Apocalypse Believers Put Their Money on the Line

pennypinch · #1 05-22-2011, 03:07 AM

Wow...

Lots of apocalypse believers put their money on the line. They spent money on everything you can imagine thinking that this would be their last day on Earth.

I even heard of someone wothdrawing their entire life savings and using it all to play the lottery... for what I don't know. If this was to be the last day.

I heard someone else actually had their animals put to sleep so that they wouldn't haven't have to go through it. Unbelievable.

Millions were spent by radical believers on advertisements for billboards and on buses.

I do believe in God but I wasn't panicked by this. I figure whatever happens will happen whenever it does. I have no control over it anyway. I certainly wasn't going broke on the chance that it might happen.

dimetime · #2 05-22-2011, 07:29 PM

There were people out and about holding signs warning that it was going to be the end of the world yesterday. I bet they are all disappointed that they were wrong.

I didn't hear about people spending all of their money on this and that before their belief of the end though. That has got to really be upsetting!!

My old man's mother was pretty freaked out because she was talking about what people were saying that it was the end of the world and then we were driving around visiting yard sales and all of the electricity in Steubenville went out! Mall, stores, restaurants, gas stations, traffic lights....everything went dark and that freaked her out a bit.

I still don't know what happened to the power but it ws all back on with in a couple of hours! People tend to freak out over some silly things.

I agree with ya Pennypinch, there isn't a damn thing that a person like us can do to stop the end of the world from coming so why in the hell worry about it all of the time.

Live your lives and enjoy life when ever it is possible and don't fret what you can't control.

pennypinch · #3 05-26-2011, 02:19 AM

I guess the "prophet" Harold Camping (who predicted doomsday) collected over $80 million dollars from people over the past five years for his campaign to get the word out about the Rapture and he has no intention of giving any of it back.

Quote:

Camping has repeatedly announced in the public that the Doomsday will take place on May 21, 2011 when 200 million people will Rapture and the remaining people will go through series of natural disasters, including earthquakes that would make Japan’s recent earthquakes “look like a Sunday school picnic in comparison,” until October 21, 2011 when the world will be destroyed completely. Basing his calculation on Bible verses, Camping said he was, “without any shadow of a doubt it (Doomsday) is going to happen.”

Oh and get this.... He announced that he plans to keep the money and that he is not responsible for peoples ruined lives due to his false interpretation of Judgement Day. Actually he won't even admit to having been wrong. Now he claims that it did happen spiritually, not physically.

People quit their jobs and spent their entire savings... some committed suicide because they didn't want to go through the earthquakes and so on that were supposed to happen.

WOW! I hope he gets sued many time over.

dimetime · #4 05-26-2011, 07:08 PM

A neighbor here at near my old man's place is one of the many who spend their live savings, cashed in on all of their belongings that they could quickly get money out of and now practically have nothing. They also quit their jobs and were not welcomed back by their previous employers. So they are seriously in a bad way right now.

Though I don't see anyone suing Camping and managing to win. Just because he claimed something was going to happen he didn't force people to take the actions that they did. That was all done by their own choice even though it was under the belief something bad was going to happen.

I guess their son also though the end was coming and took his life. He was a young man only in his mid twenties and no he is gone forever for nothing!!

It is a horrible thing to have happen, but these people weren't forced into any of this at all so I don't see how they could sue and win. I wish them all the best of luck if they do sue. They would deserve to win, but I just don't see how they could.

moneysense · #5 05-27-2011, 10:28 AM

This is something that has happened many times before and always with the same result, people giving away all their belongings and spending all of their money only to find out that it hasnt happened.

A certain amount of the blame should go to the media that puts this hype in newspapers, on television, and the radio.

I read that over $80M was contributed to this man for advertisment and that money should go to the people that are now broke and homeless.

I hope he cant sleep at night when I think of all the suicides this has caused.

dimetime · #6 05-27-2011, 08:47 PM

I still say that Camping was wrong but it is the fault of the people! They took their belongings, money, lives and destroyed them.

Its like watching the weather! We all know that the weather reporter is wrong quite a bit of the time. Most people don't choose to believe in what they say 100% so why bother believing this man.

These people did these things under a no duress. They did it all by their own choice. Now it would be proper for him to give that money back to the people since his predictions didn't happen, but he should not be forced to.

You would think that people would learn after seeing and hearing of this same thing happening several times. These people should have known better or at the very least made preperations in case things did happen the way they were expecting them to.