Harold Camping

Everyone is writing about this guy, so I thought I might as well.

But instead of satire, jokes or puns... I do respect the man and his followers. It's easy to criticize others for believing differently then we do. It's harder to see ourselves in Harold Camping.

I heard, through a friend, that a co-worker of his followed Harold Camping. This past week, this co-worker quit his job and relocated to Arizona (awaiting the End.)

Some may laugh, but this guy has something most of us don't. Adventure. The only problem, it's very short lived. When the 22nd comes, he'll be out of a job, depressed and hit what some call the Belief Crisis. I feel compassion for this unknown man, and I feel an admiration at the same time.

It reminded me of when I was in Scientology. Despite all the things that drove me leave Scientology - it WAS an adventure. The sense of adventure is vacant in most Western Beliefs. Here in the West, orthodox religion is mostly spoon fed. We ingest something that is 'safe' and easy.

In Scientology you had the past life regression... and then the actual Church itself. Both of these were adventures... whether it was reliving a past life, or running from the long arms of the Church - there was adventure there. The author of Blown for Good, talks about how much he hated Scientology, but without it - he couldn't have written the book he did. He couldn't have had the adventure he had.

But back to Harold Camping... was he a fool? Where people who followed him fools? No. Not to me. I don't know what Harold is. As far as I know he could be a High being, and I just don't see it, because my Karma paints him to be a little old man with tall tales. As for his followers, they got an adventure (as short lived as it was) and should be happy for the experience.

Is Harold Camping a guru? Not mine. His views and mine don't mesh. He's hung up on an old paradigm of sexual repression and egotism. Or so it appears to me, when I view him from my Karma based perception.

But some people have (and no doubt will continue) to see him as a High being. To each their own. We're all on our own trip. So love them, baby. Love them for who they are, and what they believe.