Anyone want to try and explain this?

[Bryan Schwegler]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43106614/ns ... ork_times/

Or

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... ts-tonight

We thought there was more time to get ready for the Judgment Day that evangelical radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicts is coming on Saturday.

But now we read in The Atlantic that Camping says the Rapture will actually get started when the clock hits 6 p.m. Saturday at the international dateline way out in the Pacific. And then, according to The Atlantic, it will spread "like a rolling brown out" as earthquakes and other disasters start happening around the world.

I mean I'm just wondering, should I use an all-day event on my calendar for this or are a few hours enough? Just want to make sure I don't miss it.

Of course Gawker has a good article for people after Saturday:
http://gawker.com/5803950/what-to-do-wh ... -believers

What to Do When the Rapture Doesn’t Happen: A Guide for Believers

Greetings, faithful reader. We assume you are reading this on Sunday, after the Rapture did not occur on Saturday as you believed it would. How do you deal with such a stunning turn of events? We're here to help.
We feel for you, rapture believers. You have endured years of ridicule and traveled the world to spread your message that Judgement Day would occur on May 21st, 2011. You've even risked your family's health and happiness. But now it's May 22nd and you have awoken to a normal, non-rapturous Sunday morning. You are confused, panicked, and running really low on groceries.

[Stan Austin]

Bryan--- can you lend me $50,000?

I'll pay you back on Monday.

Stan

[Danielle Masters]

[Bryan Schwegler]

[Danielle Masters]

In all seriousness I read this article and was really sad for these poor children. I understand raising your kids in your chosen religion but I can't imagine believing in something so much that I would tell my teenagers that they weren't going to heaven. Being a teen is hard enough.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/us/20 ... ss&emc=rss

“My mom has told me directly that I’m not going to get into heaven,” Grace Haddad, 16, said. “At first it was really upsetting, but it’s what she honestly believes.”

While Ms. Haddad Carson has quit her job, her husband still works as an engineer for the federal Energy Department. But the children worry that there may not be enough money for college. They also have typical teenage angst — embarrassing parents — only amplified.

“People look at my family and think I’m like that,” said Joseph, their 14-year-old, as his parents walked through the street fair on Ninth Avenue, giving out Bibles. “I keep my friends as far away from them as possible.”

“I don’t really have any motivation to try to figure out what I want to do anymore,” he said, “because my main support line, my parents, don’t care.”

His mother said she accepted that believers “lose friends and you lose family members in the process.”

“I have mixed feelings,” Ms. Haddad Carson said. “I’m very excited about the Lord’s return, but I’m fearful that my children might get left behind. But you have to accept God’s will.”

[Gary Rice]

Matthew 24:36

Anyone having whatever version of the Bible they might wish to peruse can read this quote, directly attributed to Jesus Christ, that not even the angels, but God alone knows when the end time will be.

How some might resolve their own variances with this quote would be quite beyond my comprehension.

Back to the harp...

[Danielle Masters]

I am familiar with that verse and that is one reason I have never understood groups such as these that predict the end times. Only God knows. I figure that it's best to lead life as though each day might be your last trying to be a good person which is a good way to be regardless of religious belief.