tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3711354256257192802..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The World Ends on Saturday NightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2598678595186643172011-05-23T14:18:52.591-07:002011-05-23T14:18:52.591-07:00I, too, am glad we got to keep Saturday night and ...I, too, am glad we got to keep Saturday night and also feel a little bummed that Monday showed up but I would have traded all the osestri in the world for Camping to have been wrong. In fact I did. That's what saved us.Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62956297814867107222011-05-23T07:07:08.035-07:002011-05-23T07:07:08.035-07:00I believe the tragedy of a confiscated Blackberry ...I believe the tragedy of a confiscated Blackberry may indeed be the most remarkable of the many unusual events round the world catalogued by diligent historians of this <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/lost-weekend.html" rel="nofollow">Lost Weekend</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27535566811661516382011-05-22T12:25:15.741-07:002011-05-22T12:25:15.741-07:00mr Camping might be camping out
counting out the
...mr Camping might be camping out<br />counting out the <br />windfall prophet tax<br />that he somehow forgot to spend<br />all the last minute donations<br /><br />meanwhile in the news today<br />the followers are "disappointed"<br />which confirms my suspicions<br />this was more boredom-based hobby than any real honest-to-god apocalyptic fervor <br /><br />many a ponzi schemer continues<br />to receive donations from their <br />starry-eyed investors/followers<br />even after his/her criminal conviction<br /><br />but for many May Twenty-Firsters<br />the end time<br />was just some trashy diversion<br />to make their life resemble the ideal<br />of reality TV<br /><br />Real New Testament Housewives?<br /><br /><br /><br />+<br />$<br />+<br />$VINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16297981571267254202011-05-22T09:24:19.178-07:002011-05-22T09:24:19.178-07:00I'm still here!
My Daughter's world ended...I'm still here! <br />My Daughter's world ended last night, when I took her 'Blackberry' away from her! Ha! *sigh*<br />People are nuts! Did you NOT know that Thomas?SarahAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14791948357280208382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14492607314719123452011-05-22T08:20:02.735-07:002011-05-22T08:20:02.735-07:00One shouldn't omit mention of the single piece...One shouldn't omit mention of the single piece of good news it was possible to harvest from the universally depressing doomsday wet firecracker event. The fellow who had attempted unsuccessfully to purchase lethal doses of pre-Rapture poison for his pets (the vets told him to take a hike), and evidently remained bound and determined to off the poor creatures, was ratted out by neighbors to Animal Control, who mercifully came and took away the poor animals that were not going to get to go to heaven anyway.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86162326899751352832011-05-22T07:44:48.171-07:002011-05-22T07:44:48.171-07:00Believe it or not, here in Harold's area code ...Believe it or not, here in Harold's area code we felt at 7:04 PM on Doomsday a brief sharp jolt. Three point eight. Epicenter a few miles north and eight and a half miles down, under the town of Pinole. A few miles beneath that, either the Beast 666 is warming up its engines...or it's geological business as usual (i.e. shaky).<br /><br />No word on Harold Camping's reaction. Harold's a bit further from the epicenter, but one hopes, for the sake of his Grand Bad Dream, he at least was able to feeling or capable of feel something. A. is reading out a story from the paper about a trucker from Maryland who drove all the way across country to spend the night of Doomsday in a parking lot on Hagenberger Road, where Harold has his Family Radio Headquarters. <br /><br />"Talk about pathos." <br /><br />The infernal regions could not be more depressing than Hagenberger Road. The haunting memory of the unemployment facility in that grey deathly concrete wasteland will accompany one netherwards when one goes. Merely to depart it yay unto the raging fumes of the freeway was to be rapt.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41940341406631260892011-05-21T13:52:02.418-07:002011-05-21T13:52:02.418-07:00This piece and its associated comments (particular...This piece and its associated comments (particularly gameface’s reminiscence) interest me a lot and are much more thoughtful than most of the simply nasty and condescending “anti-Rapture people” remarks I’ve seen, for instance, on Facebook pages. (Like the old Pall Mall cigarette packages used to say, I really do think of Beyond The Pale as a place “where particular people congregate”; the same cannot be said of Facebook.) <br /><br />I'm about as certain that you're correct in your Harold Camping vs. Piero della Francesca observation as I am about anything (which isn't very, usually). <br /><br />A couple of years ago I followed the progress of a woman named Licia Kuenning, a former Timothy Leary acolyte during the Harvard/Millbrook days, who was promoting what she called the Farmington Prophecy, named for the tiny village of Farmington, Maine. Licia, her husband Larry, and the Friends of Truth, their totally back-to-basics Quaker splinter meeting, moved from the Philadelphia suburbs to Farmington in early 2006 in order to avoid Armageddon, which she prophesied would take place at dawn on June 6, 2006. Her vision told her that of all the earth, only Farmington would be spared and the people living there would be permanently cured of their ills. Licia and Larry are both intelligent and highly learned people who run the Quaker Heritage Press, publisher of restored, integral and annotated editions of early Quaker writings. Their version of Faith & Practice, the traditional “book of discipline” used by Quaker meetings, is really a little masterpiece, whether you share the Kuennings’ beliefs or not. Needless to say, when the end of the world didn't arrive on schedule, Licia was left with egg on her face and many unsold copies of her prophecy novel, Farmington!, Farmington! <br /><br />Watching (from internet distance) Licia thoughtfully adapt from prophesy “Coming Now” to “Coming Soon” mode was kind of touching. Even though she’s not a very friendly person (her online letters to commercial cleaning product manufacturers whose wares irritate her allergies are scary and her notion of what constitutes intellectual dialogue is seriously lacking in decorum), one couldn’t despise her for her Farmington delusion and mocking her seemed inappropriate. Frankly (and in part because she expresses herself so well on her chosen subjects, including Farmington), one wanted to understand her better. As Quakers say, there’s that of God in everyone. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19496074995908572842011-05-21T06:41:43.025-07:002011-05-21T06:41:43.025-07:00The torments suffered by nonbelievers at the hands...The torments suffered by nonbelievers at the hands of believers will doubtless be exacerbated on Judgment Day. For this reason alone, I exhort the world to continue to exist.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54011632847188129412011-05-21T06:35:00.113-07:002011-05-21T06:35:00.113-07:00What freaks me out from my safe distance is the sh...What freaks me out from my safe distance is the sheer scale of the paranoid-sadistic fantasising represented by this kind of thing, from today's (Manchester) Guardian:<br /><br />'One caller in Oregon wanted to know if he should arm himself to protect his family from the doomed in his street who might be jealous that those who have "found Jesus" were about to go to heaven.<br /><br />The show's host assured him that nonbelievers would be too busy being tortured by fire to worry about seeking vengeance on him.'<br /><br />So the Fear extends now as far as the blameless neighbours. Every single you must be destroyed for the crime of not being me. Terrifying. So Tom, in that context, your small picaresque adventure in good-neighbourliness and <br />-Samaritanism is particularly poignant.<br /><br />Glad you all made it through.Barry Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02121653352771218338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38459873842299415652011-05-21T06:29:57.631-07:002011-05-21T06:29:57.631-07:00Tom,
The sun has just appeared above the ridge, t...Tom,<br /><br />The sun has just appeared above the ridge, the world doesn't appear to have ended. . . .<br /><br /><br />5.21<br /><br />pink coming into clouds in pale blue sky<br />above ridge, waning white moon by branch<br />in foreground, waves sounding in channel<br /><br /> changing result to, in which<br /> follows from is whose<br /><br /> compared with that, relative<br /> to system, would this<br /><br />grey-white clouds reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49764428848559970642011-05-21T03:35:09.907-07:002011-05-21T03:35:09.907-07:00Join Jim Morrison Fanclub at:
http://jim-morrison-...Join Jim Morrison Fanclub at:<br />http://jim-morrison-fanclub.blogspot.com/<br />The fans will see your blog.CELEBRULUL NECUNOSCUThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05269538320901510026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27473276042559429872011-05-21T00:29:33.412-07:002011-05-21T00:29:33.412-07:00Profoundly interesting comments to reflect upon in...Profoundly interesting comments to reflect upon in the quieter side streets of the night.<br /><br />It might be easier to laugh off this Haroldian hokum were its sort of thing not responsible for having warped so many souls out of shape over the ENDLESS decades and centuries. The REAL MIRACLE (Harold, are you listening?) is that a few brave souls (see: comment above by gamefaced) have actually managed to survive it.<br /><br />___<br /><br /><br />This next bit should be of interest to those monitoring this blog from other planets... <br /><br />...for those who may have been hoping-against-hope for that quick, clean Twilight Zone ending: I'm going to have to break this to you easy.<br /><br />The giant quake in New Zealand that was according to Harold Camping's prophetickal vision to occur an hour and a half ago, thus triggering The End... did not happen.<br /><br />Sigh.<br /><br />The picture at the top of this post was meant to portray the continuation of world time in the spatial region where the abolition of Time was to begin.<br /><br /><br />Personal aside:<br /><br />One would so much rather be there, in heaven on earth, than here, in the same area code as the Prophet. <br /><br />Instead, just beauty as usual.<br /><br /><br />Anyway, so... no offense to our relentlessly errant Prophet... and this is is not to say that catastrophes and calamities haven't been occurring at an alarming rate in recent times, but a wiser way to view all this might begin with putting it down not to God or gods but to... yes, humans, a cast of which Harold presumably remains a member. Wonder about his carbon emissions sometime, did you say? <br /><br />And really, here's the deal, if some such deity as the One which Harold is so quick to project upon the innocent and unregarding cosmos were actually to exist, do you suppose he'd let a tiresome old coot like Harold stand up as his earthly representative and messenger? One suspects not. One of those Piero della Francesca angels, for example, would do so much better.<br /><br />Furthermore, just for equal-time, since the Founder of Family Radio has already harvested a good deal of free pub here, it should be conceded that there is another view going round. The false prophet hunters of the as yet unended world (and frankly, all this idiocy almost makes one regret the failure of the End in philosophical as well as personal terms), zealous in their tracking down of their fellow nutters, have designated our Harold as <a href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/harold_camping.htm" rel="nofollow">a ravening wolf in sheep's clothing</a>. <br /><br />Now granted that IS a bit hard... still it's probably just more fuel for the boxoffice flames in heaven.hell (or as we heathens may be permitted to simply call, yes that word, the world).<br /><br />Vincent has put this economic aspect of the (non)ending into proper graphic perspective:<br /><br /><br />$<br />+<br />$<br />+<br />$<br />+<br />$<br />+<br />$<br /><br />The ups and downs of the ratings and the bar graph profit lines and the big and little tickets suggest that maybe next time out HC ought to shoot for something easier, like predicting that tomorrow will be another day.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25804978184702596292011-05-21T00:24:19.624-07:002011-05-21T00:24:19.624-07:00Tom brilliant piece. I shall keep you posted about...Tom brilliant piece. I shall keep you posted about the events in here. Someone says if not the end, Delhi would 'atleast' suffer from an earthquake. And the skies have already turned dirty brown and grey. <br />'They' keep predicting the 'imminent' return of the Christ. <br />Ed,<br />You are marvelous. You can make cats men skies everybody smile. I wish the Lord was reading this and would postpone the 'Judgement day' a while. So we can all watch Oprah's farewell.adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19277569293508643832011-05-20T15:18:58.258-07:002011-05-20T15:18:58.258-07:00Do not confuse about the situation going on today&...Do not confuse about the situation going on today's world. What Jesus says in the Holy Bible about the End of this World and the Second coming of Christ..You need to Read more References in Holy Bible but one thing is True and that is only the Father(God) knows about the End Time. you need to read Holy Bible: Matthew 24, then you will get perfect idea..<br />If you want more perfect idea about the End Time of the World then read my Blog..<br />(End of the World. How far? Read it..)<br />www.aminesh-patel-22.blogspot.comAmineshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08101094861604200364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66654475173708197802011-05-20T14:41:48.319-07:002011-05-20T14:41:48.319-07:00hey I believe in end times as much as the next guy...hey I believe in end times as much as the next guy<br />but these familyradio apocalypservice types<br />seem so unenthused about their epic fuse<br />lack of mouth foam and popping eye balls<br />like the prediction squeezed from the bible<br />is just another ponzi scheme <br />they're hoping will pan out<br />but won't the divine payday<br />probably get deducted --<br />windfall prophet tax<br /><br /> +<br /> $<br /> +<br /> $<br /> +<br /> $<br /> +<br /> $<br /> +<br /> $VINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54875773599053541632011-05-20T08:13:42.706-07:002011-05-20T08:13:42.706-07:00when i was a kid, probably 13, my parents sent me ...when i was a kid, probably 13, my parents sent me off to church camp for a week. the theme that year was rapture. the leaders showed us a really low budget 'rapture' movie (this was before 'left behind'), i think it was called 'in the blink of an eye'. the opening scenes of the movie were shots of christians disappearing from everyday situations. one image that i've never forgotten, was a baby crying for his mother from a shopping cart alone, in a grocery store. <br />another bit, during one of our many mandatory lessons (church camp was not for swimming or hiking or enjoying the world our god had provided us to live in no, it was for boring to death the future army of god)pastor stated that we would watch, once raptured and safe in heaven, the unsaved remaining on earth die horrible tortured deaths at the hand of satan's rule. then pastor was asked, how will i be in heaven, in eternal bliss, if i'm watching my unsaved family and friends suffer. pastor explained that the raptured would be so in awe of god, of being in the actual presence of god, that knowing another human would be of no importance. basically, we'd all be blinded by god's perfect love.<br />i pictured myself sitting on a cloud, frozen in light and unable to care - awareness gone. a zombie for something ominous, shiny and cold. it scared the shit out of me.<br /><br />anyway i'm rambling but, all this ruckus is like reliving my childhood. it leaves me totally baffled. while i totally understand the psyche of these people, it amazes me how few of them ever grow up, in spirituality or intellect.gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10529951990460085742011-05-20T08:10:36.759-07:002011-05-20T08:10:36.759-07:006 p.m. there is 3. p.m. here
so
I will let you kn...6 p.m. there is 3. p.m. here<br />so<br /><br />I will let you know<br />from "the other side'<br />how it-all turns out !<br /><br />the ONLY problem that I have with<br />this 3 p.m. Ending is that<br /><br />Oprah's farewell is at 4 p. m. and I <br />will "_________ing" miss that !Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87052183330329934082011-05-20T06:59:20.137-07:002011-05-20T06:59:20.137-07:00Tom,
"In the quieter side streets reflection...Tom,<br /><br />"In the quieter side streets reflection was possible."<br /><br /><br />5.20<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />plane of ridge, green of leaf on branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> not as expression, but which<br /> itself is that “being”<br /><br /> picture plane, the structure<br /> of it, is to be where<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />sunlit green of pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com