Will you be attending a "Rapture" party?

by Snoozy 49 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Snoozy

  Many others will apparently:

  http://raptureparty.org/

  Why are atheists celebrating the rapture?

  A celebration excuse for believers and non-believers alike!

  A rapture party is a great way for believers and non-believers to get together and celebrate the end of the world, or a grace period on armageddon. Rapture parties have cropped up across the land in response to the prediction that the world will end on May 21, 2011 at 6PM, regardless of your local time zone. Most of these predictions come from Family Radio owner Harold Camping, who has spent millions of dollars promoting his end of the world message.

  The idea is that saved Christians will be taken up in the rapture while ordinary people who are not saved will have to endure a world-ending earthquake. Therefore, skeptics and atheists have started planning parties to celebrate what they think will be a non-event. There are even Facebook groups dedicated to looting the homes of people who have been raptured up. No matter how the world ends, or if, there will be plenty of parties to celebrate the apocalypse, and in either event there will be a double helping of irony.

  Snoozy
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  Snoozy

  the world will end on May 21, 2011 at 6PM, regardless of your local time zone.

  Well I am glad someone cleared that up about the time zone thing, I was wondering about that...

  Snoozy
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  Satanus

  Only 3 more days. I can't wait. Saturday, an appropriate time for gawd to act, or something.

  S
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  Snoozy

  ARE YOU READY?

  Snoozy..

  ps, I somehow am reminded that on 12/31/1999 wasn't it that we thought the world would end as we know it? All the computer stuff would go haywire so to speak? I was scared!!!!
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  Anony Mous

  Some of the current-day computers will have some issues in 2038 if they're still around. That's when the wrap-around comes of the 32-bit integer against Unix time.

  For the rest I'm not too worried. One thing I never understood about the rapture is: what will happen to those still here? Will society self-destruct? Or is this hell? If so, why did God place us in hell to begin with?
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  Twitch

  I'll attend only if Blondie is the MC,...
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  Farkel

  :Rapture parties have cropped up across the land in response to the prediction that the world will end on May 21, 2011 at 6PM, regardless of your local time zone.

  Didn't anyone else notice the idiocy of that statment?

  Say, whomever decides to end the world picked US Eastern Standard Time at 6:00 pm. This would make Pacific Time where I live as 3:00 PM. So my world cannot possibly end at 6:00 pm, because even though it is 6:00 pm in New York City, it is still 3:00 pm here in California.

  Rubbish.

  Farkel
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  witnessofjesus

  The stupidest idea I've ever heard of...
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  OnTheWayOut

  These things work with the time zones?

  Man, if it weren't true, I would swear all this nonsense was just made by men to fit men's agendas in Man's world.

  See y'all on May 22nd.
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