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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:31 PM
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Have the Rapturists been getting worked up these days?
Edited on Thu Apr-15-10 03:05 PM by brooklynite
Earthquakes....volcanoes...fireballs....can't imagine what it's doing to the "Rapture Index"
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:33 PM
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1. You know it
Obama + earthquakes = the end is near.

and of course the ongoing persecution of christians in a nation where 80+% of people self-identify as Christian.
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Pisces Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:34 PM
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2. Not sure but I bet the 2012 people are questioning the earth getting ready to purge the locust.
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daggahead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:37 PM
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3. Locusts ...
Or maybe killer bees.

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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:41 PM
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4. These days? They've been worked up for a long, long time.
It's loony tunes on the Rapture sites. Buncha very strange folks on them.
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Mojeoux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 02:54 PM
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5. Ahhh The Rapture! Delusions of Grandeur
"And they will stand on the embankments of heaven and look down and laugh at all of us poor souls burning in hell."


I see a parallel with the modern day rapturists and the pre-cocaine hippies of the 60s.

The Age of Aquarius was envisioned as very peaceful and gloriously loving but minus any vengeful smiting of non-believers.

But then and now it's all silly Delusions of Grandeur.

I like the way that RW Evangelicals at first were in lock step (as usual) with big Corporations and Industry and said that climate change was baloney.

Now they are very accepting of climate change because it's not seen as the externalities of human pollution, but as God's righteous calling card. SEEEE!
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 03:00 PM
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6. I think if a dog farts they see it as an omen to the end times...
Frankly...I wish they were right. Wish they'd go the fuck away.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 03:17 PM
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7. Didn't they all disappear already?
No? Damn!
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 03:36 PM
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8. Makes me wonder about the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:10 PM
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9. Rapturists have been getting worked up since it was concocted in the 19th century
and particularly since Hal Lindsey started pumping out the books in the 1970s.
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