Somehow, I don't think Madhorseman is going to answer. At least not now, not until he has figured out another explanation for God's failure to destroy the world on schedule.

I must say that although end-of-the-world predictions have a naturally colorful and entertaining character, the explanations offered up by Madhorseman and Harold Camping are really no more preposterous than the explanations routinely offered up by Christian apologists trying to convince people (including themselves, I suspect) that patently self-contradictory portions of the Bible are really perfectly harmonious, or trying to explain why biblical depictions of God as an infanticidal genocidal tyrant are not blasphemous but actually proof of God's greatness.

This is the inevitable consequence of biblolatry--primary faith in a book.

Oct 25, 2011 -- 11:49PM, Hatman wrote:

However, Oct 21 2011 no one is going to say nothing happened.

"Have a care how you speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." ~Y'shua Ha Maschiach Where is that place where all the false prophets go, again? You know, those who say they tell the truth when what they utter turns out to be lies? (nuthin' like bein' hoist by yer own petard to inspire a serious re-think of one's position.) Warmest regards- Hatman

(emphasis mine)  Yes, but there are those as Madhorseman seems to be, those who are not lying because they truly believe what they claim.  It is Camping who is most likely to be guilty, although even he may have believed his own nonsense.  To me, there is a great difference between knowingly telling falsehoods, and actually believing what you SHOULD know is a falsehood.  Camping and his followers are suffering punishment already, in that no one will ever take them seriously about anything again, and they are laughing stocks.  This is in addition to the severe disappointment they must feel that nothing happened, so maybe they're suffering enough for just being such fools, and don't deserve greater punishment, since they really believed it.  

Oh this is a "dead" thread. Mad has gone far away and rightly so, he had to come to the realization that it was all just a story fabricated by mad Harold. Even Harold backed out of the whole thing, stating it was "real" but for un-known reasons it was not what Harold had spent over 30 years coming up with. Harold has retired, mad is gone, there is really no reason for this thread to have any kind of heartb-beat any longer. Go figure?