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Rapture Mumblings

chrisa

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Today I was sitting with my wife at a popular coffee shop in Portland, Oregon and had the great displeasure of hearing the conversation of a group of seniors discussing the rapture. Two of them were trying to convince others of the impending doom that non-believers will face in the near future. While this type of belief is sometimes humourous to me—today, I learned how dangerous it can really be. The last thing that was said, was that conservation and environmentalism were not important since the Earth would be destroyed soon. THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE STOPPED AND SOON! Left up to them, the rapture will happen—not an event by some human loathing god but by human loathing humans who are in desperate need of psychiatric help. What can be done?
 
Easy.

Tell them The Rapture already happened some years ago, and that they happen to be among the billions of people "left behind". So they should just get on with the remainder of their lives the best they can from now on.
 
What can be done? Very little. There are plenty of people who want to trash the planet simply because they want more money or power, and deny anything they are told could be bad about what they are doing. A few religious nuts wanting to do the same thing will have no effect at all.
 
Zep said:
Tell them The Rapture already happened some years ago, and that they happen to be among the billions of people "left behind".
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You can even back it up with numbers. Using Bishop Usher's figures, and the 4-year error, the earth's 6-thousandth "birthday" was in 1996 (the exact date is mentioned in the play, "Inherit the Wind"). It only stands to reason that such a momentous event as the Rapture wouldn't ignore such a milestone.
 
You could point out to them that the prophecies of Revelation clearly refer to 70 AD (when it was written), that 666 is Nero's number, that every generation since 70 AD has had people claiming that they are in the last days, or that rapture is a non-Biblical concept first invented in 1830 and based on obviously incorrect interpretation of scattered and unrelated verses....

But I suspect it won't do much good. All this information is out there for people who really want to understand the Bible and are willing to admit that sometimes the Bible is just wrong. If people wanted the truth, they'd already have heard it.

Maybe you could say something like "Paul knew a few things about Jesus, and he thought the second coming would be in 50 AD, and he was off by at least 1956 years, so maybe we'd better take care of the earth just in case the guys at Rapture Ready aren't quite as smart as you think they are."
 
Or you can tell them to act like Christians and care about those not getting "raptured" and they should take care of the Earth so those left behind have a decent Earth to live on.

Or at least sell them rapture insurance, it sounds like they'd buy it.
 
For the low price of 50 dollars a year, you too can own Rapture Insurance. In the event that the Rapture should occur within your lifetime, 100% of the money that was paid toward your Rapture Insurance will be given to any remaining family members who were "left behind."

Think it'd fly?
 
No, you have to agree to pay out more than 100%. I'd agree to pay out as much money as the regulators would let me. I think you have to have a certain percentage of your potential payout in the bank.
 
Keerax said:
For the low price of 50 dollars a year, you too can own Rapture Insurance. In the event that the Rapture should occur within your lifetime, 100% of the money that was paid toward your Rapture Insurance will be given to any remaining family members who were "left behind."

Think it'd fly?
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Patent Pending...

:p
 
Overman said:
Patent Pending...
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Nice try, but you can't patent insurance.

Would anyone here like some rapture insurance? For the low monthly price of $200/month (2200/year if paid annually in advance) per unit of $500K, you can provide for the sinful, godless relatives you claim to love so much.

Please make all checks out to "cash".
 
Unfortunately, here in the U.S. such people often occupy political offices which allow them to implement their beliefs.

Offices like: President, Secretary of the Interior, etc.
 
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Keerax said:
For the low price of 50 dollars a year, you too can own Rapture Insurance. In the event that the Rapture should occur within your lifetime, 100% of the money that was paid toward your Rapture Insurance will be given to any remaining family members who were "left behind."

Think it'd fly?
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I'd like to think my friend and I had done better than that. Check out the PostRapturePost link in my Sig.

:)
 
chrisa said:
Today I was sitting with my wife at a popular coffee shop in Portland, Oregon and had the great displeasure of hearing the conversation of a group of seniors discussing the rapture. Two of them were trying to convince others of the impending doom that non-believers will face in the near future. While this type of belief is sometimes humourous to me—today, I learned how dangerous it can really be. The last thing that was said, was that conservation and environmentalism were not important since the Earth would be destroyed soon. THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE STOPPED AND SOON! Left up to them, the rapture will happen—not an event by some human loathing god but by human loathing humans who are in desperate need of psychiatric help. What can be done?
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They were at least halfway correct. The world will end for them in their lifetimes.

Thinking the planet won't go on without them around is the epitome of ego.

I have a cow-orker who has told me he believes the world is going to end in less than a hundred years.
 
Perhaps that is the best thing you can say to someone like that.

"Don't you think that believing the world won't go on without you around is the epitome of ego?"
 
Multi-tasking for a guy usually means he can scratch himself while drinking a beer and watching football. :D
 
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