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		<title>Why Camping&#8217;s &#8216;Doomsday&#8217; Didn&#8217;t Happen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it Harold Camping cannot get his &#8216;Doomsday&#8217; prediction correct? First, let&#8217;s lay the foundation for his initial prediction of a 5.21.11 Doomsday prediction, followed by a 10.21.11 Doomsday. According to Camping, May 21st marked exactly 7,000 years since Noah&#8217;s flood. Since the number &#8217;7&#8242; is a significant number in the Bible, Camping concluded [...]]]></description>
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<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Why is it Harold Camping cannot get his &#8216;Doomsday&#8217; prediction correct? First, let&#8217;s lay the foundation for his initial prediction of a 5.21.11 Doomsday prediction, followed by a 10.21.11 Doomsday.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">According to Camping, May 21st marked exactly 7,000 years since Noah&#8217;s flood. Since the number &#8217;7&#8242; is a significant number in the Bible, Camping concluded that the 7,000 year mark must signify the end of times for wicked mankind. When May 21 came and went, Camping explained the lack of a global destruction by stating May 21 was actually Judgment Day, and that those judged worthy would be taken to heaven, and those deemed unrepentant and wicked would be destroyed along with the physical earth, on October 21, 2011. Just as May 21 did, so too did October 21 come and pass with nothing out of the ordinary happening. So, what went wrong? Two things.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>1)</b> The date is impossible to calculate to begin with. <b>Mark 13:32</b> says: &quot;<i>Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but the Father</i>&quot; and <b>1 Thes 5: 2 </b>says: &quot;<i>For YOU yourselves know quite well that God’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night.</i>&quot; In other words, we know no more as to when &quot;The End&quot; is coming as we know when a thief is going to break in in the night. </font></p>
<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>2)</b> Even if it was possible to calculate the date, Camping has the date for Noah&#8217;s Flood wrong anyway. <br />
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<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Camping&#8217;s  basis for their End of Times prophecy was that May 21 marked exactly   7,000 years since Noah&#8217;s flood. WRONG.<br />
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<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The   Bible  provides chronological information that allows for a careful   count back to the  beginning of human history. At Genesis 5:1-29, we   find the genealogical line  from the creation of the first man, Adam, to   the birth of Noah. The Deluge  began “in the six hundredth year of   Noah’s life.”—Genesis 7:11.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">  To determine  the time of the Flood we need to start with a date that   is accepted in secular  history and corresponds to a particular event   recorded in the Bible. From that  point, we can determine the exact year   of the flood.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One pivotal date   is 539 B.C.E., the year when Persian King Cyrus  overthrew Babylon.   Secular sources for the time of his reign include Babylonian  tablets   and documents of Diodorus, Africanus, Eusebius, and Ptolemy. Because of    a decree issued by Cyrus, a Jewish remnant left Babylon and arrived in   their  homeland in 537 B.C.E. That marked the end of Judah’s 70-year   desolation,  which according to the Biblical record had begun in   607 B.C.E. By taking  into account the period of the judges and the   reigns of Israel’s kings, we can  determine that the Exodus of the   Israelites from Egypt occurred in 1513 B.C.E.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Bible-based chronology   takes us back another 430 years to the making of the  covenant with   Abraham in 1943 B.C.E. Next, we must take into account the  births and   life spans of Terah, Nahor, Serug, Reu, Peleg, Eber, and Shelah, as    well as Arpachshad, who was born “two years after the deluge.” (Genesis    11:10-32) Thus, we can place the beginning of the Flood in the year   2370 B.C.E.  Which would mean that   only some 4,381 years have elapsed (give or take a year), NOT the 7,000 years that Camping calculated. ***</font></p>
<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></font></p>
<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>*** Counting</b> <b>Backward</b> <b>From</b> <b>Cyrus’</b> <b>Decree</b> <b>Allowing</b> <b>the</b> <b>Jews</b> <b>to</b> <b>Return</b> <b>From</b> <b>Exile</b> <b>to</b> <b>the</b> <b>Flood</b> <b>of</b> <b>Noah’s</b> <b>Day</b><br />
  <b>537</b>  Cyrus’ decree<br />
  <b>539</b>  The overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus the Persian<br />
 68 years</p>
<p>  <b>607</b>  70-year desolation of Judah begins 906 years of oversight by leaders, judges, and Israel’s kings</p>
<p>  <b>1513</b>  Israel’s Exodus from Egypt<br />
  430  years - 430-year period when  the sons of Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt and in Canaan Exodus 12:40, 41)</p>
<p>  <b>1943</b>  Validating of the Abrahamic covenant<br />
  205 years</p>
<p>  <b>2148</b>  The birth of Terah<br />
  222 years</p>
<p>  <b>2370</b>  Beginning of the Flood</font></p>
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<p><font color="#000099" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b>*   Cyrus’   proclamation for the  release of the Jews from exile was made “in the   first year of Cyrus the king of  Persia,” likely in the year 538 B.C.E.   or early in 537 B.C.E.</font></p>
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		<title>Selling a Screenplay Without an Agent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most often the key to attracting a good agent is having several solid scripts already under your belt and have previously been produced or optioned. But what if you don&#8217;t fit into either of these categories? There are at least 5 avenues you can pursue to sell your screenplay and get your name out there and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;">Most often the key to attracting a good agent is having several solid scripts already under your belt and have previously been produced or optioned. But what if you don&#8217;t fit into either of these categories? There are at least 5 avenues you can pursue to sell your screenplay and get your name out there and your reputation off to a good start.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;">Below are give groups you can approach without an agent:</span></p>
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<li><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;">Writers Guild-signatory producers</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;">Independent producers (Indies)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;">Actors and directors</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;">Network television producers</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;">Cable, independent television, regional markets and the new technologies available</span></li>
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