I have not been raptured...

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Kryzantine

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I think it's supposed to occur at 6PM EST. Giant publicity stunt. I wonder if there will be mass suicides around then? It'd be fun to watch on TV.
 

spartan231490

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thethingthatlurks said:
Oh dear, it would appear I am still on terra firma post rapture, which means I (and incidentally all of you who are still here) will have to suffer through the end of the world. So, fellow doomed escapists, what shall I do 'till the arrival of those four horsemen? Rape? Arson? Looting? Murdering my asshole neighbor? Praying for forgiveness?

On a slightly more serious note: let us suppose there actually was a rapture (copious amounts of peyote help with the suspension of disbelief), and all of us still on earth are doomed. What would we do? I mean as a civilization, given that only a small number of people are supposed to be "saved." Apparently there are supposed to be natural disasters, so would it be in our interest to avert as much suffering as possible, or give in to our most animalistic instincts and loot? Prepare for retaliation against whatever cosmic force wants to obliterate all there is, or ask it for mercy? Yes, this is a serious question. What should humanity do to avert its own extinction? We do have a fairly strong self-preservation instinct after all.

PS: no, I of course do not believe in such ludicrous fairy tales like the apocalypse (which incidentally only means "prophecy" or "revelation," not "destruction of the world"). Besides, the stars are not even properly aligned to allow the Old Ones to return...
Ok, with all of these threads popping up, I feel obligated to point out that he predicted the rapture would happen at 6PM Eastern Time, so he hasn't been proven wrong yet.

as far as what we will do? As all the most goodly people would be gone, we would loot and rape and pillage, it seems to be what humanity does best.
 

Ldude893

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11:11 pm over here in Hong Kong. No fire and brimstone, no mushroom cloud in the distance, no four horsemen galloping over the hills, no nothing.
 

Appleshampoo

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thaluikhain said:
Well, depends what you mean by "doomed". If large chunks of the population were to be lifted off the Earth, that'd cause quite an upset...but, IIRC, the amount of people who will get into heaven from all across the world is less than a good sized disaster would kill in a local area anyways.

Otherwise, we'd get on with it...future generations will be bitter about not having been given a chance to be raptured, and when the scientists discover were heaven is, it'd be taken by force.

madster11 said:
Humans have the technology to destroy planets and live on ones where no life can exist.
No...humans have the technology to send small groups of people temporarily to the Earth's moon, given enough advance warning. And they can't do anything close like destroy a planet.

On the other hand, the magnitude of natural disaster needed to wipe out humanity...even a full scale nuclear exchange wouldn't do that.
Clearly you haven't looked at Earth lately.
 

Moonlight Butterfly

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The most exciting thing that happened to me today was one of the kittens fell down the loo... don't worry it's fine.

No rapture yet though...
 

dfphetteplace

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Maybe it did/will happen and no one is worthy of being raptured. Would anything change? Would anyone know? If we look at it this way, it could have happened a long time ago.
 

SeanSeanston

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How could 1 nutcase (of which that are millions in the world) attract so much ****ing attention as though it mattered 1 bit or made a difference to anything?

Then you have idiots building strawmen to make themselves feel better, as though somehow someone who self-identifies as a member of group X despite obvious flaws in that identification, is capable of speaking as an official authority on alleged group X.

Nobody cares. No one ever seems to pay the slightest attention to things like this outside of America with its myriad different obscure Churches which most often seem to be the source of this.

You get people who seem to think making random bull**** predictions about the end of the world has anything to do with anything that bears any resemblance to Christianity and yet somehow... the Pope, the leader of the largest sub-group of Christianity A. Probably doesn't even know about this. B. Certainly doesn't care. C. Isn't telling people that there's going to be some kind of Rapture (underwater city FTW).

But **** that, that would be logical. Let's pretend that 1 ****face is an authority over 1/6 of the world's population and that makes them nutjobs and now we can go back to our pitiful lives and continue to accomplish nothing, knowing that at least we just made ourselves feel better than a lot of other people without actually having done anything to justify that.

YAY.

It just gets annoying.

"Hi guys, I'm a Atheist. The moon is made of sandwiches and Charles Darwin (who as we all know, is only considered a respectable scientist by Atheists and derided by everyone else, because why not it feels good) is coming to smite every other belief system next week."

Congratulations, Atheists are now made to appear more absurd by mere tenuous association, because that's how logic works now.
 

funguy2121

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thethingthatlurks said:
Oh dear, it would appear I am still on terra firma post rapture, which means I (and incidentally all of you who are still here) will have to suffer through the end of the world. So, fellow doomed escapists, what shall I do 'till the arrival of those four horsemen? Rape? Arson? Looting? Murdering my asshole neighbor? Praying for forgiveness?

On a slightly more serious note: let us suppose there actually was a rapture (copious amounts of peyote help with the suspension of disbelief), and all of us still on earth are doomed. What would we do? I mean as a civilization, given that only a small number of people are supposed to be "saved." Apparently there are supposed to be natural disasters, so would it be in our interest to avert as much suffering as possible, or give in to our most animalistic instincts and loot? Prepare for retaliation against whatever cosmic force wants to obliterate all there is, or ask it for mercy? Yes, this is a serious question. What should humanity do to avert its own extinction? We do have a fairly strong self-preservation instinct after all.

PS: no, I of course do not believe in such ludicrous fairy tales like the apocalypse (which incidentally only means "prophecy" or "revelation," not "destruction of the world"). Besides, the stars are not even properly aligned to allow the Old Ones to return...
Just don't get the mark, man...

Also, I noticed that you too got bombarded with random awards from the EC crew and now your 4 featured badges are all Extra Credits stuff. Y'think they're doing this to make themselves feel popular?
 

Chiiru

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thethingthatlurks said:
Besides, the stars are not even properly aligned to allow the Old Ones to return...
Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!


also: Party time.
 

boag

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thethingthatlurks said:
give in to our most animalistic instincts and loot?
I dont see the point of this, giving in to the most basic animal instincts, why would anyone want to do this, is seeking pleasure for the sake of pleasure so important to people?

Do responsibility, duty and common courtesy really matter so little?