One reason I don’t believe in “the Rapture” or “the Apocalypse” is the people who DO believe appear to me to be completely crazy and irrational… and their websites induce seizures. Funny how the dates they keep calculating (using special software, even) keep slipping too, kind of like the metaphysical side of scope creep.
25NOV10? No. 21DEC10? Maybe. 01FEB11? Rosh Hashanah, 2015? More time to convert unbelievers!
I noted for David’s benefit the new Jewish holiday of “Yom Kipper,” The Feast of Smoked Fish. This must be why mom-in-law Leah has lox and bagels for family brunch?
I’ve been reading the Thomas Jefferson Bible today, which cuts out all the supernatural events, miracles, and wonders and has just the biographical details, sayings, and parables of Jesus. It was quite the inoculation against the pure crazy I found when I went to look up a reference to the Rapture in the Bible. In the parable of “two women in a field, one might be taken,” Jesus seemed to be referring to the “taken” in the context of not knowing when disaster might strike, as when the Flood swept away all but Noah.
If you can stand all the colored backgrounds and shifting calculations, there’s this bit of manna gleaned from the chaff:
Masa Katsu! Pie up now, panic later.
via THE RAPTURE and START of WORLD WAR III – BY: February 1st 2011!.
