LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 02:42 PM
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Wow, apparently the end of the world is nigh |
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I hear helicopters and sirens outside and there's a hint of smoke in the air. So either it's the rapture or a grass fire. Whatever, I'm cool either way. :shrug:
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Tue Aug-01-06 02:46 PM
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1. If it is the rapture, then what happens |
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1. to unborn babies?
2. planes in which the pilots are raptured, but the people are not?
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LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 02:50 PM
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4. You do realize God stole this whole plotline from The Langoliers? |
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I liked this story better when Stephen King wrote it. Apparently there's an MI6 guy on the plane who lands it safely. There's no mention of random feti lying wetly on the seats in coach amongst the fillings and titanium hips, so presumably they evac with Mom.
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Tue Aug-01-06 02:58 PM
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well, it better not bloody well be the rapture. I'm leaving for the gym now, and don't need that kind of traffic.
BTW, oddly enough, there's a chopper over my house, too.
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LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:01 PM
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9. Yeah, but you could swipe a bigger vehicle on the way. |
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More importantly, what happens to thier companion animals. Fuck, that'd be a mess.
That's it, rapture canceled.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:42 PM
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27. There was a chopper over my house this morning. |
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Maybe the feds are just coming to get us all.
Feds or the rapture, either way, they just better wait, because I'm having veggie tacos for dinner and quite looking forward to it.
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Tue Aug-01-06 04:59 PM
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"eating veggie taco" response...
D'oh!
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HarukaTheTrophyWife
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Tue Aug-01-06 05:12 PM
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30. The kind made with TVP, perv. |
LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 05:17 PM
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31. Somewhere in Florida, |
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a man sits trying to determine something naughty with the initials TVP. :eyes:
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Tue Aug-01-06 05:28 PM
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but it's unpostable.
Tantalizing Veggie *
ANYway...
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LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 05:35 PM
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33. you are so predictable. |
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Tue Aug-01-06 08:31 PM
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35. That's pretty clever. |
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Tue Aug-01-06 08:30 PM
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34. I ended up making it easier for him. |
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We had a striped bass filet that needed to be eaten tonight. So um...yeah, I ate fish tacos for dinner. I'll probably use up the leftover taco fixins' with veggie tacos tommorow.
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Tue Aug-01-06 02:56 PM
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5. Oh, the planes will crash |
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They say to expect all kinds of crashes and fires and other accidents where people formerly performing responsible jobs have been raptured.
They also say that there will be piles of clothes left behind where people have been raptured.
So let me get this straight. You go to heaven in your physical body, butt naked.
What kind of moran thought this up?
:wtf:
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LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:00 PM
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7. A sorta funny story about that. |
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Somebody linked to a thread asking the baby question over on the rapture ready message board. On the first page of replies somebody tells the person asking the question that all fetuses and kids under 12 are raptured, regardless of belief, because that's what it says in Left Behind.
A full page later somebody finally checks a bible, which says something else entirely.
Sounds like idolatry to me.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:03 PM
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10. Wow...I didn't know the Bible even mentioned rapture |
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I honestly believed it was a load of cobblers somebody made up quite recently.
Learn something new every day! Thanks! :)
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LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:07 PM
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13. Well it doesn't really |
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This person's argument was that in previous instances in the Old Testament, such as when Lot's family flees the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, God didn't spare the children of unbelievers. There was also some new testament verse referencing the suffering of nursing mothers at the end of the world or something, but my eyes were starting to glaze over.
In any case, Revalations has more to do with the end of Rome than anything else.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:09 PM
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15. Ah, that's what I don't like about Bible study |
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far too much conjecture and interpretation going on.
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LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:11 PM
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16. And apparently "we don't know" isn't a valid answer. |
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Not my thing either. :shrug:
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:13 PM
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17. Of course really it always comes down to |
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"well, I think God meant this."
Which always happens to fit exactly the prejudices of the person doing the thinking. How convenient.
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LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:15 PM
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19. God loves us enough reinforce all our pettiness and spite. Nice of him, |
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:19 PM
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20. Given that I do believe in God |
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I don't blame Him. Whether we are created by Him or not, people undeniably possess independence, which includes the ability to be horrible to one another.
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Tue Aug-01-06 10:13 PM
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37. this rapture bit is really less than 100 years old... |
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.... it's made-up doctrine cooked up by lunatic pseudo-Christians. ask a Catholic or Episcopalian friend about it. but there's goofy fundamentalists who take it to have been the word of Jesus himself.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:05 PM
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12. The planes will crash for two reasons... |
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Edited on Tue Aug-01-06 03:13 PM by Bornaginhooligan
1. The pilots themselves will be raptured.
2. In the event that the pilots were sinners (and what pilots aren't), the raptured will get sucked into the jet engines and bring those planes down the hard way.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:09 PM
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3/4 of the way to heaven and you get sucked into the engine of a 747. Perhaps God embraces schadenfreude- that would explain a lot about the world. :D
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:31 PM
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23. Would it be bad if I picked up their Jimmy Choos? |
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I mean, it's a sin to be wasteful, right?
Oh - and what might people need their body for in Heaven, anyway? Do they have gravity there? I figure they must, since angels have wings to give them lift from... something.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:26 PM
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21. And stem cells? Which are really no different than human beings, you know. |
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:29 PM
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22. Snowflake babies will float up to heaven |
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Unfortunately they will melt on the way and die. God's ways are mysterious.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:35 PM
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24. I wondered abaout that. |
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If they pass too close to the sun on the way to Heaven, they'll probably just vaporize.
How sad.
=POOF=
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Tue Aug-01-06 02:46 PM
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2. well, I can't login to the Sacbee.com |
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but 'Kitchen fire forces evacuation of downtown complex' is a current/breaking story........or it could be the apocolypse.
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LeftyMom
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Tue Aug-01-06 02:48 PM
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I'm in the south area, so that's not it.
It smells like a grass fire though. I'm guessing that's it.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:00 PM
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8. Did you stock up on marshmallows and soy dogs? |
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I know what I plan on doing when the Rapture comes. I'm looting the stores for soy dogs and hot dogs, marshmallows, Hershey bars, graham crackers and beer.
There are supposed to be fires from car crashes and no firemen to put them out. I figure I'll put all the fires to good use and feed my belly.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:03 PM
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11. Sacramento's not very religious |
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Honestly if all the True Believers (TM) in my neighborhood disappeared, I don't think the effect would be noticable. Except we'd have to find a new lawn kid.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:13 PM
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18. Well that just sucks. |
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We have quite a few over here. I've been scoping out their houses, deciding which one I want when they leave. There's a really cute Victorian that I've had my eye on for awhile now.
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Tue Aug-01-06 03:40 PM
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26. now that you bring it up, isnt today Rapture day?? |
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Tue Aug-01-06 04:59 PM
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29. So far they're all still here. |
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Apparently God can't stand fundies either. :shrug:
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Tue Aug-01-06 08:32 PM
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36. OK, the fundies are still here. No rapture yet. |
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Unless you count what's happening in Cuba. On the first day of August. In a terrible heat wave.
:hi:
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