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Harold Camping Suffered a Stroke, Oakland Tribune Reports
The end-of-the-world predictor was brought to the hospital Thursday night after suffering a stroke.
Harold Camping, the Alameda man who made headlines predicting the end of the world last month, has suffered a stroke, the Oakland Tribune is reporting.
A neighbor of Camping's, who declined to give her name, told the Tribune that she was there Thursday night when the paramedics came to pick him up.
"He had a stroke, it was on his right side," said the neighbor. "His speech appears to be a little bit slurred."
The day after the May 21 rapture failed to materialize the 89-year-old Alameda resident, head of Family Radio, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was "flabbergasted" and that "it'd been a really tough week."
Camping also told the Chronicle he was "looking for answers" through prayer and consultation with friends.
Camping had predicted that on May 21 Jesus would return to earth and save his believers.
According to Camping, unrepentant sinners would be the victims of a massive earthquake, starting in New Zealand, and spreading across the world, until finally it reached the United States around 6 p.m.
“It’s a horrible judgment that’s coming,” Santos Rolon, a spokesperson for Camping's evangelical group, told Alameda Patch just days before the predicted rapture.
“The scriptures describe the events, and they are horrible events," he said.
Updated Sunday 11 p.m: Camping "doing well" after stroke. Details here.
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Danny Haszard
10:27 pm on Saturday, June 11, 2011
Harold Camping sounds like he plagiarized Jehovah's Witnesses.
Jehovah Witnesses are a spin-off of the second Adventist which all came from the Millerite movement.American war of 1812 army captain William Miller is ground zero for Jehovah's Witnesses.
Yes,the "great disappointment" of Oct 22 1844 has never died out... it lives on in the Jehovah's Witnesses.
The central CORE doctrine of the Watchtower,yes the reason the Watchtower came into existence was to declare Jesus second coming in 1914.When the prophecy (derived from William Miller of 1842) failed they said that he came "invisibly".
Watchtower reckless predictions of the (1914) (1975)..... second coming of Christ hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith.
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Danny Haszard been there
Mark Irons
12:52 pm on Sunday, June 12, 2011
Bob Dylan has written some great stuff and All Along the Watchtower is one of my favorites:
"There must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion", I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.
"No reason to get excited", the thief he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke ....etc.
joel
1:19 pm on Sunday, June 12, 2011
Watchtower and Jehovah's Witness were very absolutely right Jesus second coming did happen in 1914 , that is a real recorded historical fact , it was the years the War that was going to end all wars started , also known as WW1 ,"at one point up to 12.000 soldiers Died everyday" it was the prelude for ww2 , which led to indochina war under the French then Vietnam under the US then Kmer massacre , 1914 was the crumbling of the Ottoman Empire breakdown , the massacre and deportation of the Armenians, direct result of koweit invasion by Saddam by the way as Koweit was very much part of Iraq The cold war and Vietnam all very much related .
Sound to me that the Jehovah's witness are more in the anti christ than anything else .
1914 was a pivotal year ,but certainly not for the good of humankind.
Richard Vanags
3:52 am on Sunday, June 12, 2011
Looks like Karma has struck him. Alternatively he has been judged by God and found wanting. Either way he has just had his own personal judgement day.. Serves him right for all the harm he has done and for those who took their own lives because of his prediction and for those weak minded people who wanted to believe in his claims who he scammed for millions.
Jenna
8:59 am on Monday, June 13, 2011
Amazing that he is allowed to practice his so called religion, collect all that money for committing evil, and get a tax break as a non-profit. All that money and I don't hear about his group doing any good for Alameda. No money donated for our schools, for rescue personnel for water based rescue, for parks, for our animal shelter, for anything in Alameda. What are you doing with all the money you stole, Harold?