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Waiting for the end of the world...

Waiting for the end of the world...
By Justin Elliott

Salon

Harold Camping

OAKLAND --Camping -- the octogenarian numerologist whose calculations spawned a worldwide movement (of indeterminate size) devoted to warning non-believers to prepare for the return of Christ, or else -- recently told a reporter that the end of the world would begin at exactly 6 p.m. on May 21 in each time zone around the globe. That means the end should be beginning right about now in the South Pacific archipelago of Tonga, where it's 6 p.m., May 21, 2011.
Here's what's supposed to be happening, according to Camping's website:
"A great earthquake will occur the Bible describes it as 'such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.' This earthquake will be so powerful it will throw open all graves.

The remains of the all the believers who have ever lived will be instantly transformed into glorified spiritual bodies to be forever with God."
I check the U.S. Geological Survey's up-to-the-minute tracker of worldwide earthquakes over magnitude 5.0. A few hours ago, a 5.1 quake hit in the south Sandwich Islands region off South America, but there's nothing recent near Tonga.

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I'm not sure CNN has a Tonga correspondent, but if something is going down there, the network hasn't picked it up yet. Its lead story is, "Accused ex-IMF chief in home detention."
This appears to be beginning of the unraveling of Camping's prediction -- the second time he's been wrong. Last time, he predicted the world was going to end on Sept. 6, 1994. When that didn't happen, Camping said he had miscalculated.

I'm wondering what the homeless Camping devotee I met earlier this week -- the one who told me he believes he may be the messiah -- is thinking right now. Even the PETA activists who were outside Family Radio earlier offering vegan Last Supper meals are now gone.
Some member of Camping's staff with a sense of understatement put up this sign on Family Radio's front door:

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