Newt Gingrich teaching that youngster a thing or two! By the way, I am no relative of Paul Ryan's!!

Paul Ryan learning a thing or two about "engineering" from Newt Gingrich

Thanks, Newt! Your courage in exposing the truth-- that Paul Ryan’s budget plan is too “radical” and represents “right wing social engineering” were right on. The Republican’s plans to dismantle Medicare and reward Big Oil and billionaires with “incentives” and more tax breaks is a strong example of how extreme today's Republican party has become. If only other Republicans saw things the way you did, we'd be much better off.

2010 and 2011 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull and Grímsvötn have Camping followers in a stir

Eyjafjallajökull in 2010
Grímsvötn in 2011
If nothing else, spelling bees will probably have their own "end times" thanks to the Icelandic volcanoes of recent years. Try pronouncing the two that have disrupted European airspace two years in a row now.

Just tweaking -- adding 42 days to May 21, 2011 would give us a date of around July 2, 2011 ... assuming that Jesus was resurrected on April 5 or so!

... and a cloud received Him out of their sight ...

Act 1:3 and 9 KJV: (v. 3) "To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: ... (v.9) And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight."

Of course, the 722,500 days after Jesus' Ascension (roughly 42 days after His Crucifixion) almost seems random anyway, although it's nice that it's a perfect square of 850 = 10 + 5 + 17 ..... that is, 850 x 850 = 722,500.

Bare in mind I am not "prophesying," only tidying up some of Harold Camping's spurious numerology and the meanings he put into the numbers 5, 10 and 17.

Just look at the tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes (near the North Pole?) and the turmoil in the Middle East ... and well, early July isn't so far-fetched and surely no one except the Father knows the exact time and date--as Jesus said.

Why did Camping start his arithmetic at the day of the Crucifixion anyway, and not when He ascended bodily and spiritually into the clouds forty days after His Resurrection?--as will those still alive at the time of the Rapture, although not ahead of those who have died before us/them. [See 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18]

All that aside, I really think that Harold Camping meant well and will be forgiven for his peculiar arithmetic and apparent numerology. Mediawingnuts certainly forgives him and also thanks him for giving me some nutty blog-postings and some thinking about what is real ... there will be a Rapture ... and a Tribulation ... and an ultimate Judgement of us all! Basically, all of the uncertainties highlighted by Mr. Camping's false predictions suggest that we should abide by the advice given in one of my recent previous postings.

Okay, okay ... let's try a new date for the Rapture! How about May 21 plus 40 days? That's June 30, 2011!

Funniest photo I saw on the web ...
If I was to try to predict the rapture from the numerology that Harold Camping used, I would at least have used, as my starting date, the day that Jesus rose into the clouds ... roughly 40 days after the date selected by Mr. Camping as the starting date. The angel told the apostles then (roughly 40 days after the Crucifixion and resurrection) that he would return in the same manner, so that June 30, 2011 (equals May 21, 2011 + 40 days) seems like as good a day as any to select.

What do you guys think out in blog-surfing-land?

Best quote I recall as regards the Rapture happening tomorrow: "I stay ready to keep from having to get ready" -- anonymous

I haven't always been "ready" but I have been ready in recent years ... and today and tomorrow, God willing ... as I will be at 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Coast Time) tomorrow evening.

Warning! For those of you in Hawaii: Accept Jesus and His Teachings earlier than 6:00 p.m. That's 3:00 p.m. where you folks are. And besides, that should be your life's goal anyway ... from now till your natural death or whenever the Rapture comes, today, tomorrow, next week, next year or sometime after Iran is nuked by Israel or a Tea-Party Republican (gasp!) is elected President of the United States.

You guys on the East Coast have until 9:00 tomorrow evening, but why not beat the clock and accept Jesus right now!

I hope that you all know that I don't really believe that the rapture will fall on some predicted date--especially-- a date based on what appears to be crazy arithmetic. But just the same ... if I feel the shaking of an earthquake tomorrow afternoon or evening, I will be on my knees in a nanosecond!To heck with the Tsunami sirens; I'll be a believer in that crazy arithmetic in a heartbeat.

Judgement Day nearly upon us and I ran into an interesting ad on the Internet ...

Raccoons under my front deck/porch waiting for a dish of cat food ... and begging to be allowed to go with me to meet Jesus in the clouds at the Rapture
Surely, you've all read the arithmetic on my previous posting that backs up this Saturday as the "Judgement Day--actually, only the Rapture--but who's quibbling over Biblical terms? Anyway, I've been concerned about my cats, the dog and the 104 raccoons under my front porch after I disappear in the "twinkling of an eye." The ad I found that will provide me and millions like me peace is shown below:

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Unfortunately at this time we are not equipped to accommodate all species and must limit our services to dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and small caged mammals. [Please note: we can now offer rescue services for fenced or caged deer and raccoons as well as horses, camels and donkeys in NH,VT, WA, ID and MT.]

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Shall we give it another try? Harold Camping (and thousands of his followers) believe it will be this Saturday at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time.

It's right in here! It's basic arithmetic ... this is for my grandson, Johnny, to teach his dad, Jack, a thing or two about mathematics. Harold Camping (above) looks as though he preceded Isaac Newton, so who knows?
1. According to Camping, the number five equals "atonement", the number ten equals "completeness", and the number seventeen equals "heaven".

2. Christ is said to have hung on the cross on April 1, 33 AD. The time between April 1, 33 AD and April 1, 2011 is 1,978 years.

3. If 1,978 is multiplied by 365.2422 days (the number of days in a solar year, not to be confused with the lunar year), the result is 722,449.

4. The time between April 1, 2011 and May 21, 2011 is 51 days.

5. 51 added to 722,449 is 722,500.

6. (5 x 10 x 17)^2 or (atonement x completeness x heaven)^2 also equals 722,500.

This is just basic arithmetic.

But more seriously--Jesus and others taught us to be ready on each and every day because the "Rapture" (described in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) could be ... TOMORROW ... or better yet ... TODAY!!

In Camping's defense, the pundits who make fun of him continue to say that he's predicting the end of the world on May 21, 2011. The "Rapture" that Camping is predicting will not be the end of the world according to my reading of the Bible--there will be some seven years of Tribulation after the rapture and I don't think I'd want to be around all the way through that!

Personally, I think I'm actually ready for something like the Rapture ... or an unexpected heart attack or a brain aneurysm or ...

And God knows, I haven't always prepared for any of the above. My own life in Christ doesn't even add up to a third of my lifetime ... as any of the persons in my life would certainly attest!

It may be hokey arithematic, but I'd rather that Jesus were coming sooner than later!

If you recall from one of my lesser important postings, some folks are predicting that tomorrow will be the date of the prophesy in 1 Thes. 4:13-18. That is, some of us--the true Believers--will be swept up into the Heavens (dead first, from their graves) to meet Jesus for an Eternity of bliss and ... well ... Eternity!

The math went something like this: Using Daniel 9 and the 70 days mentioned there, we add 70 years to May 14, !948 (the day Israel became a sovereign nation) and get May 14, 2018. Remember, to God a year is like a day--or something like that! Anyway, we are also told in Scripture that His Chosen (that's us!) won't suffer the Tribulation (seven years) that will end on May 14, 2018. Subtract seven years from May 14, 2018 and you have:


But then, if we aren't greeting one another in the clouds with Jesus, we have still one more week to wait for the date that Harold Camping came up with using Noah's Ark, the tilt of the earth, the Jewish calendar and some mathematics that would make Albert Einstein blush. May 21, 2011 is right around the corner!

To the believers in Jesus as the Christ, I'd suggest posting your comment before midnight tomorrow--you might very well be in Heaven. For the non-believers, you will have seven years or so to think about it and come to the Truth before all Hell breaks loose.

Wow! Once Sweetie's cast came off, she really took on a little more of her "alpha" personality ... Her Aunt Mary Lou wanted an up-to-date fridge pic!

She only bares her teeth during mealtimes and when one of the cats is sleeping on one of her marrow bones from the butcher. Taking the cast off her left hind leg certainly changed her overall appearance,I think.