the rapture
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- BattleAxe0
Can't it wait till after the Champions League Final ?
- ukit0
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_…
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven of afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people who are afraid of the dark."
- locustsloth0
People have a need to believe in something (including that there's nothing to believe in) and some people just choose to follow the wrong ideas.
When you think about it, this is probably one of the most harmless things that could be followed. This isn't Jonestown, where people are being asked to off themselves. They're just waiting, proselytizing, until the day comes and goes and they come up with some excuse why it didn't happen until the next time it's "supposed" to happen.- Not all people NEED to believe in something!monospaced
- "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"locustsloth
- However, if you just 'don't decide', you haven't.
Small point. Worth making.mikotondria3
- ukit0
The guy who started this rumor should stage his own disappearance on Saturday just to fuck with people.
- randommail0
If you believe in the Bible and the Rapture/2nd Coming of Christ...
there are many verses that say that we cannot know the day nor the hour, such as: Matthew 24:36 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” And again in Matthew 24:44, Jesus said: “So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”Jesus, Himself, said that He did not know when He would return. If He doesn’t know, how can we expect to know?
- fresnobob0
From the wiki on the dude who predicted this nonsense:
"Followers continue to listen to Camping despite the fact that he was wrong in his previous prediction of the end of the world. In his book 1994?, he claimed there was a very high likelihood that the world would end in September, 1994, although he did acknowledge in the book "the possibility does exist that I could be wrong."[14] He makes no mention of this failure when establishing his new claims of the end of the world in October, 2011."
- "From the wiki on the dude who interpreted this nonsense"seeessess
- toe_knee0
What a nutjob
- fooler0
ARKANSAS CITY (EAP) -- A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car's sunroof during an incident best described as a "mistaken rapture" by dozens of eye-witnesses.
Thirteen other people were injured after a twenty-car pile-up resulted from people trying to avoid hitting the woman, who was apparently convinced that the rapture was occurring when she saw twelve people floating up into the air, and then passed a man on the side of the road who she believed was Jesus.
"She started screaming `He's back! He's back!' and climbed out through the sunroof and jumped off the roof of the car," said Everet Williams, husband of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene.
"I was slowing down but she wouldn't wait till I stopped," Williams said. "She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna lift her up into the sky," he went on to say.
"This is the strangest thing I've seen since I've been on the force," said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene.
Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was on his way to a toga costume party, when the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released twelve blow-up sex dolls filled with helium, which then floated up into the sky.
Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who's been told by several of his friends that he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in frustration and said "Come back," just as the Williams' car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting people up into heaven as they drove by him.
"I think my wife loved Jesus more than she loved me," the widower said when asked why his wife would do such a thing.
When asked for comments about the twelve sex dolls, Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like this to happen."
- kona0
WHEW!
I misread the title and thought this was about the RapTOR overloards coming on the 21st. The RapTURE... ah... no worries then. Carry on.
- dbloc0
3 Days and a Wake Up.
- dbloc0
the robots will live on....
- hallelujah0
soon all the fundamentalist scum with be washed off the streets
- set0
LOL at the guy who spent his life savings ($86,000) on the campaign to warn everyone....