Post #342,866
5/21/11 2:10:53 PM
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Heh.
On Friday, employees at Family Radio headquarters in Oakland were given a paid day off, though some of them chuckled at the irony that the money would not appear in the paychecks until June. - http://www.latimes.c...766619,full.story
:-)
Unfortunately, much of this isn't funny.
[Longtime producer and associate of Harold Camping, Matt] Tuter is bracing himself for the reaction among Family Radio listeners when next week materializes. "I think it's going to absolutely devastate a lot of these people," Tuter said. "You have people who have given up their jobs, sold their homes, maxed out their credit cards."
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #342,869
5/21/11 2:48:32 PM
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Only one thing to do . . .
Gather around the Kool-Aid bucket and make your own Rapture.
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Post #342,871
5/21/11 3:36:27 PM
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HCN too quick ... recommend 10 mg Owsley acid
(Hell, some might even have a Real epiphany, then.)
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Post #342,876
5/21/11 6:55:30 PM
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It's even worse than I thought...
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Post #342,884
5/21/11 10:27:08 PM
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Making lemonade..
Posted by: Sastra | May 21, 2011 4:45 PM
I want to see Harold Camping prosecuted for bilking people out of their money, for destroying lives and families. I want to see his radio empire dismantled and the people who promoted his lies disgraced and ashamed.
I don't. At least, not to the extent the government or legal system gets involved.
The people who were 'bilked' out of their money were deliberately buying into something that they knew was something no reasonable, scientific, person-of-and-in-the-world would buy into. The whole point was to be one of the special elite who doesn't rely on rational secular evidence: I don't see how consumer protection laws can apply to that. Camping readily admitted that his views made no sense unless you had faith. They were accepted not despite that, but because of that.
So I'd like to see this incident used to disgrace and shame the entire concept of faith itself, socially, rationally, and culturally. Instead, most believers will just marginalize these people as using faith "the wrong way." As if there is a right way to use it.
#13
Something.. next, should be made of this entire, repetitive/periodic idiotic process, before the digital-attention-span expires
-- something akin to psychic vaccination against the. next. one. from whichever 'faith-based' National or Int'l cult thing.
MMO; motive, means and opportunity: prerequisite for every criminal trial in most Systems.
Make Un-Belief an active rather than passive / pointless, ultimately useless pastime amongst the already vaccinated?
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Post #342,990
5/24/11 2:55:37 PM
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There's a question in there that I can't answer.
Being from North Carolina, I know many people who were and are bilked out of monies they plainly, flatly cannot afford to throw away by Xian charlatans. To be sure, these people are clueless goobers who willingly threw their money away on these con artists. But does that make it okay for people like Swaggart, Benny Hinn, Robertson, Olsteen, TBN, etc. to exploit their foolishness? I'd say "No" to that question, but I'm not sure how I'd answer the question as to whether or not the preachers should be punished for shearing the flock.
To me, this is awfully close to an average grade school child stealing lunch money from the Special Ed kids.
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Post #344,176
6/24/11 8:04:04 PM
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We've already seen what legislating morality wrought:
Prohibition.
Thus enforced by the same sort of folks as now occupy all airports
(and yesterday: at the court house, where my minuscule belt buckle triggered their misadjusted detector; as I went in/out a few times,
and they saw the same me + same belt: no deviation from the VB-script burnt into retinas. Talk to HAL9000.)
So no, I cannot think (either) any formal remedies for, as my Norwegian friend was wont to say, The sheep shall be sheared.
'We' used to think ~~ that ed'jaKay'shun could?/would! obviate the need for many laws beyond, Do unto others as ...
Now if everyone were conscious, at least for a few minutes a day..
(and No, the Xians didn't invent that lovely koan, either.)
Those ripped-off by the Robed Ones (corporate or individual entrepreneur) are able to close-eyes to their Leader's Mercedeses and motel hi-jinx--
as they steal the kids' lunch money (forget any edjaKayshun fund; them inneleckshuls be the Antichrist) to fund creating even more of themselves in new flocks.
Only answer I see [both to save an overpopulated planet from the suicidal Marauding Species and to minimize further evangelizing for fun and profit) might be:
Decimation?
*cough* ..of course, I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed, Mr. President: 15? 20 MILLION TOPS!
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Post #343,133
5/29/11 5:41:04 AM
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These people perfectly fit my previous unmet needs post
For months, dozens of volunteers have been crossing the country in caravan fleets, enduring middle fingers and other forms of ridicule as they distribute brochures. Tuter said he doesn't know how many actually believe the message they're preaching. "They've had a divorce or some other major trauma in their life, and they're grabbing onto this as something to go and do," he said.
Broken people desperately trying to hold on to something, anything.
And this is as stated by the guy's right hand man.
Tip of the iceberg. Almost everyone has some level of this.
2 tag lines come to mind.
#1 - The preacher said sex was a dirty filthy nasty shameful vile activity, and should only be done with the 1 person you love.
#2 - I'd be really pissed if I found out I was praying to the wrong piece of wood.
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