The Rapture is Tomorrow

One can only hope evolution kicks in rather quickly and leave these religious maniacs at dodo's corner.

  On 5/22/2011 at 4:20 PM, goDel said:

One can only hope evolution kicks in rather quickly and leave these religious maniacs at dodo's corner.

  On 5/22/2011 at 4:20 PM, goDel said:

HAHAHAHA! Holy shit, that thing is marvelous!

bad

  On 5/22/2011 at 8:35 PM, vamos scorcho said:

bad

No, the dodo is the perfect mascot for all those religious bigots. They're ugly, from the past and they make no biological sense. Sometimes evolution explores a dead end.

so i found a bit more of the bearded fat guy here, at 0:41, and a conversation at 7:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsN50hB8x_M

still can't find the epic news coverage footage tho

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“Wanna order a pizza?" Jeff asks. "I don’t know if we’ll have time to eat it, but we might as well get it.”

 

It is 4:48 p.m. on May 21, and earthquakes have not yet riven the Earth. “When the sky goes dark and you feel a rumbling, I’m going to ask you and the kids to step outside very quickly," Jeff told me when I first arrived at his small ranch house in Hicksville, Long Island. "God willing, we’ll all be taken up in a whirlwind to Heaven. I know it might sound strange, but that’s my understanding of how it’s going to go.” His 6-year-old son was in the living room, playing a Star Wars game on the Wii. His 4-year-old daughter, wearing a Spider-Man bike helmet from a recent tricycle trip around the backyard, tapped me on the shoulder to show me a crayon drawing of a rainbow.

 

Jeff orders a large Sicilian pie for delivery. “And please put a rush on it,” he tells the person taking his order. “We’re — we’re in a rush here.”

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/rapture.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h5

i hope some good documentaries come out of this.

That story made me kinda sad. That firefighter guy clearly has some PTSD that he isn't getting help for.

apparently saturday was a "silent judgement day" and october 21, 2011 is still the date the world will end. praise jebus for sparing us 5 months of hell on earth before he destroys it.

they're real, they mean it

maybe he'll spend the rest of his money on this new date...

  On 5/24/2011 at 6:33 AM, This crazy Camping dude said:

"I don't have any responsibility. I'm only teaching the Bible. I'm telling ... this is what the Bible says. I don't have spiritual rule over anybody ... except my wife as the head of the household."

it'd be funny if the rapture did happen but no one made it in. so we're all gonna die!

  On 5/24/2011 at 6:27 AM, pattern recognition said:

apparently saturday was a "silent judgement day" and october 21, 2011 is still the date the world will end.

That's my brother's birthday. He'll be thrilled.

does this whole rapture thing maybe strike anyone as being just a tad egotistical?

humanity has been around for thousands of years. christianity, too, if a couple less thousand than humanity as a whole. why should it end now? if you say, "we are the last generation... i hope god chooses me!" i figure it'd make your life feel exciting and purposeful for the six months or so the illusion lasts. i think that's really why this caught hold at all! it must have been a hell of a trip those few months, chucking all rules out the window, spending your savings, because you believe your generation is the last. it doesn't matter, throw your inhibitions out the window....

in short, these people need to get drunk on saturday night and make an ass of themselves every now and again, because they're wound up tight. so tight, they jump at any batshit excuse to go into "oh, fuck it!" mode

yeah i've made this observation while shit shooting. it's an area the right wing chrizzos and the left wing ecotards have in common - a sort of generational solipsism. MY generation has to be the one where the world ends cos if its not then we're just another generation and i will be that much less special.

it's not just generational solipsism (i like that phrase!) but also the byproduct of being extremely repressed. can't do this, the bible says. can't do that, jesus says. got to save money, it's the right thing to do.... but now god says to pull out the stops, stop worrying, just act, because the rapture is at hand. it'd be tempting. maybe harold camping is actually the devil........

another thought: for the people that really believed this, it's akin to getting a false cancer diagnosis. then selling off your house, blowing your money on a world tour... only to be told, sorry, it was a mistake, you're going to live to be a ripe old fart.

  On 5/22/2011 at 2:47 PM, david said:

I agree with Jeremiah Wilson of Norwich. LOL

  On 5/22/2011 at 8:41 PM, goDel said:

 

 

No, the dodo is the perfect mascot for all those religious bigots. They're ugly, from the past and they make no biological sense. most of the time evolution explores a dead end.

  On 5/24/2011 at 11:22 AM, hahathhat said:

does this whole rapture thing maybe strike anyone as being just a tad egotistical?

 

humanity has been around for thousands of years. christianity, too, if a couple less thousand than humanity as a whole. why should it end now? if you say, "we are the last generation... i hope god chooses me!" i figure it'd make your life feel exciting and purposeful for the six months or so the illusion lasts. i think that's really why this caught hold at all! it must have been a hell of a trip those few months, chucking all rules out the window, spending your savings, because you believe your generation is the last. it doesn't matter, throw your inhibitions out the window....

 

in short, these people need to get drunk on saturday night and make an ass of themselves every now and again, because they're wound up tight. so tight, they jump at any batshit excuse to go into "oh, fuck it!" mode

this is exactly what makes my moderately-religious parents so apathetic about the environmentalist issues, among other things. "rapture's coming, fuck it, nuke the whales!"

well, you gotta nuke something.