The Day Before "Doomsday"

Well tomorrow's supposedly the day of Rapture.   At least according to a select group of die hard Evangelical Christians and Harold Camping: the doomsday predictor who's already been proven wrong before (when he predicted the world would end in 1994 and well... we're all still here).  Frankly, people have been wrong about the date since Jesus' time. 
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/06/competition-for-when-the-world-will-end/

The sane and rational already know that tomorrow is not the end of the world.  Even the Bible itself says that no man knows the exact date of our doom so I highly doubt the opinions of a crusty old turkey suffering from Alzheimer's.  Just look at him.  


However, that's not the point.  Everyone already knows he's an idiot.  The point is that the people who have bought into this scam; individuals, friends, families and their children, are going to be in for a nasty surprise come tomorrow.  By now, they've spent, given away, or donated everything they've owned to spread "the message".  They've sold their car, belongings, homes, and futures in exchange for a trailer and bunch of cardboard signs.  How are these people going to survive in this economy after willfully bankrupting themselves like that?  How do you bounce back from literally "new gaming"?  


I don't really sympathize with the easily impressionable and stupid but I just feel sorry for the fact that they threw away their lives.  It even looks like this Camping guy actually made money off of this doomsday venue. 
http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/19/news/economy/may-21-end-of-the-world-finances-harold-camping/index.htm

What pains me the most is that the children are the hardest hit victims.  They listen to their mom and dad almost unquestionably (I know I did).  So what happens when your mom and dad says they're selling the house, all your stuff, and going around the country to preach about the end of the world?  You have no choice. How are these parents going to explain to their kids on May 22 that they were wrong?  By saying "Oh sorry honey, we made a mistake and we don't have anything except our little caravan and a now worthless prediction.  Our bad"?   


You know, nice job Mr. Camping.  You've managed to somehow cram a little extra slime into your already wasted life.  You're literally on the precipice of your natural life and yet, you're not satisfied.    Don't people like you just retire and vacation or something?  Go para sailing or sky diving.  But no.  "Hey, I think I'll go ahead and make myself look like the biggest douche in the world.  I absolutely need to put more black marks on my soul by misleading all these families." You, along with all your followers are going to be the laughing stocks of the world in a mere 24 hours.  Good job.  


And I already know what's going to happen once the 22nd hits.  Mr. Camping will probably go on and on about "Oh, I might have made a small miscalculation in my bogus Biblenometry, sorry about that".  Well, that's all good and all but not so for the families still holding the signs.  Now they got to trade those in for 12/20/2012 signs.  I pray they live long enough to even see that day (not that I believe in that either).