THE RAPTURE!!!
 

So yesterday was one of the many Raptures.

If you dont know what the rapture is the day where the beginning of Judgement day is and it's when what they do is for the Christians that are worthy to go to heaven they will disappear into heaven on that day and have the rest of either non-Christians or the sinners stay on Earth and feel the power of God on Judgement Day.

Did anyone here on Trisphee survived the Rapture? Cause you know I did or I wouldn't be here XD

-Sings-

At first I was afraid, I was petrified.. Kept thinkin' I could never live without you by my side xD

I laughed a bit about the Rapture. I knew it wasn't going to happen.

Though I did have a fire in which me and my friends burned things. It was a Bonfire of Justice. We burned things from this past school year/our lives in general that have made us suffer. ...It was epic.

^ This one. Especially because I'm an atheist, I knew the whole thing was a load of crap. ...

A lot of people actually took it to be fact though, and were looking forward to it. I dont know anyone like that personally, but they exist. I heard stories about people going crazy spending all of their money before it was supposed to happen. ... Bet they feel awesome about themselves now XP

I heard a story about a Boy who confessed his love for his crush because he thought the world was going to end. The crush was his best friend and also a boy...haven't heard how that one went down yet. ^^;

I assume the people who were looking forward to it were the ones who didn't have that great a life, but who knows everyone's personal reasons? I personally think my life will end before the end of the world anyways, no matter when that will happen :P

I had a few friends who actually thought this might happen.
I find it to be silly when people think these things are going to happen,
but I know there are people out there who believe these things. x n x
It's kind of just like "...be realistic here, people."

I find it funny how the Rapture was on my 18th birthday. X3

I think he forgot to read the line about how when one is proven to be a false prophet, they should be stoned to death...

Could I impose on you to give a source for this? I've *never* heard that, and I've done a fair bit of research into this topic. And yes, I have read the Bible, despite being an atheist. As far as I'm aware, the word "rapture" never appears in the Bible and is an invention less than 200 years old based on an obscure piece of scripture mentioning the faithful being "caught up in the air" with Christ.

On another note, the fact that people were actually taking this seriously implies that, despite the Great Disappointment they thought it was going to happen for real this time, and... once again, they are disappointed. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is a sign of insanity.

Someone bought a shirt and wrote in marker (front) "I survived the Rapture (back) "Jesus didn't save me" it was hilarious.

I didn't know there even was the Rapture was at the time until on that day. But I saw so many cars stopped nd dies in the middle of highways. there was this traffic that we got stuck in and throughout the traffic of 8 miles, 10 cars didn't work

Suz: You have to badger my Husband Randomology about that one. He's the one who reads the bible. Wow...that makes me feel like a bad Catholic XD I haven't read the bible in ages. Actually the only bible I read was a kid's version when I was 12.

The one problem with the bible is it's written in such an obscure way, you can interpret several different meanings from one paragraph.

Echo: lol wow. We didn't have anything like that here. 'course I was hiding inside away from the crazies so what do I know lol

Ya. People didn't go it was the car engines that went....yea. Well it's traffic in the bright days in Colorado

So I am convinced that we are now in a time paradox, much like in the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy books. Where Arthur Dent comes back to earth to the find it really wasn't destroyed because of a time loop. Other then that I think I slept through the rapture. >>

LOL, I had to go to some....mature adult party that day so thank God Jesus didn't save me on that day or I would be irritated

I find the idea that people still go around and call for the end of the world rather hillarious. I mean, in the year 999, they said the world was going to end because Jesus had been gone for 1000 years, and would be returning. Since then, Someone has been saying the world was going to end at least once a month. It's just not going to happen. Oddly though, I heard a very different thing about what the Rapture was going to be. I heard it was supposed to be some kind of super earthquake that was going to start in Haiti, then move to the east, until it reaches Haiti again.

Now they say the next rapture is on October 21st of this year oTL

I think I heard this somewhere. Who decided this date and why?

I'll find the link about it, while you guys talk about the failed rapture

It was by the same guy who predicted May's rapture, and he was so surprised that it didn't work that he couldn't say "I was wrong, I'm sorry" he predicted it a later date so that way he won't be considered wrong, it would be a "miscalculation"

http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/

I find it kind of strange how this guy, who I believe is at least passingly familiar with William Miller and his Great Disappointment, is doing, basically, the exact same thing. And people are still falling for it. Twice! *smacks head*

And Lunaryon, I remember my philosophy of religion professor telling us about the Millenarianism movement in the year 999, and I always thought that was kind of odd, since... A.D. doesn't stand for After Death, but Ano Domini, the Year of Our Lord, which began counting when Christ was (supposedly) born, meaning that it wouldn't be 1,000 years until 1033.

What's kind of weird to consider is that, barring a meteor impact or gamma ray burst or other unanticipated, unavoidable cosmic event, our planet will likely be around long enough that humanity could theoretically go extinct and re-evolve with completely different religions, possibly several times, before our solar time is up. Not that that outcome is very likely, but it's something to think about.

Meh. Somehow I bet that we'd end up with almost identical beliefs.

Yea, I'm an atheist (not to offend anyone), so for me I let nature take it's cycle, but when humans come up with new items and technology that takes up Earth's resources that it has been producing for thousands of years only to run out of it for only a century or two. I t can change the way nature processes things, hence natural disasters, not because God hates us.

@Echo- Why in the world would your being an atheist be offensive to anyone? Hell I have it in my signature in bright rainbow colors XP

And about this new rapture date ... Let's just say I'm sure we'll all be around to celebrate Halloween XP

I had a thought the other day about the world ending... Just wanted to post here and see what you guys think ^^

From what i've learned that everyone is going off the notion that world will end in 12-21-12 because of the Mayan calendar... What if this has happened before..?

What if the Mayans and the Egyptians and all the civilizations from old were as advanced as we are now but something happened in the year 12-21-12 (in their time, as if they had lived then or now) That stopped them from telling what would happen after that date? And that after that had happened the world started over, leaving behind it the ruins of those people?
Scientists today can figure out how they made the things they did. The tall builds, the sculptors, the pyramids and so on. What if the world ends, covering all that we have made and starting over to where the next set of man kind think the same thing about us and things that we have made?


It was just something I thought of

Sic transit gloria mundi -- And the glory of the world becomes less than it was. Except, it doesn't.

You'd think there'd be some sort of archaeological record of such a civilization having come before our own. You're talking either extra-terrestrial or divine intervention to manufacture a conspiracy of that sort, dressing these supposedly advanced ancient civilizations in the trapping of mere bronze age technology.

On the other hand, I think you should sell the film rights. People eat that sort of thing up. Probably because reality is so boring in contrast. :p

Sadly that is true. What I'd give to even temperaraly smash uor universe into another, have things lap over. Especially if it's a comic-book verse.

Hmm... yeah, I think I'll stick with my nice, (relatively) safe, boring universe. Thanks all the same. :p

Ah, yes, ufologists. That's a whole 'nother issue. :p

Seriously, though, I believe 100% that extra-terrestrial life exists. I don't believe we'll ever meet another star-faring species, or that they've ever been to this planet, even if such a species exists, as the distances are simply far too vast and crossing them would require either thousands of (human) lifetimes, if not many times that, or completely rewriting the laws of physics, and... any race capable of doing that, you might as well name them God.

But imagine spiderman in our world. *Inner nerd rising*

*Imagines Galactus in our world*

Uh, yeah, no thanks. :p

Hmmm... But you just said that no space-farers could get to earth, so we'd be safe.

Well, if some sort of cross-over reality smash-up were to occur, you'd be dealing with a much more flexible set of physical laws, so... not so safe. :p

I don't know hardly anything about comic characters, but isn't Galactus capable of moving at lightspeed or FTL anyway?

He moves fast, but not FTL. He just floats through space and eats the occasional planet or two.