POLL: Deja Vu - World To End Today, Again

May 21, 2011 was a nice spring day in Malden, and somewhat at odds with the end of the world prognostications that faced it. The people on bikes, walking dogs, playing baseball and flying kites didn't seem overly concerned with the impending end of the world. 

Turns out, they were right. And this was just fine with billions of people across the globe, save for a small group led by radio evangelist Harold Camping, who had spent thousands procaliming Saturday, May 21, as the end of time.

Whoops.

And like every other doomsday prophecy throughout history, the May 21 rapture promised by the Oakland-based Family Radio network owner never materialized. The 90-year-old, self-styled prophet now claims the world will end by this Friday and not with a bang, as previously predicted, but rather with a whimper, said a report by the Huffington Post.

"The end is going to come very, very quietly probably within the next month...by Oct. 21," said Camping in a radio address delivered earlier this month, reported the Huffington Post. "Probably there will be no pain suffered by anyone because of their rebellion against God...We can become more and more sure that they'll quietly die and that will be the end of their story."