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Re: It's the end of the world as we know it... aga
« Reply #30 on May 22, 2011, 8:03am »

May 21, 2011, 7:25pm, gillianren wrote:

Does it actually say anywhere that people get Raptured naked?

Not that I am aware of, but we all know you can't take it with you.

I went to the Art Car Parade preview last night downtown and saw one set of clothes from a raptured guy on a sidewalk. Amid all the gaudy cars, no one seemed to pay much attention, or even care why the clothes were there. It is one of those in joke things, i guess.

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« Reply #31 on May 22, 2011, 1:55pm »

I'm curious--where did people hear about this? I first heard about it on The Daily Show, and then suddenly, it was everywhere. Anyone have a different information source?

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« Reply #32 on May 22, 2011, 5:14pm »

My daughter heard about it at her high school, so it must be fairly well known. I read about it a few months ago on the Reason.com web site in a brief article supporting their video of the rapture tour bus. That led me read the familyradio.com web site. Gawker Media's gizmodo.com site had photos of the clothes left behind by the "raptured." The high school version was the end of the world rather than the rapture that started the beginning of the end.

Mostly it seemed to be the ridicule people heard not the ridiculousness of familyradio.com.

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« Reply #33 on May 23, 2011, 12:32am »

I'd heard about it a month or two ago on The Atheist Experience, mentioned somewhat in passing as the "primary" host, Matt Dillahunty, announced he'd be attending the West Coast Rapture RAM (Regional Atheist Meeting) this weekend.

Speaking of TAE, of course they had to have a little fun with the (non-)event on today's show. The decent-quality video should be posted on the main page within a few days, but there were apparently technical (possibly divine) difficulties with the lower-grade capture of the UStream broadcast. They aren't usually this... theatrical, though their graphics guy did go whole-hog on a special intro for episode #666 last July.

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« Reply #34 on May 23, 2011, 8:51am »

May 21, 2011, 6:08am, echnaton wrote:

Actually I am thinking about collecting some old clothes and arranging sets of them in public places to look like the former occupant was taken.

Maybe this is how it happens:

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« Reply #35 on May 23, 2011, 2:57pm »

I first heard about it on Yahoo Answers. What's funny is that the Family Radio site hasn't been updated yet so their front page is still advertising that the world will be ending two days ago. How lazy of them!

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« Reply #36 on May 23, 2011, 6:01pm »

May 23, 2011, 2:57pm, laurel wrote:

I first heard about it on Yahoo Answers. What's funny is that the Family Radio site hasn't been updated yet so their front page is still advertising that the world will be ending two days ago. How lazy of them!

It has been updated now with a bright shiny new site. A big improvement from the old site. There is no mention of the rapture that I could find on a cursory search. However a Google search turned up documents that are still on the server. How embarrassing. Although one needs a sense of shame in order to be embarrassed and Camping et al appear to be shameless. The improvement to the site is so good that it almost appears they had it in the can. I wonder why?

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« Reply #37 on May 23, 2011, 6:36pm »

They haven't gotten around to taking their May 21 videos off YouTube either. ::)

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« Reply #38 on May 23, 2011, 10:14pm »

Now the world's ending in October. Keep moving the goalposts, Harold...
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/articl....n-octob er?bn=1

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Re: It's the end of the world as we know it... aga
« Reply #40 on May 24, 2011, 2:08am »

May 23, 2011, 10:14pm, laurel wrote:

Now the world's ending in October. Keep moving the goalposts, Harold...
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/articl....n-octob er?bn=1

May 20, 2011, 7:39am, PhantomWolf wrote:

I just double checked...

"However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows." Matthew 24:36

I'm guessing that 6pm on Saturday got crossed off the list a while back, besides, the Rapture will occur during the month of October.

Should I sue for breach of copyright, or just collect my million from Randi?

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« Reply #41 on May 24, 2011, 7:45am »

In regards to The Rapture, where does Australia fit in with this big picture?

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May 24, 2011, 7:45am, psychduder wrote:

In regards to The Rapture, where does Australia fit in with this big picture?

They exported Ken Ham to the U.S. (thanks guys), so maybe there aren't many people there to be raptured. Or did he leave behind a throng of wanabees who are building the hive?

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« Reply #43 on May 25, 2011, 10:14pm »

May 24, 2011, 7:45am, psychduder wrote:

In regards to The Rapture, where does Australia fit in with this big picture?

Can't speak for Australia, except that I heard it said that all the Aussies who are good enough to be raptured up would fit in a phone box. Probably something to do with their large criminal heritage, you see. But as one of their famous surfers, Midget Farrelly, once said, "We may be descendants of white outcasts from England, but they threw us into a wonderful place in Australia. They consigned us to heaven and they stayed in hell!"

But I've always had a problem over heaven and hell, because heaven is always "up" and hell "down" in northern hemisphere literature, so where does that leave us?

Are they both the same here and if so, how does that work, or if we die and are good enough, do we go "down" and through the earth to get to heaven, or do we around the earth to the other side (we're mostly opposite the Bay of Biscay, Spain and the sea off Morocco) and then "up"? And I'm sure Steven Hawking wouldn't help, so it's quite a problem, really.

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Re: It's the end of the world as we know it... aga
« Reply #44 on May 26, 2011, 12:04am »

Heaven is in the sky and Hell is in the center of the Earth. So, yes, still up and down, really, no matter where you are.

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