What I beleive is this.
The chances that the Rapture is...
Hours away? 1%
Days away? 2%
Months away? 47%
Years away? 50%
Over 100 years away? 0%
So all I can say is that I do beleive it will be soon!!!
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Some one had to fix it. Nice work Ens.
You forgot to postdate it though.
1975 years ago:
Chance of the Rapture Occuring 1970 years ago - 0%
Chance of the Rapture Occuring 1950 years ago - 0%
Chance of the Rapture Occuring 1900 years ago - 0%
Chance of the Rapture Occuring 1500 years ago - 0%
Chance of the Rapture Occuring 1000 years ago - 0%
The chances that the Rapture is...
Hours away? 0%
Days away? 0%
Months away? 0%
Years away? 0%
Over 100 years away? 0%
Essentially, the chance of the rapture is the sum of it's components and that might just be 0%.
OK, let's go with 100 years away - that'd be 876,600 hours away, so being hours away must also be 0%, or 36,625 days away and 0%, or 1,200 months away and ZERO PERCENT!
According to that logic, it seems like the rapture is never going to happen at all, but they're always going to think it's going to perpetually happen sometime in the next decade which allows them to do things like organize abortion clinic raids or creation theory lobbying or...
Nevermind. There's a point when a dead horse can't be beaten any further.
I have proof that Jebus has returned.
Usually he is being held in various prisons around the Country, getting moved on a regular basis to prevent rescue attempts. (As a fictional character he has no habeus corpus rights) I have it from several witnesses that they found jebus during a prison stay, and you can't beat eyewitness testimony.
Every so often he gets loose and rides with various biker groups (probably on an old Triumph ratbike) evidenced by the sighting of several "I ride with Jebus" patches I have spotted at various rallies.
goodboy: So all I can say is that I do beleive it will be soon !!!
John, the Revelator: The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; [Rev 1:1]
Jesus: Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom. [Matthew 16:28]
Yup, its gotta be real soon now.
Oh shit, if the rapture is so close, can you christians just stay at home away from everyone, so we can get used to a society post-rapture?
McCulloch - Now I've got this sudden, burning need for some Depeche Mode.
John the Revelator
Put him in an elevator
Take him up to the highest height
Take him up to the top
Where the mountains stop
Let him tell his book of lies
John the Revelator
He's a smooth operator
It's time we cut him down to size
Take him by the hand
And put him on the stand
Let us hear his alibis
How about:
Never 100%
Of course, one can never tell a fundie this and get them to believe it, but the Biblical "evidence" for a "Rapture" is spurious at best and requires a considerable twisting of the Scriptures to arrive at that conclusion and only American fundamentalists believe in a "Rapture", anyway...
"Is it depressing that these guys really want to die? "
The thing is, they don't want to die. That's the whole thing about wanting the Rapture to come, because they think that when it occurs, they will be "transformed" and taken directly to heaven. However, there is so much despair and depression in that thread over the fact that the Rapture has not occurred I would not be surprised if one or two of them committed suicide. These people need serious psychiatric help.
What I beleive is this.
Believe does not a fact make.[/yoda]
...forgive me for being a non primary English European and all and maybe understanding "rapture" wrong in this context, but...did I just get this right?
This is a website about people who are sure the world will end soon, prepare for it and go online to dewll in each others' certainity that it will ring for armageddon soon?
Because if so someone needs to have their phone lines capped.
You can attach whatever numbers you care to imagine to what you believe -- as, indeed, you have already done. You are quite welcome to do so. But doing so doesn't make your belief the slightest bit more real or credible. It just paints some pretty numbers onto it.
~David D.G.
@Crosis
Jesus said he'd be back before some of the original disciples kicked the bucket. 2000 years later and still no sign of him.
Sorry, you've been stood up.
DUDES, YOU'VE BEEN GETTING IT WRONG ALL THIS TIME!!
Jesus returned... couple months after he said... but seeing how last time they crucified him, he thought better than to let them know.
He walked to Japan, became a rice farmer, married a hot asian chick and had kids.
He just didn't tell his disciples because of the way they fucked him over previously.
So there. :D
Ahaster:
Yes, that's pretty much it. There's at least a century's worth of writings about the Rapture, the latest examples of which are the Left Behind books and their moneymaking empire ("Left Behind! For Kids Edition!").
I'd recommend Slacktivist for more information on the Rapture idea. Plus, he reads and reviews LB so you don't have to!
Mike gets the car, Hadanelith gets the house, I call dibs on the bank account and life insurance.
Hey, the Renaissance got its boost because survivors inherited wealth from all the victims of the Black Plague; if fundies get Craptured, the rest of us will be SO better off.
@Julian
and it definitely was him, no one else could walk to Japan.
Thank you for noticing ;)
Rapture believers are a special kind of retarded.
Read your Scriptures; Jesus said he would return before the last of his disciples had died.
That's over 1900 years ago. The prophecy failed.
Get on with your life, idiot!
EDIT: According to Scriptures, all the chosen will be Jewish virgin men. I guess that would exclude pretty much anyone in America.
MK:
The really awful thing is that all these people will be genuinely disappointed if peace in the Middle East ever is achieved.
You know, that'd be just what would happen too, after they wait in agonized suspense for the anti-christ to appear, then the rapture...or is it the other way around?
Ah, who cares?
Um, I know you're a good boy, goodboy, but the Rapture is at least a few thousand years away.
See, when I originally planned the Rapture, I didn't realize the Earth was round, so it was pretty easy to work out how to lift everyone up and away from it. Unfortunately, it seems the Earth isn't flat after all, so I have to redo all of the figures and I just can't seem to come up with the right algorithm to get everyone into the same place, since they'd all leave Earth in different directions. On top of that, several centuries ago, after I'd already put a few hundred years' work into redoing the figures, it turns out that the Earth is not the center of the solar system, which means the Earth itself is moving , and I had to start over and redo the figures again , only this time it was even more complicated. Then, on top of that , just when I was getting the hang of the moving-Earth concept, some stupid scientist named Albert Einstein came up and told me that time was, in fact, relative. Since the Raptured souls will need to move at pretty high speeds, I have to start from scratch a third time, and redo all of the numbers to account for relativity.
Also, I underestimated the amount of red pigment I would need to make the moon turn red like blood, so it may be awhile before I can get a new shipment.
And I got a memo from the Beast Design committee saying that there might be some problems with my stars-falling-to-Earth plan, which may slow me down even more.
So, anyway, it may be awhile before we can get this Rapture underway. Just sit tight. I'll work it out eventually.
What I beleive (sic) is this.
The chances that "goodboy" is a total idiot...
Right now? 100%
Hours from now? 100%
Days from now? 100%
Months from now? 100%
Years from now? 100%
Over 100 years from now? One can hope he's dead by then.
So all I can say is that I do beleive (sic) he's a total moron!!!
"Creed" is still not religious enough. Or rather, it is too close to being "secular music", and as we all know, if everything does not always praise lord Jesus in all ways, it is of the devil.
@MysticalChicken
That's some pretty good drawing. o3o
Also, it's 2010. Really. Are these guys going to give up when 2013 chugs along?
Well, at least it adds up to 100%, which probably makes this guy a rocket scientist by Crapture Ready standards.
He's still wrong, though.
Well, it certainly wasn't hours away, or days away or months away, not even years away, as it is now 7 years since you wrote that, and still no Rapture. It might be decades away or over 100 years away. Never is also an alternative.
I calculate that the Rapture happened 1834 years ago, it took four people, and no one noticed. Everyone keeps positioning themselves in anticipation of a started gun that’s already been post-firing cleaned and stowed in God’s closet.
Confused?
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