I have not been raptured...

[thethingthatlurks]

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...

 

[manythings]

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...

We all saw that episode of the Big Picture. Get off your high horse, this is the seventh thread I've seen so far.

 

[madster11]

Humans have the technology to destroy planets and live on ones where no life can exist.

Some little piss-weak 'natual disasters' aren't gonna stop us.

"OH NO! A Tsunami just hit L.A and destroyed it!"
...Said the Person on the Moon to the person on Mars.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

The end of the world already happened.

This is Heaven.

Then why am I still in Texas? >>

 

[Dommius]

The end of the world already happened.

This is Heaven.

If this is heaven why do I still work at Wal-Mart?

 

[Thaluikhain]

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.

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.

 

[Gigaguy64]

The end of the world already happened.

This is Heaven.

Then why am I still in Texas? >>

Implying Texas is not awesome.

 

[Baneat]

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...

We all saw that episode of the Big Picture. Get off your high horse, this is the seventh thread I've seen so far.

Which one? though, I disagree with about 70% of those videos quite strongly

 

[Kreett]

The end of the world already happened.

This is Heaven.

Then why am I still in Texas? >>

Because you've been a nougthy boy

 

[Byere]

The end of the world already happened.

This is Heaven.

If this is the afterlife, I've extremely disappointed.

 

[Jellly]

Enough with these threads, please. There are already many many threads on this topic.

 

[madster11]

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.

This too.

If anything, losing all the people who are 'saved' would greatly help our current population problem (that is, we're almost at the limit of what the earth can support comfortably), and likely cause less wars because if it DID happen, it would be pretty bloody obvious what religion is the correct one.

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.

We do have the technology to live on places such as Mars without too much problem, the difference is that it will cost a LOT of money and there's currently no reason to.

We can also destroy a planet without as much difficulty as you'd expect and hope, do you know how much damage a, say, 250 megaton nuclear weapon would do if it was placed roughly 1km below the surface?
Now imagine 8x 300 megaton (roughly 1/2 the nuclear arsenal of Earth) of them placed 3km below the surface of, say, Pluto (**** you it's a planet).
We currently have the technology to do that, and it would damage the planet so badly it could be called 'destroyed'.

 

[manythings]

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...

We all saw that episode of the Big Picture. Get off your high horse, this is the seventh thread I've seen so far.

Which one? though, I disagree with about 70% of those videos quite strongly

The one where he explained the word Apokalypse and it's greek origins, yadda yadda... or it might've been a movie review whichever.

 

[steeple]

The end of the world already happened.

This is Heaven.

If this is the afterlife, I've extremely disappointed.

well do what I do: demand a refund!

 

[PrimaVita]

The end of the world already happened.

This is Heaven.

Then why am I still in Texas? >>

HA HA HA HA

 

[thethingthatlurks]

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.

You're right, there's a good chance some humans would survive an all-out nuclear war, but civilization would still be in ruins. The infrastructure, and all major cities would be destroyed, hence few places would be left hospitable for human life.

 

[Baneat]

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...

We all saw that episode of the Big Picture. Get off your high horse, this is the seventh thread I've seen so far.

Which one? though, I disagree with about 70% of those videos quite strongly

The one where he explained the word Apokalypse and it's greek origins, yadda yadda... or it might've been a movie review whichever.

Oh.. realistically speaking it doesn't matter what Apocalypse actually means if you understand the context it's used in, and since we do (They(Religious doomayers) meant baaaaad shit happening on an epic scale) - doesn't really matter to point it out. I have still no clue what episode this is, I'm fairly sure I've seen every one.