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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 01:57 AM
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My brother just brought up an amazing point re: Social Security
If the End Times are coming very soon, and Social Security is solvent until 2054 (or even 2018, as some fanatic right wingers contend), then why are the fundies so hell bent on passing Bush's privatization?

I mean, by the time that Social Security goes bankrupt, won't Jesus already be here? And won't they have been raptured away anyhow?
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ribrepin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 02:02 AM
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1. Good One
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lenidog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 02:03 AM
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2. The end is earlier than you think
The Mayan calendar runs out in 2012 around Dec 23, if I recall correctly. Supposedly then the world ends. ;-)
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 03:26 AM
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9. And Christians trust the Mayans because...........?
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 02:03 AM
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3. Good point!
May I use that one in conversation?
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Bronco69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 02:53 AM
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4. That's a VERY good point.
You should post this tomorrow night during prime time. I'll bet you will get even more responses. :-)
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Enquiringkitty Donating Member (721 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 02:57 AM
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5. Yes! To have reservation in Hotel Heaven waiting for them, they don't
seem to be in any hurry to see their personal savior, do they? HEY! Won't they be surprised when they get there and find me waiting for them as part of the welcome wagon .... lol!

Now! the rules are a tad different here .... you have to be nice or you'll have to leave!
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 03:12 AM
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8. LOL
"You have to be nice or you'll have to leave".
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 03:01 AM
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6. The saved
get to divvy up the whole thing for themselves after the rest of us are gone! They want more.. more.. more!
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 03:06 AM
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7. LOL, I just adore people who think outside of the box like your brother
We don't need no stinkin' Social Security reform...JESUS IS COMIN'!!

I'm surprised at Herr Bush** and his fundie hordes. How could this minor technical detail -- so ingrained in their belief -- have slipped past them??
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 03:37 AM
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10. Bush is in a hurry to destroy the New Deal BEFORE the Rapture n/t
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 04:00 AM
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11. That's what I was getting at
Bush**'s true motives are easy to spot.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 04:13 AM
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12. Excellent point!
Talk about hedging one's bets!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 04:28 AM
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13. What a great brother, ComerPero : )
He reminded me that "rapture" comes from the Latin "rapere" -- seizing or abducting -- i.e., taking or stealing.

No wonder the Kleptocracy is so keen on The Rapture.

American Heritage:
PRONUNCIATION: rpchr
NOUN: 1. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy. 2. An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural. 3. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven.
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: rap·tured, rap·tur·ing, rap·tures
To enrapture.
ETYMOLOGY: Obsolete French, abduction, carrying off, from rapt, carried away, from Old French rat, from Latin raptus. See rapt.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-05 04:33 AM
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14. Good one.
Social Security will be broke about the time the earth is to warm to live on. Then Jebus can catch away his waiting bride and us libruls can be lossed.
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