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Why do we need two threads for this?

2 Raptures, 2 threads.

Lookit Mr. Super-Thread-Economist over here!

Why don't we just have one TV thread, Mr. Super-Thread-Economist?!  Why we gotta splurge?  This is a recession!  (Or not, depending on the person you ask.)  You're chewing through bandwidth!

Next you're gonna tell me we can only have one joke thread.

The joke threads are all Dalty has, Ipsy.  Would you strip a man of all he has?

I knew a man like that once.  The whole world did.  He'd strip a man down to the bone, then suck out the marrow.  That man's name?  You guessed it.  Himmler.

I think the question we really need to ask is, "Why do we need two Raptures?"

Why does God need a starship?  To build a city of rock and roll.

Will we be riding a starship to the Rapture????

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We'll be riding out to Hale-Bopp.  Hale-Bopp's way far away now, and won't be back to the inner solar system until 4385, but we don't give a fuck.

Quasar wrote:

Will we be riding a starship to the Rapture????

It will look like this:

Hey, I'm starting to disappear!!

Oh, fuck, it's after 5 PM eastern time. Never mind!

well either this Rapture is bullshit or the rest of you are as irredeemable as me. Congrats!

It can't be bullshit. There's too much biblical evidence to support it.

So it happened exactly like Camping predicted. Quiet, with nobody suffering any pain. People just going to sleep and then waking up the next day. It was a goddamn amazing Rapture. Hope we have another one tomorrow.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/28/doomsday-ministry-scrubs-end-of...

Apparently they've given up on being wrong all the time....

"We are to live so that we are ready for the return of Christ, and even pray for it."

To a believer with no pettiness in his heart, this statement probably looks totally fine--heart-warming, even.

To a person who grew up surrounded by the at-times-violent, told-you-so brand of southern Christians (such as yours truly), it's liable to come across a little bleaker.  I see this sort of thing, and I find myself fighting the urge to think it was said by someone frothing at the mouth for the blood of sinners and filled with glee at the thought of being given something special that most people won't be getting.

I am generally able to fight this urge, and I wind up convincing myself that people aren't as awful as I want to make them out to be.  For a little while, at least.

I've been a little disheartened by how in-your-face some non-believers have been about Camping & Co. being wrong about the world ending.  I find myself fighting the urge to think the majority of non-believers are like this. 

I know there are believers and non-believers alike who think Camping's followers are simpletons who deserved to be scammed.  Both camps have engaged in some told-you-so finger wagging.  

I can't really understand this burning desire some people have to see the world end.  It creeps me out.

I acknowledge my part as an occasional finger wagger, of course.

Most of it has been directed specifically at Camping.  I'm still not sure if he's a bad guy, a deluded guy, or a plain crazy guy.

I don't reckon the world is going to end on any timeline this joker says it will.

If it did, I would still buy you a tequila and we could watch the rapture together from a cafe whilst getting so wasted we forgot our own names. I'm buying!

The Swollen Goi... wrote:

I can't really understand this burning desire some people have to see the world end. It creeps me out.

You know what creeps most people out? Midget porn.

Them's fightin' words!

No, it's like lame porn. Just shorter.

I don't know about "shorter."  I once downloaded a four-hour-long midget porno.  It was an hour long for every foot tall the tallest little person in the movie was.

Of course, there were people of average height in it.  You have to have people of average height to fuck the little people.

I don't think I've ever seen any little person-on-little person porn.

Try harder.

Did someone say "midget porn?!"

I'm so against midget porn, I won't even click on a link for "tiny pussies".

Tiny pussies.  Huge hearts.

The Swollen Goi... wrote:

Tiny pussies.  Huge hearts.

Can't lose!