May 21: What will you be doing?

Up late, so started playing around with a "Night Before Christmas" take:

Feel free to continue the saga. I'm going to bed...

 

Well, still here. Not sure whether to clap or to cry about that.

 

Our guest minister at church today said: "If the Rapture happened, it was much more subtle than expected".

 

I used to get absolutely terrified of end-of-the-world stuff when I was little. To the point that I remember crying in church, and walking around in a daze for days after I'd read the kind of WWN headlines you're referring to.

 

Now the idiot says it will be Oct. 21.

In the meantime, were I a lawyer, I might try to sign on a few clients who forked over their life savings to following this mutt, and start cranking up the lawsuits, based on the following in an AP story:

"In 2009, the nonprofit Family Radio reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million, including $34 million in stocks or other publicly traded securities."

 

I was in the pressbox at a MLB game, sitting between the grumpy Associated Press codger and the grumpy columnist for the major metro daily, listening to them go back and forth about how most people are idiots and cracking jokes about how dumb they are for believing this crap. Then, when the stadium clock hit 6:01 the crowd, between innings, erupted into a loud, spontaneous cheer. Was pretty funny and I thought these two were going to have heart attacks.

Earlier in the day, at a flea market, I bought three pretty nice pairs of sunglasses for $5.00 because the guy was having an "End of the World Sale." It was a pretty nice pickup.

 

Here's what I want to know.

The guy was wrong in 1994. He was wrong about May 21. Now he claims the date is Oct. 21. When that date comes and goes, he will undoubtedly come up with another date.

At what point do we (meaning the media - personally I go by the Bible verse saying no one but the Father himself knows the time) ignore him?

 

Now the drooling tool Camping has moved all his chips to October 21.

There are tens of thousands born, every minute . . .

 

Well, I was blissfully unaware of the date as it came and passed. So at least a small sliver of the media is ignoring him already.

 

When TV viewers/news website readers stop watching/clicking on links to stories on wackjob end-of-days prophecies.

The more viewers/pageviews you have, the more you can charge for advertising. The more you make from advertising, the more profits you have to present to your shareholders. And if you're like many major media outlets these days, you're owned by a large corporation with diverse holdings whose shareholders only care about how much profit your business unit is producing - because that is the one thing it has in common with the other holdings.

When we stop watching/reading stories on this guy, the news media will stop devoting resources to producing stories on him, because then it will no longer provide a sufficient return on investment.