his 'calculation':

"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.

"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."

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.

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.
Camping realized that (5 x 10 x 17) x (5 x 10 x 17) = 722,500.
Or put into words: (Atonement x Completeness x Heaven), squared."

In other words, it's total numerological nonsense. Add, subtract and multiply various numbers until they give the result you want. Why not multiply 10 by 17 and then take the square of that and add 5? Where do the rules come from? Out of thin air, of course.

Camping claims that 21st May 2011 is the Rapture and 21st October 2011 is the end of the world. Since he also predicted the end of the world for 27th September 1994, 29th September 1994, 2nd October 1994 and 31st March 1995, perhaps he ought to call this the really, really, definite, I honestly mean it this time, end of the world.

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