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Title: NYC Man Spends Retirement Savings on May 21, 2011 Rapture Ads
Source:
opposingviews.com/
URL Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/nyc- ... ngs-on-may-21-2011-rapture-ads
Published: May 13, 2011
Author: Mark Berman
Post Date: 2011-05-13 15:26:14 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 6335
Comments: 9
According to a report from the New York Daily News, Robert Fitzpatrick spent $140,000 for an ad campaign for signs on subway cars and bus shelters around the city reading "Global Earthquake! The Greatest Ever - Judgment Day: May 21." "I'm trying to warn people about what's coming," Fitzpatrick. "People who have an understanding [of end times] have an obligation to warn everyone." Fitzpatrick told the newspaper how it will go down: "It'll start just before midnight, Jerusalem time: It'll be instantaneous and global," he said. "There are too many scriptures talking about 'sudden destruction.'" Fitzpatrick is obviously a big believer of evangelist Harold Camping, who claims to have calculated the date of Armageddon using clues from the Bible. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it didn't think twice about accepting Fitzpatrick's campaign. "It's an individual's prerogative to spend their money as they see fit," said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz. However an atheist group said the MTA should not have allowed the ad blitz. "Doomsday cults are money-making enterprises," said David Silverman, of the American Atheists. "I wonder what is going to happen on May 22 when people no longer have their possessions or their savings and we are all still here and they don't have their rapture." But Fitzgerald is not worried about that. "It is the date," he stubbornly said.
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Why they'll expect the government to take care of them, of course.
There is no rapture. This guy is going to feel pretty silly May 22. And broke.
war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
I agree. I wonder if he's going to appeal to the ad agencies for his money back and base this on a 'have compassion' appeal. He is a fool.
Judging by past failed claims of the Second Coming, the faithful will find an excuse why it did not happen and start the cycle over again.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
The faithful know better, Destro.
war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
Faithful of those movements is what I mean. Look up Millerites who instead of rejecting their religion when the reported time of the arrival of Jesus did not happen just moved on and created another church movement, the Advent Christian Church. These kooks of this article will do the same. Some will feel cheated but 99.99% will assume cognitive dissonance and keep on with their end time cult.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
There was an end of it all cult that demonstrated one time a couple of decades ago how people are. Those who went home to be with family and loved ones at the end of the world were by and large disillusioned and angry, breaking with the cult. Those who stayed with their brethren waiting for the end discussed what went wrong and a new prediction of when it will be the end was arrived at. That is why the birfers are turning into deathers. When one thing didn't turn out to serve to their liking as a vehicle to try to discredit the President, they turn to another one. As long as they have their fellow cranky wankers to rub elbows with and develop conspiracy plots with, they will forever stay in their own special la la land.
Just a minor correction, but the correct term is birfoons, not birthers.
There is no such thing in the Bible as the "Rapture". Stone and I talked about this. All references to being taken up to heaven refer to the second coming of Christ. This is the correct interpretation of scripture.
"I wonder what is going to happen on May 22 when people no longer have their possessions or their savings and we are all still here and they don't have their rapture."
#2. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#3. To: Rudgear (#2)
#4. To: Rudgear, Ferret Mike (#2)
There is no rapture. This guy is going to feel pretty silly May 22. And broke.
#5. To: Godwinson (#4)
#6. To: Rudgear (#5)
The faithful know better, Destro.
#7. To: Godwinson (#4)
"Judging by past failed claims of the Second Coming, the faithful will find an excuse why it did not happen and start the cycle over again."
#8. To: Ferret Mike (#7)
That is why the birfers are turning into deathers.
#9. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
NYC Man Spends Retirement Savings on May 21, 2011 Rapture Ads
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
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